 The fantasy football playoffs are just around the corner. We've actually had a pretty good waiver wire of week number 13. We're gonna break things down, let you know who to add, how do you players going forward and much more answering your questions live on air. This is the waiver wire Q&A right here on the FanDuel YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter channels. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for numberfire.com. Joined here as always by JJ Zacharias and the editor-in-chief of numberfire and FanDuel JJ. Happy week 13 to you. How did week 12 go for on your end? I haven't, it was the one week that I have each year where I'm in a ton of leagues and just across my leagues on Monday night, I lost so many games by like a point. It was just very, very depressing. It happens to me at least once or twice a year. You have those weeks. I'm trying to look at it from a process standpoint and feel okay about it but it was very depressing last night. Yeah, I lost my head to head on FanDuel with my coworker Brandon Gadoula by I think like a point eight points. So I feel you there. That one matters more than like the cash leaks because I got to be Brandon and I've not done so, so far this year. The way this will work is same as always where if you got a question about week 13 waivers, send it in YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Twitter does not matter, send it in. We'll take it here live on air to get you set for your week 13 waivers. Let's start things off here with Elias over on YouTube. He's a recorder back replacement for Jalen Hertz with him potentially being banged up and then having a buy after that. So Taysom Hill is available. There are cards available preference for you for potentially a two week fill in for Jalen Hertz. Taysom Hill will be mine. I mean, I understand the worry about his foot and then the injury that he's been dealing with but I don't think they'd be throwing him under center if they didn't feel confident that he was healthy. And Dallas isn't the best matchup in the world but as in the, I mean, I haven't even looked at the week 14 schedule. So I'm trusting you that this is the matchup that they get the Jets next week. And if that's the case, obviously that's a great matchup for Taysom Hill. So yeah, I mean, Taysom Hill will be my guy, my go-to. I think Derek Carr is absolutely fine, especially this weekend's Washington. He should be totally good. And I think he's probably even a safer option than Taysom Hill just because we haven't seen Taysom Hill under center this season. But I feel pretty good about Taysom being able to get the rushing yardage and to do at least moderately and get moderately close to what he did last season. To me, he's like a diet Jalen Hertz in terms of how we should approach him in fantasy where I don't know if his passing's gonna be as good as Hertz. I know Hertz is coming off this terrible game, but it's not like he's just been this atrociously bad passer all season long. And I think Hertz just generally is a little bit more aggressive on the ground than Taysom Hill is, but the way they generate points, the way they score points very, very similar. So that's sort of how I would view Taysom Hill whereas Hertz is like a high-end QB one, mid-range QB one. Taysom's probably more of a low-end QB one. Yeah, and Sean Payton today didn't confirm that Taysom would start, but based on the reports, it sounds like that's a pretty sure bet. So I think if you are proceeding for today, I would assume that Taysom will be the starter for tomorrow. Let's talk to Jack here on YouTube. He has both Kirk Cousins and Russell Wilson. Is it worth it to drop Russ to add Taysom looking forward to the fantasy playoffs? So, I mean, it sounds crazy, but I think if you have Kirk Cousins, I would be okay doing that because I think Kirk is just the starter, like just the play over Russ from here on out. So you're really looking at that QB two. I mean, I'm assuming this is not a super flex leaguer or two quarterback link too. You're looking at a backup quarterback. You need some upside. I think it's fine. I mean, Russell Wilson looks broken right now. So I'm not really, I know his fantasy total looked fine. He was a top 10 quarterback this past week just because he was able to, I mean, number one quarterback scoring's just been down, but number two, he was able to get that touchdown at the end of the game to be able to, I think he had like two 47 and a couple of touchdowns. But yeah, I mean, I think that Taysum Hill still prevents or provides more upside than Russell Wilson does at this point, even though I don't mind the Seahawks schedule from here on out. I just don't trust this injury that