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Harrison. Good afternoon, everybody.
My name is Matt Harrison. This is fantasy football almost
daily today with me, Trevor Jones, a man I feel like I have
to console 'cause he probably lost a member of his family this
week and Micah Parsons going down with that ACL tear.
Trevor, how are you holding up? Yes, the. 24 hours post Sunday
was, you know, a little bit of a PTSD maybe, but we're back on
the we're back on the saddle and we got to move forward here for
the people. How do you feel about going to
Soldier Field on Saturday? I was surprised to see there's
still 1 1/2 point favorites. Should be a good game, but I
don't know. No, Mike Parsons is about as
game changing as it gets. Yeah, it was tight last time
around and now it's even tighter.
Today we're going to preview Week 16 from ADFS perspective on
the show. And while we generally use those
fanball figures, most of the information could be used on any
of the other salary cap sites. The salaries aren't that wildly
off between 1:00 and the other. So before we do that, let's
review some of the relevant NFL news from around the league news
team. A symbol we already talked about
Micah Parsons, but another torn ACL this weekend was Patrick
Mahomes, so Gardner Minshew might throw the last touchdown
pass to Travis Kelsey in his career.
Gardner Minshew might also steal Taylor Swift to get away from
Kelsey, though. The mustache is too much.
Just too much over. Oh yeah.
Yeah, I mean, that guy's got
swag. He does.
It seems like the Tua era in
Miami is over as he's been benched for Quinn Ewers, but
it's actually coming off Tua's best game in a month and change.
He had 253 yards and two scores. Did have a pick in Pittsburgh on
Monday night. Ewers has a really soft landing
spot at home against the Bengals this week.
Yeah, I guess I'm a little surprised they didn't turn to
Zach Wilson. And I know Zach Wilson is a
little more of a known commodity than the seventh round rookie,
but yeah, seventh round rookie. It's that's a big ask.
There we go. Devante Adams has not been ruled
out for Thursday's game against the Seahawks, but his hamstring
and knee injuries forced him out of last Sunday's game against
the Lions. So I don't know if I believe
that they can get Devante Adams patched up enough to go in this
one. Yeah, hamstring on a short week.
I don't. I'd be surprised if he plays.
Hamstrings a couple of week injury usually and although this
is a big one for the Rams against the Seahawks and the
Seahawks if they win take over the number one seed in the NFC.
It it feels like the Rams have aspirations of going further in
the play offs and they might need to kind of protect Adams a
little bit here. Bam Knight will miss the rest of
the season with an ankle injury. So Michael Carter's about all
that's left in Arizona. Yikes.
We'll, we'll get to Mr. Carter later.
Yeah, Christian Watson looks iffy at best to play Saturday
against the Bears. He left with a chest injury
against Denver, ended up in the hospital for evaluation.
Was he just out of breath in the high altitude weather?
It might have been between, yeah, taking the shot to the
ribs and then the low oxygen. One of his former teammates,
Alan Lazard, was cut by The Jets, and he says he's hoping to
latch on with a playoff team. Ring, ring, ring.
Hello. Oh, it's the Steelers.
Yeah. I'll come by for a visit.
You know that's going to happen. Well we we, they just added MVS
and Adam Thielen. So how many like 35 year old
receivers can they have on one? Monster Aaron Rodgers buddies,
man, they'll cut Thielen. Yeah, that's probably true.
All right, the Texans have a new running back, Jawar Johnson.
Jawar Jordan, I should say, he was officially added to the
active roster. He made his debut last week.
He had 15 carries for 101 yards. Woody Marks has an ankle injury,
and he is a little iffy to go this week.
And Nick Chubb already missed last week with a rib injury.
He's probably not going to go. So Jawar Jordan is a guy who
should be on your radar for sure against the Raiders this week.
It's a great spot. It is.
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dig into Week 16. No buys again this week.
The Rams and Seahawks play Thursday night.
If you want a preview of that game, check out yesterday's
podcast episode. And the Eagles play the
Commanders and the Packers played the Bears on Saturday.
