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FFT Express - EARLY Week 9 Waiver Wire TARGETS! Tracy, Darnold, Purdy, Franklin, Dike, & Others! (10/27 Fantasy Football Podcast)
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Fantasy Football Analyst Jamie
We got.
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Fantasy Football Host
Four teams on a buy. We got Cleveland, Philadelphia, Tampa Bay and the jets on a buy. What's up, Jamie? How are you?
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Fantasy Football Analyst Jamie
How are you?
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Fantasy Football Host
Yeah, I'm good. All right, what do we got here? Tyrone Tracy, Empty the Fab.
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Fantasy Football Analyst Jamie
I don't know if you want to empty the Fab, but he's certainly somebody worth spending for because he's going to be a starting running back and hopefully can perform more like he did at the end of last year than what we've seen from him in the beginning part of this year. But obviously there's a huge opportunity without Cam Scatter Boo there, unfortunately out for the season. So he's the number one player to go get. But it's a very weird week because we have the trade deadline looming next week. You have team the four teams on a buy and there's some players that are not playing this week that you might want to go at, like Justin Fields, potentially the two tight ends for Cleveland, Mason, Taylor, you know, and then we have two injuries going into the buy that we don't know what's going to happen. Coming out of the buy one, you seem to get an idea that Saquon Barkley is going to be fine, but it's certainly worth your interest to add Tank Bigsby and then the big one would be Quinch on Judkins if he's going to be out Dylan Sampson and potentially Jerome Ford. So a lot of moving parts I think with this week's waiverware.
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Fantasy Football Host
Yeah, I think we start with, with Tracy and just you said you're not sure about emptying your fab because he hasn't been a very efficient running back lately, do you think? I actually was just comparing him to Woody Marks at the end of beyond the box Score and I said I'd rather have Tyrone Tracy Jr. Than Woody Marks. Just to get a concept of what you're thinking about him rest of season, who would you rather have?
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Fantasy Football Analyst Jamie
I think that's a fair assessment. Just knowing that Mark still is going to share touches with Nick Chubb. If Chubb was not there and it was both guys getting the opportunities to be the start their team, I would probably go with Marks. But I mean, I guess we're still going to see Devin Singletary to some extent as well. So that's probably a little bit of an issue for Tracy. But he's, he's in that low end, number two, high end flex range. You know, it's, I mean, think about some of the guys that we've been talking about that have been getting work that just haven't been successful over the course of the season. Tony Pollard, Chase Brown, you know, we've gone through situations where guys have been featured and getting touches. They just have not been successful. I think that's kind of going to be the case with Tracy, but clearly Scatter Boo was great and you know, you hope that Tracy can do some similar things again. Last season I think it was like 13 or more PPR points and three of his last six outings to close 2024. I'll go back and have that for you on on Tuesday show for sure. So there's, there's a path to success. It's just, you know, how good can he be in terms of emptying your fab? You know, this Isn't like for me. For example, if you told me Tank Bigsby was starting for the Eagles rest of season, I probably would be more interested in him.
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Fantasy Football Host
Okay. Yeah. I think that what would save Tracy would be the passing game stuff because Jackson Dart's been throwing a scatterable a lot. Scatter wasn't running a ton of routes. What would hurt Tracy I think would be maybe he's just not that good of a running back. I would point out that they didn't have Andrew Thomas earlier this year and they didn't have Andrew Thomas I think late last year either. I have to go back and check on that. And he's kind of the key to their whole offense. They just have a better offense now. But I don't know that he's gonna be the goal line back. You know, I think that's kind of up in the air. I would not be surprised if they use Devin Singletary in short yardage. Something to keep in mind. Which quarterbacks are we looking at for the waiver wire?
