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In Episode 276 of the Footballguys Fantasy Football Show, Dave Kluge and Alfredo Brown discuss players to target on the waiver wire after Week 6. Send your questions to fantasyshow@footballguys.com 🎥. SUBSCRIBE to the NEW YouTube page:...
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Alfredo Brown
Morning, Zoe. Got donuts. Jeff Bridges, why are you still living above our garage? Well, I dig the mattress and I want to be in a T mobile commercial like you teach me. So Dana.
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Dave Kluge
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
Okay, can I tell you what happened to me today which was horrifying? And if you see me looking around during the show, it's because of this here. So the kids in the house, they come in like they, they love using my office for stuff and hanging out in here. This is like their hangout spot when I'm not recording and they leave a big mess. I was picking up this morning, getting ready to vacuum the carpet up, put some things away. I go, I look over at my computer and I see a cockroach climbing up the wall and I screamed like a little girl. Cockroaches are my number one weakness. I would rather I'd fight a thousand spiders before having to deal with a single cockroach. It's the least manly thing about me. I, I had to grab the vacuum, I detached the. The like the head of the vacuum and used the tube, suck the cockroach into the vacuum and then just, like, flung it outside and. Yeah. I've never been more proud, yet more disappointed with myself as a human man in my entire life.
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Dave Kluge
You know, I've never seen a cockroach in my life.
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Alfredo Brown
Shut up.
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Dave Kluge
Yeah. I mean, I. I don't know if they probably exist in Chicago. Yeah. Like, I grew up in Chicago, and I don't think they have them out here in Colorado either. But my youngest brother just recently moved to Florida, and he said, like, day one, moved into his place, and there were just, like, you know, saw roach, and then saw another roach later in the day, and he reached out to the landlord and was like, hey, there's. There's roaches here. And he was like, we live in Florida. Like, what do you. Like, I can't do anything about that. He's like, it's not like an infestation. Like, cockroaches just live here, and they get into your house sometimes, and that is disgusting.
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Alfredo Brown
It's the worst. And we live in an area where everything is new construction. So there's a lot of bugs, a of lot. Lot of, like, there's a wild boar running and deer running around here. Like, that's crazy. I've never seen anything like that in living in Florida my whole life. And then, like, now I'm wondering, like, how the heck did I get a cockroach in this room? Because I try to keep my office pretty clean. I looked under. I found an old bag of, like, chocolate snacks that was hanging out underneath the couch that I have here in my office. And there it is.
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Dave Kluge
Do it.
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Alfredo Brown
There it is. No children allowed in my office anymore.
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Dave Kluge
I'm trying to figure out. I think I found it here. Yeah. If you want to Google this yellow striped garden spider.
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Alfredo Brown
No, thank you.
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Dave Kluge
I was in my backyard the other day, or not in my backyard. We've got this, like, little balcony that kind of, like, overlooks the backyard. And it's great. You know, you get sun back there. You can see Pikes Peak from there, and I see a spiderweb. And I don't think much of it. You know, go back to reading my book. And then I look up, and I see this gigantic spider, and I freaked out, and I killed it immediately because it was huge and it had yellow on it. And, like, I think you see bright colors on a bug. You know, that means, like, poison venom, apparently. These are just, like, the friendliest, nicest spiders. They just, like, eat other bugs and.
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Alfredo Brown
Like, you're not like Pixar would make a movie about this guy, Right?
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Dave Kluge
And I just, like, immediately just, like, squished it. And it was like the biggest bug I've ever seen in my life. Just a gigantic spider. I've been carrying that guilt around for the last few weeks.
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Alfredo Brown
Dave. No, though. I don't care about bugs. They're.
- [04:41]
Dave Kluge
They're dying. It was outside. He was in his home. It's not like he was in the house. He was outside minding his own business, and I just squished him.
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Alfredo Brown
Nope, they're dying.
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Dave Kluge
Poor guy.
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Alfredo Brown
Go live elsewhere. I don't care. Welcome in to the Football Guys fantasy football show. We're giving you our week 7 trade targets players to buy low. I'm Alfredo Brown, joined as always. I've got Dave Kluge here. You know what? I misspoke. It's not just players to buy low, players to buy high. Players buy at all kinds of prices. Do what you want. It's America. You're adults. Maybe even if you're not listening to this America. Welcome to fantasy football. Do whatever you want, Dave. It's a time of year where teams are starting to get hit with bye weeks with crazy amounts of injuries. And I feel like we say it every year. The injuries seem worse and worse and worse. This year really does seem crazy. Even if it's just one week or IR or whatever. Trades seem to be sort of the best way to make any sort of movement here in fantasy football right now. It kind of feels like either you got lucky and you didn't get bit by injuries or you've been hurt by them, and that's kind of it. It doesn't seem like there's any way to climb out of that hole.
- [05:54]
Dave Kluge
Yeah, and it's just getting worse every week. Like the wide receiver injuries that hit last week and two weeks ago just keeps getting worse. And it feels very similar to last year where like all of these big name receivers went down with injuries and were underperforming, but it kind of worked out because, like, the running backs that we were drafting early were crushing it. And then this year, the receivers that got drafted early are all hurt and underperforming. And outside of like two or three running backs, a lot of these early round running backs are underperforming too. So it just kind of feels like a crapshoot with all of the early picks this year. And yeah, I think one of the best ways to shake things up is to try to make some trades.
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Alfredo Brown
So listen, guys, if you are. If you're in your league right now and you're what, 2 and 4, 1 and 5. Whatever the record is, there's still hope. Like, this is not the time to give up on the fantasy season. This is where you start to make some trades. You make some moves if the waiver wire hasn't worked out for you, because it really hasn't worked out for a lot of people. Every time you get someone, it just hasn't worked out. This is where you make these trades. Dave, you and I came to the table here with four trade targets each. Not all these are buy lows, Some of these are buy high. But I think we've got some really good candidates here. Why don't you kick us off with.
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Dave Kluge
Your first guy, Breece Hall? I think that he has just looked awesome this year. Like, he looks like his pre ACL self. He's ripping off big plays, which is something that we loved about him when he was a little bit younger. Right now he's got 11 breakaway runs that leads the league. No other running back has that many breakaway runs. But he's the RB22 in fantasy because there haven't been a lot of scoring opportunities. But he's 12th in touches, he's 8th in weighted opportunities, he's 6th in target share. And there's this narrative that Justin Fields doesn't check down to running backs because he didn't early in his career. But we saw that big change last year when he was in Pittsburgh that he was checking down to Najee Harris, he was checking down to Jalen Warren, and now we see him checking down frequently to Breeze hall as well. And you know, what I'm looking for when I'm trying to buy players right now are guys who are getting more touches than they are fantasy points. And right now, like I said, RB22 in fantasy, 12th in touches. And that's because he hasn't scored a touchdown. So I think that we're looking at potential touchdown regression here. And I know, like, the jets aren't a great offense.