Russell Wilson's been dealing with in the way that he's looked. Especially with you having Kirk Cousins as being a solid guy, it does lower the need to hang around for the upside there. Cause Kirk actually does have some upside too. Let's talk to Demetrius over on YouTube. Would you drop Logan Thomas for Cole, Comet, or Froston Monroe? Now we don't know yet the extent of Darren Waller's knee injury. Not sure if he will miss multiple weeks, maybe even play this week potentially as well. Logan Thomas came back last night, six targets, but the Washington football team seems like they want to be a pretty run centric team right now. So how are you viewing these tight ends here? Yeah, I mean, I was just looking over at my other monitor to make sure I had Logan Thomas' target share from last night. 17.6%, not bad. I think that you're right that they ideally want to be a run centric team. And we've seen that the last couple of times that we've seen them. But I don't know if they'll be able to necessarily do that, you know, just because of game script and game flow. Fortunately yesterday, they had a fairly decent game script for them to be able to do that. And not only that, but Seattle's been pretty easy to run on this year. So I'm not surprised they found success on the ground. So I'd probably still rather have Logan Thomas. It sounds like Darren Waller is more week to week, not like an IR situation. So he could be back next week. I think Foster Monroe is a good streamer this week because the last time we saw him without Darren Waller, he was the top five weekly tight end. But I think I would stick with Logan Thomas here because he's still, you know, 18% target share, sell six targets last night. I think he was fine. And they're facing the Raiders this week and that's one of the better games of the week, honestly, from like a total perspective. So I think that should be a good spot for Thomas to get back on track there. Let's talk to Joseph, picked up Dallas Goddart. He has now Goddart, Logan Thomas and Mike Gasicki has to drop one or two of those guys. So if you've got those three tight ends, what's the ranking of those three for you? Probably Goddart, Gasicki, Thomas. I know Goddart's coming off a really, really bad game, but I think that we can kind of throw out the Eagles offense this past week because they just didn't have it going for him. And then, you know, Logan Thomas we just talked about. I think he's still fine. I think he's fine, but I think he's still iffy. I'd probably go in that order. Goddart, Gasicki, Thomas. And Joseph, with that order being what it is, I would keep two because Goddart does have the buy next week. So you'll probably want someone to hang around for that buy with him. She can make one, four, five. If Jalen Hertz is still questionable by Thursday, do you go with Taysom Hill? So basically, do you take the guy you know will play or do you write it out and potentially put yourself in a thin situation with Jalen Hertz? That's tough. I mean, we only have so much information right now on Tuesday. I'm hoping that we would have a little bit more information. Like if Jalen Hertz practices, you know, today or sorry, tomorrow or on Thursday, then I think that you can feel confident in Jalen Hertz if he doesn't like, let's just pretend that he just doesn't practice all week. I think it's probably okay to just go with Taysom Hill if he's starting, you know, just because it's too big of a risk. Unless you have, again, if you have someone like Derek Carr on your waiver wire or something where you're gonna pivot to that, I would rather do that and just play Jalen Hertz. But yeah, I mean, Taysom Hill is still a decent enough play is probably the top streamer this week. Yeah, I think that he'll give you 80% of what Hertz would give you if you're thinking that he might not go. It makes sense to just kind of lock him in there. Okay, Jim City Gridiron is in a good spot at Wide Receiver. Would you drop or shot Bateman for Boston Scott or Amir Abdullah given the injuries in those two respective backfields? I mean, it depends on how deep you are a wide receiver. And if you think that Bateman can help another team, you know, I think we're at the point where I don't know if it's really gonna happen for Bateman this year in terms of just being like a reliable fantasy starter. He's probably gonna need an injury to Hollywood Brown or even Mark Andrews just to see better target distribution in his favor and that offense. And you know, we say it every week or at least I say it every week, you know, yes, the Ravens are more pass heavy than they've been in recent years, but they're still one of the most run heavy teams in football that still hasn't changed, right? And