FFT Express - LAST-MINUTE Week 2 Fantasy Football Start 'Em, Sit 'Em Advice! Actives/Inactives & Q&A (09/20 Fantasy Football Podcast)

I recently took a trip to Memphis for the FFT Draft-a-Thon. While we were there, we also got to experience a little bit of what makes Memphis so special, including some of the food the city is famous for. We had Memphis-style barbecue with pulled pork, ribs, and all the classic sides. It was an incredible trip, especially getting to spend time with everyone involved, enjoy some great local food, and support a cause that means so much to all of us. And while I was away enjoying the trip, my place back home was just sitting empty. It got me thinking, if you're going to be away anyway, why not put that space to use? While you're traveling or taking off for a long weekend, you could list your space on Airbnb and earn some extra cash while you're gone. And when big events come to your city, like a major game, concert, festival, or convention, travelers are looking for places to stay. Listing your space on Airbnb can be a way to welcome those visitors to your city while putting your space to work and earning some extra cash that you can put toward your next trip. Your home might be worth it. Find out how much at airbnb.com slash host. Let's have a conversation about life insurance because it's a very important conversation to have. I know my wife and I felt like we needed life insurance. We needed to protect our future. We needed to know that if something happened, we could still make our house payments and provide for our kids. And if you need life insurance, I recommend Ethos. Ethos makes getting life insurance fast and easy, 100% online. You can get a quote in seconds, apply in minutes, and get same-day coverage. There's no medical exam. You just answer a few simple health questions. You can get up to $3 million in coverage, and some policies are as low as $30 a month. And Ethos is popular. It has 4.9 out of 5 stars on Trustpilot with more than 5,500 reviews. Take 10 minutes to get covered today with life insurance through Ethos. Get your free quote at ethos.com. That's ethos.com. Application times may vary. Rates may vary. Trustpilot rating as of 8-1-2026. Good morning, everyone. Get ready for Fantasy Week 2 with a lot of injury updates for you right now on FFT Express. Okay, all the wide receivers are hurt. Nico Collins is out. You know, let's go one by one. Let's go Texans. Nico. I don't really want to start any Texans besides David Montgomery and Dalton Schultz. If I had to find a wide receiver, I know a lot of people do because all the wide receivers are hurt. Xavier Hutchinson would be my favorite on the Texans. Keyshawn Booty would be right behind him. I have very little confidence in either one of them. Okay, I'm intrigued by Hutchinson. He was good in the two games that Collins missed last year. Well, he was good in one. He was good in one of them, and he got 13 targets in the other one. It's terrible because Stroud was so bad. Zay Flowers is out, and also their left tackle, Ronnie Stanley, may not play. So wide receivers for the Ravens. And are we concerned about Lamar Jackson at all? I downgraded Lamar just a little bit. I don't know that I actually have him behind anybody that you might also be rostering with Lamar Jackson. He's still a QB1 for me. But not a top. He's a top six QB, and I feel worse about the Ravens pass catchers in terms of starting them than I do the Texans, except for Mark Andrews, who I do think is a top eight tight end. And you should start him if you have him. You ready for this stat? Are you sitting down? Yeah. Okay, great. Stand up now. So Rashad Bateman's rookie year was 2021. He did not do well that year. But since then, since his second year in the league, he's got five games with at least seven. He's got seven targets. Yeah. He has 50 yards and a touchdown, at least 50 yards and a touchdown at all five of those games. Yeah. How about that? What wasn't even a part of the offensive equation in the second half last week when Zay Flowers got hurt? I think they threw like nine passes in the second half or something like that. So, yeah, but you're right. But you're right. Um, Puka Nakua. What are we doing about Puka Nakua? Questionable with a groin injury. Also, Jordan Whittington has a quad injury. And also, the Giants have a quad injury. The Giants secondary is beat up. So it'd be a great opportunity for somebody here. But who's it going to be, if anyone? We have no idea. And you have to play the risk tolerance game with this one. What I would say is, like, if you have a top, I would probably need a top 20 wide receiver to replace him with to not wait Puka out unless we get information. So I did in a deeper league go pick up Kanata Mumfield just to have somebody to put on my record. I Ross put to it in my lineup if Puka didn't play