Week 2 Waiver Wire: MUST ADD Players, Injury Replacements & Streamers (09/15 Fantasy Football Podcast)
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The fantasy football waiver wire analysis focuses on key matchups, injuries, and roster availability to identify high-upside players. Jamie and Dave prioritize Devon White, Caleb Douglas, and Kaylen Black for their potential in weak or injured teams, especially with Detroit’s lack of a reliable wide receiver and injuries to key players like Jordan Tyson. Jalen Coker and Matthew Golden are highlighted as shallow-league must-adds, with Golden favored due to his high target volume and targeting efficiency, despite his go-route usage. The 49ers are recommended as a top DST due to their strong health, upcoming matchups, and low rostering (19%), while the Bucks are considered for short-term value. Running back options include K-Lon Black and Emmett Johnson, with Tyler Alger noted as a potential deep-lead option. Quarterbacks like Jordan Love, Bryce Young, and Malik Willis are seen as viable, with Young and Love emerging as strong long-term options due to offensive exposure and favorable matchups. The analysis also notes that roster percentages vary significantly across platforms (CBS, ESPN, Yahoo), with some players like Coker and Golden being more accessible in smaller or shallow leagues. Injury reports—such as Jacobi Lane’s broken wrist, Zay Flowers’ hamstring, and Dijon Stibbling’s four-week absence—add urgency to targeting specific matchups. Ultimately, the top picks are grounded in injury contingency, offensive schemes, and long-term health, with a focus on balanced fantasy value across positions.
>> This is fantasy football today from CBS Sports it's time to dominate your fantasy Lee now here's some combination of Adam Dave Jamie and he week two waiver wire that's good ones for you here we got a rookie who just had the 10th most receiving yards in the last 20 years in week one for any rookie wide receiver that's pretty cool we've got the Von Bayley we've got I think actually look might be fool's goal but maybe a decent running backs week which we don't always get here and we've got Dave Richard Jamie I'm Adam Azer welcome to the show we also have a show at noon eastern on CBS Sports Network to help you out more if you don't see it there you can see it on CBS Sports HQ at 2 p.m. and on youtube.com slash fantasy football today good morning Dave yo good morning Jamie I love Ken Walker haha wow Broncos couldn't tackle last night they got I told you'd be a stomping I was thinking about you the whole time with that I think I can tell you now I made a bet not a you know not a big better but I made a bet a two team parlay I was like these two underdogs are definitely going to win so we're going packers money line and Broncos money line and we are casheted so it's $10 I'm not getting back let's jump right into it top three waiver wire priorities Jamie Eisenberg yeah Devon Vela you mentioned him strong start to the season first game without Jordan Tyson I don't know they're going to have that many pass attempts on a weekly basis but I think they're going to throw the ball a lot I think it's going to be one of the more fun offenses so must add and potential must start as long as Tyson's out Caleb Douglas will probably have a different dolphins receiver on a week to week basis but for right now he was the best one in week one we'll see if Chris Bell gets going and if Malik Washington continues to lead them targets but he should also be a must add and then Kaylen Black you might be able to start him this week against the dolphins because the dolphins are bad so we know what his potential is if something happens to McCaffrey and as we saw in week one feels like they're going to use him quite a bit in tandem with McCaffrey so potential flex play on a weekly basis. All right we got Vela Caleb Douglas and Kayla on black for Jamie Dave who are your top three priorities? I would sub out Caleb Douglas for the bucks DST they're out there in a ton of leagues and they play Cleveland and so I would rather have the DST rather than taking a chance and Jamie said we're going to be picking a different dolphins wide receiver for what it's worth I did think Caleb Douglas's speed was a differentiator for him I just I hated the fact that he's just throwing it willy nilly 20 plus yards downfield in the second half that was just odd to me. There's some people that are going to see Jaylen Coker and Debo Samuel on the waiver wire in their shallow leagues. Yeah prioritize them Coker for sure and Debo probably over Vela that's a close call but those guys should absolutely be rostered in 100% of leagues. Yeah Matthew Golden too he had a 30% target share. He did run 25% of that Matthew Golden's routes were go routes which is not a good route for fantasy. So that's not great but definitely some shallow league wide receivers that like how would you who's your favorite is Coker's number one of the shallow. I mean he's not asking me. Yeah yeah and then Debo or Golden. I would take Golden. I think I would too. What's his roster ship? It's pretty high. He's seven and Debo's 80. Okay so I figured that Golden was drafted more often than Debo but sure if Golden's out there you should take him ahead of Debo. I liked I liked a lot of his role. The go routes obviously were a problem but he was he got peppered when they were chasing points. Yeah you could play a lot. If you're if you're getting 12 go route targets I'm fine with that. I guess that's okay. Now he wasn't getting 12 go routes. I know I'm just saying he got 12 targets. 12 targets is great. 30% target share for a team that that was very very pass heavy and I think I'd be remiss to not mention Chris Brooks. You know he didn't have a good game but there wasn't really he started he played I think the entire first possession. Trying to figure out the rotation there I don't really think there was one except for Brooks I'm passing downs but you know you really matter. Yeah they they they combine for two targets those two but March on Lloyd I didn't think did great in pass protection. One play he got he got run over a little bit and ball got tipped and intercepted. I think Chris this will be a more telling game for the backfill. I mean they're going to be able to run against tight against the judge and you know they'll we'll get an idea and hopefully we get an idea this week about Josh Jacobs and what his status is so you know what is the situation for the backers back to moving forward. All right so you both said Valey and Kayla on black Jamie said Caleb Douglas and Tampa Bay DST for Dave and I'll just just to read a real quick here. The top 10 rookie wide receivers over the last 20 years in yards in week one. Did I say this that makes sense? Yep. Marquis Brown Eddie Royal Terry McLaren Cooper Allen Hurons Will Fuller to Sean Jackson Jamar Chase AJ Brown Caleb Douglas. Pretty good list. Yeah. Yeah. Funny you say Eddie Royal I was taking one of my son's friends to basketball practice yesterday and he said Eddie Royals is a flag football coach. Oh really? He was wide receiver 12 per game as a rookie. Crazy. Also a couple things. I think if Davis Webb was calling place room he would only give him two targets like he gave Jalen model. Oh man. First waiver wire weeks to just a few things. Jamie writes the waiver wire column and the threshold that we use for players that we say oh go add these guys is 65% rostered or less. And we'll tell you about the shallow lead guys too and we'll tell you about the deep lead guys a little bit later but 65% or less. Now if you play on ESPN or Yahoo a lot more 10 team leagues there so the roster percentages are much different. I'd be curious to know what Jalen will find I'll find out for a minute. What Jalen Coker's roster percentages on ESPN and Yahoo because he's 70% rostered on CBS. So a lot of the guys that we talk about here a shallow lead guys if you play on the other websites might be available. I'm not sleepers kind of in the same boat CBS I think has you know more 12 team leagues and deeper leagues. How much fab are we spending Jamie on some of your favorites? Well I mean if we're going to factor in Coker and Golden and some of those guys then it changes the conversation because those guys are I don't want to say break the bank but they're more than 50% certainly in the case of Coker as long as there's ankles okay. In the case of the guys that we're going to talk about probably not much you know so I would spend maybe 10 or 15% on VALA maybe at most 10% on Douglas. Kalen Black is probably 10 or 15% guy depending on if you have McCaff you're not if you need running backs. The one thing about this week is that's a little tricky for fantasy managers and there's some people that have multiple guys in this scenario is wide receiver got really beat up and we have two guys that are must starts when healthy that we don't know their status yet in Latin McCockey and Z Flowers. So you tack that onto AJ Brown and just on struggling and you know Jacobi Lane is two as three guys that are going to miss significant time Brown clearly the one that you have to replace from a must start standpoint. So receiver is probably the one position that you may have to spend a little bit more than you want to just to make sure you get the guy that you need in VALA would be that guy just because of his roster percentage 7%. So you can get into a little bit of a bidding war there otherwise I think the the most spent fab guys will be probably Carson Wentz and maybe if he's available Michael Pentax and then Drew Lock because we know super flex leagues to find quarterback stuff and Donald could miss multiple weeks we don't know the situation with with Kyler Murray and maybe Wentz keeps the job all season if the Vikings like what he does in week two. So I think those are the probably players you spend the most on and Dave mentioned the bucks that's a great DST to get. There are other ones out there also that have good matchups so I don't remember when you're streaming you know you don't want to overpay for just one week especially if you're on one people get a little nervous in the panic but those are you know good units you know good good fantasy options to to spend some money on. Okay so Dave any I'm sorry and before I move on any thoughts from you on fab this week I would go even lower than 10 to 15% on most of these guys just save it up. Okay now looking at some roster percentages on the other websites here. You know Jalen cocker 60% on Yahoo about 50% on ESPN about 70% on CBS Jordan love on ESPN or on does on Yahoo Jordan love I think was like 45%. No that was ESPN whatever doesn't matter he's available on a lot of leaks that could be a guy that could really help you me just scored 23 fantasy points against Minnesota. He is 68% rostered on Yahoo but not even 42% roster on ESPN. So there are some shallow league guys that I guess I guess it would be cocker maybe Jordan love I don't know if there's a running back that fits that mold. No there really wasn't any the shallow leagues for us. Yeah okay well anyway Packer's offense look pretty damn pass heavy and that's exciting we'll see what happens though if Josh Jacobs comes back at some point. Some news and notes for you Shawn Watson likely to start we got the Kyler Murray concussion we don't yet know who Atlanta's quarterback is going to be it could be I guess I would say any of the three of them against Carolina this week. Travy on Henderson did he officially practice yesterday. They didn't have to have a practice for yet so it was.
