Week 2 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Spicy Toes - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/15

which I don't know how many leagues he's actually available. And he's probably, you know, at the tight end position, my number one. Yeah. My number one guy. Yeah, as the, if you lost Jarwin, I tend to agree that that Fant is at the top of the list. Philip Lindsay was sharing the backfield with Melvin Gordon. He did go down with a toe injury. It's being classified as a mild turf toe.

So we will have to wait and see what's going on with him. Well, the good news is it's Steelers next week. You don't want a spicy turf toe. No. Keep it mild. No, not Caliente. New York City. All right. We have a report. Not talked about a lot because so much is happening, but this is a big, big, big deal. Michael Thomas, high ankle injury. Are we in the news? Oh, are we not in the news? I don't know. I don't think I've heard the news drop. I didn't hear a news drop.

I refuse to talk about the news. News and notes from around the league. You refuse to news? That is correct. I was very happy with the- I apologize. I saw the James Connor sprained ankle, and I thought we were already there, but that's really on me. Very unprofessional. Can we restart the show? No. Let's go again. Let's re-roll. I want to talk about Cory Davis again.

Michael Thomas suffered a high ankle sprained. So that is the report from Saints camp. Now, when my son woke up the next day and saw the report, he's like, oh, that explains the bad game. But the bad game actually happened and then the injury happened. Correct. He has a Monday night football game in week two. We'll be monitoring the practice reports. Oh, no. We'll have the Injury Blitz podcast on Jointhefoot.com on Friday afternoon.

with the latest on Michael Thomas, but you just need to have a plan. You do need to have a plan. The indications are he's going to try and play through it. What does that mean? In fantasy football, high ankle sprain is a very dreaded term because it is often an injury that guys do play through on the field, but they are severely hampered, and their production goes down.

Yeah, you saw that last year with Saquan, Alvin Kamara, Christian Kirk. When they came back, they weren't quite the same. And those were obviously high level, not just average players in Saquan and Camara. So you do have to watch this. I believe Michael Thomas will play. I think you could have a backup option with the other wide receiver options there. If you can grab Emmanuel Sanders or Treyquan Smith to just bide your time to make sure he's going to play, I would still put him in my lineup. If I'm the Michael Thomas owner,

If he's who I'm rostering, I definitely would choose to play him even on Monday night football with the injury. Latest on the 49ers injuries, George Kittle, a knee sprain, Debo. We knew he was on IR, but we didn't know why. And here we are again with the Jones fracture, Jason. Yeah, it's, it's, you know, the propensity for this to pop up again. Once you fix it the second time, then it's pretty much you've got a full career ahead of you.

We don't know for sure that this is going to require another surgery, but it's disconcerting. It's not something that is good news. And speaking on the George Kittle front, this is the exact same thing that happened to him last year that did cause him to miss some games. So I think if you have George Kittle on the roster, you have to prepare to play without him this week. All right. And then David Njoku's on injured reserve. Adam Gaze isn't sure when Lev Bell.

is going to be back. He said it could be a couple of weeks, which means Frank Gore is going to start at running back on a team that is difficult to see. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Here we are Frank Gore. Who would have thought? He is infinite. Okay. He is all.

Adam Gaze really likes Frank Gore. He does. And then Adam Gaze is really upset at himself for putting Bell back in after he was already hurt. Oh, man. I see where you're going. I don't want to be that. I see where you're going. Story guy. We are definitely not saying that happened. I'm not saying it didn't happen. Let's say option one, Mike, is that it didn't happen. And then option two.

Number two. Is that it did. Well, either way, Frank Gore should probably be picked up. He's played against the 49ers this coming week. That's my reaction to playing the 49ers as Frank Gore. But if he misses multiple weeks and you need a running back. Yes. Dalvin Cook, Alvin Kamara Cooper Cup, all signed extensions. We hadn't talked about it yesterday because so much was going on. It happened over the weekend.

So running back got paid this offseason. Cook, Camara, Mixon. We saw Derek Henry get paid. So there's a lot. So we're going to talk about waivers. I don't know if you guys had heard, but Cooper Cup is going to be the punt returner. Yeah. For the Rams. So we don't, we've very, very little, basically never talk about return yards. But I know that there are people out there that play in return yardage leagues. This gives Cooper Cup a bit of a bump.

Deontay Johnson also attempted to be that. Oh, yeah, that was sketchy for a while, man. He's a great punt returner, but it got in his head. Yeah, it was a bad game. I almost feel like any time you muff a punt, you should skip the next punt, like just mentally. Like, it's too much of a risk for the team. Right. The next punt is always like the safest catch falling down that you could have. All right, we're going to get into our waiver segment of the show. This episode of the fantasy football is brought to you by head and shoulders.