because I'm going to wait it out. Yeah, that's a good idea. Like, I'm looking at a league where I'm currently started. Jeez, man. I have Nico and Puka. I'm starting Casey Concepcion and Brian Thomas Jr. I think I'm just going to bench Concepcion for Puka Nakua and just be, you know, you got to try to score some points. Yeah, yeah, exactly. OK, so Kanata Mumfield will be your guy. What about one of the tight ends? You think Terrence Ferguson would benefit or something? Oh, I think it's a great opportunity. If you could get him in a flex and put Terrence, I'd rather have Terrence Ferguson in the flex than Mumfield. I'd probably rather have Malachi Fields also. OK, another option. OK, it's a tough one. It's really a tough one. And they're just not certain about Puka Nakua. And there just hasn't really been a big history. I mean, I think Tutu Atwell once upon a time was not bad a couple of years ago replacing him. I'm going to get the stats. I should have. I had the stats for this morning show. I'm very sorry, but I'll have them for the last couple of years when Puka was out. Last season when Devante Adams was out. In fact, I'll have those pretty soon and just see who got the opportunities, who stepped up. Ladd McConkie, questionable, but positive report overnight. We're thinking start Ladd McConkie. He's got a late game. I think if you have Ladd McConkie, you should start Ladd McConkie. Based on what we're hearing from the people that we trust on social media, it sounds like a good idea. I think Ladd's planning on playing, so he's a wide receiver, too. What about Quentin Johnston now? Because we were thinking, all right, we're going to start Quentin Johnston. I would rather start Quentin Johnston than any of the Texans or the Ravens, but I really don't want to start Quentin Johnston. Okay. Next up, we've got Chris Olave, questionable, at Baltimore. Yeah, this would make Devon Vele and Juwan Johnson much more attractive. It's if Olave misses, but as of right now, I mean, this one will at least know in plenty of time to make decisions if he's active stardom. Okay, by the way, three games without Devante Adams last year. Pukunukua had 37 targets. Colby Parkinson had 18. Kanata Mumfield had 14. That's it. I mean, it's just. And Terrence Ferguson scored a couple touchdowns. Colby Parkinson did. Yep, Terrence Ferguson did. He had. He had eight targets, and he caught two touchdowns. There you go. Tyler Higby caught a touchdown. Five touchdowns for tight ends. Yeah, that is significant. I mean, we know that Adams. But that was Adams, not Pukunukua. Right. Michael Pittman is out with a foot injury. Cornerback Carlton Davis is out for the Patriots in that game. Also, cornerback Joey Porter is out for the Steelers. But any interest in. Like, is it an upgrade for DK Metcalf? Anyone else for the Steelers? I've struggled so much with DK this week, and I would just. I would say. View him as a low-end No. 2 wide receiver or a high-end wide receiver 3. Probably feel better if you call him a high-end wide receiver 3. I think he has big upside. I just. There's also a risk he gets shut down by Christian Gonzalez. I do have a little bit of hope for Roman Wilson. But he's in that. Like, he's behind Xavier Hutchinson. Okay, and then we've got the Joe Burrow situation here, which we're going to tell you about after this break. We'll talk about Burrow, a couple of other updates for you, and then we'll answer your questions here on Fantasy Football Today Express. Stick around. We'll be right back. I'll be honest with you. I've never really enjoyed shopping for clothes. It's just not my thing. But I do like getting nice clothes, and I like looking good, and I like feeling confident when I get dressed. So what's the solution here? It's Stitch Fix. This is an online personal styling service that has helped so many people get better style effortlessly. So stop scrolling through a bunch of websites, and stop. Stop driving to stores, and just go to Stitch Fix. Here's how it works. It's very simple. You take a quick style quiz. You share your size, your vibe, your budget. You're going to get linked with a stylist, and an actual human being, by the way. So you get linked to the stylist, and they do the rest of the work. You get sent a fix box with clothes that actually fit you and make sense for your style and your needs, and then you try them on. You keep what you like. You send back what you want to return. The returns are free. The shipping is free. No subscription is required, and you're going to get a free box. You're going to get a free try-on for your first order. So get started today at stitchfix.com slash football. That's stitchfix.com slash football. All right, what do you make of this Joe Burrow situation? Questionable with a back injury. They elevated a quarterback from the practice squad. You think he might not play? I