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Alfredo Brown
The jets might not get a touchdown, but.
- [08:05]
Dave Kluge
Yeah, right. And. And that they might not. And you know, when every time they get near the goal line, it might just be Justin Fields slamming his way in. But I think we also get this, like, island game bias. All of America woke up early on Sunday to watch one of the worst offensive performances. I mean, like, literally putting the offensive in offense, like, it was just terrible. They got. They got steamrolled by the. I wouldn't even say steamrolled by the Jets. It's like Sean Payton was just like toying with his food. Like he was like trying to humiliate Justin Fields. It was one of the worst games I've ever watched. Like, just absolutely terrible. And in that game, hall was pretty quiet. 22 carries, 0 targets, 59 scoreless yards. But when you look at it like he's still doing the things that we like, he's 10th in yards per touch, he's 11th in yards per route run, he's eighth in yards per reception. He's been very efficient and he's getting a lot of opportunities. He just isn't scoring touchdowns. And I think that you also look at the possibility that he could get traded. If he does get traded, he's not going to a worse situation. I don't think there's a bottom of the barrel team out there that's like, you know, it really fix us right now is Breeze hall, like if he gets traded, he's probably going to Kansas City or he's going to the Chargers or he's going to a good offense that really needs a running back. So what we're looking at right now in New York is his worst case scenario where he's still getting a ton of volume and making big plays. And I think if he does get traded, his situation is only going to improve.
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Alfredo Brown
I'm looking it up right now is Breeze Hall. He's in his final year of his deal. So it, it does make sense for a team even like the Chargers who like, oh, we've got a good rookie running back. Like any one of these contending teams can go and make a trade for Breeze Hall. That's. I think that's the only place where my value with Breeze hall lies. Like I'm willing to go and buy him on the chance that he is traded to another team. Because like right now I do struggle with like the idea of touchdown regression for the jets, right? This team, we don't know that they're actually even going to make a quarterback move, that the offense is going to get better. I know that we saw it's one week, but they're also the worst team in the NFL. Like there, it's not just one week now. Losing Garrett Wilson, it makes it a little bit scarier. But it could also mean that they're gonna have to rely on Breeze hall even more. Breeze hall maybe becomes the wide receiver one in this offense. Like there's a lot of different directions that this could go. And I'm not trying to waffle on this, but I'm saying like if anything that lends itself to why you could probably make a trade for Breece hall at such a low, low price is because I don't think anyone knows what direction this thing's going to go for him.
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Dave Kluge
Yeah, and it's just like when you look at it like, the weighted opportunities, 8th and weighted opportunities, like touchdowns, are going to have to come eventually. Like, he's getting goal line looks, he's.
- [10:31]
Alfredo Brown
Getting said as he held his fist in the air.
- [10:34]
Dave Kluge
I mean, look at, like, Tedro McMillan, like, part of a terrible Carolina Panthers offense. Like, there hasn't been anything promising about that offense, but still, like, we chase the target volume and then what happens last week? The targets aren't there, the receptions aren't there, the yardage isn't there. It evens out and he scores two touchdowns. So maybe this is just like a Trey McBride sort of situation where, like, the targets are there all season, the rushing opportunities are there, and he just doesn't score touchdowns. We have seen that happen historically. I remember Deontay Johnson, I remember Trey McBride. But I think that Breeze hall is good enough that even if the jets continue to be terrible, he can just on his own accord, have that big play every now and then. Now and then, that gets him in the end zone.
- [11:12]
Alfredo Brown
Yeah, I'm with it. I'm with it. It's got to be at the right price for me. I'm gonna go with the running back as well. And my first trade target, too. I guess we're saying buy low because the week he had, but it's Quinn. Sean Judkins, running back for the Cleveland Browns. And I know whoever drafted him, this is probably their darling, right? Like, they went and they took a risk on a guy who was potentially gonna be out for the season, and everyone was panicking and this person stood above the rest. So congrats to you. And went and drafted Quinshon Judkins. Or they were the first ones to nab him off the waiver wire. Either way. So this person, like Quinshawn Judkins, is the shining star of this team. However, after the last week that we've had here and the change with the Cleveland Browns to Dylan Gabriel, I can imagine there is at least a small percentage of Quinshon Judkins managers that are getting a little nervous and may be willing to move off of him. He had the lowest usage of the season last week. The 52 pass attempts versus 17 rush attempts for the Browns was. I mean, yes, the Browns pass a ton, but even that, like, that's that's like a novelty game plan for the, for the Browns there. Like no one's passing it and putting that kind of ratio to run to pass in an offensive game. We did see however for Judkins lowest snapshare in an NFL game for him since his first game in Week 2. So like there's enough here where you look and you say, okay, maybe that manager is panicking. And I think this is more of like put a feeler out, find out what the price is, do the price check. I'm not saying move mountains for Quinshon Judkins, but do the price check on him. Fun stat here from Kyle Borgononi over at the feature fantasy footballers who love Kyle. He puts out a lot of fun stats like this Quinn Sean Judkins, when you look at the most touches in the first five career games by day two running backs over the last decade, he is in the he's number three in a top five list that includes Kareem Hunt, Dalvin Cook, Jonathan Taylor and Joe Mixon. Wherever those guys are now in their career, we know where they were at that time and how good they were as a young running back. Quinshawn Judkins, the volume he's getting is pretty unprecedented. So I wouldn't look at this last week and say this is going to be who he is now. The Browns are going to keep passing at an unprecedented rate and give Judkins a smaller role as the season goes on because that's not the case. They get Miami this week. Quinton Judkins is going to be likely the running back one in fantasy football this week going up against the Miami Dolphins. Then the schedule gets a slightly tougher Patriots bye week. Jets Weeks 11 through 17 the remainder of the season is the second easiest remaining strength of schedule for any fantasy running back in the NFL. That's what I like here is you're going to have the blow up game in Miami. Once that happens, the manager's definitely not trading him. And then you have the really, really nice remaining strength of schedule weeks 11 through 17. That's what I'd love to see. So go out, put a feeler out.
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Dave Kluge
For Quinn Sean Judkins and you know, you said like don't move mountains for Judkins. Judkins is one of those players I, I would move mountains for like you know, in my, my rankings. Like I prefer Quin Sean Judkins to Cam Scatter Boo and Javante Williams and Derrick Henry and Travis Etienne. Like I think he is that good of a player.