Those teams are eliminated from the Sunday slate, but you can
play them in a special Saturday 5 by 5 on fanball.
And for those of you watching this on either YouTube or
Spotify, I'm throwing up the Saturday 5 by 5 on fan ball.
I know the graphics is Sunday, but this one's the Saturday 1
for sure. Trevor, any values stick out to
you on the Saturday 5 by 5 between those four teams.
Yeah. So it sounds like Roma Dunze
will be out for Saturday with I think a stress fracture in his
foot from last week. Luther Burden is kind of coming
on pretty well. I think Luther Burden could see
a lot of targets without Rome on Saturday night.
So I like Luther Burden there, and I think you almost have to
play Saquon at $5. Like he, yeah, I don't know.
It seems like he's gonna be the highest warning guy in the
slate, and you just need raw points there, so.
Yeah, absolutely. I do like Saquon a lot here.
I think Romeo Dobbs at a buck is a guy who might pop off.
He hasn't done so in a while, but it looks like we're going to
be missing Christian Watson in that game, which just opens up a
little bit of time for for Dobbs to get out there.
And he's he's had a three touchdown game before.
It wouldn't shock me if Dobbs had a good game against the
Bears. Yeah, definitely some targets
opened up with Watson likely to be out.
I know it hasn't happened yet for Matthew Golden.
Maybe without Christian Watson he's kind of the new deep
threat, but I I agree I'd probably go with Dobbs over
Golden to read in that spot. Yeah, all right.
That's the Saturday guys that are up there.
By the way, Monday night, Jonathan Taylor plays against
Christian McCaffrey. So those two stud runners are
off the board as well. And there's really no marquee
point bonanzas like last week. The highest over under on the
slate is the Bengals and Dolphins game at only 50 1/2.
And the Dolphins are now starting Quinn Ewers, so that
number could go down a little bit as we get closer to Sunday.
So Trevor, let's start with a player who's going to be in
close to half the line UPS you make this week.
Yeah, we'll just stick in that same game, Tomane Chan, 8100,
home for Cincinnati. Like you just mentioned, it's
one or two games on the slate with the Vegas total over 52.
It was benched. That doesn't really matter to
me. He was playing so poorly that
it's not really an issue. He'd only broke 175 passing
yards once in his last five. Obviously we know since these
defense is horrific against tight ends, they're only
slightly better against running backs.
They've allowed most combo yards per game to the position at 175
and the fourth most touchdowns with 18.
Already ATM has got a huge target share for a running back
at 20%. Only CMC is higher among backs.
He had 18 touches last week against Pittsburgh, which was
his lowest in a full game, or at least a game that he started and
finished since Week 7. Otherwise, before that he had 20
touches and five straight prior to the injury he suffered
against The Jets. I like HJN a little bit more
than Gibbs in the 8K running back area and Dijon just because
Dijon and Gibbs have secondary runners who are more of a threat
to take some some points away from from their guys.
That is true. Speaking of 18, I've got a
player who had 18 targets last week is my guy in half my
lineups. It's Aman Ross St.
Brown 7900 at home against Pittsburgh.
Like I said, 18 targets last week.
Caught 13 of them for 164 yards and two scores against a pretty
good Rams secondary. By the way, that should be
noted. The Lions basically need to win
out to stay alive in the playoff hunt.
They got Pittsburgh this week, Minnesota next week and the
Bears in Week 18. When you need wins, you go to
your bread and butter. That's Sun God and that's Gibbs.
It's going to be those two over and over again in this game.
By the way, the Steelers defense has allowed the second most
receptions to wide receivers this year, so volume for Sun God
shouldn't be an issue here. I like him a lot.
All right, Trevor, who's your big fade of the week?
A player that's highly priced that you wouldn't put in any of
your line UPS. Yeah, I think I've gone pretty
successfully at this guy a few times.
Derrick Henry is 7000 at home against New England.
