Week 2 Waivers & Streamers + Drop Candidates - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/9

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Fantasy Footballers Podcast

Episode: Week 2 Waivers & Streamers + Drop Candidates
Date: September 9, 2025
Hosts: Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, Mike “The Fantasy Hitman” Wright

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Episode Overview

In this dynamic episode, the Fantasy Footballers trio (Andy, Jason, and Mike) break down everything fantasy managers need for Week 2: waiver wire priorities, drop candidates, streamers for each position, and insightful analysis of Week 1 performances. The hosts mix astute football discussion with their trademark banter, setting listeners up for actionable moves in their fantasy leagues.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Monday Night Football Recap & Early Takeaways

Timestamp: 03:22–09:00

• Vikings Comeback vs. Bears:
  • JJ McCarthy’s frazzled start, comparison with Caleb Williams' hot opening, and how Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell let McCarthy battle through mistakes.
    • “Kevin O’Connell just doesn’t overcoach. He lets his players figure things out because that was the only way they’re going to win that game...” —Jason (06:08)
  • Caleb Williams’ inconsistent play despite impressive early stats.
• Bears’ Coaching and Fan Frustration:
  • Ben Johnson’s press conference, managing emotions after a tough loss.

2. News & Notes

Timestamp: 10:05–19:44

• Tank Bigsby Trade:
  • Bigsby moves from Jacksonville to Philadelphia, changing RB depth charts and opening opportunity for Travis Etienne and Bashaw Tootin in Jacksonville and possibly Will Shipley in Philly (13:10–13:41).
  • “Tank Bigsby departing Jacksonville also gives you ... pretty darn clear…like Travis Etienne in a Liam Cohen offense...” —Jason (12:27)
• 49ers Injury Pile-Up:
  • Brock Purdy (shoulder/toe), George Kittle (hamstring, potential IR), and Juan Jennings injury updates.
• QB Mess in New York & New England:
  • Russell Wilson’s future, Brian Daboll’s struggles with management, and the potential trickle-down for receivers like Malik Nabers.
• Kyler Murray's Performance:
  • Discussion on his poor play likely due to illness.

3. Waiver Wire Philosophy – Approaching Early Waivers

Timestamp: 22:03–23:57

• Season Opening Waivers Matter:
  • Andy details a study showing early season waivers score more points per game than later pick-ups.
    • “The first two week pickups are worth so much more than the rest of the season... this is where you see the emergence of certain players, whether it’s snap percentage or just quality of how they’ve leveled up.” —Andy (22:37)
• Fewer Must-Have RBs This Year:
  • No “can’t-miss” backs like previous years; caution urged on RB spending.

4. Running Back Pickups & Drop Candidates

Timestamp: 23:57–29:29

• Top RB Pickups:
  • Bashaw Tootin, Trey Benson — most likely to be flex-worthy.
  • Dylan Sampson (pass-catching in CLE), Will Shipley (watch injury status), DJ Giddens (Jonathan Taylor’s backup), Kareem Hunt (snaps but not major production).
  • “To me, it's Tootin and Trey Benson that you're hoping are flexed with benefits.” —Andy (24:25)
• Caution at the Position:
  • Jason is hesitant to spend big; “I don't see anybody I can guarantee start next week.” (24:49)
• Drop Candidates:
  • Tank Bigsby, Will Shipley, Ollie Gordon, Braylon Allen, some backup RBs — Andy and Mike agreed they should go for roster flexibility.
  • Jerome Ford: “Tough call, may want to hold for one more week” (28:35).

5. Wide Receiver Waivers – Go HARD at WR!

Timestamp: 29:02–39:10

• Top WR Adds:

  • Keenan Allen: If available, the top waiver add.
  • Quentin Johnston (Chargers): “Must add.” Only 10% rostered; high upside (29:23).
  • Cedric Tillman (Browns): Immediate impact, possible #1 WR value with Amari Cooper out (32:34).
  • Kayshawn Booty (Patriots): 8 targets, clear #1 in NE — past LSU star pedigree.
    • “Kayshawn Booty is a must add. I mean, this is where I say I'm going hard in week one. It's at wide receivers. Keenan Allen, Quentin Johnson, Cedric Tillman, Kayshawn Booty...” —Andy (34:49)
  • Hollywood Brown: Good rental while teammates injured; “not over QJ or Keenan Allen.”
  • Ella Iomana (TEN), Kendrick Bourne (SF), Darnell Mooney (ATL), Romeo Doubs (streamable), Taekwon Thornton (bold TD guarantee by Jason at 31:57).

• Key Insights:

  • Target ascending No. 1 or 2 WRs on depth charts.
  • Go after high target share young WRs in ambiguous rooms.
  • WR is the position to be aggressive on waivers—much more than RB this week.

6. Tight End Targets

Timestamp: 43:00–48:44

• Must-Add TEs:

  • Harold Fannin Jr. (CLE): 9 targets, “rookie tight end breakout candidate.”
    • “He had 117 receptions in college as a tight end... The fact that week one, right off the bat he's nine targets. This is... he will be involved.” —Andy (45:03)
  • Juwan Johnson (NO): 11 targets, 8 rec, 76 yds, converted WR in a pass-happy role.
  • Isaiah Likely: Still relevant with Mark Andrews out.
  • Jonnu Smith (ATL): Consistent role, especially while returning from injury.
  • Brenton Strange (JAX): Deeper leagues/TE premium
  • Hunter Henry (NE): For deeper rosters.

• Waiver TE Philosophy:

  • If you don’t have a locked-in top option, don’t be afraid to block your league by stashing high-upside breakout candidates.

• Drop Candidates:

  • OK to drop Mark Andrews (injury risk) or Evan Engram (if injury lingers).

7. DEF and Quarterback Streamers

DEF: 48:52–50:10 | QB: 52:29–56:44

• Top DEF Adds:
  • Rams, Cardinals, 49ers, Patriots, Dallas
• QB Streamers:
  • Justin Fields (NYJ): Top pick if available; rushing floor.
    • “Let’s use it while we can. Justin Fields versus Buffalo...he runs a ton...he looked good.” —Mike (52:55)
  • Justin Herbert (LAC): Andy’s preferred add; “buying in after week one because he was incredible.”
  • Drake Maye (NE): Facing weak Miami D; all rookie QBs are somewhat viable in superflex/2-QB.
  • Noted that after this week, Fields and Herbert will likely be unavailable on waivers.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Early Waivers Philosophy:
  “Week one and week two waivers are exceptionally important… the first two week pickups are worth so much more than the rest of the season.”
  —Andy Holloway (22:37)

• On Tootin and Benson’s Role:
  “To me, it’s Tootin and Trey Benson…they still have that insurance policy where if the starter goes down now, they’re real fantasy gold.”
  —Andy (24:25)

• Wide Receiver Aggression Advice:
  “This is where I say I’m going hard in week one. It’s at wide receivers. Keenan Allen, Quentin Johnson, Cedric Tillman, K, Sean Booty…”
  —Andy (34:49)

• Funniest Moment:
  Jason’s ultra-specific “touchdown guarantee”:
  “Taekwond Thornton Wow. Of the Kansas City Chiefs will score this week. The touchdown will be 42 yards exactly.”
  —Jason (31:57)

• On Tight End Breakouts:
  “Harold Fannin is a must add to me… we already had two [rookie TEs] in week one. Like Harold Fannin, Tyler Warren, both of these guys made a big impact… Fannin is a great, great [upside shot].”
  —Jason (45:03)

• Light-Hearted Banter:

  • Extended riff on fantasy “drop” candidates as “take a book, leave a book” (Romeo Doubs) — Mike (38:36).
  • Side jokes about coffee, oversized helmets, coach mistakes on NFL rules, and awkward analogy of the Ultimate Dashboard being “better than a car crash” (51:56).