- [14:13]
Alfredo Brown
Would you do those trades straight up right now, would you? Cam Scatter Boo. I I almost feel like that is a perfect. Cam Scatter has so much hype where Quinshon Judkins has cooled off a bit. Cam Scatter Boo Straight up for Quinshon Judkins I think feels one sided at this moment because a lot of people are very high on Scatter Boo.
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Dave Kluge
Yeah. And I think that you know this is like the perfect time to do it because Giants are about to go on the road in Denver against a very tough defense. Quinton Judkins gets Miami. I mean where do you have Quinch on Judkins ranked this week? I'm just curious because like I am totally taking the cheese. I've got him as my RB3 like Christian McCaffrey, Jonathan Taylor and Quinn John Judkins and yeah, a lot of that.
- [14:51]
Alfredo Brown
I think I've got him as like RB4 or 5. Like he's pretty high for me.
- [14:55]
Dave Kluge
Yeah. And a lot of it just comes back down. You know I talked about it briefly on yesterday's show but like watching that commodity Vidal film I was just like salivating at this upcoming schedule. Like they get Quinch on Judkins Bijan. Like it is just like they are getting some really tough running backs in their near future here and I think it's going to be a lot of get right games. So I am weigh in on Quinshon Judkins and when I did my rest of season rankings, like typically when I see a guy way up in the rankings have a down week, I'm going to move them down. I didn't move Quinjohn Judkins down because like you said that game felt kind of fluky with how much they were throwing the ball that we saw a lot of Jerome Ford out there. I don't think that's what they want to do and I think they're going to try to get back on track. Like the the brightest spot in this offense so far has been Quinton Sean Judkins without a doubt. I think they're going to try to get him back on track this week.
- [15:39]
Alfredo Brown
And you know, I'm not even worried. Even if let's say Dylan Gabriel gets like worse and worse and worse that they make a change to Shadur Sanders. Once you're a team on your third quarterback on the season, I feel like you're not wholly relying on like man the passing game really needs to work. You're just going to keep feeding this running back here. Like I'm not worried about who's under center for this team.
- [15:59]
Dave Kluge
There's already talk that desean Watson's coming back before the season ends too. I mean like we might see four quarterbacks this year. It's, it's not fun for Cleveland, but at least I've got Quinch on Judkins. He's fun.
- [16:11]
Alfredo Brown
At least they got Quinshon Judkins.
- [16:13]
Dave Kluge
He said.
- [16:14]
Alfredo Brown
All right, Dave, let's go to your next trade target here. It's another big name.
- [16:17]
Dave Kluge
Yeah. You know, we talk often about how strong week one biases are and everyone remembers in week one AJ Brown, first game of the season, an island game that everybody was watching and we saw one target, one catch, eight yards and everybody just panicked about A.J. brown. I can't believe I drafted this guy in round two. And we see this all the time. Like these weak one biases hold through the entire year. Like people rostered Isaiah likely all year when he was giving you low end, tight end two production. Jaden Reed had like a huge blow up game and that kind of clouded everybody's vision on who Jaden Reed actually was. I could go back two years. Like I remember everybody panicking because Jameer Gibbs was getting out touched by David Montgomery in week one before finishing as an RB1 his rookie season. So I, I, I see and have heard about the panic in AJ Brown, but I'm just here to tell you that things should probably get better. Since that week one game where he only had one target. He's aver 8.8 targets per game. That's more or I'm sorry that the the only guys averaging more than him, Devonte Adams, Jackson Smith, Najigba, Garrett Wilson, Jamar Chase, Drake, London, Chris Alave and Pukinakua. And then we've got AJ Brown on that list. Like he is pulling a lot of targets and he's only averaging 8.9 half PPR points per game, which is terrible. But also, you know, touchdown regression. He's only scored one touchdown so far this year. The only players in the NFL that have more targets and fewer touchdowns than A.J. brown say flowers, Jerry Judy, Chris Olave. I think Zay Flowers also makes for another good trade target and you might be talking about him later. Alfredo. I don't know for sure but when I look at Jerry Judy and Chris Alave, like these guys are part of terrible offenses. We don't expect them to score a lot of touchdowns. We have a proven track Record of A.J. brown scoring touchdowns and being a dominant receiver in this offense. So he's still the same Player he's always been ranks 11th and 1st or 11th in target chair ranks 11th in first read target share first man coverage. He's been beating man defenders like he always does. It's been a weird year. Like he hasn't had the really big plays, he had the touchdowns. But I'm going to trust the usage and I'm going to trust the talent here and hope that things rebound. So I sent out a few AJ Brown offers this morning trying to buy low to see if anybody's panicking or not because I think there still is this idea that like the vibes are bad around Philly and A.J. brown isn't the player that he used to be. And I think a lot of that is still just anchored to that wonky week one where he was clearly limited with an injury.
- [18:36]
Alfredo Brown
The Eagles have been a very pass heavy team over the last couple weeks and I think that's obviously something to monitor here. There's a big difference between, you know, like saying we need touchdown regression for like a breeze hall or the, the vibes, you know, for the jets are bad versus saying now, you know, vibes for the Eagles have been off and we need touchdown regression for A.J. brown and the Eagles. Like this is still the team coming off a Super bowl victory. It's still a team that has mo nearly all of the same pieces. Like we, we know for the most part what A.J. brown is and who he's been through his. It's just, it's been a little bit of a weird season here for the Eagles. So yeah, I think it's, it's going to depend like right. You, you also have AJ Brown coming off the second best performance of the year. So it depends on what this fantasy manager really wants for him. But I, I would say, Dave, do.
- [19:26]
Dave Kluge
You think people are 80 scoreless yards? Right? That was second best yards here. That is like a, a mid game for AJ Brown historically like second best game of the season. And 80 scoreless yards is like nothing that people are like, yes, he's back like A.J. brown. No, like it's still not a great performance, right?
- [19:43]
Alfredo Brown
And that's like, that's where I get to the question here where this might be too simplistic. But I just like to ask myself, is it more likely that A.J. brown keeps being this player or that he returns to the player that we have seen in the past? Like what's More likely that A.J. brown is a wide receiver 3/Flex for the rest of the year or we see the guy who's bordering on wide Receiver one type weeks, weekend and week out with high touchdown variants and some big blow up games that are going to win you your week. If that's the case and he's being valued as a low end wide receiver two, high wide receiver three. Yeah, you, you make that move. I don't see why not.
