 Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Sosman, here today with Jim Sonos of Fandall, who's here to help me break down this weekend's DFS League, and let us know some of the undervalued players that are out there. What's happening, Jim? I'm pretty good, Greg, because this is a very interesting week. Normally I am a person who spends up religiously at running back every single week, but this week we actually have a couple of guys who I think are very much in play at running back for cheaper options, so it's going to lead to different roster construction than I am used to for this week, and I'm kind of excited about it. So I'm pretty good. How are you doing? I'm doing fantastic. I feel ready to rock. I'm excited. We've got some football Saturday, so it should be a really fun weekend. Let's start at the quarterback spot today here, Jim. Not that we start anywhere else ever, but we go with Gardner Minshew for the Jacksonville Jaguars. We talked about this last week against the Raiders. Gardner in another good spot this week. Yeah, I'm not the biggest Gardner Minshew guy in general, but he is very cheap this week at $6,800, and there are a couple of other things working in his favor here. Specifically, he is playing indoors, and this time of year, that is certainly a plus. He is facing a Falcons defense that has been a lot better recently. I think that they are sustainably better, too, but there's still not some elite defense we need to avoid, and it sounds like DJ Chark is going to be back this week as well. Chark got in a limited practice on Wednesday, so I would assume he'd be back, which would mean we'd have Gardner Minshew with a full confluent of pass catchers here in a dome on turf, and with a couple of guys like Chris Commie and DJ Chark who should be really fast in that turf as well. So I kind of think things line up well for Minshew to be good as a passer, but he also has some rushing appeal, too. He has 25 or more rushing yards in seven games this year, but he hasn't had a rushing touchdown yet, and I think that's kind of allowed us to overlook the rushing appeal of Gardner Minshew, and eventually you do expect that to happen. You know, we get guys like Drew Brees and Matt Ryan getting rushing touchdowns. Gardner Minshew can get them as well, and if he does get that, he'd pay off pretty easily at $6,800. So overall, Gardner Minshew is not a guy I tend to use all that often, doesn't throw deep that much. There's a limitation of the offense, too, but I think this specific week, if you want to spend down a quarterback, he does make sense. He is not someone I want to prioritize. I think that guys like Lamar Jackson and Russell Wilson, Dak Prescott, Ryan Tannehill are all more appealing in the upper register, but if I do want to spend down, I think that Minshew is not a bad way to do so. So $6,800 will get you a lot of upside elsewhere, and I think that's enough to use Minshew if you do need to spend down. I like that you led that off or wrapped it up rather, talking about how you'd rather use Lamar Jackson and other really good quarterbacks rather than Gardner Minshew. Thanks, Jim, for that hardcore analysis. But in all seriousness, you don't want to pay up and the way your lineup is breaking is paying down for quarterback, paying up for some of these other positions. Gardner Minshew is a fine replacement. Just don't expect amazing numbers like you get from, wait for it, Ryan Tannehill. Let's move on now, Jim, and let's go over to the running back position, and that brings us to Deandre Washington. This is an obvious one, right? You know he's fairly priced on Fandle because Josh Jacobs is out this week. Deandre Washington, not priced as a starter, so you get him at a nice price. Deandre Washington's probably no brander here. Yeah, I really think it is because we know what this guy's role is going to be. And his role in week four team when Josh Jacobs was out was honestly better than what Josh Jacobs usually gets. He played 63% of the snaps in that game, which is the fourth highest snap share for a Raiders running back this year. His snap rate there was higher than what Josh Jacobs has had in every game except for three this year. He had 14 carries and seven targets. The seven targets are also more than Josh Jacobs has gotten in any game so far this year. So you can say he doesn't have the talent of Josh Jacobs, but his role is honestly better than what Josh Jacobs gets. And I think that's pretty attractive. He is on the road. He is facing the Chargers. Not that road matters so much when you're in Los Angeles, but he's $5,600. The other plus here for Deandre Washington is we know that he'll still be in the game if they're down. They lost that game to the Titans by 21 points. And even in the fourth quarter, Deandre Washington out carried Jalen Ashard three to two or three to one and he also had two targets in line with the two that Jalen Ashard got. So if they do fall behind, I would still expect Deandre Washington to be in the backfield getting volume and that's pretty attractive. So he's $5,600. I would say you lock and load him for cash games and I want to be overweight on Deandre Washington in tournaments as well. His role is very good and I think that that's something we should covet when it comes to this cheap. So Deandre Washington, I would just not overthink it when we get cheap volume. We should expect it and we're getting exactly that with Deandre Washington this week. Always looking for a running back that should get the majority of carries and running back up, running back in a workhorse role. That is what Deandre Washington is. It's a fine matchup. You heard from Jim all the other reasons why Washington makes sense. Get him in your lineup. A fairly priced starting running