a lot of that is Lamar Jackson just running the ball himself. But, you know, I think I would feel okay enough doing something like that if you really, really need the running back help. And if you know that you won't be helping another team dramatically by dropping or shot Bateman. Yeah, I think that that makes a lot of sense. And especially with the Ravens passing offense being a bit dysfunctional right now, that does help things too. So Dr. Jack, once again, now would you be comfortable starting the Eagles defense for all three of their fantasy playoff matchups? They get the Giants twice in there and Washington once. So typically we wanna stream with defenses. The good thing is those are all streamable spots. The question is, is Eagles defense good enough to justify that? So JJ, would you hold them through their buy in order to get access to three okay matchups there? Yeah, I'm just afraid that they're not good enough, that they don't generate enough pressure that they're not gonna generate those sacks and the turnovers that we need. Could they be fine through those three games? Of course, yeah. But I would rather just find defenses during those weeks that have better matchups and play them over just saying like, I gotta stick with this one defense from here on out. If you have limited transactions or if you're not able to make transactions in the playoffs for whatever reason, sure, Philadelphia is a team that you could go after and target. There's better defense out there with better schedules like Buffalo, for instance, or even Tampa Bay. But yeah, I mean, Philadelphia would be fine from that perspective, but I would still much rather stream than just play with one defense from week 15 through 17. Right, I think it's another thing you talk about a lot where this is the time of year where you are okay adding handcuffs or running back. And if you're holding the Eagles defense until week 14 or week 15, I guess in this situation because they're a bi-week 14, you are burning one extra bench spot you could use on a backup somewhere else who may come into relevancy if something were to happen in the backfield. So I think the bench spot to be more valuable in that situation. Let's talk to Jeff. Is Matt Breda or Devin Singletary trustworthy? He has Nick Chubb on by, Miles Sanders, Alex Collins, Jeff Wilson Jr., a buddy, and Latavius Murray, his other options. Singletary did have a good snap rates on Thursday. He got some decent work. We know he has limitations, but I feel like when those are my alternatives, I'd feel a lot better about Devin Singletary suddenly. JJ, what are your thoughts on these guys compared to the other options? Yeah, I mean, I guess, right? Like I guess you would lean Singletary there, but I would rather not have to rely on a Buffalo running back. And who knows what happens with Zack Moss if they want to make him active again and utilize him again. They've been really weird with Zack Moss all season long. We went from him being inactive to him seeing the biggest workload in that backfield to him being an active again. And that was, you know, he did have that injury in there as well. But yeah, I mean, I guess Singletary, it's just a really tough situation to be in altogether. So sorry, Jeff. Yeah, condolences, Jeff and Godspeed. Let's talk to you, Richard here. Who would you pick up? Jordan Howard or Sonya Michelle? So Howard potentially could come back to a good role for the Eagles. Don't know his status this week as of yet. He was not put on IR though, which does matter. Sonya Michelle basically just directly a handcuff to Daryl Henderson at this point. So who do you prefer between those two? Yeah, this is one of those transactions where it just depends on what you need for your team. If you need production, if you need someone who could be a flex, you know, Jim and I were actually talking about this earlier today when talking about Miles Sanders. I mean, realistically, I think you can make the argument that Jordan Howard is the best running back on that team from here on out, as long as he's healthy, just given what he's done when he's played, how he works within that offense, and the fact that Miles Sanders has durability issues or has so far this season and last season as well. So I think you could at least make that argument. And I think that when Jordan Howard's back, we're gonna see him still see a pretty decent workload, you know, like 10 plus carries a game. So, you know, I think that he can work as a flex if you need something like that, if you're in a deeper league. But if you're not in a deeper league, if you're in like a 10 or 12 team league where, you know, you have two or three running backs that are really solid