Starts of the Week, Week 7 Breakdown & Tight End Sniffing

He is not practicing still with his hamstring. I'm expecting him not to be out. Reports of Kenyon Drake being traded have intensified. They went from whispers in the bushes to full on shouting, where Ian Rappaport is being the messenger for the team saying, hey, the dolphins would love to trade Kenyon Drake. Come send us offers. Ian Rappaport, more than any other like mainstream NFL news guy.

I feel like does things for agents and for teams that are clearly, they've asked. Certainly, Jason, you are not accusing Rapaport of a quid pro quo. I would never do that. No, uh, yeah. I mean, obviously the dolphins want to trade Kenyon Drake. And if a team has a running back need.

I think Kenya Drake is a good back. It's impossible to be a good fantasy back on the Miami Dolphins. And they're able to trade them because, hey, it's me. Mark Wattenberg. I'm bawling out. I can't wait for Rappaport's tweets to have hashtag ad at the end of them. Say hi to your mother for me. The dolphins are willing to trade Kenya Drake. Hashtag sponsored posts. Yes. And again, Devante Adams did not participate. Pay attention to what's happening for the Packers.

Thursday night updates. The OG Lizard King is not going to play. Sammy Watkins, that is. Emmanuel Sanders is expected to play tomorrow on the show. We will have in or out. If you want those Foot Clan game day alerts, we provide those as a friendly service for the supporters of the show at jointhefoot.com. And do not forget Sunday live, one hour before Sunday kickoff, I will be streaming live wherever streams are available. Jason.

Wherever they are. In the woods. Those are the Jay Grist streams. Yeah. But I'll go through the late breaking news. I'll talk through some starts hit questions. Go through the process. See me tilt my face off this week. It's going to be fantastic. Speaking of tilting your face off and this news that you just covered, the whole Devante Adams didn't participate Wednesday. You know, as a Devante Adams.

owner everywhere i had him i mean he's probably one of my most common through all my main leagues the the piece i have in common the most and when you are the devanta adams owner it feels like he's never he's never coming back yeah i he's out for the rest of eternity i just it it's the worst when you've got a superstar it's like who you got a toe problem and i don't want to be like that because it's a serious problem

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Fantasy forecast. Reminder teams on by the Browns, the Bucks, the Panthers and the Steelers. Let's get into it, Jason. The Raiders. Somehow the winning Raiders, three and two. Congratulations, Oakland. They're taking on the Packers. The Packers are five and one. It's a 46.5 point over under. The Packers are favored by a field goal and a half. I guess not in a half because then there would be more than the three and a half line. If it was a field goal in a half, you know, it would be four and a half.

If it was a, oh, you're saying a half of a field goal. Yeah. I see what you're saying. I just wanted to make sure people know I can do. Yeah, I'm actually proud of you. Thank you. Quarterbacks, Derek Carr, you playing him? No, sir. Aaron Rogers. Are you playing him against Oakland with confidence that he's going to be at top 12?

quarterback this week. Yeah, I am this week. This is a matchup that's that's winnable. He's right now my quarterback 10 on the week. It's worrisome. What about the wide receiver situation? Yes, that's why I was getting. It's worrisome without Geronimo Allison, without Devonte Adams. But exactly. The Lazard King. We're putting a lot of faith in an undrafted player who's played like

10 snaps in his career. But he's 6-5 and Aaron Rogers loves him. I mean, look, there are, there is a little bit of depth to the wide receivers. I'm, you know, I'm not trying to build up Jake Kumero and, you know, and the Lazard King into something they're not. But I do think in this matchup with Aaron Rogers, you're safe-ish. I mean, is he a must-start overall options? No, if I've got Josh Allen against the Dolphins.

I would look that way, but this is still Aaron Rogers. And while the Raiders are three and two, they're not exactly the scariest of matchup against the quarterback. 20th against fantasy quarterbacks, 19 and a half points per game. At the running back position, Aaron Jones, he has the fifth most red zone touches in the NFL. He's seeing the third highest percent of carries with seven or fewer in the box. We like to see that. But what's your confidence level starting him?

Jamal Williams came in and looked like the better back last week coming off of his scary concussion. Yeah, I'm confident enough in Aaron Jones to play him. I don't expect Jamal Williams to be the leader in the timeshare this week. When you say he came out and looked like the better back, I think both guys looked really good other than the two mistakes that Aaron Jones made. Jamal Williams looked better on the ground, though.

