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FFT Express - EARLY Week 3 Waiver Wire Targets! Juwan Johnson, Daniel Jones, Wan’Dale Robinson, & Others! (09/15 Fantasy Football Podcast)
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
An early look at the waiver wire right now on Fantasy Football Today Express. What's up? Welcome. We're talking about the Week 3 waiver wire. Remember, we'll have a full show, an hour or more on Tuesday morning to talk about all of this. And we have two more games tonight, which hopefully. Well, actually, I'm going to say hopefully don't present us with good waiver wire opportunities. That usually means someone got injured. But Jamie, who's the headliner on the waiver wire this week?
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
Oh, boy, the headliner. I guess you probably go Juwan Johnson, if you're looking at the best player who could help fantasy managers the most. But this is a weird week because there's not a lot of great running back options, there's a lot of interesting wide receiver options and we know that there is at least one manager, potentially two, in every league, chasing quarterbacks at this point. So it's one of those very balanced waiver wires as opposed to like one standout star.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
Yeah. And there's the big star in super flex leagues, obviously, and, and Jake Browning. And how much of your fab are you unloading on, on that one for, for super flex?
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
I mean, just in the case of the borough manager and probably anybody that's not secure their quarterback position, you can make a case to unload all of it. You know, it's just a player that can be a starter for you doesn't always come along very often. And so at that position, he's clearly not the first quarterback injury. He's not even the only quarterback injury this week. So, you know, you may be smart about it and say, okay, I'm not gonna spend all of my fab on Jake Browning and I'm gonna kind of cobble this together and maybe just pick up to Rod Taylor, maybe somebody did not pick up Mac Jones. You dropped Spencer Rattler league. I don't think that's a rarity, that there's going to be, you know, some of these managers that drafted third quarterbacks, fourth quarterbacks that are dealing with some, you know, roster constraints and having to make some moves. So it's a case by case basis. But yes, in the column, I didn't make the case that if you need to find a quarterback that averages over 20 points per game in the last time that we saw him as a starter, 22 points per game. But for that matter, you can make a case to go spend all of it on, on Jake Browning.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
By the way, a quick aside. In a full PPR league, six point per passing touchdown what would you rather have tonight? Mike Evans and Geno Smith or Nico Collins and a Mecca Abuka?
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
Mike Evans and Geno Smith.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
Do you think they will Mike Evans? You know, Smith will be at least four points better than Nico Collins and a Mecca Buka.
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
Yes.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
Then you are going to lose to Thomas Schaefer in the Super Flex League.
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
Fully anticipate that. It's 50 50.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
We've got the odds at 5050 right now. Oh, I am excited for this Monday night matchup. Let me ask you about Daniel Jones. I want to say what he scored yesterday against the Broncos would have been something like third or fourth best against them all year last year. And most of the guys who did better than him were like Burrow Allen. I think Lamar Jackson, Jameis Winston was one of them. But about 25 fantasy points for Daniel Jones against the Denver Broncos. Is he the Baker Mayfield? Are you, are you buying into it.
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
Cautiously? You know, I, I think you have to at this point. You know, I don't know if you want to call him the Baker Mayfield or the Sam Darnold, you know, just based on. I don't think he's going to get as high as, you know, as good as a performer as Baker Mayfield, but I think he can get into that number one range, you know, based on what we've seen through two games. Now, granted it is two games. It's two games at home. But you noted one of those is against the the Denver Broncos. So to see him come after that Dolphins game and, you know, play competent. They haven't punted yet. The Colts have, you know, so their offense is, is clearly doing a nice job so far and I don't think we've seen the full potential of it. You know, we, we've seen one good game from Michael Pittman. We haven't seen Josh Downs, I think have, you know, the type of performance that he's capable of yet. Tyler Warren's yet to score a touchdown and Jonathan Taylor's had some good numbers, just not great numbers yet. So there's still another gear I think that they can get to. It's going to be fun to see what happens in week three on the road against the Titans, which, you know, their defense has been sort of hit or miss the first two weeks of the season. So Daniel Jones is the number one quarterback to get so super flex two quarterback leagues. You're looking at Jake Browning most likely as the best option one quarterback leagues like I have Burrow in, I think three or four leagues. He's going to be the guy I go get, you know, and hopefully this Daniel Jones renaissance is something that can, you know, carry on for the rest of the year.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
Any other quarterbacks you like on the waiver wire?