really didn't even consider that a possibility on Friday. It seems slightly more likely now. I'm hoping for better information because I have quite a bit of Jamar Chase, and it didn't go well. go very well in week one. We have probably the most fun backup quarterback in the NFL. So there were a couple of super flex leagues where I went and added Joe Flacco just in case. And I think I would still start Chase and Higgins if Burrow was out. And Flacco may not be a bad backup for Burrow. It might be better than anybody you can find on the waiver wire anyway. Yeah, he threw over 41 passes in his six starts with Cincinnati last year and wasn't very efficient. But Jamar Chase in those games, Jamar Chase only played five of those games. He was on pace for 245 targets. That'd be a good, good. And T. Higgins was on pace for 77 catches, 1,182 yards, 14 touchdowns on 122 targets. I'm not saying that it's the same as Burrow or anything, but like he said, it's a good backup quarterback situation. I'm starting, you know, I'm starting McConkie over Higgins. What do you think about that? If like period, whether Burrow plays or not. I'm a little nervous. I'm a little nervous about Higgins to begin with. Just, you know, this matchup. But I have, unfortunately, I'd have to pivot to Brian Thomas Jr. if McConkie didn't play. So you've got to start Higgins. No, I'm starting McConkie. You're starting McConkie. It's expected. There's a positive report. I'm thinking he's going to play and I'm a little nervous. Yeah, I have Higgins at wide receiver 11 right now. I'd rather start him than McConkie unless Burrow's ruled out. And then I think your plan works. All right. Kalon. Black is questionable. RJ Harvey is questionable. Does that matter? It could. We could get to see Jonah Coleman. Yeah. And I think it'd be a little bit better for JK Dobbins, who would move up from like RB 32 to maybe RB 27. If if you have Brock Bowers in your lineup, take him out. He is doubtful. Chico Conquo is also out. Cooper Rush is starting for the Falcons. Where do you have Drake London? Uh, he's a wide receiver to wide receiver 18 ish. Aaron Donald is expected to play Monday night. Josh Simmons left tackle for the Chiefs. He's out for the Sunday night game and Jets wide receiver. Omar Cooper Jr. Is on. I are. All right. Just want to tell you one thing real quick. Here's what weeks two through seven look like in 2024 without Puka Nakua. So that was six games. No Puka. He also left week one early, but we'll skip that one. We had. Two to at well with 34 targets and 332 yards. Not bad in six games. He did not catch a touchdown though. Um, Colby Parkinson, 29 targets, Jordan Whittington, who's not playing today, had 23 and that's pretty much all that's relevant. So we did have that six game sample two years ago where two to at well had, uh, five, almost six targets per game. He's a downfield guy though. So, you know, uh, 11 yard eight. I don't know. Whatever. And that's all. I can pretty much give you. Okay. Your questions now, Alec Pierce or Drake London, London for me, Marshawn Lloyd, Blake Corum or Devon Vale a half PPR, uh, Marshawn Lloyd for me. How about Lloyd Godwin, Trey Harris or Rashad Bateman? Ooh, I mean, it can't be Trey Harris anymore. Full PPR. I think I would go Godwin. Godwin. Okay. Come on. Godwin, Joe Buick, Herbert or Mayfield, Herbert with or without McConkie. Yeah. Okay. From Guam, non PPR sit one, Javante, Gentee, H and or Swift. Holy moly. Must, uh, that's a, that's a really good team. You got there. Yeah. I would sit Swift. Non PPR. I think I'm going to, oh my gosh, I'm going to sit a Chan. I would sit Swift. Okay. Singletary or a Rams wide receiver. Oh, well that's a Monday nighter. I'd probably go Singletary. I like that call. That's a good idea. Is it? They're giants chasing the score. Singletary third down back. Are they chasing the score without Puka? I mean, they're touchdown underdogs with. So, uh, let's Bryce Younger, Joe Burrow, Burrow, if he plays bait, man, valet or Caleb Douglas. I need to, uh, probably definitely valet. And I think, uh, even without Zay, I have Caleb Douglas higher. So Bailey and Douglas Lake Coram or Tony Pollard have PPR. I'm Pollard. Uh, Dart, Dart or Lawrence. Um, I don't like either one of them, but in four point, I would go with dirt. A couple more here. Rank these four non PPR Judkins, burden, Parker, Washington, Ja'Cory, Krosky, Merritt, um, burden, Washington, Bill Judkins. Last one. Drake May or Joe Burrow. Uh, Drake May. We will see you at 11, 11 a.m. Eastern. Sunday morning, 11 a.m. Eastern, you know, soon less than three hours from now for two hours of your starter. Sit questions. We can't wait. We set a record, a personal record last week. Let's break it. Well, more people attending this week, youtube.com/fantasyfootball today. See you there. Thank you to eat. Paramount podcasts.