back. You don't find those often over on Fandle. Up next, we have another running back that's used from in Savante Freeman, who you recommended last week here, Jim. You were recommending him again this week here, Jim. He's kind of in your guy despite the lack of touchdowns in general. Why are you sticking on your horse? Lack of touchdowns, lack of yardage, lack of production. A lot of things. Yeah, lack of being good here for Devontae Freeman is a good way to put it, but I think it's a little bit different this week because he is at home. He is facing the league's 30th ranked Rush defense in the Jacksonville Jaguars and like we mentioned on yesterday's show, Devontae Freeman got a bit of a role change last week because he played 79% of the snaps. His second highest snap rate of the year. He's averaging 15.3 carries and 4.0 targets per game since coming back from his injury. So the role has been really good for Devontae Freeman. We just need the productivity to be there too. And I think that it could be given how bad the Jaguars Rush defense has been. It's also worth noting Chris Lindstrom, their first round pick at right guard, was able to play every snap last week, which is the first time he has done that all year because he spent a lot of time on injured reserve, came back in a limited fashion back in week 14. So we should get potentially improved efficiency from Devontae Freeman as well. Now, he's like $600 more than Deandre Washington, and we kind of know what Devontae Freeman's role is going to be. He is also favored by 7 as opposed to being a 7 point underdog. That is not enough for me to say that Devontae Freeman is the preferable play over Deandre Washington, but I think he is a very good pivot for tournaments, and I think that Devontae Freeman is also in play for cash games. So yeah, he's been bad this year. There's been a lack of talent for sure, but there are a lot of things working in his favor this week that do make him attractive from a process perspective. So I personally am okay locking in both these guys, spending up for that guy Lamar Jackson, getting in some Michael Thomas as well, and taking advantage of what is a slate that is very different than what we usually get. We got two value running backs. I like quite a bit. I want to take advantage and allow myself to pay up at quarterback and wide receiver. This is awesome. Devontae Freeman, sure, he's been bad, but the process is right. You need to be a fast guy, Jim. Process over results here with Devontae Freeman, man. Hashtag TTP, baby. Let's go. Yeah, sure. Put Joel and me in your lineup. He'll do just as well as Devontae Freeman, but in all seriousness, you got to pay up at quarterback Lamar Jackson, and then you're stuck with running backs like Devontae Freeman and Deandre Washington, who I do like. Or you pay up at running back and you go with Garner Mishu. You got to find value somewhere, and maybe Devontae Freeman is that value. The process is right. The output hasn't been for most of the season, but hey, maybe this week will be a little bit different. Up next, we get to the wide receiver position and another one of your guys we've continually gone with, and it's Christian Kirk. I said to you last week, I really like Christian Kirk because I think he's going to be one of these guys next season that pops off as a potential wide receiver one in fantasy. Now, this year, it hasn't always been there. Why will it be there this week? Yeah, he's a new Calvin Ridley as being a feature on this value play show we have every Thursday, and I think it's justified with Christian Kirk because part of the reason we liked Calvin Ridley was because he had a path upside and we know that's there for Christian Kirk. If we look at him since returning from his ankle injury, he has 26% of the cardinals targets in that time. He has been held to less than 50 receiving yards three times in the past five games, and that's definitely a negative, meaning the floor is not there, but he's had a ceiling too. He had 85 receiving yards in one of those games and 138 with three touchdowns in the other. There is a path to a really good game here for this game. If the cardinals want to keep pace, they're going to have to chuck it. They're doing so against a Seattle defense that has not been top notch this year. They're middle of the pack defensively based on number of fires metrics, which means the cardinals should move the ball, and when they do so, they tend to do so via Christian Kirk. He has $5,900 and we do have to keep an eye on the injury report here because he missed practice on Wednesday, but he's been on the injury report for a while now, still been playing through it. So as long as he gets into full practice by Friday, he's pretty good with Christian Kirk. He has upside. He has a bit of a floor too because of the volume as long as he's healthy. I think the cardinals are going to have to throw here. So it's a lot of things that line up well for Christian Kirk. It has burdened me a couple of times. He has contributed to a lot of negative days from my bank roll, but I think that we know the upside is there too. So Christian Kirk at $5,900, the focal point of this cardinals offense will be a focal point for a lot of my DFS rosters on Sunday as well. Christian Kirk's health is something to watch, but the targets are going to be there, which means the floor, as you said, very, very high. Ceiling is high too because he can go off if the cardinals can score some points on a Seattle secondary, which has been vulnerable. Well, see what Christian Kirk can do. I think you have to like him here on Sunday. You mentioned Calvin Ridley, RIP here, Jim. He's not on the value show anymore, but his teammate, Russell Gage is. Russell Gage didn't do whole much, hold on to anything