FFT Express - EARLY Week 8 Waiver Wire TARGETS! McGowan, Douglas, Concepcion, Williams, & Others! (10/26 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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And then Terry McLaurin's out for the season on the Monday night game. So things changed quite a bit. So what's it looking like right now, though, Jamie? Good week or what? Could be an interesting week. I think the one name that could send everybody into a panic slash… Tizzy? Tizzy. Spend as much money on the waiver wire as you can. So if you want to beat the waiver wire, I would do so. It's Seth McGowan. Yeah. Are you thinking he's going to get traded, Jonathan? He might. I mean, you know, another law. It's another performance where their offense looks shaky. Shane Steichen committing to Daniel Jones once again. So who knows what that means for what they're looking at moving forward. And it makes sense. I mean, look, it's not like Anthony Richardson or Riley Leonard is going to change the fortunes of this team. So if you can maximize the value for Taylor before there's an injury, you know, and he did have a good game against a very good defense against Minnesota. You know, I'm sure teams that are looking to trade for him, and you have one that was at least rumored going into a bye in the Giants. You know, like, why would you risk him getting hurt? If you don't have to, if you're going to, you know, trade for now. So McGowan's the one I think that could be like, oh, my God, we got to get this guy. In terms of the rest of the waiver wire, we had some, we had two rookie wide receivers stand out in Casey Concepcion and Caleb Douglas. And one that's very interesting going into week eight that did not play in week seven. And that's Antonio Williams because of the McLaurin injury, as you just alluded to. So he's going to be in a player that I'll have some interest in the quarterbacks. There's one potential. Two potential starters, in my opinion, in 12-team leagues. And that's Jacoby Brissett taking on Dallas and Geno Smith taking on the Raiders. Michael Penix is playing well, but he has a tough matchup. Malik Willis, Baker Mayfield, if you want to bind these guys. And then long-term, J.J. McCarthy and Fernando Mendoza. Sounds like, you know, they're going to stick with Kirk Cousins, at least coming off of Sunday's game. But it's coming. You know, Mendoza's time to start is coming. And then I think there's two running backs. You can get into the running backs. I'll bring up two more names. I'm not sure if you're going to mention, but go ahead. So the running backs, the one that I think has the most potential starting, the one that has the chance to start in, I'll say, 12-team leagues, but is Donovan Knight. I mean, it's very clear that he's the better Cardinals running back at this point than Tyler Algier. Jeremiah Love may play in Week 8. It's Dallas. Knight's got a chance, I think, to be at least a flex. He's really the only one, though, that I would look at and say, OK, he might be able to help you this week. Dylan Sampson's another one, you know, just based on his role in the passing game. And I know Judkins was awesome, but Samson, I think, is going to have that role. Everybody else, really, that I look at so far is more long-term. The Giants situation because of Scadaboo's hamstring injury. We don't know about Tracy's injury, but I think Tracy still has a chance to play ahead of Devin Singletary. But Singletary is on the list. I'm going to make sure, and I have him in a bunch of leagues, that Kalon Black is rostered in every league that I have. Because he just got the scare a little bit from McCaffrey. We know what the backup running back has been historically there for the 49ers. So that's one I think that you should put on your list. And again, right now I have Zonovan Knight one, Seth McGowan two. So the two guys that I was going to mention are rostered in about 70% of CBS Sports Leagues. But on Sleeper, Jonah Coleman. Sleeper and Yahoo, Jonah Coleman is rostered in fewer than 40% of leagues. On Sleeper and Yahoo, Rashad White is rostered in fewer than 60% of leagues. So I know, obviously, not that. You didn't think of those guys. But on CBS, they're a little bit too rostered for the main part of the waiver. White is 72% and Coleman is 69%. So they're right there. So they'll be mentioned in the column. We'll talk about them on Tuesday on the main show. We're not going to forget about them. Don't worry. Oh, yeah, for sure. But just bringing that up. Because on the other leagues, on the other websites, Jonah Coleman, 35% rostered, basically, on Yahoo and Sleeper. That's probably going to change. And then Rashad White's got 30%. Three more games, at least, as probably the lead running back for the team. All right, we're going to take a break. We'll give you some more names when we come back on Fantasy Football today. I have got a great product for parents of teenagers. 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You just got to take into account, that was his first game. His second game with double digits in PPR, still hasn't scored a touchdown yet. His best game prior to that was week four against Pittsburgh. Then week five, he gets the concussion. Week six was a good game, just not a great game. And then week seven, the explosion. So, I think there's just a lot to like about the direction that he's headed. And then for Caleb Douglas, he's played two full games so far this season. He had 94 receiving yards in week one, two touchdowns in week seven. You know, hopefully he's just continuing to make plays for this Dolphins offense. That is definitely heading in the right direction. Malik Wells has been playing better. And coming off the bye, you like to see that. And zero green zone targets, zero end zone targets for Casey Concepcion. I said earlier today, I'm going to be on the box score. I'm going to say it tomorrow on the Waiver Wire show. I'm probably going to say it on the CBS Sports Network version of the Waiver Wire show. It really stands out to me. They just don't look for him when they're near the end zone. He's on the field sometimes, but not always in those situations. Definitely going to be better in PPR than not. Yeah, that's the point exactly. And then the third one that I mentioned earlier, Antonio Williams, you know, had the eight target game when Diggs was out in London. And that was just a mess, you know, with the quarterbacks getting hurt when Mariota got hurt and the third stringer had to play. I think we're going to see him benefit the most without McClure in there. At least that's the hope. You know, I don't want to see the Diamond Browns of the world, you