General rule of thumb in DFS, you're looking at kind of 3X
your salary at 7 K. He's hit value 3X value just
three times all year. Not since week 12.
And that was against The Jets, who have one of the worst rushed
defenses in the league. Although it is D Hember King
Henry hasn't scored in either of his December games.
He only saw 11 carries last week despite Baltimore controlling
the game and winning 24. Nothing.
In fact, Keaton Mitchell, the backup to Henry, saw more snaps
than Henry for the full game. It was actually getting early
down run work in the first half. It wasn't just a end of game
blowout situation. So Henry's not going to get.
Crashed for the playoffs, you know, the playoffs that they're
not going to make, that they might.
Not make right. So if Henry's not going to get
the rock win, they're like up by three touchdowns and then he's
not going to. We know he's not going to get a
big workload in negative game scripts.
I don't really know, like when he's supposed to score points.
It's also a brutal match up. Patriots ranked top three and
fewest rushing yards and touchdowns allowed to the
position. Yeah, he was.
He was my, my, my big runner last week.
And that did not work out at all for me.
I barely, barely scraped by in in one of our internal fan ball
contests. Got that third place, 20 bucks.
Yeah, All right. A player that I don't really
like and won't have in my lineups this week is Travis ETN.
He's the most expensive player I would not start.
He's 6700 at Denver and call it a hunch, Trevor, but I don't
think he can replicate what he did through the air last week. 3
catches, 73 yards, 3 touchdowns receiving.
That's like a 1998 Randy Moss Thanksgiving light game right
there. I don't think he's going to do
that again. He didn't run well though
against the struggling Jets run defense, only 12 carries for 32
yards on the ground. Denver in Denver this week,
their top five or sorry, top eight in every category against
opposing running backs. They're arguably the best run
defense in the league, and they only allow 2.7 receptions per
game to opposing back fields. So if you're looking at 3
catches, you better get 3 touchdowns on those 3 catches.
Again, I it just doesn't set up as a good match up for Etni.
Think I'd leave him on the bench.
All right, who's your favorite quarterback of the week?
Let's start on the expensive side, Trevor.
Yeah, this might be the number one quarterback I've recommended
this year. Jacoby Brissett, Mr. Cash game
himself 6K at home against Atlanta.
He's got 9 starts this year. He's averaging 48 drop backs per
game. The next closest quarterback was
Patrick Mahomes at 42. So you're getting like an extra
drives worth of passes in every game, which is just massively
valuable. And Brissett starts, he's got
multiple passing touchdowns at eight of nine.
Lowest yardage total was 249. So you're almost starting the
week with a 16 point floor. In Atlanta's last three games,
they've allowed finishes of QB 9, QB four.
And then Baker was like QB 13 or 14, but he did score 275 and two
or had 275 yards and two touchdowns on Thursday night.
Also, if Arizona has just beat the hell at running back this
year, they're now down. Trey Benson, Michael Trey
Benson, Bam Knight and. James Conner, yeah.
So we just, we're kind of on RB4.
The plan will be to continue to throw the piss out of the ball.
I don't know how how you can get that out of a ball, but there we
go. My expensive pick Bo Nick 6200
against the Jaguars. Knicks showed up in a big way
last week with 302 and four against the Packers.
The Jags are a very good run defense and a very porous pass
defense. They've seen the third most
completions against them this season.
Knicks's top 4 point outputs this season.
They've all come in home games and this game is somewhat
important for the Broncos. The Jags have a path to steal
the number one seed in the AFC against the Broncos.
They need this one though, so I think that they're going to have
Bo Nicks take over this game against Jacksonville.
Who's your cheap quarterback you'd start this week, Trevor?
Yeah, we'll go with JJ McCarthy, kind of.
He's continuing his run on against the NFC, least here,
5300 at the Giants. It's a great spot against New
York. McCarthy's been QB 12 and QB 6
over the last two weeks against fellow NFC East competition.