was basically, he's gonna be out there is what the reports were prior to practice. So, we'll see what they list him as, but I believe variable study has a chance to play this week. - Yeah, okay, and they're playing Pittsburgh this week. Isaiah Pacheco is gonna be out several months after back surgery. Jordan Mason has a sore stomach. - There's ever somebody who mushed a player with you, it was just your auction strategy. That's all it was. I'm gonna let everybody know that I want Isaiah Pacheco. And then you, the tweet yesterday, the post on X from ENRAP report was, there was a body in his back and I was thinking, is that I'm gonna make a joke. - I didn't want Isaiah Pacheco. I wanted to be your Gibbs. - Jordan Mason has a sore thumb. So Aaron Jones could be a must start this week at Chicago if Jordan Mason's out. Buffalo running back, Tide Johnson was listed as limited in practice. They're playing Thursday against Detroit. We were curious to see what this would mean for James Cook's passing totals. He did not run a single route on third down in week one. Jeremiah Love apparently was not on a snap count, which is not super encouraging in the short term. He gets Seattle this week. Dylan Samson is gonna be out for a while and Rahim Sanders was basically the third down back for Cleveland. AJ Brown, IR could be out for six weeks. Zay flowers, we have great news on Zay flowers. It doesn't seem like it's a big deal with the hamstring, hopefully playing this week against the Saints. And Jacobi Lane, on the other hand, does have a broken wrist unfortunately. Lad McConkey, we're still waiting to hear. He has injured ribs. And Brian Thomas Jr. is expected to play this week. Jalen Coker did spray his ankle. We didn't mention that. If you want to put in some fab and-- - But he said he's sprained it in the first quarter. - Right, he was in a walking boot. He expects to play, he should be fine. So, you know, good stuff. Dijon Stribbling could be out four weeks. Omar Cooper Jr. left for the Jets. Brock Bauer is day-to-day, they're calling him day-to-day. So, keep that in mind if you are thinking about picking up or starting Michael Mayer this week. Chico Conquo, hamstring injury. You've got Detroit. How many, you know, how much attrition can they afford on their offensive line? Offensive Guard Christian Mahogany may not play this week. I don't think he's gonna play this week on the short week against Buffalo. And then, Landon Dickerson, on IR for the Eagles, who didn't do great upfront. I think Jacob gave a stat on Be On The Box Square yesterday that's Seikwon Barkley, all but one of his rushing yards were after contact. There's something like this. - Yes, yes, I saw that. - That was crazy. - That was tough. - Yeah, so Landon Dickerson being on IR is not a good thing for them. He's a fantastic guard for the. - Taction Gen T can relate. - Yeah, exactly. And then, I'd say the big defensive news. We don't know about Aaron Donald's status this week. Kansas City cornerback monster Delane had an interception and then he left in the first quarter. And the Texans have two linebackers who are hurt. One, an inside linebacker, one, an outside linebacker, and the Cowboys. Actually, not the worst news for them with Malik Hooker and Demari and Overshone. They're not gonna play this week unless Overshone makes a miraculous recovery, but they don't have super long-term injuries. And then the Jets have two defensive backs were banged up facing the Packers this week. Let's go to our top three players at each position. So we'll give you a little sneak peek of the waiver wire and then we'll go more in depth later. Jamie, who are our top three quarterbacks this week? - Top three quarterbacks this week are to Kobe Berset, Bryce Young and Malik Willis. So for Berset, you kinda know what you're getting. 19 plus fantasy points in 10 of 11 starts last season. Just shy of 19 fantasy points. In week one, 37 pass attempts. They're gonna be in most games, either chasing points or having to throw. I know Jeremiah Love is gonna get better and the run game I thought was significantly better than what we saw a year ago. But we know what this defense is and I think we're gonna get some better offensive showings against them than what will happen with the chargers. Bryce Young, six of his last nine games going back to last year, he scored 20 or more fantasy points. And that kinda coincides with when Jalen Coker got healthy. So you get Coke around the field, hopefully he's gonna be okay. Bryce Young may be a better fantasy quarterback than we were giving credit for coming into the season. And if this defense is as bad as it looked in week one, we may get 30 plus pass attempts for him as well. So not a sneaky option there if you wanna stash them on your bench. And the Malik Willis did not play well against the Raiders. That was gonna be one of his easier opponents for the season. That said, 39 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown. He's gonna give you those type of, he's gonna give you the potential for those type of numbers on a weekly basis. Certainly the yards. And so if he can cobble together 220 and maybe one as opposed, or one in one or 220 and one without a turnover, there's gonna be some flaws in his game. Like Dave said, he's gonna be under duress. He's not gonna look good. The receiving court is still clearly working progress. But we love running quarterbacks. And so still the upside there for him, especially when they're chasing points so much like he's gonna be doing. - Okay, so again, it's Jacobi, percent Bryce Young and Malik Willis. And I love Jamie pointing out that even in a, what we expect to be a rare win for the Cardinals, maybe we're wrong, he's still through the ball so much. So that's very encouraging. And you had a good game against Seattle last year. I don't know if Jamie mentioned that. - He did. And yeah, not only did he have a good game against Seattle last year and then he scored the sixth most points of any quarterback against Seattle, including their playoff run. He scored the most fantasy points of any quarterback against Houston last year. He was just really good. And then Bryce Young, man, I just can't shake it. He was so good that I'm wondering who to drop for him. Which backup quarterback? My drop-o, Nick's, for Bryce Young. - I mean, when we're talking backup quarterbacks, first off, check to buy a week of your starter and see what is going on that week. Because if you like to match up for your backup or whoever's on the way where we are, clearly that's the smartest thing to do. If you're dealing with I think a struggling starter, so Justin Herbert, for example, I don't know who else was a must-start guy that had a bad game that might be a little bit cause for panic, just because Herbert might not have his number one guy for a week or two. Then you might want to just take a chance on the quarterback with the most upside. And so if you're weighing Bryce Young versus Bonaix, that's a fair comparison. So those would be the first things I would look for. I would much rather have Jordan Love than Bryce Young. But I think at this point, you could take a chance on Bryce Young over Bonaix. Nick's probably has a better season, but after week one, like there's reasons to be concerned and there's certainly reason to be encouraged by young. With the wins just max tough matchup, Bryce Young. Look at the schedule and tell me when he's got a matchup where he's going to be under pressure, he's taking on a tough secondary. When do you see that, either? He'd fill it out. I don't know what Cleveland is going to look like there week three, but fill it out if he is week six. Yeah, he also is early by. I do think part of the success that the Panthers had in week one had to do with the Bears not being able to get a lot of pressure on Bryce Young and their secondary. They have one great corner and their other corners got smashed. So I look at the schedule for Bryce Young and I'm encouraged. I just don't know when would I start Bryce Young in a 1QB league? And who am I going to start on over? We talked about some of the names that were little freaked out by. Maybe you could pull it off there. But at least if you want to have the option, if you've got Justin Herbert, if you've got Drake May, and you want to go and you want to pick up one of these quarterbacks in Bryce Young, certainly should be an option. Just in case you want to have a plan B, if you get cold feet with Plan A. OK, let's take a break here. I think Apex Fuzzy just had the, or Fusey, whatever you say, had the best comment. Just don't carry a backup quarterback. Yeah, there's that. You could do that. OK, we're going to take a break and come back. Dave's going to give us the top three running back priorities for you after this on Fantasy Football today. My companion for this summer season has been Zbiotics. Let me tell you why. Just headed out to a concert at Pier 17. How am I? What a show. I got home at 3 a.m., and I realized 8 a.m. tea time. What am I going to do? I got a big match. No worries at all. I took Zbiotics the night before, had a few drinks, woke up the next day like nothing happened, got to that course at 7 a.m., warmed up, and won my match. Zbiotics pre-alcohol probiotic drink is the world's first genetically engineered probiotic. It was invented by PhD scientists to break down acetaldehyde, a byproduct of drinking alcohol. Pre-alcohol produces an enzyme that is designed to break down this byproduct. 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Am I really going to start Tyler Alger? Any time soon, with the schedule that they've got, we've talked all off season about how tough their schedule is. Yeah. But I would love to have Alger if I have Jeremiah Love.