that you can throw in your lineup each week. I think Sonya Michelle is the play because, you know, if Daryl Henderson goes down and he's already dealing with a thigh injury, you know, if he goes down, Sonya Michelle's probably, I mean, given the injuries across the league, it's probably an RB1 in fantasy if Daryl Henderson goes down. So I would rather hold Sonya Michelle in sort of a vacuum, but I can understand if you need to go Jordan Howard instead. My friends have showed us they would use Michelle heavily if Henderson were out. So I think that's a valuable information point to have as well. Let's talk to Larry. Is it time to drop manual standards? And obviously this is always dependent on what you're adding, dependent on what you got, stuff like that. But in a vacuum, JJ, are you okay dropping Manny? I guess, I guess. I mean, it sucks. You know, he started out so hot. He was seeing such good volume, especially deep volume and just hasn't been there, you know, as it was earlier in the season. You know, his like routes, run numbers are fine and he's getting a lot of cardio. There's not targeting anymore. And a lot of that I think has to do with the fact that they finally started to make Stefan Diggs the focal point of that offense again. You know, that's been a big shift over the last few games that, you know, we've seen Stefan Diggs get a little bit more work, higher target share, et cetera. And that's her to manual standards just naturally. So yeah, I mean, I think if you're in like a 10 team league, 12 team league, there's reason to drop manual standards. And his target share with Dawson Knox is troubling is what I would say as well. Dawson Knox being back, looking good. That is a negative factor for Manny as well. Let's talk to Shane. He's got three tight ends. He's got Friar Muth, Goddard and Hawkinson. Who would you rank lowest in that group? How do you rank this, Jim? I honestly don't know how to rank this. I am actually- I think the factor for me is that Friar Muth is in concussion protocol. And that to me is a pretty major concern just because, I mean, Goddard is a buy too. So I think that's a factor as well. I don't know. I don't think you can drop Hawkinson because I just feel like the fantasy community and the fantasy world has sort of like looked at Hawkinson as this like bad tight end asset just because of what they spent to get him in the draft and like a lot of people were getting him over Mark Andrews and Mark Andrews is going off. So they're a little bit bitter about that. But Hawkinson's volume is still fine and Jared Goff's back and he still had a decent week last week because of that touchdown. It's tough though. I think all three of them are sort of in the same tier right now. So I don't really have like that strong of an opinion there. If you want to use that concussion as the tiebreaker then go for it. But I still think Pat Friar, I think all three are tight end ones from here on out. Yeah, especially with Eric Ebron and I are he's missing the next three, next two games at least and probably it sounds like more than that as well. So we've seen Friar Muth have a really good role when Ebron's been out. So they're upside there. Maybe he gets in a limited practice Wednesday. That could help things out but deciding right now is pretty tough there Shane for sure. Chris McAfrey, a mysterious needs a fill in for Christian McAfrey. He has Cuba Hubbard already. Would you go a Mural Abdullah or Boston Scott with that in mind? If I had Cuba Hubbard I would go with Boston Scott, especially you know you might be able to get some usability this week with Carolina on a buy. You might be able to get some usability from Boston Scott this week because Jordan Howard might be out again. Miles Sanders is dealing with an ankle injury. He might not play. And so if that happens then Boston Scott's probably gonna see 15 plus touches in that back field which will make him an honestly an RB two, like a decent play. So yeah, I would say in a great matchup too. So I would say I would go Boston Scott there because you have Chuba Hubbard. I mean, think of it this way, you have Hubbard already. And if you get a mirror Abdullah, how are you going to handle that week in and week out? I don't think there's going to be a situation where like one of those guys captures the backfield very clearly, you know, over the next couple of weeks without CMC. So I'm probably going to go Boston Scott there if you already have Hubbard. And with the Panthers, it's not a good enough offense where you could potentially start both. Like it's not a, you know, sometimes with Tony Pollard and Zeke, you can like justify starting both. We're not going to get that from this Panthers offense