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Section | Timestamps | |-------------------------------------------|-----------------| | Monday Night Recap & Lessons | 03:22–09:00 | | News & Notes | 10:05–19:44 | | Waiver Philosophy: Making Early Moves | 22:03–23:57 | | RB Waivers & Drop List | 23:57–29:29 | | WR Waiver Priorities | 29:02–39:10 | | TE Streames/Breakouts | 43:00–48:44 | | DEF & QB Streamers | 48:52–56:44 |

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Summary Takeaways

• Prioritize WR over RB this waiver cycle: Multiple high-upside, high-target options are emerging; spend big early.
• RB pickings are thin: Go after Tootin, Benson, Giddens (if you need help), but don’t blow all your FAAB.
• Don’t neglect tight end: Fannin Jr. and Juwan Johnson look like breakout candidates; worth stashing even if you’re set.
• Drop non-essential handcuffs & underperformers: This is the rare week for “bold cuts” (Bigsby, Shipley, etc.).
• Stream QBs and Defenses wisely: Several electric options (Fields, Herbert, Rams, Dallas) are available in many leagues and could headline strong Week 2 rosters.

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Final Word

The hosts close with a reminder to use their tools and resources—including the Ultimate Dashboard—for maximizing waiver decisions, and to not be shy about aggressive moves early in the season, especially at WR and TE. Fun, informative, and packed with Week 2 ammunition, this is a “can’t-miss” episode for fantasy managers.

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Transcript

[Andy Holloway]

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[Jason Moore]

Welcome in the Fantasy footballers podcast. Tuesday, September 9 welcome into the show. Right before the show began, Jason had taken a sip of what he called very gross coffee.

[Andy Holloway]

It was very bitter and not good.

[Jason Moore]

And then as the show intro is playing, you took another sit and here you go again, like, oh, I'm going to finish it. Okay, okay.

[Mike Wright]

It's just bitter. Yeah, it's a bitter. Like you're.

[Andy Holloway]

Sometimes you have to do what you don't want to do.

[Mike Wright]

Bitter like your losses to me this week, Jason.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, that's.

[Andy Holloway]

You know what?

[Jason Moore]

Honestly, Plural losses.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, plural losses.

[Mike Wright]

Just. Just the two most important.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, Mike. Right. Mike. Wrong.

[Andy Holloway]

That's true.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, yeah, I'm. Mike. No, you wish. No, those.

[Mike Wright]

Wish you weren't the king.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm gonna be honest with you, Mike. This is far worse than those losses. This coffee is not.

[Mike Wright]

Wow.

[Andy Holloway]

But also in those. Those leagues I expected. Ls going in.

[Mike Wright]

Okay, so that.

[Jason Moore]

Does that make it go down smoother?

[Andy Holloway]

It does. Unfortunately. Sometimes you, you know, it's like you look at the. You look at the schedule, you know, the NFL teams, they go out and they lose to the, you know, to the Bills and they go, dang, I wanted to win that. But is the Bills, you go out and you lose to the Saints and you're like, oh, no, kill me.

[Mike Wright]

Got it.

[Jason Moore]

We are done with week one. We had a eventually fun Monday Night Football game.

[Mike Wright]

Oh man.

[Andy Holloway]

So it turned from the worst to a great game. We, the whole world tweeted enough to where I think at halftime rose like, okay guys, we gotta do something.

[Mike Wright]

Was so bizarre watching it unfold of JJ McCarthy at the beginning. The Vikings versus the Bears that we're talking about. McCarthy at the beginning seemed frazzled, seemed very nervous, which I mean the, the, the energy of that stadium and the, and the Chicago Bears at the beginning was like I felt, I could feel it radiating off of the television screen. Like they were hyped and for so like it took a while for McCarthy and Caleb Williams starts on nine for nine. Fire. And yet I'm watching, going, I don't think he's playing that well. But it's like to say that out loud, it sounds real stupid. He's literally completing 100% of his passes. But he just, he is. And he's looking so athletic. The eventually you had the freaking laser cannon down the like as he rolled out.

[Jason Moore]

He's got an unbelievable arm. I mean there were throws and plays in the game that were elite.

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

But it has been sort of his story to intermix that with mistakes and looking incompetent.

[Mike Wright]

I thought he got to 10 of 10.

[Jason Moore]

He did. I think he got to really 10.

[Mike Wright]

And then he finished 21 of 35.

[Andy Holloway]

I had a, we had like a group that was all doing the same kind of prize picks lineup and one of I took the less on 65% completion percentage for Kayla Williams. He comes out 10 of 10 and I'm like, well, I lost that one.

[Jason Moore]

Did you end up winning that?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, oh yeah. He finishes 60% and if you start 10 for 10, you got a big lead you that the rest of the way. He was wild.

[Jason Moore]

It kind of felt like the scripted start to the game went really well for Caleb. And then, you know, it's hard. You don't want to make, you know, season long conclusions from a game in which you're facing probably, you know, one of the best defenses in football in Minnesota. Caleb, like I said, he made plays but not enough. And the team, you know, eventually JJ McCarthy got it going and figured it out. And I tweeted about this last night, like one of the reasons I love Kevin o' Connell so much is because I think almost any other coach, they do not win that game because what they do is they start to try to manage JJ McCarthy in such a fashion that a comeback Is almost impossible because you start to go all short area targets and screen game. And let's protect JJ because the young quarterback is on the road and he looks frazzled. And he threw a pick six. After the pick six, let's just manage him and do inside handoffs and let's run the ball a bunch, which they did. They run it, they ran it successfully to help get the play action going. But Kevin o', Connell, like, he just doesn't over coach. He lets his players figure things out because that was the only way they're going to win that game is let JJ make some downfield throws. He started completing them. You know, you, you can't. Some of these coaches just, they frustrate the heck out of me. And Kevin o' Connell is just one of one.

[Andy Holloway]

It was very Phil Jackson esque in.

[Mike Wright]

The sense that you just Zen.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, you just let him go. And it was, it was funny too because I remember at one point after the pick six, you know, you saw the, you know, the quarterbacks coach, you know, the offensive guys kind of talking with JJ and you look at the head coach, he's just, he's just stoic. No problem. He's not over there kind of like trying to rally him up and you know, it's just like, let's keep pressing forward. And it was, it was an impressive game from the Vikings to overcome, you know, in a, in a harsh environment. Such a bad start.

[Mike Wright]

Because it was a bad, it was a bad start.

[Andy Holloway]

Bad opening first half of them offensively.

[Jason Moore]

What, 17, six long into the third. I mean, it was an impressive comeback. It gives you a lot of hope for McCarthy. I don't know what it does for Bears fans other than make them feel the same way they felt for a long time, which is, you know, Ben Johnson's aging fast.

[Andy Holloway]

He is going by the end of.

[Jason Moore]

This season like a presidential term.

[Andy Holloway]

Presidential term. He is. I just watched his press conference and it was like he is doing an outstanding job of trying to not show how upset he is. You know, it's like he's like, he's talking about the, like, you know, we all have things to work on, myself included. I made plenty of mistakes, you know, trying to say the right things, but you could see underneath he's like, I told him to kick the ball out the back of the end zone.

[Mike Wright]

There was that and just the place that Caleb missed, I mean there was.

[Jason Moore]

DJ Moore wide open.

