Week 15 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Good Bad Luck - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/14

an injured DJ Moore who is going to be day to day this week. Yeah, that's a good point. And you have Robbie Anderson who played, you know, he had his best game of the year, seven for 84 in a touchdown with a hodgepodge of, I mean, every time he turned around, it was a different quarterback. And they still found him. So you could have, I mean, 12 targets playing from behind. I think this game script is similar this week. So I do think he is a little bit sneaky. You're going to be, you know, crossing your fingers and toes. But.

I don't know. I think you could do worse than Robbie this week. Yeah, the DJ Moore news, I think is very, very important. If DJ Moore is active, I would not play Robbie Anderson. I don't think that the 12 targets are bankable, let alone that he's going to do anything with them. But if DJ Moore is out, then Robbie Anderson could do that. It's just scary in the playoffs to take a guy who is, you know, like Gabe Davis.

I'm more confident in because he hasn't really had his opportunity. Every time he's been given the opportunity, he's looked great. You haven't seen any bad play from Gabe Davis. Now with Emmanuel Sanders out, you've got a player who's looked good, getting his opportunity in a good offense, whereas, you know, with a Marvin Jones or, you know, a Robbie Anderson, they've just looked so bad all year. It's tough to trust. So speaking of a floor play, are you interested at all in Laquan Treadwell?

who the past three weeks, at least four receptions and at least 50 yards, and he gets to take on the Houston Texans, followed up by the New York Jets. I'm more interested in Marvin Jones than Laquan Treadwell. Okay. But I don't know, Marvin Jones roster percentage off the top of my head. It's almost zero. Every league that I've been and he's been sitting out there on waivers. Oh, look.

But, yeah, I'm more interested in Marvin. I would agree with that. Where Laquan Treadwell is interesting is maybe in a cash game where his price is so cheap on DFS that it's worth picking up. But if you're in the playoffs... He got you shamed. No. Oh, yes. Yes, he did. Marvin Jones is rostered in... Well, he was drafted in 100% of them for sure. Sure. I want to talk about running backs because there's some...

there's a stead pickup to me, which is Rashad Penny. Like Rashad Penny is the number one pickup of all waivers across the league. Do you guys disagree with that at all? I don't disagree that. I'd spend everything on him. At this point of the season, when a running back was getting talked up last week by his head coach as someone who probably did, he's like, we need to give him an opportunity to be the guy, goes out. It's not, his usage was not.

spectacular the production was but he only had he played on in a little more than half of the snaps and that turned into 16 carries but monster production of 137 and 2 that was the Houston Texans unfortunately Rashad Penny is up against the Rams who yes James Connor had a good fantasy output but on the ground James Connor was

lacking in actual rushing production. And Rashad Penny last week, even with all those snaps and opportunities, only saw one target. I think Rashad Penny will receive more than 15 carries in this game. I agree. And I think his snap percentage will continue to trend up. If you watch the beginning of the game, they did some rotations to see who had a hot hand. Penny went out 16 for 137. They came out this morning. They said he deserves a shot of being the lead back.

You know, this is a first round running back that they have dealt with injuries for years. Like they don't have other options and it benefits them to finally see him on the field. I know that it's a bad matchup, but I know I can get 15 carries. And that's why he's my priority if I'm missing a running back. Sure.

I was a little bit more hesitant because Adrian Peterson will be back and healthy. That's the expectation for this week. He was a late scratch. And then Rashad Penny was given the opportunity. But with Pete Carroll coming out and saying he deserves the chance to be the lead guy. I agree with you, Andy. He's going to get 15 carries. And he's the only guy on waivers that you can confidently say.

he'll get that type of volume. There are a lot of other good names. This is not a bad week. It's just a matter of you've got to be right. You've got to call your shot because there is all these opportunities. Will Austin Echler play? Well, I mean, I think Justin Jackson is a great pickup and play personally. I agree. If Echler misses. But we don't know yet if he'll miss. I lean towards he will not miss because Echler has.

He's done this several times this year where he's had an injury. He's kind of played through it. He has really toughed it out. And I expect in the fantasy playoffs, Echler being such a fantasy man himself, oh, man, he's not going to do that. He's going to play. He's considering you. He's considering his community. His community, yes. Well, he's got to be healthy. He'd be scary. I mean, if he's active, it's still scary because he left the game last week. And you have a very, it's an important game.

It's Kansas City on Thursday. It's a horrifically bad match. I mean, if you end up with, let's see you end up picking up Justin Jackson, you do have the luxury to drop him. If Echler plays, drop him before the game, have a roster spot you can use to pick up an insurance player for the rest of the week. Real quick, because we talked about them in the news. I think the Miami Dolphins backfield needs a little bit more light.

I am on the Duke Johnson side more than the Malcolm Brown side. Malcolm Brown is able to come back and practice. There is not a clear indication whether he will actually play. I think there is one of those, oh, we're hopeful we get him back because we need a running back. But we don't know that he's actually healthy yet. And if you watch what they did, and obviously they lost a lot of, they lost all of their running backs to the COVID-I-R list, but they're bringing in Lamar Miller to work out.

You know, in several running backs they were bringing in. So I think Duke Johnson, who plays that kind of Miles Gaskin role, that pass catching back against the Jets, he would be the player of the backfield that I would pick. And, man, I just love playing running backs against the Jets. It's great. Yeah, I think that's good analysis there. I think that that's the player you've seen lack of efficiency in the running game there, but you've seen.

