FFT Express - LAST-MINUTE Week 1 Start 'Em, Sit 'Em Advice! Actives/Inactives & Q&A (09/13 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Good morning, folks. Let's answer your starter set questions and give you the big news right now on FFT Express. [music] Week one. Here we go. It's September 13th, and we've got updates for you and some not updates for you like Malik neighbors. What is your advice to the people who are asking about Malik neighbors in the Sunday night game? I don't think this is one, the fantasy analysts are going to be able to help you out with. If Malik neighbors plays, we rank him as a mid-wide receiver two with certain wide receiver one upside. He's been a full participant at practice all week long. You know, sometimes we have these situations where it seems like the team is being more cautious than the player is. This is not what the situation feels like. Malik neighbors said that he was going to ask God. If he should play, it's Sunday. Maybe he's going to do that this morning and let us know before the game start. That would be very nice. I would probably just say, if you have two wide receivers that you feel really good about starting or just good about starting, then I'd try to get away from neighbors. If you're a three wide receiver league, personally, I'm not going to start someone like Jalen Coker over Malik neighbors. If you could go get Malachi fields to put on your bench, or if you can put them in a flex spot and maybe wait out for an RJ Harvey, then I would be happy to do that. But otherwise you're just going to roll on the dice and you have to choose whether you want to roll the dice. Do you think it's fields or mooney? I think they will both be more involved. Beolds is more exciting. Mooney probably has a better floor. Okay. I guess one more guy, maybe Bryant, if you really want to go that route. He's on Denver. You could start him Monday night. But yeah, neighbors is going to be a very tough one. Meanwhile, Cooper Rush has had back spasms yesterday. He's still going to start for the Atlanta Falcons in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh won't have looks unlikely that they're going to have corner back Joey Porter Jr. their top corner. Yeah, what do you think about London and pits? You hate it. But I'm not going to get away from them most likely more likely to get away from pits than I am London. And just because listen, most leagues you start two wide receivers and maybe three. Some leagues you start three wide receivers and maybe maybe four Drake London with my wide receiver six. Before the two of news, I'm still starting Drake London as a wide receiver to pits. I have a terribly difficult decision just to let you know what the range that I have him between him. Isaiah likely and Michael Mayer. He'd be last for me. Yeah, in that group, but you did he was he you were lower on Kyle Pits than I was all summer. But he'd be first for me in that group if two or right this week, but he's in that group for you. If two is playing, whereas for me, he's in a tear above those guys. Yeah, well, I mean, you're going to tune into the live stream from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. And I'll talk more about Cooper Rush. He hasn't really had a situation like this. He's basically played you know a chunk of games with the Cowboys in 2022. A chunk of games with the Cowboys in 2024 and two games last year, he got benched in one of them. Unfortunately, they were against Houston and the Rams. It's not like he had easy competition with the Ravens, but I mean, he was absolutely terrible for Dalton Schultz. Absolutely terrible for Jake Ferguson with Dallas, you know, the Ravens. I'm not going to say he was terrible for Mark Andrews. Andrews didn't do anything all year. But what he did do consistently is target the hell out of CD Lamb and Zay flowers. Both of those guys had target per out run rates over 31 percent, which would flirt with the league lead over a full season. He's never had a situation like this. You know, you've got B. John Robinson is going to get a lot of targets. You got you got London, but the fact that that the two tight ends Schultz and for Ferguson were so bad with him and not targeted really. What I would say that tells me is that Cooper Rush probably just looks at his first read and throws it to that guy. That's what I thought he was pretty low on first read percentage last year, according to fantasy points that up. That wasn't a lot of it. I didn't look at 22 and 24 and that I mean, that's a good thing for London. I think I mean, he's going to get the ball to the guy who needs to get the ball. I don't know how it's going to work with pits, but right. I see what you're saying. I mean, he's in that range of questionable guys. All right. We're going to take a break. We got a lot more to get to. So we're going to get to it a lot faster than that. Those are two of the bigger news items here. We'll tell you about Jeremiah Love and and Romo Dunezay when we come back on FFT Express. Okay. Welcome back. So Romo Dunezay is expected to play. I've had a really hard time recommending him this morning, though. I'd like to not do it. How do you feel about Odunezay? How was you comparing to someone that we know as a tough matchup and DJ Moore? Like would rather DJ Moore or Odunezay? I've got DJ Moore, I think seven or eight spots ahead of Romo Dunezay. I went and looked this morning to see if it had updated. And on my hard rock it was 58 and a half yards for Luther Burton as the over under Colson Lovelins 52 and a half Luther Burton's in the third or Romo Dunezays in the 30s. That's kind of the way that it was all week. That tells me either the people who are studying those lines don't think Romo Dunezay is fully healthy or think he's the third option in the offense, which I think either one are believable. So he's a boom bust wide receiver three, but he's behind Brian Thomas for me. He's behind Jordan Addison and Christian Watson for me. Okay. We're going to play it safe with Romo Dunezay if we can't. Jeremiah Love at the Chargers. This is a four o'clock game. He's expected to play. What do you think about Love? Flex at best is how I'm viewing him. He's right behind Tony Pauler, Basel Tutton, David Montgomery. I just don't trust that he's going to have