he's going to take up a spot on my bench. I would almost think that K-Lon Black is an upgrade. Here's a good question. Anyway, I haven't single tears. My third favorite running back, but not married to it. Would you drop Jonathan Brooks for K-Lon Black? Yes. I don't know. I don't know on there. Dave, would you take a look at that avatar or whatever for a Gaber Eric? Okay. Jamie, you said you would drop Jonathan Brooks for K-Lon. Yeah. I mean, I know it's one week and you don't want to panic after one week, but we're talking about the amount of work that they gave K-Lon Black in their first game against the Rams. And he looked as good as he did. And then you have the, oh, bleep. I won't say the word for you. Oh, bleep. Christian McAfry gets hurt. I want that. Makes sense. Makes sense. Okay. So K-Lon Black, Emmett Johnson, Tyler Rogers, a possibility. Tyler Rogers is also the most rostered of all these guys. He's 65% rostered. If he were 66%, he'd be in a different discussion, I guess. Yes. And going back to the quarterbacks, for example, Tyler Suck is 66% rostered. So if he. Oh, yeah. Go get him. Tyler Algier 42% rostered on ESPN. And on Yahoo Algier is 51% rostered. Okay. Why receivers, Jamie? Top three. Yeah. This is a lot of guys that you'll see in the column. I don't think we'll get to all of them today, but Vela would be the first one to go add just because of what he looked like. And again, going back to last season, 11.9 PPR points. And now three of his last four games. We don't know when Jordan Tyson is going to be back. So I think Vela makes sense for what he looked like. And we want to get Detroit. And going back to last year, Caleb Douglas, again, would be second for me. And a priority add just because of the offense receiving core right now is clearly working progress. And we'll see how this goes. And then I have Trey Harris third, just because of the Ladmakonky injury. You can put a Patriots guy here if you want. You could put a Texans guy here. You could put Trey Tucker still here. You know, there's just a lot of different options at wide receiver. Again, we'll show you the whole list if you want. But if Makonky's out, Harris is going to get a bigger role. And I think we'll see a much better Chargers offense, especially taking on the Raiders this week. Dave, top three tightets of Devon Vela, Caleb Douglas, Trey Harris or Jamie's top three weight wide receivers. Before I get to try that. Where do you have Demario Douglas? Because he's in my top three for sure. If I knew Demario Douglas is going to have a better opportunity given the fact that the Patriots are so stubborn and still love Makonks. And I'm going to guess we're going to get a better Romeo dobs. Douglas is much further down the list. I would, I would, if I'm picking up, and the way I wrote this in the column is I would love to see Demario Douglas get more better, better targets, a little better opportunity. Yeah. Plenty of columns has been just this guy that they love. He's one of these veterans that does all the right things. So Douglas is not the, the Patriots receiver I would add for us. I need somebody from a forest and let's put it this way. Let's say I needed a wide receiver to start this week because you talked about it. There's a bunch of wide receivers that are banged up and people might be desperate or they're unhappy with the receivers that they had in their wide receivers three spot. Vela is number one with a bullet. Douglas makes sense as the number two. But if we're, if we're trying to put a little thing, Caleb Douglas, not Demario Douglas. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, I met Caleb Douglas. Thank you. It's early. Demario Douglas would be one of those receivers I'd want to stash and see what happens for a week or two. And I think it's got to be full PPR. But he's absolutely, somebody that's on the list. Adam, I know you've talked in the past about like big opportunities for him last year when there was no Stefan digs on the field. I know that without AJ Brown on the field. He had the same target share as as Matt Collins. It was 22% in that quarter and a half about against Seattle last week. And they've been going to fall way back through training camp in New England. And I would imagine that he's still going to see a role at least like a short area receiver. But he lost him a little bit more. And I don't, I can't rule out that he's not one of those guys that could be in the neighborhood of 11 PPR points. Yeah, I mean, that's what we're looking at here. Five catches for 20 yards. You expect more than 20 yards, but I feel like every year there's some spirit of time where we're excited about the Mario Douglas. But last year, he had a 29.1% target per out run rate with when Stefan digs was not on the field. They basically played the same position. So that wasn't really a good setup for pop Douglas. Now he doesn't have Stefan digs. Obviously, it wasn't have AJ Brown. I could certainly see the appeal. But Dave, how about, you know, maybe Hunter Henry's on this list here. Who are your top three tight ends on the waiver wire? The only one that I really would care about would be Michael Mayer. And that's under the assumption that Brock Bowers doesn't play. We don't know if that's going to happen. I guess guys like Dalton Schultz, Pat Fryer Muth would make the list. But I'm not, I'm not too enthused about many tight ends. Jamie's got Schultz, Mayor, Hunter, Henry. I do think that you have to throw David N'Joku in there right now with the McConkey injury. He's not far down lost. Yeah. Yeah. So not, not terrible options. I mean, Mayor, Mayor was so disappointing in this game against Miami. Should we even go back to him? Again, seven targets on a, in a game where they're playing with the lead. We're not going to see that very often, I think, for the Raiders now, depending on what you think of the Chargers, that probably changes your mind a little bit. But his track record, small sample size, going back to last year when Bowers has been out. And I'm happy that Kubiak said Bowers' day-to-day, I'm going to guess it's more week to week still. So I think Mayor is, is a good short-term answer. I was encouraged by Dalton Schultz, getting eight targets again against the Bill's defense that different personnel, but still very good against tight ends, at least in one game. So if he's going to continue to be second on the Texans and targets, it's going to be much like we saw last year. So for me, he's an easy ad if you need a tight end for this week. I'll give you one more. I'm going to look at a lot of Bucks players in that matchup against Cleveland, but Kay Dotton could potentially be low-end, lower than the guys that we've said. But maybe he can find the end zone. If you're really like streaming tight ends, looking for matchups, that's somebody that I look at. So before we get to DST's and kickers and stuff, is there any player that you think might be a potential league winner on the waiver wire, or if that's too strong, then a must start. A lot of times, waiver wire, you're just looking for a guy that we can stream in good matchups, whatever. Must start, guys, rest of season. Vailey. I'm not quite there with Vailey. All those shallow guys, like the two that make the most sense to me are Coker and Shuck, but they're already roster pretty highly in a lot of the leagues that we have at CBS. But if they're out there in your league, absolutely going to get them, they could be those guys. And obviously, K-Lon Black has some huge contingency upside. What about Caleb Douglas? I don't think you need to be there yet, or should be thinking that yet, because as Chris Bell gets healthier, he could take a bigger target share and have a bigger opportunity. I think, you know, you heard me say this plenty leading into week one. Like, Chris Bell, somebody I wanted to sash. Like, you can easily pivot from Bell