- [20:16]
Dave Kluge
And I do think like I, I don't think that he is this like plug and play wide receiver one anymore. And I've still got him ranked there because like the weekly upside is so high. I've got him as my wide receiver 11 rest of season but I think it changes a little bit. Like we were really hopeful a couple of years ago that like, you know, being a part of this Eagles offense unlocked AJ Brown. He could be a top three guy. I don't think that's the case but I kind of look at him as like a better version of Jameson Williams where he's a part of a really good offense and you're going to have those games like it's just going to happen where he's going to give you like three catches for 20 yards and you're going to not be happy about that. But this is A.J. brown we're talking about. Like you could still have 175 yard, two touchdown game that's in his wheelhouse and we haven't really seen that big boom game yet, but I'm going to trust that it's coming eventually.
- [21:01]
Alfredo Brown
Yeah, same here. I'm good with that one. Let me go to my second player here. And it's another rookie running back going with Jakori Crosky Merritt running back for the Washington Commanders. And this is another guy that's coming off of a rough game. Dave, you've used this term a couple times. An island game where everyone is watching this. It was the second of two Monday Night Football games but everyone was still watching this one because it went longer. And what a lot of people saw is the end of this game coming down to the wire where Corey Cross Camera fumbles the ball. And it was not a good game for him by any stretch like it was. It was one of those where I think it creates a bigger impact because this was his biggest workload of the season. You get the 66 snapshare that gets a jump up. He's typically in the 30 to 40 range. Gets his most rush attempts of the season, 17 after it grows from 14 last week. Chris Rodriguez only played one snap. It's not like he was out with an injury. His, his work. Rodriguez has gone down every single Week, like this is Bill's backfield and I think that's the bigger deciding factor here. Like it's that intangible thing mentally where he gets more work. People are seeing him in a prime time game and you know, pardon the pun here, but like he fumbled the opportunity like in every single way. And I think that's the thing where all of a sudden people see that and the value for him, the perception of his value goes down. It's like, ah, well, he's probably going to go back to a more limited role after he really struggled this past week. When you look at the schedule going forward, man, easiest remaining strength of schedule for a fantasy running back. He's got Dallas this week where this should also be a blow up game. I know that was supposed to be the case last week against Chicago. I mean, if he does this two weeks in a row, okay, we're getting slightly worried here, but it's the easiest remaining strength to schedule all the way through to the fantasy championship. Dallas this week and then Dallas again in week 17 in that fantasy championship. And we've seen running backs be able to win constantly against Dallas here. So Dave, with Jaden Daniels returning to the lineup and the commander's offense, you know, they, I think they had, they worked out the kinks a little bit against the Bears even though they lost. I haven't lost faith in Jakori, Crosby, Merrick going forward.
- [23:07]
Dave Kluge
Yeah, I, I also think Jaden Daniels is like still injured. Like they kind of rushed him back.
- [23:11]
Alfredo Brown
He didn't look. He didn't look right.
- [23:13]
Dave Kluge
Yeah. And, and you know, it was also like this weird, rainy, kind of sloppy game too. So like, I don't want to put too much weight into that one. It was like bad weather. And Jaden Daniels, like, clearly he doesn't have the rushing upside. He did.
- [23:25]
Alfredo Brown
It was that weird, like Chicago mist. It almost looked like, like on tv it looked like a mist. And then they would go closer and it just looked like it was a torrential downpour. Like it was just the air was water. It didn't seem like it was that.
- [23:37]
Dave Kluge
It never looks, it never looks as bad on TV as it actually is. Like I've been Bears games before where it's just like dumping and like you are just soaked to the bone leaving the stadium and then you go back and watch highlights and it's like, wait, it just looks like a light fog. Like that is not what I was living in, but that's just kind of how it is on tv. I'm going to say Something crazy here, Alfredo, but I love that Jakory Crosky. Merritt has been fumbling. He fumbled late in the Chargers game, fumbled early in the Bears game, and he still kept the workload.
- [24:04]
Alfredo Brown
I don't like Stevenson. That I can sell you if that's the case.
- [24:09]
Dave Kluge
I don't like the fumbling. You know, I'm being a little facetious here, but I like that he fumbled. And Dan Quinn's faith in him did not waver. Like, immediately went right back to him. After two fumbles, like, @ the end of the Chargers game and beginning of the Bears game, that, to me says that he has clear this backfield. You know, we were thinking that maybe this could still be kind of mercurial. Like, is Jeremy McNichols going to be involved? Is Chris Rodriguez going to be involved? No. Like Jecori Karosky Merit is fumbling the ball, and they're still giving him the workload. Like you said, this was a bit of a down game, which is frustrating because you think that running backs should be able to just like gash this Chicago defense up. But even with the production not there, like, he, he just looks good. He's a very good running back. Like his lateral quickness, we're starting to see him get up field a little bit or downfield a little bit quicker. That was something. You and I both kind of were a little bit concerned early in the year. He was bouncing everything outside, but it just seems like every week he just looks a, like a more sound running back. And we got Debo Samuel out here in pregame warm ups wearing a, a Bill shirt. Like, he, he's already won over the locker room dude. Like, they like him, they support him. He's going to be the RB1 on this team for the rest of the year.
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Alfredo Brown
It's just where we're at, man. Like, there's, it's, there's no turning back from this. They're not, not turning the reins over to Chris Rodriguez. Jeremy McNichols has been like, strictly passing down stuff. I, I, I have to imagine there's better days ahead for the commander's offense. And especially even when Terry McLaren returns. Like this could, this could and should be the offense that we saw from last year with a lot more scoring opportunities. Even though there were some of, like the, you know, getting run stuff moments there for Bill, there was also still some of those big plays where he was able to bounce things and, and make something out of nothing. So I, I just think there will be more of that. It's One of those things too, in football where it's just like, I know there's the whole any given Sunday moniker that people like to. To use, but it was kind of true, man. Like, the Bears showed up and played a lot tougher on defense than they normally do. They just looked good. Everything was going their way. Jaquan Brisker, like, just injected life into that defense.
- [26:11]
Dave Kluge
It was healthy and coming out of a buy is. Is big for the defense too. And yeah, I mean, this is a, this is definitely one of those, like, defenses that'll give up a lot of big plays because they are so hyper aggressive. And we just didn't really see the big plays. Like we saw the, the one little fake screen, the big touchdown. But outside of that, you know, usually what you see from this Bears defense is like loss after loss after loss after loss and then a huge play. And weirdly enough, like, Washington just didn't pop a lot of those big plays in this game.
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Alfredo Brown
Yeah. All right, let's go to the next player on here, Dave, your third player, Stefan Diggs.