The Giants have been getting absolutely crushed by mobile
quarterbacks. League worst in attempts and
yardage to the position, and that's an area where JJ can
exploit. He's got 10 rushing attempts for
the past couple weeks, including a rushing touchdown that he
gridded in for. Very funny.
Since Week 7, the Giants have given up some big games to run
running quarterbacks. Mariota had 40.
Mariota had 43 yards, Caleb hit them for 63 and a touchdown on
the ground. And then Bo Nix had a big game,
48 yards and two touchdowns on the ground.
I think JJ stat line will kind of look similar to the way it
has the past couple where you get a few carries shot at a
rushing touchdown, about 25 attempts on a little bit better
efficiency. He's been a better for the last
couple games. I'm a little worried that Brian
Flores kind of just destroys Jackson Dart and maybe the
Vikings can kind of lean on the ground game.
But the downside is just not bad at 5300.
You know what? I'll tell you, I I watched all
of that Cowboys Vikings game as a Viking fan last week and
they're not going to lean on the ground game at all.
They're going to, they're going to lean on the pass game.
They're going to see what JJ McCarthy can do because it's a
lost season for the Vikings. They're going to have him throw
as many passes as possible. My prediction is Justin
Jefferson does score in this game.
Oh, OK. So I, I, I think that you can
get AJJ to JJ for the payday. And Justin Jefferson is like
6100 or I think he's like the lowest price I've ever seen on
fan ball. So yeah.
For sure don't mind him at all. My budget pick is Bryce Young
5400 against Tampa Bay. Bryce has alternated 3 touchdown
games with one touchdown games for the past month and he had
one touchdown last week so I guess it's 3 this week against
Tampa. Tampa Tampa's past defense has
fallen off a Cliff over the last month.
In their last six games, 5 quarterbacks have topped 270
yards. 5 quarterbacks have thrown for multiple touchdowns.
Of those 5, three of them threw 3 touchdown passes.
Tyler Shuck was the only one who didn't hit the 270 or multi
touchdown mark he ran into. So the average quarterback score
in fanball points against the Bucks over the last six games,
29.75. You want.
A 30 point guarantee for Bryce Young That would be 6X on Bryce
Young I I think. I think 4X is guaranteed for
Bryce Young. I think he might be the most
slam dunk play of the week. I.
Don't think I'd thought I'd ever hear those words said about
Bryce Young. Slam dunk play of the week.
It's not. It's mostly Tampa.
Yeah, I know that. That is crazy though that Tampa
is just 30 fan ball points a game to a quarterback is like
that's the best quarterback every week they have to like.
Pretty crazy stuff running back position.
Who's your expensive guy, Trevor?
Yeah, we'll stay in that Tampa Carolina game.
Bucky's Irving a 7100 at Carolina this week.
Tampa had no issue immediately sliding Bucky back into his
workhorse workhorse role, at least 17 touches in each of his
first three games back from injury.
Now he gets a Panthers run defense that allows a whopping
4.8 yards per carry and has already conceded 13 rushing
touchdowns this year. Obviously it's a huge game.
Must win for both teams. Todd Balls was happy to ride a
rookie Bucky down the stretch last year.
Over his past four games of 2024, when Tampa was also aiming
for the postseason, he averaged over 20 touches a game.
Lucky's got a price savings of about AK less than the top guys
as well. And if we want to play Amon,
Rod, Chase, some of these high-priced guys we're going to
we're going to have to pick some savings somewhere.
So I'll I'll pick some with Bucky over the top guys.
Trevor, I was looking at Bucky as maybe a consideration for my
running back of the week, and the thing that I just kept
coming back to is I think he's. Still hurt I think.
He I think he's hurt. He's he's getting the touches.
They're there, but he's not getting the quality on those
touches. He's not getting huge yard
totals, he's not scoring a lot. And Tampa was doing fine as as a
run team with Sean Tucker and Rashad White for several weeks.
So I know that they're giving the ball back to Bucky and he's
their their number 1 runner, but to me it seems like he's still
not 100%. And they are.
Sean Tucker is seems like he's the goal line.