last week against San Francisco. Julio Jones took over. Why will this week be different if you think it will probably be different because I don't think Julio Jones is going to get 20 targets again because that is a stupid number and it's awesome. I love Julio Jones getting 20 targets. I wish they do it every week, but they probably won't. And if we if we take that and redistribute some to Austin Hooper, who is not that expensive either and some to Russell Gage, that could lead to some good production because in that game Gage did have six targets. You take away a couple from Julio and send them over Russell Gage's direction. We could see him get, you know, seven to 10 targets and that's pretty intriguing. I think that Russell Gage, the comp for him this week is the same thing as Greg Ward last week. You're not going to have a lot of yardage upside because none of these guys are super big, you know, the best athletes in the field by any means. They're kind of like Cole Beasley. And if Cole Beasley is $6,000 I'm not going to use him in DFS, but if Cole Beasley were $5,100 like Russell Gage is this week, then it's a bit of a different discussion. That's where Russell Gage is. He is $5,100 he can get you about 50 yards and a touchdown and if you get that at his salary he's going to pay off. So I think that there are some imperfections here with Russell Gage but the target should be there. He's facing a past defense and a defense in general. We've been targeting a lot recently and there is a path to a touchdown too. So Russell Gage, again he's not going to blow your lid off, but we saw Greg Ward pay off in a similar situation last week. I think that Russell Gage has the potential to do so here as well with no Calvin Ridley out there. So you're definitely not getting the biggest upside play here, but the value is there and I think that the four is not that bad either. So Russell Gage at $5,100 that's a salary where I could definitely justify playing him. The salary is really, really cheap for Russell Gage. You can justify it because you're right. Julio is not getting 20 targets. We don't think unless he does, whatever. Russell Gage a fine dart throw here this week he's been involved in the offense. Having that Calvin Ridley roll, we'll see what he can do obviously on Sunday. One final position to get to Jim that's a tight end spot and that brings us, well, to another one of your favorites, Jacob Hollister here and this one I could do with this entire part for you. He's been good with Russell Wilson. He has shown a connection since Walt Disney went down. They're playing the Arizona Cardinals. The worst team in the NFL against the tight end, Hollister in a good spot to have multiple touchdowns. He's very fairly priced on Fandall. Jim, how did I do? Multiple touchdowns. You calling a shot there? Let's go baby. Let's go. $5,700 for Jacob Hollister you said he checked all the boxes there with Jacob Hollister and the reasons we should want to use this guy specifically if we look at Jacob Hollister since his snap rate went up, he has 19.9% of the Seahawks targets since his snap rate hit 80%. That is a really good number especially when it's coming against this Arizona defense and recently we've seen Fandall jacking up prices of tight ends who are facing this team. We saw Vance McDonald who I think hasn't had 40 yards in a game this year. He was like $5,300. David and Joku was inactive. He was $5,500 and Jacob Hollister is $200 more than that and $5,700. I don't know if the Seahawks are going to throw a whole lot in this game. I hope they do because it would mean that Christian Kirk is likely doing pretty well but even if they don't, I think the Hollister salary being as cheap as it is really does safeguard us against those potential ills of the game script with Seattle. So I think that that safeguards us a little bit with Jacob Hollister. It's worth noting that Luke Wilson did get in a full practice on Wednesday. I would guess he is back this weekend but Wilson did play two of the games. He got hurt in both the games but he played two games with Jacob Hollister since that snap rate spiked and Hollister was still running ahead of him. So even with Wilson likely being back this week, I still think it's a good spot for Jacob Hollister. No Josh Gordon being here does open up a couple of extra targets as well so it's really easy to get yourself into a tight end against the Cardinals and sometimes that leads us to really bad choices but I think Jacob Hollister, it is the right choice. It is easy choice but sometimes easy is easy for a reason. So I'm going to go Jacob Hollister at 57 and plug him in this weekend. Yeah, I'm glad you said making the easy choice is easy for a reason and sometimes it's just right because it's true. I think a lot of times we're making TFS lineups we try to outsmart ourselves and we overthink we try to do the thing that we don't believe is obvious and it's not right and you get caught and I think too many people are going to try to get caught this weekend. Jacob Hollister is under $6,000. He's playing Arizona and we know he's a favorite target of Russell Wilson in the red zone. He's the right call, the easy call, but make sure you make the call. That's going to do it for us here on the FanDuel Aurea gym. We appreciate your time. Good luck this weekend. Thank you, Greg. Same to you and we'll talk to you I believe again next week to get yourself a week 17 which could be a wild one so let's enjoy something that's mildly predictable for this one final week. Absolutely. For Jim Sanis, I am Greg Sussman. Have a great night. No Thursday night football I wish you but you know enjoy whatever you're watching tonight. I'll be back tomorrow with Gabe Moretz. He's best bets for week 16 and we'll see you then.