- [26:46]
Dave Kluge
And I talked about him last week and I kind of dove into the film a little bit, talked about some of the things that I like. But now I'm gonna, you know, turn the page and look at some of the data here because I think there's a very strong data case to be made for Stefan Diggs as well. And coming off of a down week like he had last week, I think there is a small buy window open for Diggs. And we did talk yesterday about the Patriots a little bit and said that this might be one of those where it's just like you never really know who's going to go off on any given week. But I dug into that a little bit deeper and now I'm kind of backtracking a little bit. The issue so far with Stefan Diggs has only been that he's not a full time player. Running routes on 65.5% of the team's passing plays. That ranks 75th among wide receivers. And it makes sense. He's 31 years old. He's coming off of an ACL tear. They probably don't want to overload him with a huge workload, but when he is on the field, he's pulling a target on 33% of his routes. Jackson, Smith, Jigba and Pukinakua are the only wide receivers pulling targets on a per route basis at a higher rate. He's also averaging 3.26 yards per route run, which is second in the league behind Only, only Jackson, Smith, Najigba. So when he's on the field like this guy is basically doing what JSN is. The problem is JSN's a full time player. Stefan Diggs is on the field for about 65 of the snaps. So the other thing is also you know like I talked about with AJ Brown, like I talked about with Breeze, hall has had awful touchdown luck so far. Jacoby Myers and Jerry Judy are the only wide receivers with more targets who haven't scored a touchdown yet. I don't think the Patriots gave Stefan Diggs a 3 year 65 million dollar contract to keep him as a part time player. I think he is still recovering from injury. You know we got to remember it was like a mid year ACL tear. The fact that he was out there early in the season was semi miraculous to me. So I think that we're just going to continue to see this route share grow. We're going to see his snaps grow on a weekly basis and I'm convinced that Stefan Diggs best days as a Patriot are still ahead of him. Not what we saw in those back to back weeks a couple of weeks ago.
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Alfredo Brown
I'm, I'm still a little worried about the Patriots receiving core and it's a lot of the same things like we said about Keisha Booty and I, I don't think we're going to know who the wide receiver one is in this offense and maybe that's also something right like where you say it's baked into the cost of Stefan Diggs and you can trade a little bit lower for him.
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Dave Kluge
It's.
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Alfredo Brown
I think that's so interesting because even though like the value of Stefan Diggs might be low, it feels like the vibes around Drake May and the Patriots offense are so high and so I wonder if that fantasy manager who has Stefan Diggs is like no way, I'm not trading him him. I'm just going to keep putting him in my lineup as the wide receiver three or as the flex knowing that he can go off with Drake May any week. Do you have any idea of like what you would be wanting to give up for a guy like Diggs?
- [29:27]
Dave Kluge
I mean I, I always rank like alongside other positions. So like right now I've got Stefan Diggs ahead of Jordan Addison and Matthew golden and Wandale Robinson and Mike Evans. You know those are some receivers I'd be willing to golden or Digs Diggs. I prefer Diggs over Golden.
- [29:42]
Alfredo Brown
Okay.
- [29:43]
Dave Kluge
And then looking at some running backs, you know, I don't know, I think.
- [29:45]
Alfredo Brown
That'S your trade if you want to do it. By the way, because gold is coming off of his basically.
- [29:49]
Dave Kluge
He's hot right now.
- [29:50]
Alfredo Brown
Yeah.
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Dave Kluge
That Matthew Golden's so hot right now. Everyone's buzzing about Matthew golden but like looking at some running backs, like, I wonder like could you flip J.K. dobbins for Stefan Diggs? Because like that's something I would, I happily do. Chase Brown for Stefan Diggs. I think I'd do that as well.
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Alfredo Brown
That I do.
- [30:05]
Dave Kluge
Yeah. But it's just like and, and this is wishful thinking. Right? Like when you look per route data can oftentimes lead you to a guy that you're just like, why do I have this guy on my team? And you know, we see these guys that have like the buzzy per route metrics and sometimes you end up with Don Tavian Wicks, sometimes you end up with Rashi Rice. But this isn't like a rookie that we're unfamiliar with. It's putting up good per route numbers. This is Stefan Diggs, a guy who's been a wide receiver one in fantasy his entire career. He's just a little bit older. He's coming off a season ending injury and I think he's warming up. But I think, I do not think that the Patriots are going to keep playing Stefan Diggs as a 65% route player. So I think that once we see that route percentage grow a little bit, I'll admit I, I, I think that the efficiency probably comes down. I don't think that he's going to continue averaging as many yards per route run as Jackson, Smith, Najigba, but I think as those usage sliders start to go up a little bit, the efficiency will go down a little bit. But I still think that overall we'll be looking at better production. And really, I mean like he just needs to score a touchdown. That's it. Like this guy has been on the field a lot. He's had two games with over 100 yards, hasn't scored a touchdown yet. I, I think those better games, the, you know, stringing together a handful of good games, I think that's going to come late in the season when it matters most.
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Alfredo Brown
Well, I mean a big part of this too is like when you go to trade for players, it's never going to be a slam dunk of like, yes, this guy for sure is going to be better. Right. Like there's always going to be risk involved in it. So when I say that like I'm not comfortable doing it that doesn't mean that it's not a good player to go and buy low. It just simply means that it's not someone that I would do it for. Which is like pretty natural in fantasy leagues, right? Like typically 10 to 12 managers in there. I don't know, I can't remember how many times I've reached out to people, hey, interested in this guy. And they're like no. And I'm like interesting. I thought this was a good sell high guy. Nobody wants him.
- [31:53]
Dave Kluge
And I think like if you are trying to buy somebody in a trade and, and there's a common theme with all the guys that I'm talking about today. Breeze Hall, A.J. brown, Stefan Diggs, the next guy I'm going to talk about, about you gotta feel like a little bit like unsure about doing it because like if a guy has like if you feel great about buying a player, the manager probably isn't incentivized to want to sell that player. Like you need to buy guys that you feel a little gross about. Like the vibes with the jets aren't great and like the vibes with the Eagles aren't great and just the vibes around the Patriots right now. The overall vibes might be good, but the vibes around Stefan Diggs aren't great. You know, he's a part time player, he's coming off of a down game. I think a lot of people are to look at those, you know, back to back big games and say that it's kind of fluky. I feel like to really get a good buy low in fantasy you got to kind of squirm a little bit and like not feel great about making that trade.
- [32:40]
Alfredo Brown
It reminds me of the quote from Ted Lasso where he says success is a lot like riding a horse. If you're comfortable while doing it, you're probably not doing it right. And it's the same thing with like a trade. Like if you're comfortable while making that trade, I don't know, look in the mirror, like maybe you're the one that got fleeced here. It's just like there's going to be a little bit of uncomfortability when going.