[Mike Wright]

Dj Moore touchdown. That is like, can't miss that. You cannot miss that.

[Jason Moore]

Can't miss that throw. But he did. And Minnesota ends up stealing the win on the road before we.

[Mike Wright]

Jordan Mason is a dog.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I mean, it was crazy because both of the running backs did a great job in this game. Jordan Mason was much better on the ground than Aaron Jones. Aaron Jones had the big touchdown catch and some blitz pickups that were impressive. Still looks like he has some juice. But they did the right thing. They went to Mason the Mack truck who could just, you know, he just ran with a ferocity that opened up the entire game. JJ got into the end zone and you know there will be reinforcements coming for Minnesota. You know, Jordan Addison will come back after a couple of weeks which will help things out and it was fun to see. I want to invite you before we get into the waivers today to head over to jointhefoot.com as we get into the season. This is your opportunity to support the podcast, become a Foot Clan member. You get premium in season tools, including the ultimate dashboard lineup, optimizer, all of our advanced stats, a bonus weekly episode. You get the game day alerts.

[Andy Holloway]

As of today, I would say the most important feature is the waiver wire tool. You can connect it with your league, look at your waivers, which players you know, we're talking through on this episode about the order of the players and who is potentially out there. We've got more players than we will discuss on this episode in the waiver wire tool and it will look at your league. So it's like we might talk about someone that you're like, ah, well, he's not available. We'll show you who is available.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Yeah. So you can learn more about that. Get access today. Support the [e-mail] let's go ahead and get into the news.

[Andy Holloway]

News and notes from around the league presented by Progressive Insurance.

[Jason Moore]

Okay, we had a trade yesterday and we're, we're still trying to confirm. No, that's, that's compensation.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, that's the official Jackson.

[Jason Moore]

So now we're back to the original report.

[Mike Wright]

Yep.

[Jason Moore]

So who was it that posted that it was a swap?

[Mike Wright]

I don't know, but they were incorrect.

[Jason Moore]

So Tank Bigsby was traded after one week of barely being used by Jacksonville. It's a big trade. Jacksonville trades Tank Bigsby who is listed as a co starter for week one.

[Mike Wright]

I wonder if the usage had something to do with this of like they had already been talking about a trade. They're like, okay, well we got to make sure he doesn't get hurt.

[Andy Holloway]

100 and we got to see what we've got in ETN that's what it feels like now knowing what we know is like they into this week saying okay we've got a potential trade for Tank. Let's go see how we would do without him.

[Jason Moore]

So Tank Bigsby is now a Philadelphia Eagle. The original report said Jacksonville received a fifth and sixth round pick for a while it was being reported that it was a fifth and sixth swap which that made more sense considering the depth chart in Philadelphia now this morning as of moments ago confirmed it was a fifth and sixth round pick. So Jacksonville gets a fifth and sixth. Mike was confused from the jump.

[Mike Wright]

It is because you had like you had Will Shipley and I know he got hurt and there was not really much reported on that ribs.

[Andy Holloway]

That's all we know.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. And then and they have AJ Dillon on the squad so it was very strange of just the trade overall they're going to go get Tank. Then the compensation comes out which for us you know we're like oh a five and a six. That's nothing. But in terms of trading players we see. We see good players traded for pennies of this is two picks even though they're day three picks and then they're like hey we like him as a kick returner. So it this whole thing is so mind boggling. I don't know what's going on.

[Jason Moore]

Will Shipley got hurt in the first.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

In the first week he actually had worked himself into I think the first or second drive looked good on his two opportunities and disappeared. So we'll see. Tank Bigsby departing Jacksonville also gives you just like pretty darn clear.

[Mike Wright]

Oh yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Like Travis Etienne in a Liam Cohen offense after one week of seeing what he was able to do in it. I mean this, I mean this is who Jason believed in.

[Mike Wright]

Yep.

[Jason Moore]

We knew that one of these guys was potentially getting traded this offseason when.

[Mike Wright]

The rumor started Team Tank massive l here is ETN is going to be incredible and bash all Tootin skyrockets.

[Jason Moore]

How ready were you?

[Andy Holloway]

I was a hunt I have been waiting. I'm holding my breath. You have not spoken in a while waiting for Tootin.

[Mike Wright]

He goes from this like oh you know a day three ish. He's behind two co starters to he will be he'll be worked in he'll be used to a good amount but.

[Jason Moore]

It'Ll be interesting to see how much will be just Travis Etienne in this offense. He had 16 carries three targets last week and you know what's he going to be he's the number three running back after week one. Is that right?

[Mike Wright]

I mean he had 143 yards.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Oh, 143 yards. Yeah. He had the big break.

[Mike Wright]

He looked excellent. And Carolina continues to look terrible on rush defense.

[Jason Moore]

Every 49er seems to be hurt, bro.

[Mike Wright]

We got some good news.

[Andy Holloway]

It's still injured news. It's good within the realm of you're still injured.

[Jason Moore]

I love the tweet from Benjamin Solak. I'll give him a shout out. He said update out of San Francisco. Nobody has any legs or hands or internal organs or skin. They'll be reevaluated later in the week. Brock Purdy injured with a left shoulder or he injured his left shoulder and a toe. Just throwing that in.

[Andy Holloway]

They said the toe was the biggest.

[Jason Moore]

He's now uncertain.

[Mike Wright]

We have solved this problem. Put that thing off, man.

[Jason Moore]

I forgot about your Malik neighbors advice.

[Mike Wright]

Are you a dog or not? You want to play?

[Jason Moore]

Not a dog.

[Andy Holloway]

Brock's a dog.

[Mike Wright]

Okay.

[Andy Holloway]

He'll pop that off.

[Mike Wright]

Say bye bye to that toe.

[Andy Holloway]

He's not even going to the doctor.

[Jason Moore]

I think you really don't know how important your toes are.

[Mike Wright]

George Kittle also underestimate how terrible that would be.

[Andy Holloway]

This one is.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, Jason doing his yearly my guy gets hurt in week one routine.

[Andy Holloway]

It was week two last year for Pacheco. Thank you for. He got two solid weeks.

[Jason Moore]

Pretty proud of that. George Kittle now expected to miss a few weeks because of the hamstring injury and it might be ir.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I bet it is. I heard even five or six weeks. So it will be very.

[Jason Moore]

Can I get a 7?

[Andy Holloway]

It will be very, very telling as to whether they put him on IR before this week's game. I mean that will know whether they hope to have him back earlier than that five and six week timeline. But that is brutal. He was dominating and is so important to this depleted offense. When he went.

[Mike Wright]

When he went to the side and immediately had a hat on, I know it was. Oh, he is hurt.

[Jason Moore]

Hurt. Yeah. Juan Jennings, I guess was the news you said is positive. He did get hurt. He just avoided serious injury. So you know, the MRI didn't show extensive damage. He could suit up in week two. I mean there's not a world where I'm feeling comfortable playing Juwan Jennings right now anyways.

[Mike Wright]

So. No, no, no.

[Jason Moore]

I mean he didn't do much in week one and now he's hurt and might not play.

[Mike Wright]

And if we get Mac Jones, I.

[Jason Moore]

Mean well, and they. And they signed Kendrick Bourne. We should report that as well.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. Kendrick Bourne two for 16 and we're just saying Jennings of just Mac Jones come in and throw Ricky Pierce all the ball 12 times. Do we get the Brian Thomas treatment?