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Fantasy Football Analyst Jamie
So you got Sam Darling, Trevor Lawrence coming off a buy. I think both guys are worth looking at for this week and probably rest of season. Darnold, not the easiest of matchups against Washington, but he certainly played well and would be a low end starter. Trevor Lawrence against the Raiders, great matchup. He's played well so I think both those guys should be added. The third quarterback for me is is right now Tuatanga by Loa just based on what we saw from him against Atlanta. Hopefully that's a sign of things to come. But Justin Fields, if you don't need a quarterback for this week and you want to speculate moving forward they could get Garrett Wilson coming back from their bye week and as we've seen good matchups, Justin Fields has been great when especially when Garrett when Wilson's been on the field. So I would want to roster Dustin Fields if you have a quarterback opening for this week.
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Fantasy Football Host
He doesn't really have any good roster good matchups. Unless Cleveland stays really beat up because they did lose three starters yesterday. But it's Cleveland, New England, Baltimore and Atlanta. I think at least three of those are right. I'm not sure about that third game in there for Justin Fields but look, he's got enticing upside.
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Fantasy Football Analyst Jamie
No question.
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Fantasy Football Host
All right, running backs anyone? We're missing other than you mentioned Tracy, you mentioned Bigsby. There's the Cleveland situation.
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Fantasy Football Analyst Jamie
Oh I mean well, he's still available in 46 of leagues. He gets Dallas this week. It's not a midnight so the one week situation we talked about the last couple of weeks. So the way I have it ranked right now is Tracy one night, two, Spears three. Just because again, there's a couple scenarios at play here. Tony Pollard potentially could get traded, but Spears getting more work. So I always like to put the guys that have a chance to play versus the guys that don't. But if you're looking ahead, Dylan Sampson, I'd probably move Sampson ahead of Spears Mountain just because it sounds like Judkins can miss some time. And then Bigsby. Isaiah Davis, look, he, he could be the starter for the jets if they go into their buy week and decide this is the time to move Breeze hall if they get an overwhelming offer. Because if you're trying to acquire B Salt, you just saw what he did and you don't have any risk of injury if he comes back next week and plays right or practices. Well, they won't, they won't play before the trade deadline. So I take that back. They won't play before the trade deadline. So you, you might see him moved. So Isaiah Davis should be rostered. Samaj P. Ryan. Look, he's getting work and just had a huge game. So somebody worth your interest, Devin Neal. I don't think Alvin Camara gets moved, but he did get banged up a little bit in that game. Yeah. And then Emmanuel Wilson's definitely somebody should be roster. He's just getting, he's, he's looked good every time. He's got an opportunity behind Josh Jacobs.
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Fantasy Football Host
All right, we're going to take a break. I'm going to tell you, we didn't say this name for good reason, but there's a quarterback I wanted to bring up that could be available in your leagues. I'll tell you about that when we come back on FFT Express. Football season is fun. I love every minute of it. But it's busy and I get tired sometimes and all of us are busy and all of us get tired. And we all need energy, focus and recovery. So let me tell you about Quick Success Scientific, a US Company that makes advanced liposomal supplements your body can use fast. And I recently got my supplements delivered. Quicksilver Scientific is a leader in cutting edge supplement science. Quicksilver has a lot of great products. I ordered the Ultra Vitamin, a highly absorbable daily multivitamin in liquid form. It has vitamins for mood and energy, plus immune and bone support. It makes me feel energized and balanced. And every day Quicksilver Scientific makes advanced liposomal supplements so you can actually feel the Difference, energy, focus, calm recovery. Get 10% off and free shipping@tryqs.com FFT that's tryqs.com FFT these statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or or prevent any disease. There's a quarterback that's 75 rostered in CBS sports leagues, but on Sleeper Yon Yahoo, on ESPN, he's 66 or less. He's in about the 60 range, I guess. You know, aggregate, it's Brock Purdy. Hopefully Brock Purdy is back soon and he's got great weapons. There's a lot to like about Brock Purdy. I can't imagine. I can't imagine I'd want him to be available for my opponents to pick up. So think about adding Brock Purdy. All right, wide receivers, Jamie Long list of names.