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
So the priority list, I have it right now, and the column should be up on the site probably by the time you're listening to this. So just so everybody's aware that's, you know, we're doing this for the first time on Mondays. I'm getting the column up Monday afternoons as well. So you can get a little, a little bit ahead of it. The order I have right now, and that could change tomorrow based on some of our conversations. But Jones 1, Browning 2, Bryce Young 3, Rogers 4. It's a long list. 2 of 5, Stafford 6, Darnold 7, Russell Wilson 8, Rattler 9, Mac Jones 10 to Rod Taylor 11 and Dylan Gabriel 12.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
Yeah, you're never going to be short of quarterback options. Or how about running back options? We're often short of those.
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
So this is one where there's not exactly a lot of great options here. So we have two injuries at the position for this week. One is significant in Austin Eckler, the other one, we don't know the severity yet. Narra Jones suffering the hamstring injury. So in the case of the commanders, this is, I think, the first place you look. And I'm going to lean slightly towards Jeremy McNichols ahead of Chris Rodriguez. And I know that probably sounds strange because Rodriguez was potentially in the mix to be the starter, but I think based on what they've showed us the first two games of Rodriguez being inactive as a healthy scratch, he's probably the backup to Jacori Crosby, Merrick, who hopefully will take a big role in the passing game, but that remains to be seen. I think McNichols, at least based on what we've seen the last couple of years with him on the Rock, I'm sorry, last year and, and the start of this season, he's going to fill that Eckler role until maybe Chase Edmonds, so they just signed it today. Has a chance to maybe play, but I wouldn't spend a lot of fab on either one of these guys, just until we see what happens. But I give McNichols a slight edge.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
Okay. Facial Tootin 75 roster definitely pick him up if he's available. Let's take a break and talk about why.
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
And Trey Benson, I mean, there's a lot of guys that may not be on our site that you can find other sites. So I think again, we'll, we'll keep hitting this point home. You'll see in the column. We will talk about this on the full length episode. We cover 10 team leagues through 16 team leagues. I think, you know, that's one benefit of our show is we try to give you all aspects of what the waiver wire could be at every position.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
And yeah, and we will do that extensively tomorrow. We'll be right back on Fantasy Football Today Express with wide receivers and tight ends.
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Siya Najad (DFS analyst and podcast host)
What's up, everyone? It's Siya Najad from Fantasy Football Today dfs, a weekly NFL daily fantasy show that's a part of the CBS Sports Podcast network. If you're looking for NFL game by game previews, which play player's stock is up or down and DFS strategies and advice, Mike McClure, Meg Shoup and I have you covered every single week. Download and follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere podcasts are found. Make sure to turn on those notifications so you don't miss a single pick all season long. Good luck.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
All right, wide receivers. Last week we were talking about.
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
Well, before we get there, just a couple other running back names to mention. I, I think you want to take a look at Ty J. Spears now. He's two weeks away from potentially coming back. Stash him if you can. Blake Corum, I know it was garbage time, but Sean McVeigh had this quote about Quorum after the game. He said, I was really pleased with Blake. He's explosive, he's a good football player. I have a lot of trust in him and then we'll continue to see that moving forward. So I thought that was good today. I don't know if we have a Kyron Williams problem yet, but we should be having a Blake Quorum discussion about adding him. And then Tyler Algiers got 36 carries in the first two games. That's hard to overlook as well that he's gonna, you know, I'm sorry, not 36 carries. He has 26 carries in the first two games. So he's not going away. You know, he's not just a backup at this point and he's clearly a potential superstar if something happens to Bijan Robinson.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
Apparently it's Bijan again. So that's what. I guess that's what they said in the broadcast. We'll get to the bottom of it. Wide receivers. Yes. Some of the guys that we talked about last week are still available this week. Who are your favorite wide receivers?
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
You'll get. I have is the top five guys against another long list But I'll say a bliss for tomorrow. So the top five guys for me would be Wanda Robinson, 1. Cedric Tillman, 2 Rashid Shahid, 3 Troy Franklin, 4 Don Tavian Wicks, Romeo Dobbs, 5. The combination of the packers guys, 5.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
Where's my guy? Christian Kirk.