[Jason Moore]

And then DeMarcus Robinson will probably matter at some point. He's. He's only out two more games from his suspension. Kevin Stefanski said, we'll see. When asked if Crenshawn Judkins would play in week two. So we're waiting on that. And then Brian Dable, he confirmed Russell Wilson was starting week two. It was reported.

[Mike Wright]

Catapult this man into the ocean.

[Jason Moore]

It was reported that he had gone to management about. About asking to have Jackson Dart start. A dart start.

[Mike Wright]

So the head coach who makes.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, no, you know. You don't know.

[Mike Wright]

No, come on.

[Jason Moore]

Come on.

[Andy Holloway]

They make the decision for sure. Wink.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

I thought the arrangement is the general manager.

[Jason Moore]

You think Dable paid Daniel Jones?

[Mike Wright]

No, but. No, the management decides what players are on the team. The coach decide what players are on the field.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, I think this was above the. Was this not him going to the ownership?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, it was him going to ownership.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. This is not general manager.

[Mike Wright]

Then put Jameson.

[Andy Holloway]

I agree.

[Mike Wright]

That's. That would be. That was what I would do.

[Jason Moore]

I was telling Mike, not Russell, team, not Russell.

[Andy Holloway]

The problem that they have is they wanted to show their support of Jackson Dart before the season. And so in order to show how good he did, they said, you know what, you're elevated to number two on the depth chart. And so now he's the backup. But it's like, oh, we can't go to him yet this early. But you can't have Russ out there. And now you screwed yourself because what you should do is go to Jameis.

[Jason Moore]

So this is one example of why Malik Neighbors situation was less appealing than a lot of other top tier wide receivers is. I mean, are we going to see all three guys at some point? Because it feels that way. And there's an un. You know, Jameis would be. Jameis would be great. It's just James would be great. But Jackson Dart is not a guarantee to be great for Malik Neighbors.

[Mike Wright]

It's so wild to me if those reports are true because that's just the grapevine of that. Your head coach is coming to you saying, we can't play this guy anymore. We need somebody else. And they're like, nope, you need. You just need to keep playing and be like in the. And then you're just going to fire me because you wouldn't let me put the guy up. Yes. Thank you. I mean, if I'm Brian Dable There's a power outage while Russ is in the elevator this weekend.

[Andy Holloway]

Nice.

[Mike Wright]

It's not falling, people. It's just stuck.

[Jason Moore]

No, no, there's nothing wrong with that.

[Mike Wright]

Just he's going to be there for a few hours.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Battery backups were cut.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, leave a couple bottles of water in there.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, for sure. There would just happen to be a Costco.

[Mike Wright]

There'll be some snacks.

[Jason Moore]

There's a bucket.

[Andy Holloway]

They left a bucket in there. They are thoughtful.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, because you can. You can.

[Andy Holloway]

If he's got a.

[Mike Wright]

It's a human.

[Andy Holloway]

I mean, it is Russ.

[Mike Wright]

It's a humane trapping.

[Andy Holloway]

Diarrhea. You know, speaking of diarrhea, did you see.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, I don't know if it comforts you, Jason, the diarrhea of Kyler Murray, but he was up at 4:30 in the morning in the. With like throwing up and diarrhea.

[Andy Holloway]

That does come for me. I genuinely, genuinely. My only hope as a Cardinals fan is that he was horrifically ill. Because.

[Mike Wright]

If he's up at 4am, that's what I mean. Both ending.

[Andy Holloway]

Both ending.

[Jason Moore]

He was 25 fantasy points, 21 for 29 and seven rushing attempts.

[Mike Wright]

It didn't look great.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Still played bad if you watch.

[Jason Moore]

We are his worst critic at this point. We're burnt out.

[Andy Holloway]

Do you think ownership is just basically saying with the Jackson Dart, like he is not allowed to start until Andrew Thomas? Yes, like I would.

[Jason Moore]

Absolutely. I wouldn't start him without an offensive.

[Mike Wright]

No, Just give the team a chance. Put James out there.

[Jason Moore]

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[Mike Wright]

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[Andy Holloway]

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[Andy Holloway]

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[Jason Moore]

All right, well, I'm curious before we get into the names we're starting at running back. We'll go to wide receiver, tight end and we'll get into our streams of the week at quarterback. But like, I would love to know just how you look at the waiver wire in week one. Right. Because you know, we don't want to overreact to player performances very, very, very frequently. You have week one performances that, you know, they're great, they disappear, they fade into nothingness. You don't want to waste all your fab or your waiver priority. You do want to pick up players you think have a long term future. But how do you like you have a lot of leagues. How are you thinking about it right now?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, week one and week two waivers are exceptionally important. We did a study looking at the quality of waiver pickups, not just how many total fantasy points that they have scored on the course of the season. Because obviously if you get them early, you get more, more weeks. But actually how many points per game do the waiver wire pickups score per game in different weeks? And the first two week pickups are worth so much more than the rest of the season. Yes, there will be someone in week four, eight, whatever, who gets thrust into a starting running back position because of an injury ahead of him. This week one, we literally had almost no running back injuries. I mean, there was very little, a little stinger to Jonathan Taylor's neck. I mean, backups got hurt. But this was a very healthy Week one, knock on wood. That being said, this is where you see the emergence of certain players, whether it's snap percentage or just quality of how they've leveled up. And so I think you want to go hard in Week 1. I will say that in 2025 this season, the running back pickups, I feel like there's four decent options, but there's not, there's not a Kyron Williams sitting out there. There's not one of these great, like, oh, you got to go spend a lot on this player necessarily.

[Jason Moore]

So what are those four names? Because I mean, Judkins is on the list, but he's rostered in 85% of leagues. So most, most situations are not going to have the opportunity to go get him. He was drafted.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, he's one of them. To me. To me, it's the Cleveland Browns backfield of quinch on Judkins if he's there. And Dylan Sampson, who I think retains the pass catching role. I say Bashaw Tutin.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Because he's now going to be.

[Mike Wright]

Tooton's at the top of the list for me.

[Andy Holloway]

To me, it's Tooton and Trey Benson that you're hoping are flexed with benefits. They are going to be somewhat startable. They will get enough work to where you can throw them in in a flex in a pinch. They're not just a complete insurance option backup, but they still have that insurance policy where if the starter goes down now, they're, they're real fantasy gold.

[Jason Moore]

I, I don't know if philosophically I agree this year at running back, like, I wouldn't go very hard if Judgins is not out there. I'm actually not going very hard at running back this week. I don't see anybody I can guarantee start next week. And that's going to, you know, I know a lot of people are thin at running back players. Like, you know, if you had Tank Bigsby, he's not, he's not an option anymore. Right. Like people drafted him to maybe be a running back option. Maybe you don't feel very good about, you know, Nick Chubb or some of these other guys that you like. I don't feel like I can play Tutin next week and feel good about it. I don't feel that way about Trey Benson. I mean, I could get Lucky, but he had eight carries. So it's. It's one of those situations where I'm actually probably going to conserve a little bit and look for.

[Andy Holloway]

We're. We're in agreement. Just to be clear, I. When I say I go hard in week one, that's where I caveat it. The running backs aren't where I'm going.

[Jason Moore]

Okay. Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

And then I think Tutin can be a ten plus opportunity guy.

[Jason Moore]

I feel that way, but sooner than later. But they also put. They had La Quint Allen, right?

[Andy Holloway]

Yep.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

So they had other players in there, so I'm a little bit more hesitant. I do agree he's probably the top ad. Sampson looked good, but now with Judkins and Ford and the Browns offense, it makes me a little bit more concerned about weekly starter potential Manon guy. We were hoping to see something from him. We didn't. He had zero carries. Kareem Hunt. Look, Kareem Hunt, I think should be rostered. He got a lot of snaps.