a big workload. They're nine and a half point hundred dollars. They've got an over under in the teens. I think it'd be better. But if you have to start him, there's hope because he could if he's if he's healthy, he could go score on just about any play. Would you start Quentin Johnston over him? Yes. So I think that's probably a full PPR situation, but yeah, I've got Johnston ahead of him and full PPR, not anything else. The Mecca Buka is going to play. Jalen Macmillan is doubtful. Sean Tucker is doubtful. Cincinnati cornerback DJ Turner. They're shut down corner. He is going to play. So this is a game we're really looking forward to. Are you cool with Mecca Buka? Yeah. Yeah. I have been I think the high guy on him so far this week. He's a wide receiver to on starting him. The vibe I'm getting is that it wasn't really that bad of an injury and that he should be fine. That's we are we're vibing. Okay. Yeah. Because I know turf toe has been thrown out there, but I don't I didn't see anything official on that with Mecca Buka. Alec Pierce is going to play in the game of the week. Indianapolis and Baltimore. And Baltimore defensive tackle Matt Buka will not play. What do you think about that game of the week? I just want to thank you for not running Lyon Saints were being those books. And I think it's also like I don't think anybody else recognized this, but I want you to know that I see you. And you're clearly just trying to get Zay flowers off to us. Let's start. Absolutely not. You can start Alec Pierce. No, I don't really want to start a Colts wide receiver. Pierce is my favorite Colts wide receiver. I have Pierce and Downs almost back to back right behind Roma doing say Tucker craft signed a big contract extension. But we don't know what kind of playing time he's going to get in week one. Tucker craft Kyle pits Michael mayor Isaiah likely. What do you think? They are all within a half a point in my projections. That is currently my tight in five through tight end eight. I have Tucker craft at the top right now, but that is subject to late line movement tune in time. New today. I'll be on 11 11th when everybody else will be on I'll be on it noon. I will have all the projections fully updated with the latest information. Hopefully a little blurb about how many snaps Tucker craft's going to play. He's such a weird player because. He could play half of the snaps and have five targets and have 80 yards and a touchdown. Yeah. Jacobi Myers is going to play, which really doesn't change much. We were kind of expecting that. And we ranked all the wide receivers on that team as if Jacobi Myers were going to play, but he is expected to play today. The chiefs are expected to start an undrafted rookie Khalil Benson at left tackle. You got to start mayor over Kelsey, right? Oh 100% I would start mayor over Kelsey. I'd almost start Kirk cousins over Patrick homes, but I don't want to start either one of them. Yeah, I would. And again, we said this to be getting in the week that dumbest line of the week has not changed the chiefs are still two and a half point favorites. So maybe I'll look all wet, but no, I don't want to start Kelsey or moms. And I think it might be windy. I don't know. I looked this morning because there was some talk about it being a little windy there. It seems like it's not going to be too bad according to roto grinders, but it's something to keep an eye on. Check, take a look at the weather in Kansas City tomorrow night. That's pretty much it for the important stuff. Let's get to some questions here, gain well or March on the way at half PPR. I think I'm on an island with this answer. And I'll try to tell people when that's true. I would start March on the way over Kenneth gain well, I think I know Jamie would start gain well over the way. Oh, half PPR, he might be with me, but definitely would definitely Lloyd for me. I'm on your island. Thank you. Yeah. London or J. and read PPR. Definitely Drake Lennon for me. Oh, dunes, they are neighbors. I would go with neighbors. Yeah, yeah, risk it. Parker Washington, Christian Watson or Tucker Kraft. Wow. So I have Parker Washington ahead of Tucker Kraft. I would probably, I, Parker Washington, I've got Watson. Washington one spot ahead of Watson and Kraft is right in that same neighborhood. Waddle or Parker Washington. Waddle for me. Let's see. Michael Mayer or Jawan Johnson or Mark Andrews. Mayor for me. And I've changed on that. I was originally Jawan Johnson. I'm Michael Mayer now as well. Jordan Mason or Jonathan Brooks half PPR. I think it's much safer to go with Jordan Mason. Probably more upside with Jonathan Brooks, but I would probably do Mason. Caleb Williams or Trevor Lawrence. It is Caleb for me. Okay. Start one. Chris Godwin. March on Lloyd Jordan Mason. PPR. I think it's actually Mason for me in full PPR. I might go with Godwin. I'm sorry. Lloyd over Mason. I apologize. Okay. Okay. Like full PPR Godwin. Maybe. Oh, yeah. Right on the border there. To Cornell Tater Courtland Sutton. I will go with Sutton. Marsha on Lloyd or Parker Washington PPR. It's Lloyd for me. Getting a lot of Parker Washington questions and I understand and getting, you know, some Trevor Lawrence questions like Lawrence or Daniels and 4.6 point. This one here. Yeah. It's going to be Daniels for me in both. I just think, you know, you have to at least bake in the possibility that the Jaguars throw 26 passes today. That's one of them. And I just glanced at the lines. I generally update them a little bit later in the day, but that's one of the bigger line movements is that the Browns, I think, are down to 15.25 for their team total. Yeah. And I just see a pick six, you know, because it's just that kind of stuff that could really get the game strip bad for them. I still like we still like Parker Washington and Trevor and all that. But it's what can I get on should we're taking a snap today? I don't know from me or just in general. Didn't know from you. Plus 180. That's pretty low. I think it might be lower than that. Go off or Lawrence. God for me. All right. That's our last one. We were going to answer your questions for two straight hours. Join us at youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday at 11 a.m. Eastern. 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