Week 7 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Big Herbs, Tua Time! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/20

that we are going to bring up. If somehow he was there, he would be my top priority. Mine as well. Okay, so over a player like T. Higgins, who snap counts, targets going up, over a Travis Fulgum, who has some, you know, Thursday night, Fulgum, about to happen. Still Mike Williams. Yeah, it would be Mike Williams. He has the pedigree, the history, and now a quarterback that.

is not just willing to take a deep shot, but can throw a good deep ball. Tyrod threw a couple deep shots to Mike Williams earlier in the season, and they were irrelevant throws, completely uncatchable. So I really do like Mike Williams' upside. I like his health. I like his matchup. He'd be my number one. Okay. I would probably slightly lean the Higgins side. I was impressed with Higgins in this game. It seems like Burrow and him are building a connection.

And the history of injury with Mike Williams, I'm worried that the cost may betray my team at some point. Because of the 20 foot falls that he takes. He does take 20 foot falls. Yeah. I mean, you fall from that height and don't get injured. Yeah, that's really not on him. He really should stop jumping so high. He's 100%. He takes it to 100. Yes, on every catch. In terms of effort on every catch. Now, for T. Higgins, are you...

Not concerned about the re-emergence of superstar AJ Green? Well, there's been a change, and I think a change for the better in Cincinnati. Rich Rebar tweeted out the top downfield receivers who have had passes of more than 15 yards down the field.

And all of these guys were hundreds of yards and multi-touch downs on those targets. And then here was A.J. Green, one for nine. And he's leading the league in downfield targets. Well, they changed it this week. And I would expect this change to stick because A.J. Green has sucked down the field. He's been, I mean, there's just no other way to say it. Sure, there's some other ways, but go on. Some worse ways I can say it. If you want to bring out the Thesaurus.

But the reality was he was good this last week. AJ Green, and maybe he needs to make that Larry Fitzgerald change and become a possession receiver, an inside guy, and let T. Higgins go deep. So I think the change, what you saw last week, is actually...

A little sticky for T. Higgins. And it's also potentially damaging for Tyler Boyd. Because if E.J. Green is transitioning into the more possession role, that's where Boyd had been great. That's where Boyd could have, they could hurt each other. Like Boyd and Green could be not startworthy. Higgins with the higher red zone opportunities, deep plays. And then John Ross is asking for a trade and a fresh start. I don't know if you saw that report this morning. Maybe just a start. I think he should go with a start.

Yeah, it was funny because the report said he's not happy with his current role. Your current role is not playing. So, yeah, I don't even know if you could call that a current role. All right. Travis Fulgum has the Giants in Dallas the next two weeks with a beat-up, you know, no Zach Ertz now. Now, Judge Giamatti brought up the fact that Dallas Goddard is eligible to return in week seven. Yes, you should be scooping up Dallas Goddard off of the waiver wire.

immediately. But I do think Fulgum is going to have targets for the next couple weeks. I completely agree. And over the next month, the Giants twice and Dallas. They do have the by week mixed in there for Travis Fulgum. But he is going to be the guy of even when Alish on his back, I think that Fulgum will still be involved. Jalen Rager will eventually come back. But.

You've got to buy time. You've got to buy some wins right now. And Travis Fulgum is incredibly interesting. It would be interesting to put together a full roster of players whose names none of us knew before the season began for fantasy purposes. And Miles Gaskin could play running back, you know, or a lot of fantasy managers didn't know. Fulgum's at wide receiver. Henry Ruggs, I'm very interested. I think I'm probably the most bullish on Henry Ruggs of our group. And I don't know that.

to be sure. But, you know, he's not going to be a high target player, but he has flashed in every game he's play. And he changes the entire Raiders offense. In week five, he was two for 118 and a touchdown and then went into the byweek. So I am very interested in trying to sneak rugs onto my roster. I'm good trying to sneak him onto the bench and stash him and see what happens. I don't really want to play him in this matchup.

Against Tampa Bay, they have some very good corners on Tampa Bay. That's what I thought about Kansas City. And then Ruggs is like, yeah, but see how fast I am? Yeah, you cannot keep him from breaking free and it's just a matter of do they connect. Keel and Cole, are you chasing points with him on the waiver wire this week? No, I'm personally not. I don't want the...

second fiddle in the Jaguars offense. Are you cutting McCall Hardman for all of these players? Yes. I would rather have. Williams, Fulgum, rugs. Yep, I would rather have all of those players over Hartman. Is Tim Patrick a sneaky ad? He's been very good lately. Eight targets, four for 101, back to back 100-yard games. It's easy to take Jerry Judy's big name and say, okay, he's the one. He doesn't feel like the one right now. I like Tim Patrick because, I mean, I would go hard after Mike Williams.

T. Higgins and Fulgham. But then after that, if you're just throwing $0.1 Fab, just trying to see who you can sneak through. Tim Patrick is one of those guys that if you miss out on the heavy hitters of the week, you'll probably just get Tim Patrick on your roster for free. Okay. Yeah, it's interesting. He's been pretty good over the last three weeks. Any other wide receivers that you guys want to bring up?

The only other name I would bring up, and we will talk about more next week. I think it's still too early, and you know your leagues better than we do. But Antonio Brown is currently actively serving his eight-game suspension. Two more games for Brown. Yeah, and then I expect that someone will probably sign him in week nine, and he could be active. That's not a guarantee. He currently doesn't have a team. But we've seen enough to know that he can walk right in.

and become a really important, great fantasy asset for a team. So if you want to take a shot, I would wait another week because that's still a little bit of time, but it's worth paying attention. All right. I'm just sitting here looking at the last three weeks, fantasy numbers at wide receiver, Chase Claypool leading the way in points per game over the last three weeks. Mike Williams had the one game so we can kind of throw that out. Dealing's been great. But C.D. Lamb.