[Mike Wright]

He didn't produce the Chiefs backfield. If this is really what they're going to do to us.

[Andy Holloway]

It was a mess.

[Mike Wright]

Then there was a Chargers.

[Jason Moore]

They were down. I mean, there will be their head, sure.

[Mike Wright]

But the game opened. Isaiah Pacheco took the first snap, then rookie Burchard Smith came in and the second snap. And then Kareem Hunt came in and took the third snap. I mean, if this is the approach that they're going to go, that literally all three players are going to get time, then it will be touchdown or bust.

[Jason Moore]

Drop candidates. You know, not a lot in week one. A lot of people are holding, but, you know, Tank Bigsby I think is a drop. I think I would absolutely. You need flexibility this week. There's no world where I'm holding Tank Bigsby.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, no, I'm. I'm fine dropping Tank Bigsby. I love Will Shipley. He came in early, looked great.

[Jason Moore]

They.

[Andy Holloway]

There was a report out that said they were looking at Tank as a kick returner. This had nothing to do with Will Shipley's injury. Okay. Let's just assume that's true. I still now wonder, do you hold on to Will Shipley or do you cut him? With Tank there and AJ Dillon there and Will Shipley, I don't want any of the backups.

[Mike Wright]

I agree.

[Andy Holloway]

It's like I have a lot of Will Shipley on my leagues. I was happy with what I saw, and now I'm like, he's probably someone I'm cutting. I want to throw one more name out before we move on. I think DJ Giddens is someone that absolutely needs to be rostered. First of all, there was an injury to Jonathan Taylor's neck. We saw they were up so big against the Miami Dolphins that they said Jonathan Taylor was fine. He got checked out. But because they were up so much, they didn't put him back in. We thought when we were watching live that they just were like, we're up 30 in the fourth. Bench him, which I would have done the same. Jonathan Taylor looked awesome, but it was clarity was given to us. DJ Giddens, the rookie running back, he was the guy that came in and took everything. So if j. If Jonathan Taylor goes down, DJ Giddens is the guy. So I think he's a good insurance. Like, I would drop Will Shipley to pick up DJ Giddens.

[Jason Moore]

That makes sense. And to go along with Shipley. Would you drop. We talked about Bigsby, but would you drop Caleb Johnson, Jerome Ford, Braylon Allen, Cam Scatter Boot? You need to drop somebody if you're going to pick up a waiver guy this week.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. So I would drop Tank. I would drop Ollie Gordon. I would drop Braylon Allen. I would probably drop Jerome Ford. He's tough because right now he is a starter and we don't know with Quinch on Judkins. So I might want to hold on to him for one more week. I'm not dropping the rookies and Cam Scatterboo and Caleb Johnson. I drafted them knowing it might be a couple weeks before they get more involved. So it's. If you have to have a roster.

[Jason Moore]

Spot, you can wide receiver, top pickups. Ironically, the Chargers receiver room is going to get a lot of attention today. Keenan Allen's probably not out there, but he is out there in about 40% of leagues. So he is a must add. And I think. And we'll see if you guys agree, but I think Quentin Johnson is a must add.

[Mike Wright]

He is 100% a must add and.

[Jason Moore]

He'S only 10% rostered. He was 5 for 79 and 2. He caught the ball. And the way this passing offense looked in week one, very encouraging. And you're talking about kind of different archetypes when you know Keenan McConkey versus what Quentin Johnston brings to the table.

[Andy Holloway]

Quentin Johnson has the high potential upside we talked about yesterday, the stat of, you know, when you're scoring more than 21 fantasy points in a game. Quentin Johnson's had four of those since the beginning of last season.

[Jason Moore]

You remember how many touchdowns he had last Year off the top of your head?

[Andy Holloway]

I don't.

[Mike Wright]

I know it was a lot.

[Jason Moore]

It's more than seven. It's eight.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh man.

[Jason Moore]

Way more.

[Andy Holloway]

That is one more than seven. Personally, if both of those guys are out there, if I'm in one of the leagues that Keenan Allen's out there, I would much prefer to have Keenan. I. Keenan is a locked in. He got double digit targets right off the bat. He is the best friend of Herbert Keenan is like a weekly starter. I do agree Quentin Johnson is more of the high upside but you're going to have a lot of volatility now.

[Jason Moore]

Do you like Hollywood the most? Do you like him more than adding Johnston this week? I don't.

[Mike Wright]

I would put him. No, no. He's behind those guys because he should be a rental. I mean hypothetically, you know, if everyone stays healthy for Los Angeles, those will be the three guys and where Hollywood Brown. He was a product of necessity of. You lost Worthy right away. Did we get a worthy update on the shoulder yet today?

[Andy Holloway]

I have not seen.

[Mike Wright]

I haven't seen anything either. But I expect him back at some point and then Rice will be back. It's not that he is or he is a good rental in the time being the you get Philadelphia, the Giants in Baltimore.

[Jason Moore]

You actually want them losing.

[Mike Wright]

Sure.

[Jason Moore]

Right now.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. Because you want 16 targets. But so he's compared to huge and Keenan Allen it's just for a chunk of time which is. Should make him cost less.

[Andy Holloway]

He was awesome. My only worry there is that because it was in a game plan that expected to have Xavier Worthy there and then this is what they kind of threw at the wall. I don't know if going into another week maybe rookie Jalen Royals gets more involved.

[Mike Wright]

I mean he was.

[Andy Holloway]

He's hurt, is he not?

[Mike Wright]

He was hurt for week one. So I don't know.

[Jason Moore]

Taekwond Thornton will score this week, by the way.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, is that a touchdown guarantee the first one of the year.

[Jason Moore]

Taekwond Thornton Wow. Of the Kansas City Chiefs will score this week.

[Mike Wright]

Okay.

[Jason Moore]

The touchdown will be 42 yards exactly.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. Okay.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay.

[Mike Wright]

Get a little big for the britches over there.

[Andy Holloway]

That's a must start.

[Mike Wright]

I mean that's.

[Jason Moore]

He will score.

[Mike Wright]

That's 10 points off.

[Jason Moore]

Fortin is on no. He's on no rosters. He had four targets. He had a couple deep shots. He will guaranteed score this week. Cedric Tillman is a must add eight targets, five for 52 and one. Tillman started alongside Jerry Judy. He also like Jerry Judy threw the Ball up into the air to be intercepted. On behalf of Joe Flacco, I think.

[Andy Holloway]

There'S an argument that Tillman is more valuable than even Quentin Johnston.

[Jason Moore]

No, I'm fine with Quint. I'm fine with Tillman being the number one ad. I really am.

[Andy Holloway]

We've seen I believe four games now without Amari Cooper where Jerry, Judy and Tillman played the full games and in those games both were outstanding. But I believe Tillman has even more receptions. He had the year two kind of breakout happening last year before the concussion. They shut him down for the rest of the season. The fact that he came out week one eight targets and he's got Joe Flacco now, the schedule coming up is difficult but I really like Tillman.

[Jason Moore]

There's a name that I think is worth spending some time on.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I'm going to love it.

[Jason Moore]

Only 4% rostered, only 23 years old. Got some badonka don't from wide receiver university don't forget.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh you've ahead of them and what.

[Jason Moore]

I saw on the field for New England last week told me that you know Demario Douglas had one catch. Stefan Diggs looked irrelevant in the offense.

[Andy Holloway]

I thought he had two. I saw JJ put out the craziest.