He kind of emerged as the goal line back over the last few
weeks. But 20 touches in a good game
environment. But I hear interesting.
Though yeah, it just just made me pause just a little bit.
My expensive runner. I, I initially had James Cook
here, but every time I use James Cook, I get it wrong.
So I I switched up to Bijan against Arizona.
There's probably 5 blue chip runners in the league right now.
Two of them play on Monday Night Football and Bijon is probably
sitting in the best spot of the remainders this week.
I think a Chan is a good argument too and you already
covered him. He's had 31 or more fan ball
points in three of his last five games.
He's feasted on bad run defenses like Arizona and the Cards are
bottom 5 in yards per carry, rush yards, rushing touchdowns,
combo yards allowed to runners and combo touchdowns.
This is a smash spot for Bijon. Even Tyler Algier can eat in
this one. They both can.
I, I think it's I think it's a no brainer here.
Lacks a brain to put Bijon in your lineup this week.
Budget runner who you got? Yeah, this one pretty chalky.
Michael Carter for the Cardinals 4900 at home against Atlanta.
We already talked about they're down to running back four now.
Amari J Mercado was the other back on the roster.
He came into last week, came with an injury and only saw
three touches. Carter saw the lion's share of
the running back workload last week, turning 18 touches to
nearly 100 combo yards. Even when the other backs were
healthy, Carter was the pass game back 19 catches over his
past five games. Falcons are only a middling
match up for opposing backs, both on the ground and through
the air. So you're getting potential 20
touches for less than 5K. That's hard to keep out of your
line UPS. Really the only reason you
wouldn't play him is if you wanted to go like Gibbs, A Chan
and Bichon. If you want to go like the three
best runners, then you couldn't fit Michael Carter.
But I'll have Michael Carter. You might.
Have to put Michael Carter in your superflex at that point
actually. Maybe the quarterbacks aren't
great this week. This is a week I thought about
not playing two quarterbacks. OK.
Can I get you to consider Quinch
on Judkins for 5800 against Buffalo?
Judkins basically got all the work last week against the
Bears, but that game got out of hand so quickly for the Browns
that they just abandoned the run.
There's a bit of a danger in that happening this week against
the Bills too, but they're coming off an emotional win in
New England last week, and the Bills have been a let down team
after emotional wins this year. They beat Kansas City and
Arrowhead in Week 9. Then they lost to the Dolphins.
By the way, Devon HN had 40 points in that game.
Then they beat Tampa in a shootout in Week 11, then lost
to the Texans on Thursday Night Football.
So they have a little bit of let down to them after these these
huge emotional games. It was the big comeback last
week. Overall, the Bills have allowed
five different runners to top 30 PPR points this season,
including Trayvion Henderson last week.
I mean, Quinch on Judkins, he might not hit 30 points, but I'm
saying there's a chance. That Bill's run defenses
atrocious and and Dudkins is absolutely talented enough to
make him pay for. It all right, let's go to an
expensive wide receiver pick. Who do you got, Trevor?
Yeah, you had Mona is your your favorite player on the slate?
And I got Jameson Williams his buddy 6700 against Pittsburgh.
It's the highest total game on the slate.
It actually opened at 45 1/2 and it's now up to 52 so.
Oh wow. Yeah, and actually I mentioned,
yeah, I mentioned the Bengals Dolphins game had a total over
50 since the Tua news. That dropped to 47 1/2.
Oh, there we go. Wow.
Something to keep in mind. Still a still a good
environment, but I'm I'm looking.
At old over under numbers when I do this, obviously, yeah.
Yeah, I've just streaming them to my brain, you know?
OK, there we go. But so Detroit's had four home
games since their bye week. The game totals in those games
are 516155 and 74. Detroit's defense is stating you
get a Dome spot. Dan Campbell took over play
calling in the Washington game in Week 10, in part, he said,
because he was upset at how Jameson Williams was being used.
Since then, Jamo's been on a heater.