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Fantasy Football Analyst Jamie
So the guy at the top is Troy Franklin. We've seen, you know, some positive production at times this year coming off a huge game. I know it was against Dallas, but these are the type of things that you can hope push a guy forward for the rest of the season. So I like Troy Franklin the best. Tamir DK would be next. You know, we don't. This is a weird one because what happens when Calvin Ridley comes back? If he does come back, he's another guy that could get traded. But you have to pick him up based on what he's shown you the last two weeks. I have Darius Slayton third. I think we feel a lot different about him if he gets that touchdown and the excitement level about what we said when Malik Neighbors was injured, then he has the hamstring injury. We know he's going to be a big part of this Giants offense. Christian Watson, four catches, 85 yards. You know what his upside is. Certainly somebody you want to roster. I unfortunately, I don't know how you did this. We've had this conversation before about Tajie Spears and Jalen Cooker. When these guys come off ir, you almost have to drop them unless you have an open roster spot. I had to do that with Watson, then just had to watch and play like that. And like, oh, bleep. I probably won't get him back now. Josh Downs, remember, was building a lot of momentum, had the concussion, missed the game, comes back, scores a touchdown. You want pieces of this offense. Trey Tucker and Jack Bash. Tucker would be the priority, but Jacoby Myers easily can get traded, may not play again this week, you know, just if they decide to hold him out through the trade deadline. But Tucker and Bash I think would benefit the most. You mentioned Brock Purdy, Juwan Jennings is the guy I think that would benefit the most with Purdy back, especially if Ayuk stays on ir. So Jennings eats the last two games, seven targets. He's outperforming Kendrick Bourne. And as I said on the Sunday night show, they just played the Falcons and the Texans. And so you look at some of the numbers and it may not be good, but when Purdy comes back and I think Jennings gets his quarterback back, that's someone to. To keep an eye on there. The three Texans wide receivers I think are worth a look in Jalen Knoll, Jaden Higgins and Xavier Hutchinson. Hutchinson now has three touchdowns in his last four games. He's the one I like the least, even though he's been productive. I wonder when Kirk comes back. So Higgins, I think is tied to Nico. I think Noel is tied to Kirk. Correct me if you think I'm wrong there.
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Fantasy Football Host
No, I mean it makes sense.
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Fantasy Football Analyst Jamie
So Higgins, I think we'll get Nico back this week because of the concussion, hopefully through the protocol, but we don't know when. When Kirk will come back from the hamstring injury. I think Noel's done enough that he's worth a look. The two Steelers guys are worth looking at. I'd put Calvin Austin ahead of Roman Wilson, but Wilson just scored a touchdown. But I think Austin's going to end up with more production term. And then I have Malik Washington, Tyler Johnson and Matt Collins. Washington, you know, who knows what he builds off this game. Finally productive. Excuse me. First time since Tyree kills injury. Tyler Johnson. We know that Josh Reynolds is out. Garrett Wilson may not return after bye week. And then Matt Collins could be his turn to get hot for the patriots. Just had seven catches for 70 some odd yards, I believe or 95 yards. Excuse me. For the Patriots.
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Fantasy Football Host
Yeah, Calvin or I'll get to really in a second. But Chris Godwin 73 roster might be somebody want to stash. I also think Calvin Ridley is. Is someone to take a look at here because unfortunately it's not a great schedule just in the sense that he hasn't been practicing. So I can't sit here and say Ridley's gonna play this week, gets the Chargers and then a buy and then the Texans who are just so good against wide receivers. So that's not great.
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Fantasy Football Analyst Jamie
It could be a trade candidate though.
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Fantasy Football Host
He could. So whether it's DK or Ridley, whoever you want to apply this to, one thing I like. It's kind of, you know, it really hasn't been said. The first four games of his career, Cam Ward averaged 150 passing yards per game. Within those games. He faced Denver, the Rams and the Texans the last four games. It's not translating to fantasy points for Ward because he's not throwing touchdowns, but he's averaging 250 passing yards a game. That's, that's good for, for wide receivers, they can actually be startable. If your quarterbacks averaging 250 yards a game, that's a lot. All right, tight ends.