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I'm ecstatic about the prospects, Jason. I knew it. Antonio Gibson, Mike. He didn't quite get to 100. He didn't quite get there, but I still believe that Antonio Gibson will get to 100. Eventually. Yeah. Yeah. He's a hold. He's a hold. You can take your hair up to 100 with head and shoulders available at Walmart. Pick yours up today and check out this Thursday's episode to hear our up to 100 picks this week. And Foot Clan, do not forget about the NFL game pass.

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Big waiver week, trying to make the right calls. Some of these pickups are going to be players that you can start right away. Others may be hold options because it's week one. We didn't have a preseason. We didn't have the opportunity to get a read on a number of players. This is the first time, for instance, you got to see Benny Snell on the field. You didn't get to watch a preseason game. See if the camp reports were right.

So a lot of this is based on who you would be dropping as well. So we kind of gathered the top drop candidates from Twitter, from IG. People are upset. So I'm going to read you, well, start at the wide receiver position. I want to read you five names. People want to know if they should drop them. You can just let me know yes or no. Odell Beckham Jr. after the bad week one. No. I get it. You're mad. I get it.

No, he has too much draft capital name value. You don't drop. If you want out, you've got to trade, but you can't drop O'Dell Beckham. Brian Edwards, rookie wide receiver for the Las Vegas Raiders. Ruggs had the much better game and his back. Yeah, he's dropped for me. He is a still hold for me. He was on the field more than any other wide receiver. So I think the targets will come. Tough matchups for them coming up. I'm going to drop him. Brandon Cooks? He's a hold. Yep, agreed.

Christian Kurt, you can drop him. Drop. McKeel Harry? You can probably drop him. Yeah, I'm okay holding them, but we're about to talk about so many waiver wire options that might be better, and I would probably drop Harry for several of them. Sure. Okay, big pickups at the wide receiver position. You guys can weigh in on who you think your number one would be players that got a lot of attention to week one, Darius Slayton, Paris Campbell.

Slayton was six for one or two and two. Paris Campbell in week one, nine targets, six for 71. Certainly, you know, I believe he played all, if not almost all of his snaps in the slot, which is a very nice, close to the line of scrimmage place to be for Mr. Philip Rivers. That is correct. Paris Campbell, interesting. Mike Williams, surprisingly, nine targets was in on 78% of snaps. Every time Mike Williams goes down.

because he doesn't catch the ball unless he is flying in the air and then landing on his shoulder. I'm always scared, but he came out unscathed, it seems. Yeah, it's ragdoll physics are ranked up to 100 every time Mike Williams goes down. He's so big. Well, he's not allowed to get a target unless he's 15 yards away. Like that's minimum. That's where they're now allowed to throw him the ball. So the collisions are fierce. So out of those three names, who are you most interested in?

in putting on your roster. Paris Campbell has Minnesota next week. Slayton has Chicago. Mike Williams has Kansas City. For those guys, it would be Paris Campbell to me because I'm the most secure in his role. And Minnesota, the Jets, the next two matchups for Paris Campbell. He's going to be an absolute target monster for Phillip Rivers. His athletic profile is fantastic. He will break some slants off to the house. And then I would...

The reason he's my number one over Dary Slayton is simply just it's week one. Golden Tate was not active. And we've seen the carousel of the New York Giants wide receivers do this before. So I like Slayton. I want to put him on my bench if possible. Paris Campbell also, you know, far more available in fantasy football leagues. And I just, I'm very confident that Paris Campbell is that like six plus target a week type of guy where Slayton.

Slayton will disappear at times. Yeah, I agree. Those are the two guys out there that I would want the most. Darius Slayton would be who I would target, number one, for me. I just don't think he's going to be in the average person's league. Just because you're a Paris Campbell. No, no, actually, I am very much, very in on Paris Campbell going forward. I have never been a Paris Campbell truther, but the way he was used. He stayed in a lot of his hotels. Oh, yeah. The Hilton is.

Just fantastic. We're back to this. I don't know. I tried to kind of find a creative avenue in there, Mike. It was a little different. But Darius Slayton was someone else trying to target in the preseason because he profiles in a lot of ways as a breakout candidate, one of those nebulous cores. He's young. He's done it before. I love the targets. And I love the targets. I love the snap percentage. And I'm not afraid of the Chicago matchup. So he would be.

My number one claim, I don't think he's going to be available in most leagues. Then it would go to Paris Campbell. However, this is week one. I view two running backs as much greater sign. So I'm not going to spend up. I'm not going to burn my waiver priority because I do think that there are a tremendous amount of wide receivers that are also good pickups.

They will cost you nothing. Yeah, and in a PPR league, I'm excited about Russell Gage's opportunity. He ended this season on a run, and then he had 12 targets in week one. He was 9 for 114. People were disappointed in Hayden Hurst, and when we talk about tight ends, we can talk about whether you should be holding Hurst, I believe you should. He ran the most routes of any tight end in football on Sunday. So, yeah, I like Russell Gage. I like...