He's got 4 touchdowns in the six games that Campbell's called
plays and at least 88 yards and five of the six.
It's a great match up to. Pittsburgh's allowed the second
most catches to receivers. You could play both Amonrah and
Jamo. I mean, they might put up 40
here. Yeah, and, and and then you'd
probably want to put in Jared Goff too, right?
Yeah, Yep. All right, my expensive pick is
Nico Collins 7300 against the Raiders at home.
Underrated aspect of the six game-winning streak for the
Texans is how consistent Nico has been. 20 or more PPR points
four times in those six games. In the other two, he caught all
three of his targets for 55 yards against the Bills and then
went four for 1/21 against the Chiefs.
So he hit 16 PPR points. 19 different wide receivers have
hit double digit PPR points against the Raiders this year.
Plus, it's a must win for the Texans to keep pace in the AFC.
And most of their runners have injury designations.
So I kind of like Collins to get a lot of work this week it.
Actually kind of reminds me of the spot that JSN was in against
Atlanta maybe a few weeks ago, where it's like, well, Seattle
might just blow the doors off of them.
But if they don't, JSN might have like 40 points.
And that feels like the Nico Collins.
Like if Vegas could put up like 13, maybe Nico goes for 30.
Yeah, we might have to cheer for Vegas to figure out how to score
some points against this Texans D Tough sled in there, though.
Who's your budget wide receiver? Yeah, it's a It's a really tough
week, honestly, for guys in the cheap receiver game Jalen Coker
Carolina 3700 against Tampa, Would you consider?
Yourself a cokehead. I I do, he's been a solid cheap
PPR option recently. 4 catches in three of his last four games,
and he's got a receiving touchdown in each of the past
two as well. He's actually cleared 16 PPR
points and two straight, for what it's worth.
Yeah, honestly between 50230500A receiver on the slate, I like
can't find anyone I want to play.
I don't want to pay 5K for Godwin, Addison, Johnston, guys
who can literally air ball and Coker can air ball but at least
he's a little cheaper if he's going to do it so.
How dare you besmirch Chris Godwin's name?
Who's my cheap wide receiver option?
OK, well, maybe Chris Godwin's a great play.
The other guys are. Godwin's 5000 at Carolina Tampa
had all three of their receivers on the field last week for the
very first time this season, and it's week 15.
Evans was back as the A12 targets.
Egbuca kept a solid 7 targets. Godwin had five targets call, 4
of them for only 20 yards, but he was the only one to score a
touchdown out of those guys. When all three of them are out
there, it's pick your poison time and Godwin runs the most
routes out of the slot, about half of them.
He gets the best match up against slot corner Chow Smith
Wade, who is definitely not a name I just made-up.
He's the cheapest of the Tampa wide receivers by far.
Evans is 7 K Ebuka is 5800. I already talked about how I
like Bryce Young in this one and I talked about how I I think
there's some shootout capability in this game.
I I think it could go back and forth.
And so I want a piece of this game.
Chris Godwin 5000 in this one, I think is a good spot.
And you could look at that bright red number on fanball and
go, oh, that's, that's a tough matchup.
It's not that tough for Godwin here.
Especially since he avoids JC Horn, right?
Right. A lot of those slot routes.
JC Horn's given up five touchdowns in his coverage this
year too, so even if Godwin flexes outside, I I don't think
it's that that scary of a match up as it used to.
Be. Yeah, I'm with it.
All right, who's your favorite tight end play this week,
Trevor? And you're probably going to
take a big dump on like my tight end before we get to mine,
right? I should do that first.
No, I've got Kyle Pitts this week, 5200, Really.
Just yeah. Kyle Pitts.
Here we're. Just going to box score Chase,
obviously he blew up for the, you know, fantasy performance of
a lifetime last week. I really don't think we're just
chasing the box score, though. His target's been trending up in
the four weeks since Kirk took over 5810 and then 12 last week.
He's got three straight games with at least 6 catches and 80
yards. Arizona's bottom 10 to the
position against 10 yards and catches.