know, be second or maybe third because Chico Conk will talk about him in a second. But second or third? on the team and targets that I think digs is going to benefit the most clearly. And then Williams is somebody that. You don't have to necessarily prioritize because I'm going to guess when you look at it, you're not going to see his projections very high by comparison to probably Concepcion and Douglas and not playing the previous week. There could be a fourth and a fifth rookie that are the receivers to prioritize off waivers. If Makai Lemon, we're recording this Monday, if Makai Lemon comes out and has a good game Monday night, they play the commanders in week eight. And if both Smith and Wicks are out again, Lemon will then be either third or fourth on this list for me. And then the guy after that is Jordan Tyson, because we don't know. He may return. He may play. I shouldn't say return. He may make his debut in week nine. So that's another one. So we could be looking at a lot of rookies to go get off waivers this week if we're just talking about receivers. And then, you know what? I'll just give you one more while we're talking about it. It's probably time to just keep stashing Deshaun Stribling. At some point, he's going to play. And this Niners receiving core is an absolute mess. So put him on your list as well as somebody that you can stash in an IR spot if you're able to do so. Hey, let's stash Malachi Fields. He had four catches for 83 yards at Houston. He had eight targets the week before. He's getting a lot of love from J.J. McCarthy. Okay, I'll ask you about Kendrick Bourne on tomorrow's show. He finally gets a good matchup. But let's go to the tight ends here. You mentioned Okonkwo. Is he the best one? No, we got a little lucky. From our standpoint with the roster percentages, Hunter Henry's at 65%. So he's just been awesome. Four straight games of consistent production. He should be the first one to go get. Actually, I have Hawkinson second just because he's had two solid games in a row. And you're getting the Lions this week, which continue with Tucker Craft having another good game. And then Okonkwo is third. So if you're just looking at it as who's the most widely available, it's Okonkwo, 15% rostered. Hawkinson's 54%. Henry's at 65%. It's actually a pretty good week for tight ends. Because you have. You could chase Davis Allen if you want to do the two touchdowns. I'm going to go after Colby Parkinson. He battled through a bunch of injuries in that game, or at least, you know, an injury. But he's now second week in a row where he's been the most targeted tight end for the Rams with Adams being out. So he's not going to have, I think, the high-end production. I think that's still behavior Allen from a touchdown perspective. But Parkinson, I think, is the guy that they may lean on from a target perspective. I still have interest in Michael Mayer. You and I are both on the same page. Rams are really good against tight ends. That was the guy you wanted to avoid. He struggled against the Rams. Three of the four previous games, 12.2 PPR points or more. He's going to be a go-to guy for the Raiders in their offense. Brenton Strange coming off of his bye week was very solid from his production. The three previous games, this is a receiving core. I didn't mention him, but Travis Hunter is another receiver you might want to just take a fly around. Because last time, went into his bye last year, got hurt. Went into his bye this year, coming off a strong game. Who knows? But Strange has been a factor for the Jaguars now. And plus, it's Halloween, so you want Strange on your team. And then two tight ends that we barely talk about. I know we mentioned them. It's on Sunday night. But Greg Dolchus and Mason Taylor. Dolchus coming off a huge game, led the Dolphins in targets and target share. Was against the Jets. Take that into account. Not facing the Patriots. They're typically good against tight ends. And then Mason Taylor, you've talked about this a lot, that he's been their lead tight end for the last couple of weeks ahead of Sadiq. I don't want to think it was just the Dolphins. He played well against the Dolphins last year, too, in his rookie campaign. For those of you that don't know, his dad was a Hall of Famer for the Miami Dolphins, Jason Taylor. But Taylor is just starting to produce. And what we're seeing from the Jets, I hope it's not an indictment on Garrett Wilson, but we're seeing Cooper now step up for two straight weeks. We're seeing Taylor involved. It's not like Geno Smith, to our regret, I guess, to our deficit. We're not seeing him pepper Garrett Wilson with targets. He is using other weapons in the offense. He sure is. And, man, Hunter Henry being your number one tight end, who did Mason Taylor just score two touchdowns against was the Miami Dolphins. And the Dolphins have really struggled against tight ends for much of the season. DSTs to look at. For week eight. Yeah, I'm going to give you just the DST kicker combo. That's the Jaguars. Go pick them up if they were dropped. Jaguars get the Colts. That offense is a mess. Little actually has had a solid season. The Colts give up the most fancy points to kickers. So that's easy right there. Other DSTs to look at. The Bengals taking on the Titans. I know they had a strong performance this week against the Browns. But Bengals' second half against the Ravens looked great. Hopefully they do the same type of thing defensively against Tennessee. And then I know they're going on the road. And it's. A little. I'm skeptical of how they've gotten it done. But the Bears' defense has played well. Seahawks' offense stinks. And so. And they just lost their left tackle. The Seahawks. Charles Cross may play. No, he's a high ankle sprain. Oh, I thought they were optimistic that he might play. Oh, I thought he was. Well, all right. Sorry about that. I thought he was. I mean, unless I got the. I know it's combined with the Darien Price tweet. So I don't know if it was. Help was on the way. I thought it said something was positive. Okay. Well, either way, Jamie, I'm sorry to interrupt you. Yeah, go ahead. There. The Bears get pressure. The Bears, that's what they do. They get pressure on quarterbacks. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Good stuff. If you have the Bengals, if you pick them up against Tyler Huntley, you can keep them for the Titans game. And yeah, Jaguars, Cam Little. I'd had to drop Cam Little in like two or three leagues. So I'll be looking to pick him back up. That's Jamie Isenberg. Thanks so much. We'll give you the big show tomorrow with Jamie and Dave. And we'll talk to you then on Fantasy Football Today.