- [33:01]
Dave Kluge
Exactly. We'd love to go out and just like trade for Jonathan Taylor and Jackson Smith and the Jigba. That's just not happening.
- [33:09]
Alfredo Brown
And like have a lovely Chase Brown for your Jonathan Taylor.
- [33:13]
Dave Kluge
He was drafted ahead of him.
- [33:16]
Alfredo Brown
I do have, I do have a friend of mine who like that's how he views players. He'd be like no way. I drafted Chase Brown in the first. First. You got Jonathan Taylor in the second. That's crazy. Like, I cannot make that move.
- [33:27]
Dave Kluge
And I'm taking advantage of that, you know, trying to flip the tables out of a little bit. Yeah, hey, I drafted, you know, this injured. I don't even know. But like, hopefully this guy ended up with like a Jonathan Taylor or a Jackson Jigba and you could flip your first round pick for him.
- [33:43]
Alfredo Brown
Okay, well, a player that, I mean, the vibes are atrocious with the team. Right now I'm going with Jalen Watts Waddle, wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins because things have still been good with him. But this is sort of a. I don't even want to call this a buy low, but this is also. It's both. I think it's a buy low and a buy high. Depending on the eye of the beholder here, whoever has them as the manager. You might have someone who has Jalen Waddle on their roster and saying, okay, good, two good games. Let me get him out of here. I've been so sick and tired of Jalen Waddle throughout the season. He finally had some good games. I can sell him for, you know, something that's going to be more consistent. Right. And just the vibes in Miami are bad. I'm sure people are going to be worried, oh, what if Mike Daniel gets fired? What does that do to the offense? Right. Like, how does this change here? The Dolphins are still going to be a pass heavy team. This defense is atrocious in Miami. They have to be pass heavy. They're going into another pass heavy matchup this week against Cleveland. And fun stat here from Zade Cancetian. Football guy marked Tyson Campbell, the new corner that was in that Jacksonville Cleveland trade. Tyson Campbell's gonna be starting for the Cleveland Browns and he's been getting targeted at an obscene rate on deep passes this year through six weeks. He's been targeted 15 times a league high and given up the most receiving yards and touchdowns to opposing wide receivers on passes that have traveled 20 plus yards. And we saw Jalen Waddle have himself a nice deep ball touchdown going up against the Carolina Panthers just a couple weeks ago. He's still producing week in and week out. I don't say week in week out, but over these last two weeks here, you know, he's quietly been really good, but I think all the focus has been on Tua and how bad the Dolphins are and Mike McDaniel's pants and, and who's getting fired. But over eight targets and 100 yards.
- [35:26]
Dave Kluge
Mike McDaniel's pants game.
- [35:28]
Alfredo Brown
Yeah, Mike McDaniel's pants. Everyone's talking about his pants. Have you not seen this? Like, everyone is worried about him wearing capris and that. Like, you cannot get respect from a locker room with your pants rolled up. Like, if we can see your ankle.
- [35:40]
Dave Kluge
Aaron Glenn also wears capris. There might be something to it.
- [35:42]
Alfredo Brown
Soft coaches, there's something to the madness, man.
- [35:47]
Dave Kluge
Put on some everywhere.
- [35:51]
Alfredo Brown
Let us know in the comments. Capris, can you respect a man that rolls up his pants?
- [35:56]
Dave Kluge
I don't know, man.
- [35:57]
Alfredo Brown
I don't know. But that's where a lot of the attention has been. And then Jalen Waddle over the last two games, he's been averaging over eight targets and 100 yards per game. He's been the wide receiver five in fantasy over these last two weeks. And the only reason I'm putting it to these two weeks is because this has been the team now without Tyreek Hill and what we're seeing with Jalen Waddle and how the team has had to adjust. These should have been tough matchups going up against the Chargers and the Panthers, who they're not giving up a ton of points to fantasy wide receivers, but Jalen Waddle still gave you some fantasy goodness. And then the schedule does get easier going forward. Like I mentioned, there's Cleveland this week. So you're going to see the blow up game. And at that point, I think if there's three big games in a row from Jalen Waddle after Tyreek Hill has is injured and done for the season, I don't think there's any moving Jalen Waddle at that point. People are just going to hold on to him for the, the rest of the rest of the season. So. And then we got what could be a potential shootout in Week 17 against the Bucks for, for Miami. So like, that's something that I just, I want to hold on to. If the Jalen Waddle manager in your league is willing to trade him, I'm. I'm gonna go and make that move.
- [37:00]
Dave Kluge
Yeah, I've got Waddle pretty aggressive in my rest of season rankings. I got him as my wide receiver 16 in the matchup this week against Cleveland. I've got him inside my top 12. I mean, I have been a Jalen Waddle guy for years and it feels like, like an idiot for touting Jaylen Waddle because week one comes out and he does something and ends up in the blue tent and it's like, well, I don't know what I expected this time. You know, it just keeps happening year after year after year.
- [37:24]
Alfredo Brown
Shame on you for drafting a fantasy football team.
- [37:27]
Dave Kluge
Right? But like we, we know he's such a good player. Like, I've written articles just about Jalen Waddle because like we've seen year one, an elite target earner. Year two, like, leads a league in yards per route run and yards per target, one of the most efficient players in the league. And then in year three and year four, we started to see the usage and the efficiency merging together in what like tells us that Jalen Model can be a superstar. But like I said, he would just go to the blue tent every single game and then he'd have these games where he was injured and like on the field but not doing anything. But like, if you just look at what Jalen Waddle has done over the last two and a half years in games that he has been healthy, there's no reason not to view him as a wide receiver one. And with Tyree Kill out of the picture now, I could easily see him returning top 10 value for the rest of the year.
- [38:09]
Alfredo Brown
I, I try to move George Pickens for him if you can. Like, George Pickens is sort of, I, I love George Pickens talent. He's been playing great. But there is sort of a ticking time bomb here and that time bomb is CD Lamb returning. So I'm, I'm probably, I don't know where you are with Pickens, but I'm, I'm thinking I want to remove, I want to move him as quickly as I can.
- [38:28]
Dave Kluge
Jeff Bell and I had a 23 minute argument on George Pickens last night.
- [38:34]
Alfredo Brown
Let's make this one 23 seconds.
- [38:37]
Dave Kluge
Yeah. And I mean, it's just like I am on your side. I think here that like, I think George Flicket. Pickett. George Pickett.
- [38:43]
Alfredo Brown
George Flickens, man.