And in just the last four weeks, the Cards allowed 876 and one to
Dalton Schultz. Colby Parkinson scored a
touchdown. Britton Strange had 93 yards.
Potential smash play if Drake London remains out, which we
don't know quite yet. He's still a great play, even if
London does suit up on Sunday. All right, who's going to score
more fantasy points in that game, Trey McBride or Kyle?
Pitts I mean, that's Trey McBride.
You've got to pay me to pay. McBride.
No, My expensive pick is Brock Bowers 5800 at Houston.
So yeah, let's start the tight end with Kenny Pickett at
quarterback against one of the best defenses in the league.
This is Galaxy brain stuff. No one's going to be starting
Brock Bowers here. He's the second highest priced
tight end behind McBride. But guess who played the Texans
last week with a quarterback that didn't start the season for
his team? It was Trey McBride.
How'd he do? 12 catches, 134 yards and two
touchdowns. What?
Oh, here we go. Bowers has maybe faced the
toughest schedule imaginable over the last month.
Get who he's played in the last month.
The Browns. That's a four top 10.
Defenses, yeah. And then he gets the Texans like
5 in a row. By the way, he's put up good
numbers in those games, Double digit PPR points in three of his
last four. Even last week in Philly, where
it was a lost game, he had eight targets in that game.
So the volume's gonna be there. I think that we've we've proven
if the volume is there against the Texans defense, they might
not be able to cover a good tight end all that much.
So let's let's Galaxy brain Brock Bowers.
That was too many BS in a row into your line UPS.
Not like that. I always like to the the special
talent against the tough match up 'cause it's like, yeah, what
if Trame Bride is just better than the Texans that week?
Like and Brock Bowers has that potential for sure.
And like you said, he'll be 1% owned.
Nobody. Who's your budget tight end,
Trevor? Yeah, I kind of stole this one
from you. I've got Darren Waller, 4K home
against Cincinnati. Oh my.
Move my move to do the cheap tight end against the Bengals
defense every week in this spot. Well, yeah, yeah.
I was also going to say you pitched to pick up Darren Waller
for a couple weeks on the pods, too.
I said it's just DFS, but have you seen the interview where
Darren Waller sits down with Jon Gruden in the last like, a year
or so? So Darren Waller's like a rapper
now and so he plays like his football themed rap song for Jon
Gruden and then him and Jon Gruden like start vibing
together. It's it's pretty funny.
It's worth a watch. Anyways, we'll get back to the
the info here. Like you said, since he's the
worst tight end defense of all time, we won't need to go
further than that. Waller's played just seven games
this year and has 6 touchdowns. Last week he was in also an
excellent spot. Pittsburgh is the second worst
tight end defense and he buried them for 766, two all season
highs. This Dolphins offense runs
through three players, HN Waddle and Darren Waller.
It's a cheap way to get access to it.
What was a better environment about two hours ago before Tua
was benched? But it's still a a good spot for
Mr. Waller. You know, viewers being in might
benefit Waller just because of the dump off nature of some of
these younger quarterbacks and and rookies tend to hit a Chan
and hit Waller. I mean, they'll hit your running
back and they'll hit their tight end because they won't stand in
the pocket long enough to view their progressions.
Yeah, they don't want to throw downfield in their first start,
you know, ever too. Plus.
Those matchups are juicy. Juicy.
All right, my budget tight end TJ Hawkinson, 3600 at the
Giants. He's quietly put up couple of
respectable weeks here with Max Brosmer as his quarterback.
He had 6 catches for 59 yards. Then they went back to JJ.
He scored against the Commanders and he had four for 66 last week
against Dallas. And McCarthy has been throwing
the ball in the red zone a ton because they want to get
Jefferson a touchdown #1 and everyone knows it #2 so now
Jefferson's double covered on all red zone plays, which is why
Josh Oliver was left open for two scores against Washington.
And they want to see what JJ can do down there.
It's all prove it time for McCarthy.
