 Whenever a player is making a debut in the NFL, whether it be with a new team or being their NFL overall debut as a rookie, you always have some sort of uncertainty because you don't really know how they'll transition. It's a new offense for them. And you don't know what the coaching staff thinks to that player and how they should be used. And at least on Sunday, oh baby, do we get some fun debuts? Calvin Ridley, Anthony Richardson, Bijan Robinson, a lot of guys in new situations who were awesome. And it's a delight, both for the short term, looking at week two in NFL DFS, but also especially for the longterm. Our job for today is to go back through those big showings, those big debuts, outline thoughts on those players, both week two and going forward, and take a look forward to the week two, main slate and outline how to view those guys, potential players to keep their eyes on from a salary perspective, just give you a recap of week number one. Welcome on into the Heat Check Fantasy podcast. That's right here on the FanDuel Podcast Network. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a managing editor of digital media for FanDuel Research here with your week one recap of NFL DFS, not only key takeaways, NFL DFS perspective and looking forward the week two main slate as well. As you picked up on, and as we discussed, this is a new format for this show from last year. Now a solo show, Brandi Godulla still with me every Thursday for our preview show. But the Monday show, I wanna make it effectively kind of like a notebook dump. I'm taking notes on usages for every player in every game each Sunday. So why not take that and package it and tell you all the key things I pick up on from Sunday. So effectively that's this is. This show is going to be a notebook dump for you, letting you know all the things that matter in my mind most for NFL DFS. We're still gonna play the same game we do with Brandon where we play name that salary where basically we'll go through a player's usage, talk about the way they were used and consider team environment. And I'll give a salary up that I think is fair over on fan duel.com for a player. And if their actual salary for the week two main slate is higher than that, they might be tough to get to. But if their actual salary is lower than that, they were probably gonna be on them entering week number two and we have the whole week to dig into their situation that game and more to identify what are view of that is of that player entering the week two main slate. And at the end of the show, we'll do a full salary scroll for week number two at the main slate and see which salary stand out most over on fan duel.com. 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Let's talk now about all those electric debuts we saw across week one in the NFL. Let's start things off with, I think my favorite across week one, which was Calvin Ridley making his Jaguars debut where he was fan-freaking-tastic. Ridley led the Jaguars with 11 targets, which equates to a 34% target share in that game. Couple of deep targets for Ridley and two in the red zone as a reminder. We have the, what I'll call a deep target is a target 16 plus yards downfield. So one deep target for Ridley, one target 16 plus yards downfield, two in the red zone. Zay Jones second on the team with seven targets. Evan Ingram had five, Christian Kirk had three. And Kirk was not on the field for two receiver sets the most part. So I had entered this week kind of thinking that Kirk was still going to be a solid option on this Jaguars team. I think he gets a pretty big downgrade knowing that he will not be out there for the two receiver sets. I think that Zay Jones, Evan Ingram, pretty much status quo for them. But Ridley really is the headliner here. And we look forward to week number two. And Ridley is actually in the, I would say marquee game of the slate because the Jaguars are taking on the Kansas City Chiefs. Let's play name that salary here with Calvin Ridley after what we saw on week number one with him. And Ridley, I feel like we can probably expect him to be a guy is going to be a high target share guy, getting those targets from an efficient quarterback and Trevor Lawrence. And that's worth quite a bit, especially in a high profile game with the Chiefs. But it also is just one game. We want to, you know, proceed with caution there. So if I were assessing Calvin Ridley and trying to identify a proper salary for him, I feel like the right salary for Ridley, based on what he did in week one, would probably be somewhere around $8,200 on family. He was $7,000 entering week number one. And Ridley's new salary is 83. So very appropriate. And I think that's about right. I don't think that's high enough where he knew to exclude him and a game that we're probably going to stack. I think that's very appropriate. So Calvin Ridley, entry week number two going to be a fun piece in what should be the most fun game on that slate. Very into him based on that outstanding debut. In that same game, let's talk about Anthony Richardson on the opposing