to Douglas now, because Douglas was the one of the started training camp to look awesome before Bell was cleared. Douglas look awesome in week one. Douglas joined a pretty impressive list, as you alluded to Adam with the Rikki White receivers to have week one performances. So that's an easy move to make. But to say, league winner now, it's probably a little bit too soon. And you might be rotating that Dolphins wide receiver on and off the waiver wire all year. I know. He looked pretty good in the preseason. I agree. He looked good against the right. I think Caleb Douglas might just be a steel that we all thought was like kind of like struggling, but around later, you know, that we thought was a real experience. Yeah, you're not a good player. You're not you're not wrong. And, you know, again, I trust his evaluations a lot. Pete Prisco said post draft. Everybody's excited about Bell. I like Douglas better. And you got a chance to see why like the the the sideline catch that he had where it looked like it was out of bounds at first. Right. He dragged his right toe as he's catching the ball. Like that's that's a veteran play. You know, like you see type those type of things like he's going to I think they have a good nucleus. You know, so when they get the quarterback right, fix him offensive line stuff still. They're going to be in a good spot. Right. And the quarterback is part of the problem. That was not a good game for Malik Willis throwing downfield. And speaking of downfield, I don't love this for Caleb Douglas. And it was only one game, but he did have a very high average route depth. So. So did everybody for Miami, like even Malik Washington had a crazy eye. Okay. Okay. It's fine. Or at least a dot. I'm not sure about route depth. Yeah. Is that right? That's somebody too. Like we we talk about receivers that might be able to get you 10 PPR points. I think Malik Washington can still do that. Even if Caleb Douglas continues on the role that he's on. Do you think Jordan love and Matthew Golden are potential must starts going forward. Who is the first name? Jordan love. Jordan love. Oh, I mean, you know how I felt about this when Jacob's was was injured. Jordan love when he averages over 30 past times per game when he throws over 30 past times per game is typically a 23 point per game quarterback. That's what he averaged in his career. So if you give him those chances and you give him those opportunities, he's going to reward you.
And so when Jacob's comes back, we don't know what that timeline is, that might change. But I thought Jordan Love played really well. The interception was off a tip. His offensive line fell apart almost immediately after they took the points off the board. So take that into account. That's still a really good Minnesota defense that he was carving up to start the game. I don't know, I'm very encouraged. And we saw, didn't see the best of Jay and Reed, didn't see the best of Tucker Kraft. We might've seen the best of Matthew Golden and Christian Watson looks like a monster. So this could be a really fun passing game. I'm not sure that this run game will ever be on track this year. And that's enough for me to certainly roster and have optimism for both Love and Golden. I don't know if I'm ready to say that either want to be a league winner. However, we talked a little bit on Sunday about the contingency upside with Vailay. Let's mention that again real quick. Vailay right now. Clearly, the number two wide receiver in New Orleans. We saw Chris Olavi leave the field a bunch of times. We don't know when Jordan Tyson will be back. We don't know how effective Jordan Tyson will be or how long it will take him. So there's some huge contingency upside with the bond Vailay. We know that Christian Watson is not exactly the man with perfect health. And if he were to miss time, who's the number one wide receiver for Green Bay? So there's some huge contingency upside for a guy that just had double digit targets. So I think I'd probably lean closer to Golden than Love as being one of those league winner types that you're talking about, Azir. One last guy here for shallower leagues or if you're playing Yahoo, he's 49% rostered. Debo Samuel had six catches for 48 yards in a touchdown. He also had a 12 yard carry. And is this a guy that's a massive priority if you see him on the waiver wire? Debo Samuel. Yeah, I mean, Stribling's out for probably a month, if not more. And Mike Evans was banged up a lot in camp. So we saw it last year with Debo. He got up to a great start with Washington. And there's still the potential for him to be good. You take the touchdown away, it's not a great game. But I think you see what the 49ers are again, in other great offense as they continued to show in week one. So as long as Debo is healthy, I think he's going to be in play as at least a number three receiver. Yeah, he's in Arizona next two weeks. He's given me like Keenan Allen vibes in the sense that he might mess things up for George Kittle or Evans or something like that. He's not a bad player and he's going to get his targets. That's a lot of that's a lot of malice the feed in San Francisco. Thankfully, they're going to score a ton of points. OK, so we've given you our top three at each of the four major positions here. We're going to give you DST kicker, also going to recap last night's game. But right now, it is time for coverage you can count on, sponsored by Nationwide. Just like your fantasy roster is more than just your offensive starters, Nationwide is a great insurance company and one of America's largest financial services companies. So don't forget about the defensive side of the ball. And remember, Nationwide is on your side. Jamie, who's the DST that should be on our side this week? Yeah, they've mentioned the Bucks. I'm going to do I'm going to go a different route. And I'm going to go to 49ers. They've just said why? Because they get the dolphins and the Cardinals in back to back weeks. And while the Bucks match up is absolutely amazing this week against Cleveland, you might have a starting DST for the rest of the season with what they just did against the Rams, knowing that it boasts us healthy, warners healthy, like that's a difference making group. And so if I can get them for the rest of the season, plus, oh, hey, they're taking on Malik Willis this week. And then I know that the Cardinals offense look great, but you could be per second. At times this career, as we've seen, get turnover prone. So I'm going to take the 49ers from a short term and long term approach. And I think that's the DST you go target first. And the Niners DST is only 19% rostered. The Bucks DST is only 12% rostered. So you do have some options there. And that was coverage you can count on sponsored by Nationwide. Nationwide is so much more than a great insurance company. They're one of America's largest financial companies to take your game to the next level with Nationwide for your insurance and financial needs. Nationwide is on your side. Nationwide Investment Services Corporation, Member Finra Columbus, Ohio. All right, Jamie, now the kickers who we got. - Yeah, it's always a great week for kickers. So let me get the right list for you. So Cairo Santos, I think he's definitely in the conversation, taking on the Vikings, Tyler Loop, taking on the Saints, Tyler Bass, taking on the Lions and Trace Mac, taking on the Jets. - Love it. Make those kicker moves. - Yeah, a lot of extra points coming for Cairo Santos this season. - Or just eliminated kickers from your league. - I could do that too. - We'll be right back. Fantasy football today with the rest of the show. Be right back. Couple quick stats for you here before we talk about shallow leagues and deep leagues, although I think we've covered much of the shallow leagues. Watching the tape of the Packers running backs. Personal opinion was even though the yards per carry didn't reflect it, I thought Lloyd ran better than Brooks, but neither guy was really able to break any tackles. And that was a huge issue for them. And I looked on true media, and they were both given one avoided tackle. And if they broke a tackle, I'm pretty sure that would count as an avoided tackle. They were both given one. That's not a huge deal, like Kyron Williams didn't have any, but March on Lloyd one and one for Chris Brooks. Kenneth Walker, how many avoided tackles was he credited with last night? What do you think? - The billion. - 14, 14. Beigeon Robinson 10, Jameer Gibbs 10. Sequon Barkley 7 was impressive. Beigeon Tutin 7, but 14 for Ken Walker, man. What a freaking game for him. And we'll get to that in just a moment. Jamie, I think we covered the shallow leagues quite a bit with Jalen Coker and the Packers guys that we mentioned and Dibo Samuel, is there anyone I'm missing