The Giants aren't a particularly easy match up for tight ends,
mostly because you haven't needed to utilize the tight end
all that much to beat New York. Their pass rush has been kind of
garbage. Their wide receivers have been
open all day against them, but Dallas Goddard scored on them
thrice this season in their two meetings.
Hunter Henry put up 4 catches for 73 yards two weeks ago. 4
for 73 seems pretty reasonable for Hawkinson in this one, and
if you do that, you're at 11 PPR points right there and I think
that hits value at 3600. And you could argue he probably
should have had a touchdown last week that JJ kind of let him up
the sideline a little bit too far.
Yeah. Yeah.
You know, he's, he's really been involved recently.
All right, the deep, deep sleeper time.
Trevor, what are we doing here? Yeah, it's it's nasty AD
Mitchell 3800 against New Orleans.
I I've used him a few times this year with some success.
He did prove he can produce even with near league worst
quarterback play. He went 658 one last week with
Ray Cook the rookie at the helm. The former Cole actually has
five straight games with at least six targets.
It's a little boom busty as in those five games he's got an
81-O2 and one line and A6581. But the other three games saw
just 4 catches combined, so it's real boom or bust.
John matches and play a little bit too at 3400, but he just
doesn't have the same ceiling as AD Mitchell does.
That's gross. I thought it was gross.
Yeah, a lot. Last week my my deep, deep
sleeper was Bashel Tooten. He only had two touches, but he
scored a touchdown. Yeah, I'm on a roll.
This week. It's Jaden Higgins 4300 against
Vegas. I mentioned that I like Nico
Collins against this D for much of the same reasons.
Higgins snap share last week was 72%.
Nico's snap share last week was 73%.
He had one more snap than Higgins.
So Higgins is basically out there in the starting group.
Problem for Higgins, he only had one catch for four yards last
week and only three for 34 the week before.
But give me a guy who's cheap, who's on the field a ton with an
injured backfield in a must win game at home indoors against a
past defense that's bottom 10 in receptions, yards and touchdowns
allowed to opposing wide receivers.
It all stacks up as something that should trend upward for
Higgins here. I think he's worth it at 4300 if
you need to get down and dirty. Yeah, no, I like that one too.
All right. Trevor, do you have a line up
for this week? Did I do your mind and have you
put Bryce Young in it right away?
I I'm not sold yet, but. You have to come on.
I know, I know, I think so. I'll read the line up, but I
think I need an extra 100 bucks to get to Bryce Young.
So we got Jacoby and JJ McCarthy, quarterback, running
back HN Irving and Michael Carter, receiver Chase Coker,
Jameson Williams and then Kyle Pitts at tight ends.
I like it, I like it. You don't hate it.
All right, it's time for us to take a look at the Sunday 5 by
5. It's up on the screen for those
of you watching on YouTube or Spotify, Trevor, this was maybe
one of the most interesting groups of five by five players I
think I've seen all season. Because if you look at that
$1.00 page right there, pretty much every one of them went off
last week. Trayvion Henderson, Zay Flowers,
Kyle Pitts, Michael Wilson and DK Metcalf.
Wow. Yeah, Michael Wilson at a dollar
is staring at me in the face here.
That's. That's the one.
Yeah, even over Trayvion, even over DK.
I think Jameson Williams $2.00 against Pittsburgh is excellent
too. I, I, I really like DK in a spot
against Detroit's terrible past defense right now.
Like they've been just focusing on DK like over and over again.
Yeah, that's such a high total that it feels like he's going to
clear at least 100 yards. Yeah, I it it.
Seems like least where you. Could get up to two of those $5
guys if you wanted to. You could get like Bijon and
Gibbs in your line up or you could go maybe Bijon Aman raw
and maybe a Trey McBride and then get a couple of dollar
players to finish her off. Yeah, I will say like there's
not a big difference between like the $1.00 and the three
dollar players. If anything, the $1.00 players
might be better this week. Jeez, Yeah, well, I definitely
don't like ETN there at 3 bucks. Don't use him.
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