right now. It's Dr. Cliff. Rest of season, Russell Wilson to a tongue of Iloa or Taysum Hill, what a wild, wild question if you would ask this a month ago. But here we are. Who you got rest of the way? I'd probably go Taysum. Yeah, just go with the upside with Taysum. I just, I don't know how you can trust Russ right now. I agree. Mainly a cake schedule looking good from that perspective looks good on paper, but he just looks a little bit broken right now. And Tua, you know, Tua has been fine. I think Tua is again, one of those players who like, you know, the media and everyone, you know, an analyst, et cetera, like to crap on him a little bit, but he's actually been very good. You know, he's top 10 in efficiency in corner number five expected points model. He's basically scored 12 or 13 plus fantasy points in every single start that he's had this year that he's finished since week one. He had that bad one against New England. But yeah, I mean, I'd probably go Taysum Hill though and just go for upside. But it depends on, you know, if you don't want to risk it with Taysum, just look at what your waiver wire looks like. And, you know, maybe Russell Wilson's a little bit safer just because we don't know what we're going to get with Taysum and how long he's going to start or if he's going to start at all. Right. So, you know, if you want to go with Russ, I think it's fine. I don't think it's Tua. I would say go for upside though and get Taysum. Other thing the Tua to consider here is he does have his buy still and that is next week, week 14. He has a pretty good match for this week with the Giants then a buy. I think another good match meant for that as well. Yeah, the Jets. Yeah, and week 15. But keep that in mind, he doesn't have a buy coming up as well. Let's talk to Howe on YouTube. Who would you prioritize? We're looking for someone to pick up who they need to start this week. So, that's what keep in mind. Looking at week 13 kind of specifically here for a guy on waivers, between Boston Scott, Naheem Hines and Rex Burkhead in this situation where you probably need to start someone this week, which of those guys would you lean towards there? Yeah, I mean, I think I understand the logic with Naheem Hines because they get Houston this week and maybe you get a nice positive game script and they utilize him a little bit more as a pure runner instead of just a receiving specialist. But I'm gonna go with Boston Scott there for reasons I talked about before. I mean, not only did he have 62 and a half percent of the team's running back rushes this past week with Miles Sanders banged up in the second half, but if Miles Sanders doesn't go, if Jordan Howard doesn't go, Boston Scott's going to see 15 plus touches against the absolute best matchup that you could possibly find. I actually looked at my adjusted fantasy points and allowed numbers today. And if you look at not just like where the rankings are, but the amount of points that they allow above or below expectation, the Jets this season against running backs have allowed 10.6 more points to be scored on them than the team running backs average. So what that means is if a team goes into a game and they average 20 fantasy points per game, then the Jets would allow 30.6 fantasy points to that team. So yeah, it's a great matchup. So Boston Scott is a dude in that backfield this week and he's gonna go off. I mean, I really think that he'd be a strong RB too. Yeah, that would be pretty fun. The Jets, not great. Let's talk to Phillip here. Again, thinking about things in the short term, it looks like Jamal Williams is on waivers as is Chuba Hubbard. So good waiver options here, JJ. Jamal Williams or Chuba Hubbard, preference for you. So here's the thing. I think it matters if you're looking at this short term versus long term to some degree, because I do think that DeAndre Swift could only miss this week. You might not even miss this week, technically. So yeah, I mean, if you absolutely need someone to plug and play this week, I think it's very clearly Jamal Williams. I'm not very high on Chuba Hubbard in general for what he's gonna cost you, whether it's a waiver spot, whether it's a free agent budget. I just don't think that Chuba Hubbard is that worth it. I mean, we saw him with over 80% of the teams running back rushes without CMC, like a 10% target share per game without CMC, but even still he gave us zero RB1 performances in PPR formats and that was without Amir Abdullah. Now they have, for a lot of it at least, now they have Amir Abdullah and they've been utilizing him as the third downback in the past catching back. Abdullah, even with CMC playing the last few weeks, Abdullah has had a 14% target share per