here? - John Johnson, 76% roster. So we're right around the same as Matthew Golden. I think if he's out there in a 10 team league, knowing that no Jordan Tyson, the fact that this team is going to throw the ball a lot and have some success, you'd like to see more than three catches on seven targets, but touchdown catch was great. And he's going to be one of the go-to guys for Kellen Moore and for Tyler Schuck. So he's an easy one, trying to think anybody else. The running backs really weren't anything exciting. So I think you're just looking at, if you can find Jalen Coker, if you can find Matthew Golden, if you can find Tyler Schuck, if you can find Jordan Loves, like those are league-winning type of guys. - You like Schuck or love better? - I like Schuck better, but they're both close. Like they were both close to my preseason rankings also. - Was this the highest scoring week one ever? - I believe it was the highest scoring week one since like 2000 something like 10 plus years. - Sure, it's out there somewhere. - It's hard to find a deep, a matchup right now that looks like a hole. You don't want to start guys against this team. Maybe it's Seattle, but I'm sure there are going to be some, but I was pretty impressed with Baltimore. So I just, I want to see what New Orleans can do against the Ravens. I thought, you know, it was a little disappointing that New Orleans took them so long to get going on Sunday against that Lions defense that we thought would be kind of a layup. Baltimore played pretty well after the first drive against the Colts in the game of the week. And I'm not saying to sit them. I'm just saying, I wouldn't be shocked if they took a step back in week two. Ravens looked pretty damn good defensively, but just, just kind of like on my radar, not a lot of defenses look good on Sunday. Let's just say that chiefs look great. - I thought a lot of the offenses that didn't look good, especially early on were the offenses that weren't on the field during the preseason. And I wonder if that's going to be a talking point in about 10 months that all the Lions got off to a slow start and the Saints got off to a slow start. And those teams, I don't think they're off it. Yeah, the Rams are obviously in and that, but they never put their guys out there. And boy, did Stafford take a while to even look remotely good. So there's that. And I wonder if maybe now that a lot of these offenses have played a game, every offense has played a game. Some have played more than one because of the preseason, I don't mean a whole game. You know what I mean, they kind of feel like Denver. Denver got on the field during the preseason and they look great in the preseason. So I guess there's always the case of an offense like the preseason and then sucks when they go out and play in a real game. Yeah, you had a few defenses that were good last year that look good week one Jaguars played a JV team. So take that into account, but their defense look good. The Patriots defense, you know, I know they lost the game and everybody's panicked about Drake May, but their defense still played well against the the Seahawks and they should do well against the Steelers this week. The 49ers give them credit for what they did to the Rams and two easy matchups coming up. And I think just one defense that's going to be dramatically different is the Bengals. And they look really good against Tampa Bay, you know, four turnovers and, you know, really limited that passing game. I think Baker's going to bounce back in a big way taking on his former team, but that defense could be one of the ones that we don't say that's a layup because I don't think that's going to be the case anymore. And I think if you just look at Bucky Irving's yards per carry and you're going, well, this run defense hasn't gotten any better. That's one we got to watch the tape because I thought Bucky Irving had one of the best games of any, but I haven't watched everything. Obviously, I haven't watched that much. But if all the players I've seen, I thought Bucky Irving looked better than just about anyone. He was so good and they were getting in the backfield and he was just making a miss. So I actually curious to see what David Montgomery does this week because I think since the night he's run defense, this guy who had like 18 carries for 60 yards or something like that, David Montgomery. 20 for work in the passing game. And I hated the fumble. What is that? The fumble. Loved his work in the passing game. Just hated the fumble. Yeah.
I think could be a tough match up against the Cincinnati Bengals. Agreed. Yeah. Okay. Dave, what are we talking about? Tyler Shock and Jordan Love. None of these guys are available in Malheag. Who are the deeply guys that we need to be looking at here? At quarterback, I think the list starts and ends with Carson Wentz who's available in 99% of leagues. I'm sure you can make the case for Bryce Young who's available in 78% of leagues. I think I'd rather have Young than Wentz just because of the schedule coming up and we don't know if Wentz is going to be the rest of season starter. I'm thinking more about those super flex leagues and in those leagues, Bryce Young's already rostered. And so it just goes back to what we were talking about earlier, like how badly do you want to carry a second quarterback? And then if you, that's if you can't get your hands on Tyler Shock, that's where young would make sense. Wentz makes sense. Malheag Willis makes sense, but Willis is already rostered in too many leagues. The only running bag that I think is worth the darn that's going to be available in a lot of leagues is Devon Singletary. When I say worth the darn, I mean like seven PPR points. It's not a lot, but he's got a role as the passing down guy for the New York Giants. And if the game script goes wrong for the Giants, you'll see him on the field more than Skataboo well into the second half. A couple of other names of running backs that you could stash. K-Tron Allen got some playing time after Jacobi Karatski, Jacobi Karatski merit, had a fumble late against Philadelphia. You might want to stash him and just see what happens there. You mentioned Chris Brooks. Maybe that's about it. There aren't a lot of other running backs that I would look at and say, "Oh, deep lead, go ahead and stash him." Wide receivers where I think we've got some rich, deep lead guys, and we talked about a lot of them already. Veile, of course, Demario Douglas is up there. Caleb Douglas, 28% rostered, so he would go ahead of Demario. And then we haven't talked about Khalif Raymond. I loved his role in this offense. I hated what it meant for Luther Burton, for Colson Lovelin, for Romo Dunesay, but this small, shifty underneath target, check down guy for Caleb Williams on the occasions where Williams was pressured. I loved it for him and I don't know if it's sustainable. We don't want to believe that it's sustainable, but I wonder if he should be included in that group of wide receivers where maybe 10 PPR points per game is a possibility. He would have to be a deep lead. He's 1% rostered on CBS, so he's available everywhere. But he's somebody in a shallow league. If you can't get your hands on some of these, or a deep lead, rather, you can't get your hands on these other guys. Maybe you don't even put in the waiver claim for him, but you see him at the top of the free agent list on Thursday and Friday. You could potentially add him if PPR matters in your league. That's Khalif Raymond. I honestly think everybody hates Raymond right now. And Kendrick Boran is basically the same player for Arizona as he is for Chicago. Right. Two guys that were rooting hard against who might still get a lot of targets. I might even buy into Boran a little bit more than Raymond, but both of them are serving that same role. You know, the bears, I'm sure they ran a lot of snaps in this game, but 21 two wide receiver sets. And Jede Walker played 14 snaps. They ran seven routes. Luther Borden 13. I keep in mind burden missed a lot of time in camp with the groin injury. Odin's A was questionable going into the week. Right. Yeah. Like their numbers should get dramatically better. Right. Right. At least I hope they get dramatically better. Burdens more so. I'm a little worried about Odin's A not getting what I was like 50% of the routes, something like that. Yeah. He played 50% of the snaps, basically. That's pretty injury-related. I would hope. I have to think. OK. I got a couple more deeply guys just based on two things. One last night, Papp Bryant, you heard a lot about what he was doing in camp and I know it came with the expense of both Waddle and Sutton. So just keep that in mind, but still look decent at times. And then again, there's an injury and he scored a touchdown. The Marcus Robinson is a guy that