It's subjective, but to me, Jamal Williams, looked much better. He was also far more productive. But the thing is about saying he looked better is, of course he was productive. He ripped off a really long run. So he was much more productive for that. And Aaron Jones was benched for the fumble and the drop. But we've got a large enough sample size to say, Jamal Williams isn't the better runner. And I don't think just because he looked better on a couple of snaps last week. Now here's the issue.

We're talking about Aaron Jones. We're talking about Jamal Williams. The way that I see it is a 50-50 or a 49-51 situation. They are a real-time share problem because, you know, this is a little shorter rest for them. I fully expected to be a 50-50 split. And while the Raiders aren't a scary matchup for quarterback, they are top 10. They're number seven right now on the season, as points given up to the running back position. So it's not a great matchup.

slamming Aaron Jones in my lineups and my DFS because I think he's going to have a great game. It's just he's a starting asset at running back that you pretty much are forced to start because there's not enough of them. And they could see even more usage with a game plan featuring both running backs with all the injuries to the wide receiver. Josh Jacobs, who if you were playing the game, as a lot of us were, that a few weeks.

How have we not made a Josh Jacobs Jingleheimer Schmidt? I feel like I've done that before. I've at least done it around the office. Oh, man. Josh Jacob's Jingleheimer Schmidt. See, that's just fun. I mean, I'm down with that. That's right on brand for me. But the game I'm referring to is a few weeks ago, you could see that the breakout was coming because the schedule was going to open up a little bit for the Raiders. Starting with the Packers here off of the bye week.

The Packers are 29 against running backs, 26.3 points per game. So it was going to be, hold on. You don't have to buy Josh Jacobs yet because he's going to play the Bears and he's got a buy week. You can buy him real low. And then he explodes on the Bears and ruins all of that. So if you had Josh Jacobs, congratulations, because you still have Josh Jacobs. He is going to be fantastic. He is going to be fantastic. My start of the week that we'll get into later is one spot behind.

Josh Jacobs, who I see as an easy top 12 running back this week. The matchup is fine. His talent is great. They're coming off the buy. All systems go. Now, Oakland has their own problem at the wide receiver position. If Tyrell Williams is out, holy crap, man. They just traded for Zay Jones a week ago. They traded for Trevor Davis a couple weeks ago. Hunter Renfro. I mean...

What do they do? Darren, and we won't, Darren Waller doesn't need to be talked about because he's a absolute must play every single week. And now he's got the bag. Yes. But at the wide receiver position, what are they going to do? I think they are going to rely on the running game. And I, and I think Zay Jones, you know, we open the show with who's a sneaky snart. Zay Jones is a sneaky snart. I actually think that he's going to. Oh, that's so gross. It's gross. But, you know, I still think he's.

No, he's not good, Jason. He has one of the worst catch rates in NFL history. I know he has one of the worst catch rates in NFL history. He has never had a good quarterback as far as accuracy throwing him the ball. But he has a lot of theitis on the drops. Can you do a dropitis? Of course. I've told you. The idis is very universal. You could do it anywhere. Whenever there's a problem, you just say, oh, man, it must be theitis. So you would not.

plug in Zay Jones as a sneaky start. No. I mean, I will say this. I'll play Trevor Davis over Zay Jones. Really? Yes. It's hard to crown Zay Jones. We don't know. How much is he even going to be on the field? Sure. I mean, it's very fair. They might. He may not even play. Yes. He may not even play. Yeah. I will still, as of right now, knowing that he may not get on the field.

I will make you a Zay Jones, Trevor Davis. Hold on. I got to find that button. I have no idea where it is. This is the lowest level bet in the history of the fantasy footballers. We just made Zay Jones be Trevor Davis. Yeah. Gross. But now we got skin in the game and a reason to watch the, you know, I will say this. I expect this game.

which has one of those middle of the line over unders to disappoint. It's fair. In general. So maybe that speaks to, if you're at Aaron Rogers and I say, okay, yeah, you could start him as a top 12 guy. Maybe you do look for a higher upside because while I think he's going to be around that 12, I don't see him being able to have a blowup game. You know, would you, here's a gross one. Would you rather start Aaron Rogers or Jared Goff? Jared Goff.

Look, I get everyone's super mad right now at Jared Gough because he was terrible. I can't. It's playing the Falcons, man. I cannot. I have not this week, more than any player or situation that I can remember in the last half a decade we've been doing this show. I can't get Jared Gough and the Rams offensive line out of my mind. I can't stop thinking about the situation, reading up on it. I...