[Mike Wright]

Stat line for Douglas was too.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Read the stat line two for negative.

[Andy Holloway]

Two with a touchdown.

[Jason Moore]

With a touchdown. Look. But it was more about Diggs. It was more about so far I know Diggs could be coming back from the acl but you're older that you also just aren't Diggs. Kayshawn Booty is the name. Yes, Kayshawn Booty is 23 years old. He really, really flashed at the end of 2024 with Drake May in a time when you weren't paying attention he was wide receiver 11 and the wide receiver 4 in two of the final three weeks of the season. He plays a ton of snaps. He had eight targets this week. You talk about a wide receiver room where you're trying to find Kyle Williams and Demario Douglas and Stefan Diggs. Hunter Henry always does his week one thing it was cachan Booty that makes you. I think it's going to stick.

[Andy Holloway]

I do too. Keep in mind K's on Booty had a year at LSU where he was ahead of Malik Neighbors ahead of Brian Thomas Jr. He was supposed to be the next star. Had a very bad injury and then was like where did he fall in the draft? He was a sixth round pick. He was an afterthought but now he's looked the part you go back to last year, he looked the part at the end of the year with Drake May.

[Jason Moore]

So you believe.

[Andy Holloway]

I 100% believe in the booty. Last year with Drake May, he had a game, you know, 5 for 95, 7 for 117. You come out in the first week of year two, and he's the clear number one. Kayshawn Booty is a must add. I mean, this is where I say I'm going hard in week one. It's at wide receivers. Keenan Allen, Quentin Johnson, Cedric Tillman, K, Sean Booty and a, you know, a sprinkle on Hollywood. Those are like, those are the. I'm going hard after them. And I still think there's a couple more names worthy of important ads.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, let's all name one more that we're a fan of. Ella IO Manor had seven targets in Tennessee in a tough matchup against Denver. Also had a catch negated by his own dumb coach who didn't know the rules.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, my goodness.

[Mike Wright]

And so there's so many of them.

[Jason Moore]

28% target share.

[Andy Holloway]

I would venture to guess that at least 60% of casual fans. Casual. Not people listening to this show that watch all these games, you mean.

[Jason Moore]

Knew that an elbow meant you were down?

[Andy Holloway]

Knew that, like, yeah, if you land on an elbow in bounds, that that counts inbound.

[Jason Moore]

They could have won.

[Andy Holloway]

You don't also need a foot.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. He sounded so dumb. I can't imagine how bad it's going to be at his next presser because they're going to. I mean, how do you answer that? I was thinking about this this morning. So for those that don't know, Brian Callahan, head coach of the. The ever frustrated head coach of the Tennessee Titans, you know, didn't challenge a play where I o manor caught the ball, got an elbow down before his feet landed out of bounds. And in the press conference, he literally says, he goes, well, you need. You need one foot after an elbow. You can't just get an elbow down. And. Which is wrong. Completely wrong. But now how do you answer that if today.

[Andy Holloway]

Right. Today. Let me do it here. All right. Am I Brian?

[Jason Moore]

You're Brian, coach. Yesterday you mentioned that, you know, you didn't challenge because of the elbow foot rule. Obviously, you know, the elbow is. They're down. Why did you. Any thoughts today?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, look, in the. In the moment, you know, opening week, blah.

[Mike Wright]

I'm showing up to the presser with a big oversized prop that says rules.

[Jason Moore]

And just be like, oh, you're playing it up.

[Andy Holloway]

I thought you were bringing A newspaper just like hide.

[Mike Wright]

I'm either bringing that book or I'm bringing a smoke bomb.

[Andy Holloway]

It is a real. Oh, smoke bombs. A good idea. I think you've got to come out and lead with it genuinely. Like he needs to come out and.

[Jason Moore]

Say, yeah, I obviously made a mistake.

[Andy Holloway]

I obviously made a mistake.

[Mike Wright]

It'll be fine.

[Andy Holloway]

I've hired someone to be my rules expert.

[Mike Wright]

Get the freaking Madden teenager onto your, onto your coaching staff to manage your clock to know all the rules because they know them.

[Jason Moore]

That's. Is that the Catch child as well or is that a different person?

[Andy Holloway]

The Catch used to be the catch child. They grew up and now they graduated to the rules analyst.

[Jason Moore]

All right, so Ella Iron man are still the name. I'm going to bring up 28% target share for Cam Ward. Cam Ward was very inaccurate in week one facing the Denver defense. It will get better for him. And I o Manor was an every down guy.

[Mike Wright]

Like if you was.

[Jason Moore]

If you still believe Calvin Ridley can do something, I think I o Manor you give him a week. Seven targets is a lot.

[Andy Holloway]

I'll bring up two names quickly. One is Kendrick Bourne. We mentioned that The San Francisco 49ers signed him. I would not play him if Mac Jones is the starter, but he will cost you nothing as a $0 bid. Another one that is available in about 40% of leagues. He was drafted in some places. Darnell Mooney, we don't know if he's playing week two, so don't spend if he's out there. But we don't know the Drake London probably. I don't think Drake London plays this week.

[Mike Wright]

We don't think he does.

[Andy Holloway]

We don't have an update yet but just usually if it's an AC sprain, I mean maybe he does. I don't know. We don't know for sure. But there's a chance that he, that Darnell Mooney is out there and Drake London is not. And if he is, then he's like a must start type of player.

[Jason Moore]

Mike, do you have a name? Have we gotten through them all?

[Mike Wright]

I mean it's more like the, you know, the neighborhoods that's like take a book, leave a book. Like you've seen those. Like Romeo Dobbs is like that with the waiver wire. He's just like, hey, use your team. Need a wide receiver this week. Yes, pick them up. But then put him back, put him back on the waiver wire when you're done.

[Jason Moore]

Even with the oversized helmet.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, he looks so funny. But also Chris, Chris Olave oh, please. Why are you not wearing his big. Yes.

[Jason Moore]

Like, how big can you make them?

[Mike Wright]

Let's find out.

[Andy Holloway]

You do one. Can you bring like the bicycle pump and just like put the. Just pump it up a little extra.

[Jason Moore]

I was thinking one of those plastic gerbil wheels that you just get up on, put your head in there.

[Mike Wright]

I mean, I would do.

[Andy Holloway]

There was a play. There was a play against Cardinals where he got a hard hit and he stayed down a little bit and it wasn't a hit to the head, but it sure looked like it rocked the brain a little bit.

[Jason Moore]

Well, I honestly thought he got up real quick to try to pretend like he was okay. Drop candidates that are coming in off of Twitter. Cooper cup who looked like not good.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I'm fine. Dropping Cooper Cup.

[Jason Moore]

Josh Downs.

[Andy Holloway]

Josh Downs played again, only the slot role.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, it's concerning.

[Andy Holloway]

Tyler Warren is probably the number one target for this team. He was in week one. Michael Pittman is ahead on the snap percentage. I am fine moving on from Josh Downs. He's not a must drop.

[Mike Wright]

I agree, Jaden Higgins. And just remember, Josh Downs is coming off of the injury, so there's a chance that he was slow played as well.

[Andy Holloway]

I personally would definitely not drop Jaden Higgins. The opportunity is there. I watched all of his routes this morning again, and he wasn't on the field as much as you want.

[Jason Moore]

Now, Kirk could come back here, though, in a couple of weeks.

[Mike Wright]

Sure.

[Andy Holloway]

But hopefully by the time he comes back, Jaden Higgins has worked his way up to an 80% snap.