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
So Kirk is below these guys just because the fact that he hasn't been practicing yet. I think you can get him a little bit easier off the waiver wire as opposed to making him a huge priority. So he's on the list. So I, I kind of like I was like where do I want to put the packers guys in in relation to who's got a chance to be the most successful, most prominent. And I also think first off, I'm always a little hesitant when there's still a game to be played. So we see something happen in tonight's game. You know, Higgins does nothing again, Noel does nothing again. We get a report. Hey, Kirk is going to start to practice this week. He'll bump up a few spots.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
Gotcha. Okay. Why Wondale won off his career game?
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
Two reasons. One, this is a guy that had 93 catches, 140 targets last year. He's got 18 targets through the first two weeks this season, this year. And maybe the however long he starts, Russell Wilson is going to allow him because of how Russell plays and how this offense will develop a few more opportunities down the field. So we have a two game sample size of him with Russ. One of these is historic, you know, so I don't necessarily want to chase it, but I think in the case of all these guys, like they're all getting targets, you know. You know, Tillman's got, I think he's got 15 targets in the first two games of the season, both him and Shahid, if you look at their last stretch of games going back to last year, very successful for both of them and they're both getting opportunities. In the case of Franklin, you know, finally getting, you know, opportunity to play and I think taking advantage of it and that connection with Bonix, they're all very similar. I, I think like, you know, we discussed this with the tight ends last week. Like if you miss on Fannin and Johnson, it didn't pan out. But you know, wait for Henry, wait for Strange, you know, you could still get maybe some good production from those guys. I think it's almost like a dealer's choice with these receivers. Like they're all right now coming off strong performances or strong starts this season.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
Yeah, I said Tillman yesterday on CBS Sports hq. I Think it's. I think the time's going to be pretty close to up for Joe Flacco there.
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
Well, the fanski didn't hint at that today.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
I know, but they're about to be. Oh, and four, they got Green Bay and Detroit next. And I'm not saying it's going to be in week five or anything, but this team's gonna have a bad year. I think not. Okay, shocker.
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
Right.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
But it's could happen sooner rather than later, so it's something to keep in mind. So tight ends, there's one headliner, it's.
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
Juwan Johnson and I still think Harold Fannin, but you know, in terms of Johnson, it's just 15.2 or 15 point. What is it, 15.6 or more in each of the first two games. You know, touchdown yesterday. He's getting the opportunities from Spencer Rattler. Doesn't look like Rattler is going to lose his job anytime soon from that perspective. So we talked about this on Sunday night, like how where do you slot him in terms of rest of season at this point and whether it's top five or top ten, he's number one tight end for the foreseeable future. And I think in the case of fan and like you know, a little disappointing that he didn't build off of his Week 1 game, but they just were just obliterated in that game against Baltimore. So the fact that he still had five catches is something I think that's encouraging. And then the next two tight ends, they're only a four for this week at least as of now. Isaiah likely it's time to stash him. He may return in week three. Clearly Mark Andrews has done nothing and Jatavion Sanders. I remember when Jalen Coker got injured, I think it was Mike K. I think he covers the Panthers for the Charlotte Observer. I'm not sure he's one of the Panthers beat writers, so I apologize for not having his affiliation correct if I'm wrong. He tweeted Sanders has a big opportunity. Something about Jataveon Sanders getting an opportunity here. 55 passes for Bryce Young. However you want to buy into that, whatever it may be, their next four games are very favorable and Sanders just had nine targets and seven catches. So they're looking for somebody to step up behind Tettero McMillan and I think between him and Hunter Renfro both are worth look.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
Coker expected to miss two to four more games based on his initial estimate and he is only 9% rostered. So that's someone Jalen Coker if you are in a deep league and can't afford the bench stash if. Obviously, if you have an IR spot, he's already rostered, but if not, could be back within the next month. All right, a lot more names for you tomorrow on fantasy football today, including ds. You know what? Give me a DST Chiefs.
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
Yep.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
Yes. What about kicker Parker Romo?
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
Spencer Schrader, he's been great the first two weeks of season. And the sneaky one is Joey Sly. Sixteen or more points in each of the first two games for the Titans.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
I like this Aubrey guy on the Cowboys. Get him.
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Host 2 (co-host or fantasy football analyst)
I hear he's. He's pretty good.
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Host 1 (possibly a main Fantasy Football Today Express host)
He is quite good. Okay, thanks, everybody. We'll talk to you tomorrow on fantasy football. Actually, I don't know what our next express is later in the week for Beat the waiver wire, but we will talk to you on FFT with the extended waiver wire show. See you later.
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