The receiving work provides some value. Well, not this year for Duke. Well, Duke hasn't done anything this year. Duke Johnson? I'm talking about the receiving game of existing players in Miami. Oh, oh, I apologize. Yeah, like Philip Lindsay or not Philip Lindsay. I mean, Miles Gaskin, like he's been inefficient but yet found his way into the end zone.

Is Jeff Wilson, he's anywhere, here's what I think. Like people want to know if you should drop him, but I also think he might be an under the radar start this week because if you don't get Elijah Mitchell back, which is not a guarantee, Jeff Wilson has Atlanta for a team that's winning ball games. Yeah, is Debo playing? Yeah, Jeff has looked pretty good, but since Elijah's gone down, Debo has really become a,

half running back, half wide receiver for the team. He's Cordero Patterson. And they're winning all of those games. That's the thing. They win every game they've done that with Debo. And so you get around the goal line and that's probably, you know, you give Debo one shot and I don't know that Jeff Wilson gets another shot because the drive might be over. Would you drop him for one of, for like Duke Johnson?

No, not for that level. Because you've got to make a move like right now with the pickups. No, I mean, Jeff Wilson is, if he was on your waivers, we'd be saying you've got to pick him up for the shot because, you know, we're talking about Rashad Penny, one of the only guys that could get 15 touches. Jeff Wilson's in that category if Elijah Mitchell is out. But I know he's been very disappointing for fantasy. For a deeper league, give me a name. Super deep leagues you're looking at.

He possibly Rex Burkhead or David Johnson for the Texans. Johnson is really actually only available in half of leagues. Burkhead was on his way, honestly, to a very good fantasy day. 11 carries for 40 yards, four receptions for 26 yards. But then he left with a hip injury. We don't currently have an update on how that will shake out. And then the deepest one of all is Craig. It's Craig Reynolds from the Detroit Lions who.

For everything that you prepared for after Jamal Williams was the shocking scratch over the weekend. Okay, well, Jamar Jefferson, is he going to be up here because he's their rookie who's got a good production profile? This was no, it's Craig Reynolds. If DeAndre Swift is back, then Craig Reynolds is completely irrelevant.

But if they're moving forward and last week the report was they're going to be concerned that Jamal Williams will miss two weeks. I would presume that puts him in the unvaccinated category because then you have the length of time that you have to miss. It's mandatory. But if Craig Reynolds is the last man standing, they talked very kindly about him and he gets the matchup with Arizona that Sony Michelle just had some success. So the deepest of leagues, that's where I...

likely be looking you like him more than de ernest i do i would just like if chubb is still there and if when the split between nick chub and de ernest johnson what we've seen of that is very very few opportunities for for johnson they haven't split it up like they do with koreen give me your favorite tight-in waiver pickup of the week

Oh, it's Ricky Sills Jones. I know he was a massive disappointment this last week. People will not want to play him, but I think that is a mistake. You have one of the best matchups for tight end imaginable. In fact, I think it is the number one matchup against Philadelphia this week, and you could have no Terry McLaurant. So he was, you know, he was on the field enough.

Getting back to health, I think that he'll be more involved this week. He would be my guy. I would say the main guy for me, I do like Ricky, but Austin Hooper needs to be brought up of, he's been seeing targets lately. He's coming off the big week here against Baltimore. So he's at least interesting. And then like the deep league ad at tight end to me would be rookie Brevin Jordan for the Houston Texans.

He saw seven targets. He's not on the field a ton, but he's still running a good amount of routes. And that's two top 12 weeks in the last three here for Brevin Jordan, who I really liked him coming out of college. And they're looking towards the future, right? They announced that General Mills is starting the rest of the season no matter what. They're trying to figure out what they have. And it's very possible that over these last four games that Brevin Jordan sees an increase in snaps and work.

I like Davis Mills. Is that okay to say? Yeah, I think it's allowed. He's been surprising for his situation and his draft stock. I think he's looked better. He's had strings during these games where he's looked better, in my opinion, than Trevor Lawrence or Zach Wilson or Justin Fields. Those are things you have to whisper. As a pure passer. Like, we didn't even really know his name coming out.

and yet he has, what, 331 yards last week passing? I don't know. I've been kind of impressed. Like, we wanted to discount Brandon Cooks, and he's been relevant with Davis Mills at times. Yeah, I mean, the fact that Davis Mills is... Plus the general. Why not have that name in the show for a long time? Yeah, sure, General Mills. But, like, that's now three 300-yard games. That's not easy to do. And those other two?

One was against the Patriots and one was against the Rams. With no running game. For his situation, I think he has been very impressive. I actually think they may have, they may not, they might want to go defense and just stick with Davis Mills. Because you could still end up drafting a quarterback and they could end up not good anyways. Give me your favorite two defenses of the week. Oh, come on. Mine are. Miami Dolphins. Miami's number one. Yes. And then, uh,

My second pick is probably the Cardinals in Detroit with the Packers close behind against Baltimore, but they're traveling to Baltimore, so I will lean Cardinals. Sure. I won't disagree with that. Miami is the priority ad. Not only do they get the Jets this week, but then the Saints and then the Titans. That should be very fine. Cleveland's going to be great, too.