[Jason Moore]

Player John Jennings, with the injury.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm fine dropping him. I'm not waiting around to have him come back slowly. I'll pick him back up off of waivers when he's back, but he doesn't need to clog a roster spot.

[Jason Moore]

We do have a weekly targets per outrun report on the website by one of our writers, AJ Passman. You can check that out at the Fantasy footballers dot com. We'll take one more break, come back with tight ends and quarterbacks.

[Mike Wright]

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[Jason Moore]

All right, time to get into it. Tight end position. You know, really tough to chase tight ends.

[Mike Wright]

I think there's some guys to chase there.

[Jason Moore]

There's are at least five. I was going to say I got four. I would say four.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm going six.

[Jason Moore]

Okay, yeah, six. Seven.

[Mike Wright]

Youths love it.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Harold Fannin, you felt bad, is rubbing his face. He is not. He was not happy with that. See, like you old man. You old men aren't.

[Jason Moore]

Jason, would you mind?

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Hold on.

[Mike Wright]

Hello. How about now?

[Andy Holloway]

Can we do it now?

[Jason Moore]

Are we cool?

[Mike Wright]

All right.

[Jason Moore]

Backwards caps.

[Mike Wright]

This is what happens, man. You, you become the old guy and then you, you take what's cool and.

[Andy Holloway]

You do it and you ruin.

[Mike Wright]

And you ruin it for every.

[Jason Moore]

I didn't even know there was a hand gesture but my daughter did that this morning.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, come on.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, yeah, no, no, she was doing like. She made the six and the seven.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, that's, that's, that must mean that might be new.

[Andy Holloway]

Next level.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, that might be new. She might be breaking that out.

[Mike Wright]

She might have trend started.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. All right, listen, let's talk tight ends. There are, there are some interesting names. Look, I don't know if you're including Hunter Henry. I'm not going to do that.

[Andy Holloway]

He was when I moved up to six.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I figured. But for me the more interesting names. Harold Fannin Jr. Rookie tight end, collegiate sensation, nine targets, seven for 63. When you look at Cleveland, I've got a different point of view here. I don't know like it does hurt. David Najoku. Yes. To have Harold Fannin Jr. Involved. Both of them were on the field a ton. That's the point though is they run a ton of 12 in Cleveland. So I think you're going to see Najoku and Harold Fannin Jr. On the field a lot and you're going to throw the ball a lot as long as Joe Flacco is your quarterback. So to me Harold Fannin is a great. Like we've had rookie tight ends make a huge impact. Four years. We already had two in week one. Like Harold Fannin, Tyler Warren, both of these guys made a big impact. Didn't see that from Colson Loveland but like Fannin is a must add to me.

[Andy Holloway]

I completely agree. The scouting report coming in, we talked about it. He had a bad combine and he played at a smaller school. He does. He's not an athletic profile and I remember watching the film and what I said on him was like it's so weird. You watch him and he runs like he's got lead in his feet. You don't understand why it works and it works every single play. And my, my landing spot was I'm in, I'm in on believing Harold Fannin is great. He had 117 receptions in college as a tight end. That's not good. That's unheard of. 1500 yards, double digit touchdowns. And so the fact that week one, right off the bat he's nine targets. This is he. I believe he will be involved. I'm totally fine. If you are struggling for a tight end and you want to pick up Harold Fannin, he has to be picked up in case he becomes just a full breakout.

[Jason Moore]

Isaiah likely. Please don't forget he exists. Isaiah Likely.

[Andy Holloway]

Because you know who doesn't exist?

[Jason Moore]

Mark Andrews.

[Andy Holloway]

That's right.

[Mike Wright]

Oh man.

[Jason Moore]

Mike will want to talk about the 11 targets, the eight catches, the 76 yards for the recently paid and seemingly important Juwan Johnson.

[Mike Wright]

A route on 96% of dropbacks. This was not an. He didn't accidentally get 11 targets. This was Kellen Moore saw what the staff was and they said, you are not blocking. Yeah, you're not blocking. John's one of those converted wide receiver guys. He like that's what he played and then he became a tight end because he got too big and but he built up that skill set. Both I'm. I'm really struggling between Fanon and Juwan who I would target because I think that they are both crucial must ads for. For. For all 12 team leagues out there. If you Joanne with 62% of his snaps was in the slot and if you recall the times of when Kellenmore was on Philadelphia, it was like, oh man, if Devonta Smith is in the in the slot, like that is an important role for, for the Kellenmore offense. So I'm, I'm very in on Fannin. I'm very in on Juwan. Like to the point of if you're looking at your you're looking good and you're like, I got this one guy I can get rid of. I wouldn't mind literally blocking people from getting one of those tight ends. I think you don't want your opponents to get them.

[Jason Moore]

Two other names, one I like a little bit more like Britain Strange had a really good week one I and.

[Mike Wright]

He gets the Bengals.

[Jason Moore]

I could see that he was 4 for 59. It was a weird off day for Brian Thomas. You're still acclimating Travis Hunter, so I wouldn't. I'm not overemphasizing Britain Strange. I think you're going to have. I just don't know if his ceiling is what some of these other guys are. And I will say like Johnny Smith was coming back from injury, still had six targets, five catches, had a touchdown. I know we don't like it, but.

[Andy Holloway]

Arthur loves this dude.

[Jason Moore]

Like, I can't imagine there's not design. Johnny Smith plays five, six, seven times a game, every game, forever.

[Andy Holloway]

No, I agree. He was one of my five. You know, I think the tight end and wide receivers are very deep for good pickups and you can never, you know, most people don't have a good tight end. So take your shots. I agree with Mike. Even if you've kind of got someone that's like, you know, you don't have one of the top two, three guys or you lost George Kittle. But if you've got a decent, you know, you've got Hawkinson who did very little but obviously you're not Going to start most of these guys over Hawkinson next week, but you're not sure. Pick up one of these guys as a backup.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. No, it makes sense. People want to know, can they drop Mark Andrews? Can they drop Evan Ingram?

[Mike Wright]

Mark Andrews, yes and yes.

[Jason Moore]

For sure it might be yes and yes.

[Mike Wright]

Evan Ingram is the.

[Jason Moore]

With the injury.

[Mike Wright]

Because he is the injury. It was a calf. Is that right?

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Defensively this week, Arizona, they were probably rostered in week one against New Orleans, but they have Carolina this week, which is great. The Rams looked awesome on defense in week one.

[Andy Holloway]

They played Rams.

[Jason Moore]

They're probably the best pickup because they face Cam or now they're in Tennessee. But that seems like a great pickup.

[Andy Holloway]

Their defense was so good. I know we talked a lot about the offensive line problems for the Texans, but part of their offensive line problems was the Rams defense. I think they're going to be one of the best this year.

[Jason Moore]

San Francisco plays New Orleans, who Arizona played last week. San Francisco, 59% rostered. The Patriots play Miami. Miami looked incompetent. Patriots, they are going on the road in that one. 26% rostered. And then Dallas just 5% roster, but they play the Giants and they're at home.

[Andy Holloway]

And Russell Wilson named week two starter.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, that makes Dallas pretty attractive there. So you can see all the waiver wire rankings on the website, the fantasy footballers.com and like Jason said, at the top, the ultimate dashboard customized waiver wire rankings for your league for each of your teams in the ultimate dashboard. And you can get access to that and a ton of awesome in season resources and perks including all the resources are on the in season app as well. So you can go. If you're on the app Store, just type in the Fantasy footballers and you will get the app. And if you're a Foot Clan member, you get access.