side. Richardson did bang up his knee towards the end of that game, but something he'll be good to go. Enter week number two, Richardson did struggle as a passer. He averaged negative 0.09, passing that expected points per drop back. Again, passing that expected points is number fires EPA metric. So if you hear that reference, it's just an EPA metric that we use over at number fire. And league average or quarterbacks tends to be around 0.10 or so. If we're looking at early downs in week one, it was 0.06 or 0.05, I believe it's actually a bit lower. But Richardson negative 0.09, not what you want to see there, but the rushing was there. He had 10 carries for 40 yards on the touchdown and four of those runs for Richardson came inside the red zone. So to me, it's kind of like we had discussed on Thursday. And what we said Thursday was, I thought Richardson would be kind of similar to Lamar Jackson during his rookie year, where he entered for Joe Flacco late in the year and he had this massive floor for DFS because the rushing was so good and so easy to project. The reason he didn't tap into the ceiling though is because the passing was inefficient. And that's kind of what I'm thinking, we'll see from Richardson at least early on this year. So that's kind of the baseline I have for Richardson right now is very high floor for rushing, questionable potentially ceiling for passing. Next week, they go on the road to take on the Houston Texans. And that game has a low total as of right now, but I don't think it's a total cross-off game by any means. If I'm thinking about a side for Richardson based on the fact that he does have a high floor, we know that. And the odds he has a ceiling based on passing did decrease a little bit, not a ton based on Sunday. I would say that's worth about a $7,500 salary on Fandle. And looking at right now, that's exactly where he is. Richardson $7,500 on Fandle for week number two. I think that's appropriate based on what we saw from him in week number one, based on the potential for the passing to get better, but also the reality that it's hard to be an efficient passer in the NFL. So we want to proceed with caution. I think 75 is a very fair number for Richardson. Let's head down south now and talk about Bijan Robinson. He had a big pass catching role specifically in his debut. Robinson led the Falcons with six targets on just 18 targeted throws. This is exactly what the Falcons wanted to be. They achieved it. 33% target share for Robinson obviously matters a lot less on the team that throws this little. And we also did see Robinson lose early down work with Tyler Algier. Algier actually out carried Robinson 15 to 10. Algier two red zone rush attempts versus one for Robinson, but Robinson had two targets inside the red zone as well. So we entered week one being decently high on Robinson because we are pretty excited about the potential for him to be in every downback. And the pass catching part was there. I'm trying to think of like guys who have had similar workloads in the past where you know they're going to get the passing game work, but they might lose a bit early down. I feel like the best comp for Robinson from that regard is probably actually Aaron Jones the past couple of years since they've had AJ Dillon, where you knew that the passing would be there. You knew he'd probably be pretty efficient, but he's definitely going to lose some work to AJ Dillon potentially in some high lever situations. And that doesn't matter quite a bit. So when I think about Robinson in that regard, I feel like the accurate side for Robinson is probably closer to like 75 or $7,600 just because it's not a perfect role. And it's in an offense that I'm honestly not super enthused about overall in general. Now, fittingly enough, they're facing the Packers next week. So we get to see Robinson against Aaron Jones hopefully in that game. But Robinson's salary did go up to $8,100. So I feel like that's a bit high just based on the fact that we will see Algier mix in. He might get some work in high lever situations. I think that's a little bit higher than I wanted to be. So at least with Robinson for me, I'm a little bit lower on him than I thought I might be entering week one. Maybe that does change as we get further into the year, but I think it is kind of an Aaron Jonesy type situation when you weigh everything all together. Zay Flowers had a fantastic debut for the Baltimore Ravens. Obviously the Ravens offense underwhelmed against Houston, but maybe that was due to rain, whatever it may be, but Flowers himself was fantastic. He had 10 targets in that game, which was a 48% target share. Obviously, no Mark Andrews here, so you got to take this all the grain of salt because Andrews is a proven target earner within this offense. Two of those targets for Flowers were deep and four were inside the red zone. So obviously when Andrews is back, will downgrows Zay Flowers as a result, but Flowers got rave reviews throughout the preseason. He was a guy who they used a lot of draft capital on and they needed pieces in this