game over his last five. And so I just think that what we're looking at with Chuba Hubbard and Amir Abdullah is Hubbard sees early downwork. Abdullah sees negative game script and past catching work and Caroline is offense and the team isn't playing very well. So we should expect negative game scripts to hit, right? And so if that happens, then Chuba Hubbard just loses a lot of appeal. So I might say just go after Jamal Williams. You can have him this week potentially and then you have a handcuff, right? You have a guy who would step in and be an RB2 easily if Deandre Swift that ends up getting hurt or if this injury lingers more. So I would probably just go with Jamal Williams here over Chuba Hubbard. Maybe that's stupid. Maybe I sound dumb, but I think it's the logical thing to do. I mean, I wouldn't be shocked if Amir Abdullah gets some like early downwork. Not like, I think that Chuba will be the main guy. I think that Abdullah will get some. Like, and I think that's enough to really ding Chuba. Here's the thing. I didn't mind Chuba Hubbard as a prospect. I mean, you know, his final season was a little bit worrisome after what he did the season before that. You know, there were definitely some flags, but he just hasn't been good. I mean, he just has not been good in the NFL. And I think that Carolina realizes that, which is why they went out and got Amir Abdullah in the first place, right? Otherwise, you know, Chuba Hubbard would have continued seeing, you know, a bell cow workload and it dwindled. Like it got worse and worse, you know, as the weeks went on without Christian McCaffrey. So yeah, I mean, I totally agree with you. Like I think in PPR formats, easily the better value in terms of what you have to spend to get them off the waiver wire is Amir Abdullah. I would rather have Abdullah than Chubbard, and then Chubbard, Chuba Hubbard off the wire, just considering how much you're gonna have to spend to get them, I'd rather have Abdullah in a PPR format. Yeah, I mean, the team has showed us what they think of Chuba Hubbard. And I think we should take that for what it is. I'll talk to Joseph here. Can you guys please rank these defensive options? Three really good ones this week. Got the Eagles against the Jets, Cardinals versus the Bears and the Rams against the Jaguars. So I think all three of these would be above the Bills. He's asked my trade avi is wiping out for the Bills. The Bills get the Patriots. Patriots aren't like a great team to target opposing defenses because their offensive line is so good. They don't take a lot of chances, a lot of risks, which is how you get points in fantasy. So to me, I feel like all three of those are above the Bills. You can correct me if I'm wrong on that, but I feel like I'd want those three options at least for this week specifically. Yeah, to be fair, the Bills recommendation was more about the playoffs because they get Carolina, then New England, which again, you probably won't wanna start them against New England in week 16, but then they get Atlanta, who's been the best team to play defenses against this year in week 17, the championship week. So, you know, the Bills were dropped. In this case, I would probably try to hold two defenses. I would actually go after probably the Rams against Jacksonville. You know, the Rams have been losing. It's just one of those like, just feels like the Rams could just like destroy, like just take it all out on Jacksonville. And, you know, they're just a better defense than Philadelphia, who has just as good of a matchup. So I might go with the Rams there. And then the Bills being dropped, I'd pick up the Bills too for what you'll get in week 15 against Carolina and then week 17 against Atlanta. Yeah, I think that this is a spot we're holding to does make a lot of sense. Let's talk to Jim City, Gridiron. Thoughts on the Dallas defense this week. It's Taysom Hill's first start in a while. Would you roll the dice on someone else? Now, I think what's worth noting here, it's not just Taysom Hill's first start, but the tackles are still hurt for New Orleans. I think Terran Armstead plays. Ryan Ramcheck seems a bit more doubtful right now. So how have you in the Dallas defense week versus likely Taysom Hill? Yeah, I mean, this is something that you talk about a lot, Jim, is that you don't necessarily want to use a defense against a run-heavy offense, which is what we're gonna get with New Orleans. Not only have they been run-heavy so far this season, but with Taysom Hill, we're gonna expect like a 0.75 pass-to-rush attempt ratio. I mean, it's gonna be very, very low. And the reason why we say that is because you want drop backs because drop backs generate sacks. They generate