the 49ers love, 7% roster right now. He's going to get an opportunity. He played a lot in that game and you have older receivers there. I know he's not young himself, but you have older receivers there also. Denver 31. No. Can'ts a city 31, Denver 10, whoops, wishful thinking, I guess. I saw a stat on ESPN that Patrick Maholms ran faster in this game than he did at any point last season. Amazing. Modern medicine is really incredible. I mean, George Kato back out on the field for week one, Patrick Maholms doing that. And he only threw for 184 yards, 27 passes, but he had a very good fantasy game. Yeah. The touchdown to walk, the passing touchdown to Walker is, was fun and you got lucky fantasy wise with that one. Yeah. I think the chief's offense. The chief's passing game was the same crap we've seen for the last two plus years, but they didn't need to do much. You know, they're very conservative and they just ran all over the Broncos. Just a weird game, unpredictable, I guess, I was what I'd say. But Jamie made it. I don't know if it's weird or unpredictable. So a little surprising that the Broncos forgot how to tackle. For what? They forgot how to tackle. How many six, eight carries for JK Dobbins? How many targets for Jalen Waddle, two, three targets, one cat? I'm thinking about this more from Kansas City's perspective on offense. Like, what was the whole thesis of why Kenneth Walker was a good pick in the first place? They wanted to run the ball more. And here was a game where they realized pretty early on that they'd be able to run the ball effectively. And so they just leaned into Walker. Like Seattle rarely did outside of the playoffs last year. And man, he looked fantastic. You did. Are we worried? Are we more worried about Rishi Rice, who had a touchdown, but two targets or Jalen Waddle? There were missed tackles on that touchdown, too. I do not, I'm not encouraged by this passing game at all. And there's going to come, there will come a game where Kenneth Walker is an averaging seven and a half yards per carry. And a defense will be able to make some tackles. And I don't know if this is going to be, if those will be times where this passing game will suddenly like, you know, rear its head and be effective downfield. I think it's kind of the same sort of story. Like you said, with the passing game. And so they better hope they run the ball well more weeks than not. So it's first game back for him off of a bad injury. It's still a very good pass defense for the Broncos. It was an amazing running attack for the chiefs. I don't think you should panic on rice yet. And now that you see how the chiefs maybe want to operate, which plays into Andy Reeves hands and Patrick Holmes hands. And so they start to see more loaded fronts. That opens things up a little bit more down the field. They need to get some better play from their receiving core, not named Rashi Rice. Xavier Worthy did not look good again. I was surprised that there wasn't a little bit more cyrus sound just to take some opportunities with it. And a couple shots down the field of the type one, Thornton. But again, you are playing one of the best pass defenses in the NFL. So on top of the score in GameScript, like they didn't have to plus, you had just a turnover fest for Bonix and a defense that could be awesome because there's a lot of young players there, but maybe played a little bit over said as well in terms of the chiefs. So we could get a little bit more shootup potential from this team moving forward. So I wouldn't necessarily panic about them. And I wouldn't panic about Waddle either. My guest is Sean Payton's going to look at this day. That was fun. Congratulations, Davis. Well, that wasn't fun. You had your opportunity and you blew it. And so. >> Well, you think he's going to take over play calling duties next? >> I don't think he's going to do it now. >> I would not be shocked if he does it now. That was awful. You can't go out there and say, I told my wife to drive Jalen Waddle in her fantasy league. And then the guy that you handed the play calling duties does not let Jalen Waddle touch the ball enough. He had a bad drop. Take that into account. This was supposed to be a weakness of the chiefs and then you lose what could be their best corner for the majority of the game after that interception. And they don't give opportunities down the field. Bonyx looked awful. Look, he fumbled, a couple of fumbles that didn't count. The interception was bad. So I think we're going to get a better Denver offense moving forward. That being said, there is a little bit concern with Jalen Waddle because this is what we saw last year from this team was spreading the ball out. And Evan Ingram looked decent and Pap Ryan looked decent and they're still going to get Portland Sutton involved. It's not like he's going to also just continue to be a non factor. So this was my fear about Jalen Waddle. I'm not panic yet, but they have to just look better like this is just absolutely awful. And so I chalk it up to week one bad team on the road. Great Kansas City performance cross the board. Kansas City came after Bonyx's head from the jump. But their past rush was all over the place and they really hammered the center like they were coming right at them through the A gaps and that made it really, really hard on Bonyx. And you better believe that Jackson will next week will probably try and emulate that. I thought Waddle still was fast, so was elusive, was separating. He was double teamed by my count twice. I think he's a great by low candidate because they're going to be people who are freaking out. Or this game one counter to that one count ahead for Denver in general. Yeah, because I was, yeah, like they should bounce back with Jacksonville Rams 49ers Chargers Seahawks. That's their next five games. No, it's not good. Maybe maybe I'm wrong, but on paper, Jacksonville Rams 49ers Chargers Seahawks, it's not a favorable schedule at all. Maybe now is not the time to buy low, but I don't know, just just a counter. That's fine. Bonyx is going to be open until he has a huge game. I don't know if the huge game is going to come next week, but it's going to come soon. And
matchup there that really scares me is the Seattle matchup because we know he's going to get the ranch without miles carrot yes okay that's it for Denver 31 in Kansas City 10 moron who were worried about who was buying who were selling yes moron is a good way to put it tomorrow I can't blame the whole thing it's not like Davis Web was out there throwing passes you know it's obviously bonix did not know but you've had paid manning out there throwing passes that off until I did him no favor it's a if you like you know you never want to just read body language or face expressions but that's a guy that's used to calling plays and having success doing it yeah and he tried something different he looked like he wanted to kill somebody yeah and then you make this huge investment in this receiver and you don't give him chances on a nationally televised game in a game where you're trailing the majority of it bonix you know maybe the ankle is still problem I don't think so but you know offensive line is as as we alluded to was bad chief defense again I think played maybe a little bit over to it but could be could be great you know it's just spags again so a lot of just different moving parts here but to me when I looked at Sean Payton and like just watching it and then like it almost felt you know you don't know what he's looking at when the cameras focus on him he's just looking to his left is right like it's like he's just a that's there Davis Web like what are you doing I wouldn't want to work for Sean Payton I'm just gonna throw that out there let's get the drop oh meter out here zero to 10 on the drop oh meter Josh Downs three yeah I would say too I want to see what outpairs is wrist looks is this also the overreaction oh meter well it could be but you know Josh Downs gets chiefs and the Texans the next two weeks and he's you know he's got this keen an Allen problem but fair enough Rashid Shaheed 11 50 billion Jonathan Brooks two carnell Tate two three one no Robinson two ten and non PPR four and full PPR how many of those guys who's dropped for Jalen Coker Josh Downs Shaheed Jonathan Brooks carnell all one no Robinson yeah if they're the worst player on my team they can all be cut for Coker all right quarterback waiver wire a lot of this will be repetitive but just so we don't miss anything check to see if Jordan love and Tyler Schuck are available and then Jamie's waiver wire priority was Jacobi percent number one not necessarily this is kind of season long here we're still going not week by week Jacobi reset Bryce Young Malik Willis CJ Stroud Carson Wentz and you know look you got to be careful