- [38:44]
Dave Kluge
George Flickens. George Pickens. I think that it's a little bit inflated right now. Like we are seeing him averaging a touchdown per game. CD Lamb is out of the picture. And the weird thing is when you look at George Pickens, like his profile, what he's doing, target share is exactly the same that it's been historically. The difference is now he's in what was a tiny, tiny little passing pie in this like joke of a Steelers offense over the last couple of years and now he's playing on the most pass happy team in the NFL. So George Pickens is exactly who he's always been. He's just on a team that's throwing the ball Twice as much as what he used to be on. So I, I think Pickens is fine. I actually do have Pickens one spot ahead of Jaylen Waddle in my rest of season rankings. But at that point, like, it's so tight that if you say you prefer Waddle to Pickens, I'm not going to push back whatsoever.
- [39:27]
Alfredo Brown
Yeah, I think that I feel like we've, we're. I don't want to be hyperbolic here, but it does feel like we're getting just sort of the bare minimum from Waddle at this point and we're scratching the surface of how it, how much better he could be going forward and what the volume could really be if the Dolphins have to keep passing the way they are. Whereas, like Pickens really just like when you watch the plays, yes, he's playing phenomenal. He's also out kicking his coverage almost every single time. Like, it is, man. He's. It's, it's, it's one of those weird things. Like, I can't take it away from him. I can't blame him. He's playing great. Like, he's turning back down to earth.
- [40:01]
Dave Kluge
Or he is the best wide receiver on the planet.
- [40:04]
Alfredo Brown
That's the thing, right?
- [40:05]
Dave Kluge
Like, maybe he is just the best receiver on the planet. Maybe he's going to continue hurdling over defenders and making circus catches in triple coverage. Like, maybe that's just what's going to continue.
- [40:14]
Alfredo Brown
Trying to hurdle everyone at all times when it, when, like it's not even a hurdle able moment. He's just the guy standing straight up and he's like, I'm gonna jump over you. Where's the tall? Where's the tallest guy in your defense? I'm jumping over him, just pointing him out. All right, let's go to your last trade target that you're looking at.
- [40:34]
Dave Kluge
So again, you know, on brand, bad vibes, bad offense, a guy who's not scoring any touchdowns. I'm trying to buy Alvin Camara right now. Now scored a touchdown in week one, has been kept out of the end zone since. He is the RB26 in fantasy right now, but he's ninth in the league in weighted opportunities, 16th in carries, fourth in targets. This is pretty similar to what we've seen from Alvin Camara historically. But right now, you look at the narratives surrounding Alvin Camara. He's old, the Saints are terrible. Spencer Rattler isn't good. Kendra Miller looks better. I'm not even going to push back on all those concerns because they are true. But we have Seen Alvin Camara overcome bad situations multiple times throughout his career. This guy who just consist consistently year after year, churns out top 12 seasons, he's still getting the workload. The touchdown Luck has not been there. And similar to Breeze hall, there is the potential run out that he gets traded to a better situation. And then we don't have these concerns about the Saints and Kendra Miller and Spencer Rattler and all these other things. So this is one where he's an older player, he hasn't been scoring touchdowns. People see this young, exciting running back breathing on the back of his neck and, and you know, like we talked about, it should feel kind of gross when you're buying a buy low player. And I think if you're trading for Alvin Camara, it probably does feel pretty gross. But I would expect that where he is at right now, the RB26 in fantasy football, I would be willing to bet that based on his usage and based on the player that we're seeing out there, he's going to finish, finish better than RB26.
- [41:59]
Alfredo Brown
By the way, something that like hit here as we're, we're talking about this is, I know we're doing these trade targets here on a Wednesday, but, but you guys can get a head start on this on Monday when we do our game recaps and we go through all the risers and followers and you can really get a taste for who we're looking at on waivers, who we're looking to buy and sell, the trends that we're seeing going forward. Like this was something that we used to do on Wednesdays and give you our takeaways, but we're doing that earlier in the week and you've got a little more time to digest it. And so like someone like Alvin Kamara, who you're talking about, Dave, I mean, mean, Alvin Camara, I think we kind of know who he is at this point in his career, but that doesn't mean that he's not valuable for what he is in his career. Right. Like, is that, is that more or less how you'd look at it? And like the, the, the current vibes around both Camara and the Saints. The Saints have been surprisingly good and they seem like they can actually sustain someone, especially with the way Spencer Rattler's playing. They can sustain someone being a fantasy asset.
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Dave Kluge
Yeah. I don't know if I'd say good, but they're, they're a step above terrible, which is I think where expectations were coming into the year.
- [43:04]
Alfredo Brown
Yeah, I think good. Right. It's like what we thought. Like, we thought they were going to be easily the worst team in the NFL and they've been decent where it's like, okay, we all kind of thought Kendrick Miller was taking over, but we talked about it, you know, on Monday, it's like, he's not really taking over. It's still Alvin Kamara. And you mentioned him as a riser for your for, for that game on Monday.
- [43:25]
Dave Kluge
Right. And I think the, the biggest issue is we're not seeing the insane passing down usage he got last year. Like last year, I don't have the numbers off the top of my head, but if I recall, he was averaging like 7 or 8 targets per game with Derek Carr.
- [43:37]
Alfredo Brown
It was nonsense. It was crazy.
- [43:38]
Dave Kluge
And Spencer Rattler is a little bit different of a quarterback. He's a little bit more of a gunslinger. Where Derek Carr was this like, you know, veteran that knew how to read defenses and he trusted Alvin Kamara. Spencer Rattler is just like, you know, that guy's got three receiver, three defenders on him. But maybe he'll come down with this ball. Only one way to find out and he'll just let it rip. Where, you know, I would like to see a little bit of maturation there where he's willing to get through his progressions, get the ball to Alvin Camara. But also when you look like Kellenmore's offense, that's just not what it is. Like, we didn't see Saquon Barkley for as great as his 2024 season was last year, he wasn't catching a lot of passes there. Like, they don't draw up a lot of plays to get the ball to the running back in the passing game. So I think that's the, the major concern here. But either way, like, just looking at the volume alone, the weighted opportunities, like I said, ninth in the league in weighted opportunities, that tells me that he should be turning in RB1 production but hasn't scored a touchdown and that has really or hasn't scored a touchdown since week one and that's really impacted him. So I think like, worst case scenario is you're getting a guy who's going to be like a middling RB2 and if he stays in the Saints, but again, we'll just throw it out there. The Chiefs need a running back, The Chargers need a running back. Like, there are good teams out there right now that have made it known that they're in the running back market. Alvin Camara has said he doesn't want to be traded. The Saints have Said that they aren't going to trade him, but crazier things have happened.