turnovers, you know, interceptions and even fumbles, you know, the quarterback and fumble. And so from that perspective, Dallas isn't as attractive, but I do think Dallas is still a decent enough play. Like, you know, with the offensive line injuries for New Orleans right now, you know, their favorites right now, right? Yeah, they're pretty heavy favorites, like five and a half point or something like that. Yeah, four and a half now, yep. Okay, four and a half. So, you know, they're decent favorites this week, you know, from a process standpoint, they still make sense. Yeah, and I think that they're fine. If you have options like Joseph had, where it's like, you've got the Eagles, got the Cardinals, got the Rams, I'd be okay passing on Dallas and just getting one of those options instead in the situation. Now this one is, it sounds like it starts it, but let's kind of address this in terms of how you're feeling Alexander Madison with Dalvin Cook being banged up. It seems like it'll be two games for Dalvin, because they play Sunday and then play Thursday. Quick turnaround, most likely scenario is he sets two games. Are you just putting Alexander Madison back in the role he had earlier on this year? Yeah, I mean, he's Dalvin Cook is what I mean, like they utilize him exactly as Dalvin Cook when Cook was out earlier this year. Unlike last season where that Atlanta game is the one that everyone remembers when he was chalking DFS and, you know, the game script got out of hand for Minnesota. So they didn't, they didn't utilize, I think they actually utilized a mirror bullet last year, right? Instead of- They did this year, but it wasn't just that of you. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I think it was Mike Boone? Was it Mike Boone? Maybe, yeah, regardless. I mean, they ended up not utilizing Madison nearly as much in that second half of that game because they weren't utilizing him as a pass catcher. But what we've seen in the two games without Dalvin Cook is that Madison had a 21%, a 23% target share in those two. That's better than Dalvin Cook usage in those two games. But it's a small sample. So take that with a grain of salt. But, you know, I really think that they're just gonna utilize Madison as Dalvin Cook. So he should be rostered. He is your number one priority if he's out there. Get him at all costs. If you have a number one waiver priority, burn it on Alexander Madison. I would use most of my free agent budget on Alexander Madison because there's a lot of, you know, what we know right now and what we think is gonna happen right now is that Dalvin Cook will be back in two games or three games. You know, he'll miss two games, he'll be back on the third game. But things can happen. You know, the injury might linger more. Minnesota might just be out of it, right? Like Minnesota might just not be competitive enough. And so they don't wanna risk it with Dalvin Cook. So there's a lot of reason to just go all in on Madison. At the very least, you'll get two weeks out of them as an RB one. And then you'll get a good handcuff whenever Dalvin Cook comes back. And it's worth noting too. This is not the first injury to Dalvin Cook's left shoulder. That is also worth noting in terms of this. One thing I would say is that I think that Kenny Wangu will probably get more work than Amir Abdullah did earlier on this year. But like it's not gonna be a ton. Like it's not gonna like, you can downgrade Madison for where he was, but a downgraded Madison, 80%, 90% of what he was is still a lot better than Boston Scott. So I think, you know, I- I hope he sees some work though, because he is, he's a quick boy. He is amazing. And would love to see it, not expecting it to downgrade Madison too much though. Let's talk to Shane. Well, don't worry about next job. After this past week where the Browns had to air it out because the Ravens dictated that they did so. So Creamhunt is back. Browns are on a buy. What is your only for Nick Chubb after the Browns buy week? Yeah, I'm gonna pull up his numbers really quick just so that I'm citing it properly. I mean, he had a 12% target share this past week. That's better than most weeks for him. So that was good. I mean, a lot of that has to do with the fact that they have no alternatives in that offense to throw to. Not a strong running back rush share though this week with only seeing 53% of the teams running back rushes. I wouldn't necessarily expect that, especially because against Detroit, it was 73%. I think Chubb is gonna be mostly fine. My bigger worry is the environment and the fact that Cleveland's just not moving the ball at all down the field. They're just not effective. And obviously that stems all the way