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Fantasy Football Analyst Jamie
Jamie, just before, we just got news that Judkins is day to day with his shoulder injury. So my guess, at worst he's probably missing week 10 at the most would be the hope. Okay, the tight ends are interesting so there's not a lot of great options for this week. Unless you're talking, you know, you keep mentioning the shallow league. So I'll bring up the shallowly guys. The two that I would look at would be around the gas. If he's still available, clearly go pick him up. He's a must start guy at this point. And then Theo Johnson, he's had two bad games in the last month and that was both were against the Eagles. I think this week against the 49ers, you can trust him as a low end starter. So take a look at both those guys in terms of the week one week guys. To add Colston Loveland gets the Bengals and it's now 10 touchdowns on the season and eight in the last four games after Mason Taylor scored against them. So it's risky but I think low end starting option Loveland's good. Just keep them. Just remember when you look at tight ends, we're getting Bowers back this week from injury and by McBride back from, by Laporta back from by. So just keep that in mind. And then I think you got to give Juwan Johnson's credit again, you know, 10 point something PPR points. He had eight targets this week, seven targets last week. Every game this season where he said seven or more targets, he's been 10 or more PPR points. So when they throw to him, he's productive. And so just looking at the matchup this week against the Rams is clearly not easy. But low end starting option, just in terms of the guys that are available after him, it's the guys that are on a buy. I would look at Harold Fannin again, I'd look at David Najoku again just based on how this offense is going to operate. Mason Taylor is 30 rostered. I know the schedule is not easy coming off their bye week but again lack of targets in the passing game and then a couple of trade options to consider trade potential situations to consider. There is I I was surprised when I saw this but two different sites said that Mark Andrews could be on the move. So with Lamar Jackson coming back look at Isaiah Likely and the Titans and and again I'll reference the same thing. Calvin Ridley could be moved, Tony Pollard could be moved and Chico Conkle could be moved. They just traded one of their cornerbacks today to the Rams. So I think the fire sales coming in Tennessee which makes sense try to acquire as many draft picks as you can for guys that are most likely not part of your future. So if Chig is moved, Gunner Helm just scored a touchdown and Okonko has gotten about five or six targets almost on a week to week basis. So if that goes Helm's way he could be somebody that I think you want to have on your team.
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Fantasy Football Host
Dsts these things are fun.
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Fantasy Football Analyst Jamie
This week you got the Rams, they get the Saints. So take a look at them. You get the Lions against the vikings. We know J.J. mcCarthy starting again. They have some offensive line concerns. So Lions look really good defensively. Last time we saw them against the Bucks, the Seahawks just been a really good defense. We don't know if Jane Daniels will play. So we'll see what Marcus Mariota and the Commander's offense looks like on Monday night. But obviously Seahawks DST has been fantastic. And then you get the Jaguars taking on Geno Smith, that's kind of the desperation play. But 16 rostered. If Jacksonville gets, you know, a typical Geno Smith performance, they may have some opportunities to turn them all over. And we know at the beginning part of the season they were very turnover friendly for a lot of opposing teams.
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Fantasy Football Host
Yeah, forgot to mention with the tight ends, Jamie mentioned Colson Loveland and Theo Johnson. You got to keep an eye on Cole commit and Daniel Bellinger especially commit and if the status of those guys could really boost those guys, I mean Comets out love will be pretty enticing against Cincinnati Bengals. All right. By the way, Juwan Johnson has the third most targets at tight end. That crazy. Wow.
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Fantasy Football Analyst Jamie
Yeah. I mean look, three first three games it was eight plus last two games he's got 15 targets in the last two weeks. So yeah.
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Fantasy Football Host
All right, thanks everybody. We'll talk to you. We'll give you the big, big old waiver wire show tomorrow. Go more in depth on these guys and we'll talk to you then on Fantasy Football Today. See you.
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Fantasy Football Analyst Jamie
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