CD Lamb is in the top 12, Tim Patrick in the top 12, Will Fuller. CD Lamb is a player as well as Amari Cooper that based on last night's bad game that was so public, I would be willing to try to trade for those players if I can get them cheap because I don't think it's going to be as bad as we saw last night. The Lamb was good last night, relatively speaking. Yeah, he was okay. I think he had like 70-something yards and a couple of catches. But the fantasy managers who watch.

The implosion of the Cowboys might go. Yeah. Maybe I can unload based on what we've seen and try to get something and they're worried. So I might kick the tires at least. That's a good point. I was actively covering my eyes every time Dallas had the ball. So I didn't see anything. All right. The running back position. Oh, it gets desperate at running back. I know this because the fantasy hitman over there. He's rocking the Dalvin-Cook-Miles' combination. Oh, it's, yeah, the Foot Clan.

It's a non-bonation. Oh, that's a bad joke. Non-bination? Can somebody hit that? Non-banation. I don't know. Mike's really set me up to try to shoot for the stars in this one. You don't stand too close to the fire. Oh, man. You don't get your own fire. Oh, gosh. Yeah, currently, I am slated to start De Ernest Johnson and Le Michael B. Ryan. Oh, man. So no running bags.

That's my situation in our league of record. So why don't you talk about some of the waiver wire pickups? Because there are always two categories in running back. There is the looking towards the future, the sustained longer term value where someone might, you know, if Justin Jackson's still out there, who longer term value? If Zach Moss is out there, don't worry about it. Probably not. But Josh Kelly. But then there's like the quick pickup.

potential. Like what does what do the 49ers do at running back this week? What does what does Philadelphia do on Thursday night football in a nice matchup? Where are you looking for help, Mike? Because you need it. Yeah. So probably rostered, but you should check because Jerich McKinnon is currently rostered in 67% of Yahoo leagues. That means that after he did nothing and Moster had the big game last week, some people did drop him. Make sure he.

is not on the waiver wire because if he was, Jack McKinnon is easily the number one ad of the week. But I get it. He's not on my waiver wire. So let's look a little bit deeper here. I would say Swift is above McKinnon if they're both out there. No way. I would not. What do you mean no way? Are you doubling down on McKinnon again? Well, I mean, McKitt.

I know McKinnon had a, you know, the last two weeks, they've been bad. But his first four weeks were excellent. And now the starter. I could not disagree with you guys more on the guaranteed pickup. He's playing New England this week. Jeff Wilson could be active again. Michael Hasty got worked in because McKinnon was not successful. We've leaned into McKinnick. I just don't have the demonstrative must start.

mentality with McKinnon in this match. The last two games before Moster came back, it was 18 carries, 22 carries. Moster comes back and all of a sudden. Opportunities. Yes, opportunities, carries and targets. Once Moster came back, you know, five and nine total opportunities, he wasn't really involved, but it's going to be him again. And so I am on the McKinnon's side. Yeah, I mean, Moster missed most of that game and they moved on to Jemichael Hasty for a reason.

So I would not be leaning heavily. I'd much rather have DeAndre Swift. What I've seen from DeAndre Swift has long-term value. He plays Atlanta this week. He had tons of opportunities in this game. If I had to choose between the two, I would spend up on Swift for the long-term value. I would spend on both guys. And this is not an anti-Swift take. I do think Swift has more long-term value. I think you'll get about a month out of McKinnon. That's the...

kind of timetable I'm giving most. Whereas Swift, they came out of their buy. We talked about it yesterday. And once they came out of the buy, they gave him 14 carries, four targets, and he was really involved. So this could be a rest of season thing. And if you just talk, hey, both those guys, who's more talented? It's clearly the young gun in D'Andre Swift, who looks excellent, is a good pass catcher. So I'm fine with either player. I do think over the next month, McKinnon,

is more fantasy relevant. It's hard for me to trust a lion's run game over the Kyle Shanahan 49ers run game. That's really the tiebreaker for me. Would you drop? I didn't get into the drop candidates at running back, but as we talk about these players, if you're going to pounce, if you're going to try to get a running back into your lineup, are you willing to say goodbye to Alexander Madison at this point? If you are not the Dalvin Cook manager, is this a hold that hurts?

It is definitely a hold that hurts. If you don't have Dalvin Cook and you have to manufacture a win, then I, yeah, you can drop him. But before you drop Alexander Madison, you should at least be talking to the person who manages Dalvin Cook and seeing if you can trade him over there for anything, really. Mark Ingram. This is the hardest name when we were talking about him with the injury.

I was like, man, do you hold on to Mark I'm? Because one, he's stunk for the most part in general. Two, he's injured. Three, he's on by. I have a plan for Ingram. Oh, please tell me. You want to know what the plan is? I need to know. The plan for Mark Ingram is to drop Mark Ingram on Sunday morning for whoever, to pick somebody up.

and then let Ingram get mixed with all the waiver wire pickups for the next week that go through on Tuesday. If you want to try to use that roster spot this week, that's what I would do. Because I think Ingram belongs on a roster, but I would like to try to use that spot and not have to hold them through the buy. So that would be my strategy. Try to... What if you need that spot on... Earlier? Waver night. What if you need it tonight? Well, then I'm willing to let him go. I'm willing to let especially if there's a high value. Justin Jackson...