 Hey everybody, what's going on? I'm Greg Sussman joined today by Jim Sonis of Fandle We seem to tell us about the players whose stocks are rising after week eight. What's going on Jim? I'm pretty good Greg because not only do we get Christian McCaffrey back in week number nine But also Dalvin Cook became a bell cow once again I kind of like having the situations where we can look at running back and feel good about spending up We're not spending up for guys. He's be back up so spending up for legit studs So I think things are rounding into shape as we head into week number nine I feel pretty good about that The Vikings were not impressed with what they saw from Alexander Madison So it became just the Dalvin Cook show once again in week eight He was phenomenal as were quite a few other players. We'll get to a couple right now We began in Baltimore with J. K. Dobbins Did your thing that you focus on J. K. Dobbins because it was Gus Edwards yesterday that had 16 carries Which is almost as many as Mark Ingram has seemingly had his entire Ravens career and both Edwards And Dobbins were effective yesterday. Dobbins finished with 12.6 Fando points And you like him and see his stock rising how come two things It's hard to score points when you're on the sidelines, which Gus Edwards was for 66% of the snaps But also because we know that J. K. Dobbins is going to be the past catching back in this offense And that doesn't mean as much to this Arabians. They don't pass that much But I just feel better about a guy who I know is two sources of upside rather than just one Which is when we go with Gus Edwards. Gus Edwards is fine for season long But for daily fantasy I want a guy like J. K. Dobbins who I think has better odds of catching a pass Now with J. K. Dobbins although the stock is up It's kind of similar to the Deandre Swift discussion a couple weeks ago where it's up But there are still some concerns here. The good thing is that again a 66% snap rate for Dobbins That is great easily out snapped Gus Edwards and he's been insanely effective so far this year And that could lead to more volume even when Mark Ingram is healthy Quickly to more volume relative to Gus Edwards too. So those are really good things for Dobbins as mentioned He catches passes too. So that's the good the bad is that He is still splitting work with Gus Edwards The team just lost their left tackle Ronnie Stanley for the entire season back downgrades the expected efficiency of this entire offense And he can lose goal line works not just Edwards, but also Lamar Jackson. So the stock is up Gus Edwards or sorry, J. K. Dobbins is trending up and he is now a guy we can consider in DFS Whereas the mark Ingram was around that was obviously not not the case and at $5,300 J. K. Dobbins is in play for week number nine But it's not a situation where he is a big no-brainer right now despite the offense despite the talent he has shown There are still some legit question marks here. So I think that we can start to use J. K. Dobbins daily fantasy He's not a core play of any means. He's not a cash gameplay despite the low salary But he is at least on the radar now whereas he was not previously and as a result that his stock is up And I wouldn't be shocked if his stock continues to rise with how good he has been Let's not forget that draft capital obviously the Baltimore invested in J. K. Dobbins back during the nfl draft this past spring Mark Ingram at some point will no longer be there Gus Edwards is going to have his role with 66 percent Of the snaps for J. K. Dobbins all in sunday Hopefully at least a big things in week nine and further on the ravens after that loss are gonna have to do something a little bit different We'll see what that is. Hopefully it means more J. K. Dobbins going forward Up next chicago bears pushed the states to overtime yesterday in a weird game where nick foals did not look good for most of me For somehow like I said getting his team to overtime and anthony miller was certainly a part of that finishing with 11.3 Fandall points you had alan robinson Play yesterday catch an awesome touchdown and and anthony miller still has his role But you believe it's rising How come yeah, he doesn't have his role He has a better version of his role because in the past anthony miller has gotten targets He's gotten touchdowns. He's played decently well outside of some really bad drops But he's had targets that was never the concern The concern was that he wasn't on the field all that much and like we said with Gus Edwards It's hard to score points from the sidelines, but thankfully anthony miller got a pretty big role change in week number eight He played 75 of the snaps in week number eight That was his first time topping a 70 snap rate the entire year and he ran a route on 85 Of the team's pass plays according to pro football focus That's really good in a pretty major deviation from where he was previously and he like you said 11 targets for anthony miller That's a really good number as well So it's kind of like jk dobbins previously anthony miller at least for me was not a dfs consideration because he was