offense. So I feel like we can probably expect Flowers to be a legit target earner in this offense. So you give me a legitimate target earner tied to Lamar Jackson. I know it wasn't great on Sunday, but still a guy like, and they're facing Cincinnati next week again that will probably want to stack up. That's a lot of positives. Now, keeping expectations in check for a guy who's a rookie and assuming that Andrews is back in, I feel like a proper salary for Zay Flowers would be, let's say $7,100. And entry week two, checking out on FanDuel, Flowers is $6,600. So a bit under salary based on, at least my expectations for him going forward. You see, didn't score in that game. So maybe some points left on the table, but they get that red zone work, they get a lot of overall work. So if we're talking about guys who are legitimately under salary based on the week one role, entry week number two, I think Zay Flowers is the first guy we add to that list because the role is phenomenal. It's a very good game next week. And I'm going to want to be on Zay Flowers, even if we assume Mark Andrews is back in for next week. Speaking of fantastic reviews for rookies, Puka Nakua, my goodness of the Rams. He led the team with 15 targets. It was a 41% target share for Nakua in that game. Three of those targets were deep. One was inside the red zone. And I think just importantly for Nakua, but also for this entire Rams team, Matthew Stafford looked healthy. Like, I would say he looked healthier than he did the entirety of last year, including week one that matched up with the bills last year. It's probably the best Stafford has looked in quite some time. Cooper Cup is on short-term IR, which means he will not be eligible to play in week number two. So we get Nakua as, again, a potential target earner in this offense. Next week, the Rams are facing San Francisco. That's pretty tough. So expectations for the offense will not be as high as they were taking on the Seattle Seahawks. But again, targets are targets and Stafford looked pretty good. So I would say a proper salary for Nakua, considering the match up here with the 49ers, I would probably toss out somewhere around $6,500 for Nakua. And his salary is $5,800. So similar to Zay Flowers, a bit under salary for Nakua, given the number of targets he earned in this game. Nakua is a guy who played really well in college, again, got decent hype in the preseason 119 yards in Sunday's game. That's pretty enticing. So I would say despite the matchup, Nakua, similar to Zay Flowers, probably a guy will be discussing later on this week because that salary is lower than I would think based on his role and based on the offense. Now the final electric debut we're talking about here week number one is actually one, I feel like that might go overlooked. And unfortunately this guy is not on the week two main slate. So we can't take advantage of this from a main slate regard right away. But that guy's Derek Carr. And Derek Carr averaged 0.2, passing net expected points per dropback in his say and stay view. And again, averaged around 0.1 or so, Carr doubled that. Now they scored to 16 points. So that's why I think this will go overlooked. But the actual base level efficiency for Carr against an offense as good as Tennessee's is very, very good. But I think also most importantly, Derek Carr's eight out in that game his average depth of throw was 12.4. That is a really big number. Any funneled targets to his very good players, Chris Olave led with 10 targets. Michael Thomas had eight, Rashid Shahid had six. Olave and Shahid both had three deep targets and Thomas had three inside the red zone. All three of those guys had at least 60 yards in this game. So to me at least, I think Arrow is up pretty big time on this offense, the Carr quarterback. Now that's not relative to where it was entering week one. I was high on this offense, higher I think than Mark it on this offense, entering week one. Obviously didn't use them last week because the match was tough, but I feel like it's a bit of confirmation that Derek Carr in this offense has the potential to do some really fun things. So I want to bump them up. I love that Rashid Shahid is still in the mix here. I think that with both Shahid and Olave, we should probably expect Carr to still bottom it downfield as well. So definitely going to be in a New Orleans next time they're on the main slate. They're facing Carolina in that a double header on Monday net football. So for the two game slate, maybe we want to go there for them. I just think that expectations for New Orleans are up based on both the addition of Carr, but then also how he looked at his debut. Quickly you're on the backfield with Kendrick Miller out Jamal Williams played a 77% of the snaps, 18 carries and two targets, resulted in just 52 total yards. The offensive line didn't look fantastic for New Orleans. So I need a good matchup, but he's at least viable facing Carolina again next week on Monday, that could be enough there. Miller might be back, but I think Williams, his role was least okay, good enough