to Baker Mayfield and his injury and what he's been dealing with, et cetera. So I think that's the bigger concern, but I would still say that he's like a low end RB1 from here on out. And the Browns offense probably isn't gonna get a ton better after the buy because Baker's knee and stuff will get better but the left shoulder is not gonna heal over the buy. That's an all season thing. So that's not the buy won't heal everything from that Browns offense. Joseph, little word on Matthew Stafford, is the concern for you at Matthew Stafford enough where you would use the guy like Taysom Hill over him or do you ride Stafford at home against the Jags? In these situations, I think it's okay if you're able to roster two quarterbacks. Like if you're able to play by matchup, see how it goes with Taysom, like I would just feel a lot more comfortable having Stafford on my roster, playing him against Jacksonville, right? Having Stafford on my roster, playing him against Jacksonville, and then just see how things go and you can then play by matchup with Taysom Hill because what if Taysom Hill comes out and sucks, right? Or what if Taysom Hill comes out and he's awesome? You just don't know. There's a wide range of outcomes here. So in this case, I would much rather, so would you prioritize Taysom Hill as a pickup? Depends what's out there. I think it's fine though if you wanna add Taysom Hill with Matthew Stafford on your roster. And I think what I would do is I would play Stafford this week, keep Hill around in case things get worth for Stafford, but I think I'd rather have Stafford for this week specifically, but worthwhile to have Taysom Hill on your roster as well. Larry David, doubted it's him. Thoughts on Brandon Iucanilla and Mitchell going forward with Debo expected to miss one to two weeks. The very rare situation where a wide receiver injury impacts the running back rush share or the rush share of a running back. So how does it impact things for you with Debo likely missing a couple of games here? Yeah, so let's look at Elijah Mitchell. I think that it obviously will help Mitchell just see his typical floor in terms of volume. But the other thing with Elijah Mitchell that I feel like is going overlooked is that your Michael Hacy's been out and that's a huge reason why Mitchell wasn't seeing a big target share earlier this season. This past week, he hit a 23% target share which was amazing and by far his biggest and highest target share of the season. So Eli Mitchell without Hacy and Debo is an RB one. Brandon Iuc I think is a good play too without Debo. I mean, we've basically seen that going on because Debo hasn't been playing as much wide receiver and seeing as much volume through the air as wide receiver but Iuc's been good. So yeah, I mean, I think that Iuc is fine. They were both good already. And I think they both get upgraded with no Debo because they will like, we talk a lot about how good players being in roof and offense can ding everyone because the offense becomes less effective like Calvin Redley with Atlanta but because they've got depth because their offensive line is good because Kyle Shanahan is pretty smart and they can still feel good and upgrade those guys due to volume despite Debo being gone. One final one here similar to the manual Sanders question can we pull the plug on Cortland Sutton? Denver refuses to give anyone outside of Jerry Judy more than four targets in a game. So where are we at with Cortland Sutton right now? Yeah, I mean, the other point about, so okay, so Cortland Sutton is averaging 4.2 fantasy points per game with Jerry Judy a 10.9% target share with Jerry Judy. It is, it's atrocious. I mean, you can find that with like, not only waiver wire guys, but like bad waiver wire players. Like you can, you can, yeah, like you can easily replace that production. Not only that, but the one thing that I'm a little bit worried about and this extends to Jerry Judy as well. Rest of season, the best running back schedule in fantasy football and in football, Denver has it. And so I could see them leaning on the ground just as much as they've been and that really obviously benefits Melvin Gordon and Javante Williams. So I'm worried about both wide receivers hold, hold Jerry Judy because he's still seeing a decent enough target share. I didn't this past week, but it was a tough matchup. Still seeing a decent enough target share with Courtney Sutton and a lot of leagues like 12 team leagues, you can probably drop them. And it does put Noah Fant more in the streamer conversation versus like a locked in type tight end situation cause he's also getting like, again, four targets per game. 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