not on the field Now he is as a result of that role change. He got in week number eight They're facing the titans in week number nine They're going to be underdogs there. The secondary for tennessee has had some major issues and miller is only $5,100 We've got dalvin cook. We've got christian mccaffrey on the week nine slates We're going to want to spend up at running back using guy like anthony miller could make that a bit easier So again, he was not in consideration before he now is inherently his stock is up But I think that miller because we've seen him do well when he's gotten volume in the past It's something i'm willing to trust here darno mooney is not taking advantage of the volume he has gotten anthony miller at least more so than mooney has So I think that anthony miller is someone we should keep our eye on it potentially could be a value play as early as week number nine Being on the field certainly helps your chances of being in the lineup here over on fendall anthony miller was finally on the field at a rate that we expected much earlier in the year darno mooney not Taking advantage of the opportunity he that he has gotten so we go back to anthony miller And hopefully he could be a bit of a dart throw a cheat dart throw this week on fendall You mentioned christian mccaffrey's impending return And it's finally here week nine We are expected to get christian mccaffrey back on the field and that's good news for a multitude of reasons But specifically for carolina where mike davis over the past few weeks has underperformed what he was doing when christian mccaffrey got hurt So now it's not like they're going to ease mccaffrey back in we'd expect he's going to go back and be full throttle We hope That's exactly the reasoning we want to christian mccaffrey in here is because like he said when mike davis first filled in There was a lot of discussion about hey like maybe when mccaffrey comes back We scale him back here to keep him healthier But I think that's not as much of a factor now as it would have been then because mike davis just hasn't been as effective I love mike davis. This is no no shot at him christian mccaffrey is just good And there is a gap between christian mccaffrey and mike davis We look at the numbers overall this year mccaffrey has a 46 rushing success rate according to number fires metrics Whereas mike davis is at 41% so a 5 percentage point gap there davis about league average mccaffrey A good a chunk good chunk above that But it's also the big plays from mccaffrey that are that are the difference makers here because he averaged point 17 Expected points per carry whereas mike davis was at negative point. Oh wait He was losing some bumbles that definitely influenced things for sure and just couldn't quite get things going and get the big plays That mccaffrey is capable of generating So Initially when mccaffrey got hurt there was some talk about davis taking away carries Maybe he will but we know that christian mccaffrey was back at practice this past week Which means he's not just flying back in he was able to get into practice then Which means we should be able to expect him to have a relatively full workload in week number nine It's a fun game against canton city that defense has played really well so far this year But I would expect mccaffrey to come back and have a workload similar To what he had before that injury scored 22 fan dual points at least in both the first two games And I kind of think we just see him jump back into at least somewhat like 90 percent of his previous role And 90 percent of christian mccaffrey is really good for fantasy. So christian mccaffrey I would say because of the struggles this offense had in his absence I think the stock is up for him. We should expect to hit the ground running right away in week nine You mentioned it there jim. I think the important piece for christian mccaffrey Is the fact that he practiced last week and the panthers didn't rush him back And a lot of times we do see teams rush their star players back And there's not effective when they get back on the field So those take on barkley last year with giants in a similar injury here mccaffrey has taken his time The panthers have done the smart thing and when he comes back at least the hope is starting here in week nine He's gonna get his normal amount of carries his normal amount of touches And will he'll be as normal amount of effective this week as soon as he's back from injury That's an end for us here on the fan bill hurry up jim. We appreciate the time. Good luck this week. Same to you greg I wish you as little stress as possible with the next couple of days and we'll talk to you once again on friday to Preview week number nine Breathe deep jim This week it's it's just getting started by friday. We'll all be in the good place So we hope for jim's honest. I am greg sussman tomorrow Tom becky will join me as we take a look at dfs the top value plays on the board for week nine An early look here tomorrow for jim's honest. I am greg sussman. Thanks so much for watching We'll do it all again tomorrow right here. I'm a fan. Do hurry up