because in a two-quarter-back league if you spend a lot of money it's not a lot of fab on Carson Wentz it's very possible that he makes one more start but Jamie thinks there's a possibility that he could just play well enough and keep the job for Minnesota Michael Pentax Jr. it's got to be sooner rather than later when he starts when he becomes their starter soon as he's healthy he's in there and you know you want to put to in that spot in case two QB superflex league that he starts this week anybody's better than Kuparash yes Drew Lock could get another one or two starts they're at Arizona this week he's definitely starting week two okay at Arizona at Washington next two games those are on paper good not necessarily from yeah they're good should her Sanders it's just I he's not on your list but good speculate on should her Sanders running backs the shallow league guys were Woody Marx Chris Rodriguez and Zach Sharman a Sharman a should be in an IR spot but as far as Woody Marx and Chris Rodriguez go are they holds or they drops at this point I wouldn't be dropping Woody Marx after he played the same amount of snaps as David Montgomery and I think you got to be encouraged that he ran well you know so he you know yards per carry was better than David Montgomery different type of carries and I still think there's a role for him in the passing game Rodriguez look we'll see what goal-line opportunities come his way and this is one of those situations where Jacksonville's offense I know everybody's excited about the Bears Jackson's offense is gonna be very good as well I hope that's a huge surprise but we just didn't see it in Bears game all the headlines see it to the same extent you want pieces of Jacksonville's offense and Rodriguez if something happens to tune last year there was a pretty strong sample size of 10 carries or more 10 PPR points or more for Rodriguez almost I think it was like five or six times that it happened so he's not gonna help you in the passing game but when you get to those like Jordan Mace and JK Dobbins type of you know to Corey Croskey merit type of running backs he's right in that mold if you ever got the starting job I think I'd rather have black than both of those guys oh I agree yeah but when we start talking about Emmett Johnson and Devon single Terry and all those other guys I don't think I'm there so was that maybe Emmett Johnson over over Rodriguez the caveat being if I have Kenneth Walker I absolutely have to have Emmett Johnson in the chat drop what he marks for Devon Valey if that's the worst guy in your team to get a receiver because you're stuck yeah for sure all right the running backs on the waiver wire Klon Black 61 percent roster in CBS leagues Emmett Johnson Tyler Algier Christopher Brooks and Devon single Terry we'll see what happens with Najee Harris this week and what role he has if he's active but I don't think he's gonna be the third downback Kendri Miller Ketron Allen and if you're watching on YouTube you see the list starting with Jonah Coleman so what I have in the column is a list of just handcuffs to stash and so these are guys that aren't gonna help you very much while the starter is healthy but if the starter goes down then you could have a league winner so if you have a roster about to play with these are guys to go look for his lottery ticket I just don't know if I agree about Jonah Coleman anymore I feel like RJ Harvey might be just the handcuff he looked good he looked better than he did at any point last year I don't fully disagree with you and Harvey did look good again another another thing that Sean Payton said was we didn't we saw enough of him in the preseason we don't need to see anymore well we didn't see even week one like right their run game was just so disjointed and not having any opportunity to get going and then I thought on top of Harvey looking good I thought Dobin's had some good runs through they just didn't get enough yeah he always does okay so handcuffs are Jonah Coleman Braille and Allen Tank Bigs B Ray Davis Brian Robinson Jr. Samashe P Ryan and our Mari D Mercado is it's seemingly the number two running back for Dallas right now yeah they they sign Tyler Goodson but I don't know if he's gonna elevate over D Mercado maybe he would see some playing time if Javate Williams won a big survivor pool contest drop candidates Rashad White disappointing he just didn't really have much of a role and then when they benched Chakory Krasky Merit he wasn't even the guy who it was Keach on Allen not Rashad White Tai J Spears Tyrone Tracy Dylan Samson Jordan James these guys are drop candidates if you need to make a move and just one more note on the Keach on Allen thing there were I forgot how many oh I have it right here Chakory Krasky Merit had 175 carries last year and two fumbles you know there were three that'd be a lot to I don't know if two on 175 is a lot but it's not great fumble the consecutive games last year so we'll keep an eye on that situation you know I just wanted to throw George Hullani and Rahim Sanders in their deep leagues Hullani could get you a goal line touchdown maybe Sanders could be the third down back he's he's worse than Hullani but I'm just saying names wide receiver I think I'm you can make the case for Sanders over Hullani I'll take the guy who has a chance to score a touchdown on the better team isn't that a manual Wilson I think it's a lot a good agent in maybe it was manual Wilson in week one not not exclusive listen I think I think you're in deep bleep if you're picking between George Hullani and Rahim Sanders for a running back spot in fantasy yeah I want to understand her I actually like an interesting prospect like I had to the worst nickname in football what rocket that guy should not be called rockets oh no he should not all right wide receivers wide receivers we got Debo we got Romeo dobs like if you could choose any Patriots wide receiver including dobs who 79% rostered who would it be I would still take a chance on duck I'll I'll I don't really want any one of them we got Josh Douglas I think Douglas is my answer but it's got to be full PPR Josh Downs and Jacobi Myers who are still pretty rostered but you know that don't give up on them yet and obviously Myers score the touchdown but only two targets and Matthew Golden we've been talking about so our favorite wide receivers that are are available on a lot of leagues are Devon Vale Caleb Douglas Jamie likes Trey Harris there's Mac Hollens Trey Tucker always has a chance like Trey Tucker just an inconsistent player just because he didn't do much in week one doesn't mean he won't do much in in week two at the Chargers Rashad Bateman if Z-Flower is missed his time is that your favorite Ravens receiver Jamie yes and there's no Jacobi Lane now too so Bateman's gonna get more opportunities he ran a lot of routes just in getting targets Clio Shakir had a you know not that bad of a game if you're just looking for some fantasy points four catches for 50 yards on six targets and he gets Detroit on Thursday got Raymond relief Raymond you got Antonio Williams Dave what do we think about him only 29 percent route participation rate but great debut for Antonio Williams man that that is a wall that keeps me from being excited about him but I thought he looked good on the targets that he had I think he's a really talented receiver who can win in the slot but they they can use them anywhere and I know that in college he was used everywhere I just I hate that they didn't use them enough and so now you've got to ask yourself what's his pathway to getting more playing time I'm maybe it happens with O'Connor out they go to 11 receivers a little bit more or not