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Alfredo Brown
Yeah, you know, it's fun, funny, and I don't think he. He moves. But the last guy that I want to talk about, I sort of said he's like a cheap version of Alvin Camara. Because I think Alvin Camara is already gonna be pretty easy to buy in fantasy. But this last guy I'm gonna talk about, I honestly forgot he existed. And as I started to look through rosters, I started to think, huh, you know, Aaron Jones kind of becomes interesting running back for the Minnesota Vikings. And the vibes once again in Minnesota have been very weak. Weird. J.J. mcCarthy, is he actually good? Is how long is Carson Wentz going to start? You've got the Vikings coming off the buy and really most people have kind of forgotten about the team. We haven't been talking about them for a while, and last time we were talking about them, it wasn't great. Let alone Aaron Jones, who's been an IR for a while. And we, you and I, were not big advocates of go out and draft Aaron Jones and. And you need to stash him on your team, especially with the way Jordan Mason was. Was being talked up all summer. Jordan Mason came into a couple of games and he looked good at the start. And then things cooled down, which I.
- [45:58]
Dave Kluge
Want to say we called. We called that. When we looked, we were like, he's got two great matchups and then it gets a lot more difficult and good for him. He smashed against good matchups. That's what running back should do. But, yeah, it got a little bit tougher after that.
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Alfredo Brown
And that's the thing is, like, this is not a backfield that is all of a sudden only belonging to Jordan Mason. As Aaron Jones comes back, we're probably going to see a little bit more of him. Especially actually if JJ McCarthy is going to be back in as the starter. He was dumping the ball off to Aaron Jones. There's going to need to be that veteran presence of a guy who can help him out on passing downs. And Vikings coming out of a buy. Aaron Jones does have to sit one more week, which. That's interesting role, by the way. Like, I did find out that I was looking at this earlier. I had always thought that, like, bye week counted as a week on IR does not. You have to miss an actual game. So he will be out for week seven here versus Philly. But weeks eight through 11, Dave, are all matchups that could be high passing volume. You take a look at the opponents, Chargers Lions, Ravens, with Lamar Jackson back, the Bears. Like these are teams where even if it does end up being a little bit more run heavy, I think Aaron Jones gets some run there where he could have a few of those big pop off plays. But for the most part, Aaron Jones to me is supposed to be an Alvin Camaro light. This is strictly for a team that is right now, now 4 and 2 or 5 and 1. You have some, you know, some, some house money to play with here where you're saying, you know what, I just want some more depth. I want a guy who can be an RB3 or a Flex play for me. I want to have a little more depth here. Let me trade off some guys that, you know, have looked hot at the moment here but doesn't look good going forward or, or you know, you do the, the two for ones right? Where you trade two of your bench guys for one guy who can come in and potentially be a flag flex for you. And that's how I'm viewing Aaron Jones here. Vikings are already 11th in pass play percentage and like I mentioned, with some of these matchups coming up, they could be passing a bit more. Fantasy playoff schedule also looks good. Washington, Dallas, New York Giants, Detroit. Detroit in week 17 is one of those where I'm just like, man, Vikings and lions at week 17, the ball's just going to be flying through the air a bunch. So yeah, I, I kind of put him here almost as like a throw in player to even talk about because that's kind of how you should value him in the trademark and that's likely how, how the fantasy manager is going to value him. I wouldn't even be making a single trade for Aaron Jones straight up. I'd be lumping him into someone else that we have on this list here and be like, yeah, why don't you just throw in Aaron Jones and I think we got a deal.
- [48:22]
Dave Kluge
I like that and I think that this is like a true buy low and I like this like when we are thinking outside the box, I think Aaron Jones is a guy you should go out and get. And I was looking at this a couple of days ago, but like Xavier Scott is a guy that like I'm plugged in, I'm in the know. Like I know football players. I did not know who the heck Xavier Scott was. When I started like looking at depth charts coming on and going into week three, I was like, this can't be.
- [48:44]
Alfredo Brown
Real surprising spelling of his name too. It's not even an X, it's a Z. Everybody Yeah, so, like, this guy just.
- [48:50]
Dave Kluge
Like, came out of absolute nowhere. And I think everybody assumed that with Aaron Jones out of the picture, it was just going to be 100% of the opportunities going to Jordan Mason. Xavier Scott has averaged eight opportunities per game in the three games that Aaron Jones has missed. And what that tells me is that Kevin o' Connell just wants to maintain this split backfield, and then he wants to have this receiving back who can come in and do those things. So Xavier Scott, he's just keeping the seat warm for Aaron Jones. I completely with you. I love buying Aaron Jones here. And this is another one of those guys that kind of fits in with the theme of, like, you don't feel great about it. It's like an old running back on a team that we have. Weird vibes come out.
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Alfredo Brown
A hamstring injury. Like, I get it, it should be.
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Dave Kluge
Uncomfortable, and that's why you're getting him for probably close to nothing. So, yeah, I really like the idea of what you're saying. Like, you know, know target Aaron Jones. This is something Jeff says a lot when making trades is you change your eyesight a little bit. Like, you might want. Like, you might not even care about the big piece of the trade. You might be doing like a flip for two guys that you have in the same tier. But then you just do that and throw an Aaron Jones while you're at it too. And, like, that's really your actual target in the trade. So see if you can do that. Like, look at the manager who has Aaron Jones. See if you see two guys like one guy on your team and one guy on his team that are in a similar tier. And then see if you can get that Aaron Jones throw. Throw in.
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Alfredo Brown
By the way, just a random guy. Like, I almost added him to the list and that I saw how. How low his roster ship percentage was. Isaiah likely is only 18 rostered in sleeper leagues, and I was almost gonna make him a guy to trade for. Just wanted to throw his name in there.
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Dave Kluge
Just.
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Alfredo Brown
Just go take a look. His schedule is one of the easiest for tight ends going forward. There's rumors about Mark Andrews getting traded, and he already played more snaps than Mark Andrews last week coming off of his injury. So that's another one that I'm. I'm intrigued by. But, Dave, we went eight players here, threw in an extra ninth for people who stuck around here to the end. But you and I are going to be back again tomorrow with our Week 7 tiers and rankings, and we figured this is going to be A lot, a lot more like a lot more helpful for people that are, that are looking at who they're going to start in week seven and how to make decisions instead of just like here are seven or eight cherry picked, you know, situations to look at. Let's give you everything right? And of course all this can always be found on football guys.com where you can see our rankings that are fully customizable to your league settings, your scoring settings and you can see upside, downside, you can see all of our analysts there. You can see projections. There's so much for you. So head on over to footballguys.com as always, I want to thank everybody for watching or listening all the way through. For myself, for Dave. We'll see you next time.
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Dave Kluge
Time.
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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Dave Kluge
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Alfredo Brown
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Dave Kluge
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