[Andy Holloway]

I've been spoiled. Like we. My child got in a car accident unfortunately a couple weeks ago and we were down to.

[Jason Moore]

What a loser.

[Andy Holloway]

I know, right? We were down to two cars.

[Jason Moore]

You got to fill in the context there, man. It sounded pretty bad.

[Andy Holloway]

My kid also.

[Jason Moore]

My kid got into an accident last week too.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, mine was not my kid's fault. Anyways. You brought that up.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, you did call him a loser.

[Andy Holloway]

Anyways, my point is we were a three car family for a couple months.

[Jason Moore]

Everybody's okay.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes, everyone in all situations is okay. For my insurance, we were down to two cars and it was like, oh my gosh, how are we going to be a two car family? It's like we were a two car family for 16 years. After a couple months, it's impossible. That's how I feel about the dashboard. Like we, we, we launched the ultimate dashboard last year.

[Jason Moore]

Listen, it started my, I, I, I've been spoiled. My kid got into an accident. That's how this instance started.

[Andy Holloway]

No, but it started with the ultimate dashboard. Because two years ago we didn't have the ultimate dashboard. It's fine now. I've got so many leads.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, and their dashboard got crunched.

[Andy Holloway]

And I'm just saying, like, I feel like I can't live without it anymore. I tried like last week. Mike, what is happening here?

[Mike Wright]

I don't know if this is the greatest or worst pitch I've ever heard.

[Andy Holloway]

It's not a pitch. It's, it's really not a pitch. You don't need to go, why was that?

[Jason Moore]

Why is this related to your car?

[Andy Holloway]

My point is, I feel like I can't live without that thing anymore. Even though I did it for the last 20 years. The last 20 years, I had to go in every league manually, look at all my lineups manually, look at all my waivers manually. And now it's like with the dashboard. I go in and I'm like, okay, this is what I need to change. This is who I need to pick up. It's wonderful.

[Mike Wright]

Ultimate dashboard better than a car crash.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes. See, that's bringing the pitch home, Mike. Ultimate dashboard better than a car crash. You got it.

[Jason Moore]

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[Andy Holloway]

Full stream ahead.

[Jason Moore]

Quarterback streamers for week number two. Mike, why don't you start us off? I totally believe in this guy.

[Mike Wright]

I see as you just traded for him in our league of records. So welcome.

[Jason Moore]

Yes.

[Mike Wright]

All are welcome.

[Jason Moore]

Yes.

[Mike Wright]

To what's his name. To support Justin Fields, starting quarterback of the New York Jets.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, and he runs. He runs where?

[Mike Wright]

He's in this streamer area here because he's going to get picked up. If he's on your waiver wire, he will be picked up. And I don't think he's going to be allowed to be in this section from here on out. So let's use it while we can. Justin Fields versus Buffalo. Yeah, I mean, he runs a ton. Obviously. We had the naked bootleg easy touchdown and he just, he looked good. He has a team that I believe wanted Justin Fields and they're saying we want you because you are good at these things. So let's do those things that you are good at. And he takes on Buffalo. They're going to need to score a ton.

[Jason Moore]

They should have won the game and their head coach is a defensive minded head coach and they could not slow down Aaron Rodgers.

[Mike Wright]

Maybe he secretly an offensive coach.

[Jason Moore]

It was just one of those games where you look at it and you're like, much like Lamar's game, it's like, what else could Justin Fields have done? I mean he played outstanding and he's a great high floor starter as long as he's starting.

[Andy Holloway]

I'll go next because it's very similar to Mike's. This is another Justin who is on, you know, about half of waivers and I don't think we'll be able to say his name again the rest of the season after this week.

[Mike Wright]

I agree.

[Andy Holloway]

Personally, if this guy's on my waivers, I'm going after him no matter what because I'm a believer. It's Justin Herbert.

[Mike Wright]

Are you going after him or Fields?

[Andy Holloway]

I would go after Herbert over Fields. Personally, I believe in what we saw. I'm very curious. We have tomorrow we're doing an overreactions episode on the Dynasty podcast and I looked at the show Doc and Kyle has put in the Justin Herbert, the passing volume of the Chargers. And now I don't currently know where we're surprising each other. I don't know if he's saying we're overreacting to the fact that he threw the ball so much against the Chiefs and that might have been the game plan or if he believes that that's what it is going forward. Personally, I believe Justin Herbert is going to be awesome this year. I saw, I think we all saw the potential for this to be an outcome this year, but I'm buying in after week one because he was incredible and because he has the weapons. Why would you go away from.

[Mike Wright]

We did list the top waiver option pickups are two of his wide receivers.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, exactly. You've got you, you've got lad McConkey, Quentin Johnston, you've got.

[Jason Moore]

It's going to be a really good year for this team. He needed more receiver weapons last year. Yeah, it, you know, if they get ahead by running the football, they may keep running the football. I think those games will happen. But more often than not, I think Herbert, you know, I don't know why you can't look at him through a similar lens. As Baker Mayfield. Like Baker's somehow in our, you know, our normal start category. I figure Herbert will be there.

[Andy Holloway]

Harbach came out and had one of the greatest quotes, which was his job is to make Justin Herbert a Hall of Famer. And I agree. Right. He's not going to the hall of Fame probably without a Super Bowl. So, I mean, that is his job. Right. They play on Monday Night Football this week, prime time in front of the world in Las Vegas where last year this team in Las Vegas. Justin Herbert was the quarterback. 3. They're going to throw the ball in that game. I mean, and obviously if they're up a bunch of scores, they'll still run it out. But they're getting up a bunch of scores by Justin Herbert. Touchdowns.

[Jason Moore]

Drake May against Miami is my stream of the week. Miami laid an egg last week, made Daniel Jones a, an all star. I mean, we, we could probably talk about Daniel Jones as well in this segment just to ask the question of.

[Mike Wright]

Do you believe we still want to see at least one more?

[Jason Moore]

Definitely we do. But May. May gets to play Miami and hopefully, you know, Drake May, J.J. mcCarthy, Michael Pennix Jr. Caleb Williams, honestly, all of them, some good plays, some bad plays, some plays that look like, oh, that's, you know, Bo Nicks, throw them in the category. I mean, these were all the sophomores that like, okay, you look like a star on that play and you look kind of bad on the next one.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Drake May. It's gonna be me. Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

We're bringing it back.

[Mike Wright]

Okay.

[Andy Holloway]

It's not about the months anymore. It's about Drake.

[Jason Moore]

Why are you explaining it?

[Andy Holloway]

Because, you know, for those that.

[Jason Moore]

Would you trade Bo Nicks for Justin Fields?

[Andy Holloway]

No.

[Jason Moore]

Mike is literally, I mean, he literally has Bo Nix as a starter. I think the answer is yes for Mike. I'm just going to answer it for him.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay. So answer for yourself.

[Mike Wright]

It's tough. It's tough.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. It's one week maybe. Take a breath. We have. What are we doing tomorrow? We're doing some take checks. We're going to take a look at things we said in the off season that we think are working out and some things we think are not working out according to our perspective coming into the year and the way we were predicting things. We also have a Thursday night breakdown. We'll get into the mailbag and then we'll move on to starts of the week, the matchup previews the rest of the way. Hang out with us on the discord. JoinTheFoot.com become a part of the community and we'll be back with you for an episode tomorrow. And don't forget the ultimate dashboard. Better than the car crash.

[Mike Wright]

That's what they're saying. Goodbye, everybody.

[Andy Holloway]

Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Join our fantasy football community on jointhefoot.com and follow us on Twitter the FFballers.

[Mike Wright]

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