11 personnel, three wide receivers a little bit more. He's a stash, but I can't say he's going to be one of the best ads that you could pick up right now. You might even be able to, well, I don't know, maybe in like, casually someone will pick him up. I guess he's just a stash, and that's it. Okay, Antonio. What I was going to say was maybe he doesn't even get picked up. And a week from now, we're talking about him as a better candidate to add because the commanders make a change. Kendrick Born is 1% rostered and intriguing because they're just going to throw the ball at a ton. Don Tavi and Wix, you saw he had a long touchdown. That was a really bad coverage by Washington on that play. Four targets for Wix, but he is the number two receiver for, well, Goddard, I guess, but Wix is, you know, 15%. The back coverage wasn't on the touchdown. It was on the deep ball. Oh, he didn't score in that play. I'm sorry, right? No, his touchdown, but there's a lot of encouraging signs about the touchdown because that was timing with Jalen Irts. Yeah. When Irts read the right coverage through to a spot, Wix was there. And if he's going to continue to be that number two receiver, then you can like him. I don't think there's a lot to be excited about. I don't know if I would trust him as anything more than a bi-week receiver. And then yeah, I mean, I'm just going to read some names. I just don't think that I'm going to put in any bids for these guys or make any claims. My deepest league is 14 teams. I'm not saying they don't belong on the column, but there's just so many guys. Adam and I Mitchell, Keenan Allen, Denzel Boston, Pat Bryant. I might consider him. Jalen Nol didn't play enough at the market for Robinson. Yeah. You had Xavier Hutchinson get six targets. I'd say Demario Doug. I might take a chance at Demario Douglas over those guys. I don't know how you feel about it. Sure. Did you get a chance to watch the Jets offense? No. And I had that game on, but I wasn't really paying attention. But I got it because I'd like to know how Mitchell looked. And if he was, if he looked real good, like they were saying in the preseason, then I might be interested in he'd be on that same list as Antonio Williams. Like I wouldn't be excited to Adam, but I think that there's definitely a chance that this offense throws down feel more than they have in the past because of Gino. And he's going to be there. And he's a good downfield receiver. All right. Let's get to the tight ends here. John Johnson is the one shallow league tight end. Dalton concade is 87% rostered. So every now and then you see one of those guys available in your league. Make sure you check to see if Dalton concade is available. Dalton Schultz, you'd rather have John Johnson than Dalton Schultz, I assume, Jamie. 100%. Okay. And Concade. You'd rather have Johnson than Concade. I'd rather have Concade than Johnson. Concade than Johnson than Schultz. All right. We got Schultz. We got Michael Mayer, who again, Mayer may not be the starting guy this week. May? I see what you did there. Mayer. Hunter Henry and David Najoku. These guys are going to maybe take advantage of injuries. Pat Friar Muth ran 74% of the routes. And he ran 70% or more of the routes in three games last year. He had five or six targets in all three games, which isn't terrible. So Pat Friar Muth had a nice role. Do you think Friar Muth and Hawkinson could bounce back this year and actually be something? Or is this just a blip in week one? You know, when you look at McCarthy in Dallas, Ferguson had a good year, Schultz had a good year. You know, there's been about a hundred targets for those guys. It wouldn't surprise me if Friar Muth is sneaky, low-end number one type tight end. Yep. Okay. And then you've got what about Hawkinson? Look, there's not going to be many games where Jordan Addison gets to two or three targets, whatever it was, and no catches. So that's something to consider. John Jennings was a non-factor also. I don't think it's a bad play. Like if you're looking at it, this is where I struggled with. Friar Muth, Hawkinson versus Sadeek in Ferguson. Like a Sadeek continues to improve. You know, four targets, three catches. Had the Russian touchdown. There's so much more upside for him, just based on his pedigree. But Hawkinson can get five or six targets and fall in the end zone. Friar Muth, again, just looking at situation. Michael Pittman really wasn't much of a factor like he could be moving forward. So it's just a matter of like what you're looking for when you're talking about a second titan. If I need somebody to start this week, I'm probably going to link Friar Muth or Hawkinson over the younger guys. And the younger guys is like Sadeek, Terence Ferguson, Brenton Strange. They're not Darren Waller. He's not young or is Gassicki Gunner Helm. Dave, when you look at Sadeek Ferguson, that's Terence. Brenton Strange, Darren Waller, Micah Sadeek Gunner Helm. Anyone here that you want to just stash? Deeply stash would be Sadeek. Okay. Okay, yeah, it's tough to roster two tight ends when one of them isn't really doing anything on a weekly basis. Weird that Noah Fantz got eight targets. I think that one we're going to just kind of ignore. He only ran 18 routes, but Noah Fantz had eight targets and a touchdown for the Saints. DSTs, 49ers. We love them. We love them. Tampa. Bucket near Boulevard. We love them. Packers at the Jets. Panthers at Atlanta, if Cooper Rush plays. What's the Chiefs Crosser ship? That's a great question. Let's see. Because they've got the Colts. That's not great. But after that, it's Miami and Las Vegas and then a buy. 35%. Ooh. Add them to the list, but I don't think I like them better than the Bucks and the Niners. Unless you're lazy. If you're lazy and you just want to get a defense that you can use for the next three weeks and not think about it, then the Chiefs would be it. Are you saying that was cringe about my. We love it. Thing. Because that was not cringe. Go watch a name. I don't know how many people get the reference. Yeah. What's his name? Randy Newman. Song. Batman with his kids in dog. Oh. Good. That was cringe. That was cringe. My favorite family guy moments. Kickers were Cairo Santos, Tyler Luke, Tyler Bass and Trace Mack. Drove into the Morden Park. All right. We'll see you later. Yeah, Luba? I'd like to hear the fantasy cops theme through that voice. Luba. Luba. Luba. Luba. Luba. Luba. Luba. Luba. Luba. Luba. Luba. Luba. Luba. I'd like to hear the fantasy cops theme through that voice.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Jamie and Dave highlight top waiver wire additions including Devon White, Caleb Douglas, and Kaylen Black for their high upside due to injuries and pass-heavy offenses.
They recommend Jalen Coker and Matthew Golden as strong shallow-league options, with Golden favored due to his 30% target share and lower rostering percentages despite limited go-route usage.
The top DST picks are the 49ers over the Bucks due to long-term health, matchups against the Dolphins and Cardinals, and strong roster availability, with both teams offering solid defensive value.
Summary:
The fantasy football waiver wire analysis focuses on key matchups, injuries, and roster availability to identify high-upside players. Jamie and Dave prioritize Devon White, Caleb Douglas, and Kaylen Black for their potential in weak or injured teams, especially with Detroit’s lack of a reliable wide receiver and injuries to key players like Jordan Tyson. Jalen Coker and Matthew Golden are highlighted as shallow-league must-adds, with Golden favored due to his high target volume and targeting efficiency, despite his go-route usage.
The 49ers are recommended as a top DST due to their strong health, upcoming matchups, and low rostering (19%), while the Bucks are considered for short-term value. Running back options include K-Lon Black and Emmett Johnson, with Tyler Alger noted as a potential deep-lead option. Quarterbacks like Jordan Love, Bryce Young, and Malik Willis are seen as viable, with Young and Love emerging as strong long-term options due to offensive exposure and favorable matchups.
The analysis also notes that roster percentages vary significantly across platforms (CBS, ESPN, Yahoo), with some players like Coker and Golden being more accessible in smaller or shallow leagues. Injury reports—such as Jacobi Lane’s broken wrist, Zay Flowers’ hamstring, and Dijon Stibbling’s four-week absence—add urgency to targeting specific matchups. Ultimately, the top picks are grounded in injury contingency, offensive schemes, and long-term health, with a focus on balanced fantasy value across positions.
FAQs
Devon White, Caleb Douglas, and Kaylen Black are top priorities. White has a strong start with Jordan Tyson out, Douglas benefits from a pass-heavy offense, and Black could see increased playing time against the Dolphins if McCaffrey is injured.
Kalon Black, Emmett Johnson, and Tyler Alger are recommended. Black has a strong matchup, Johnson is available in lower-roped leagues, and Alger shows promise with 17 carries, though his consistency is uncertain.
Caleb Douglas is a strong waiver wire addition, especially with Jordan Tyson out. He had a solid performance in week one and is a key part of a pass-heavy offense, making him a valuable flex or starting option.
Bryce Young, Malik Willis, and Carson Wentz are top choices. Young has shown consistent production, Willis offers rushing upside, and Wentz is available in most leagues and could be a long-term starter.
Yes, Jalen Coker and Matthew Golden are strong shallow league options. Coker has a high target share and Golden has a 30% target share with a mix of go routes, making him valuable in smaller leagues.
The 49ers DST is recommended over the Bucks due to their healthy roster, upcoming matchups against the Dolphins and Cardinals, and low roster percentage (19%).
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