in that number in his first game with the Saints. Let's transition now and talk about the downside of things and talk about some injuries. From week number one, Aaron Jones pulled his hamstring on a long touchdown run against the Bears. He said it was minor. He's pulled his hamstring before and he said it didn't feel like that. So he might not miss time. There was a touchdown. I don't recall what the touchdown it was, but he was celebrating like right away. It might have been Dobbs second touchdown, but like Jones was in there celebrating. He wasn't in the field, but like he was celebrating with Dobbs right away. So it seemed like he's at least somewhat okay. Nine carries and four targets for 127 yards for Jones before the injury. It was a decent role, I thought. And he looked really deficient as he always does. So I'd have interest if he's good to go, depending on the matchup. They're facing Atlanta next week, so potentially some interest there, but hopefully he's good to go. If not, A.J. Dillon gonna have a pretty good role in an offense that looks fine, despite not having Christian Watts in this past week. J.K. Dobbins is feared to have suffered a torn Achilles according to Ian Rapford and Tom Palacero. Justice Hill scored twice after Dobbins injury, but it was a pretty even split with Gus Edwards and Hill. Edwards had eight carries while Hill had seven after the injury to J.K. Dobbins, not a guy to target splits or the snaps were also pretty even for those two guys. And they've already said that they're gonna elevate Melvin Gordon from the practice squad as well. So I was okay using Dobbins this past week because I thought he had the potential to get a lot of work. And he did. He had a very good snap chair before his injury. I don't think we'll see that with Gus Edwards and Justice Hill and Melvin Gordon. So I feel like the Raven is gonna be a tough backfield to trust at least for now until we hopefully see someone separate within that backfield. Deontay Johnson suffered a hamstring injury and missed most of the second half of the Steelers. Calvin Austin got a spike in snaps as a result. Austin ran 27 routes. George Pickens, now in Robinson had 46 and 44 routes respectively. Robinson led with eight targets. Pickens had seven. Austin had six in what was a super negative script for the Steelers. So on a per route basis, Austin actually did earn quite a bit of work. But nobody really earned a ton of targets in this offense in this game. Pickens is the guy who gets a lot of hype because he makes insane catches. But I bet he probably wants of catching a decent amount of buzz if Johnson does miss time. And I feel like Robinson and Austin will get targets as well. So Pickens, even with Johnson missing time I feel like we'll still be very boomer busty as a player just because he hasn't really shown the ability to earn a lot of targets in the NFL as of yet. When he does get targets he's very fun but I wanna make sure we pump the brakes a bit on him because I'm worried that might need a bit more popping in here for him to truly, truly go off. Chacoby Myers had a pretty scary looking head injury for the Raiders. I'd have to assume he does miss time as a result of this. But he's very involved before that point. Actually finished with 10 targets. Devonte Adams ranked second on the team with nine targets and the 10 targets for Myers and the nine for Adams actually a 34% target share at least for both those guys. Myers had three inside the red zone. If Myers does miss time Adams obviously going to be a key focal point for DFS. Facing Buffalo next week, they are on the road. So nine and a half point dogs probably gonna throw a lot. Adams probably gonna get a lot of work here but once Myers is back, he'll be viable for sure because that role he had in week one was very, very good. Hopefully he is okay, Schmay human perspective. Greg Dalsich left Sunday's game with a leg injury for the Broncos and did not return. Even with no Dalsich for the second half of that game and with Jerry Judy not playing nobody gained a lot of targets for this team. Devonte Williams actually led this team with six targets and we'll talk about him in the role change section. Adam Troutman and Cortland Sutton both had five. Marvin Mims had two. So Sutton's the top guy here. Troutman could have value of Dalsich misses time because he was ahead of him on the depth chart to begin with but with things with an offense like this with Judy like he's coming back I think we need to have target shares a bit tighter for an offense that probably wants to run is probably not gonna, you know like the world on fire from an efficiency perspective. I think we need a bit more before we get super jazzed about this team. So pretty bummed about the past catchers on the Broncos. Finally, Evan Hall was ruled out due to a knee injury for the Colts. Deon Jackson finished with 13 carries and six targets. Jackson actually had played every snap before he lost a fumble. Hall came in, had a pretty good run on a play where there was a holding call but got called back and then got hurt. Jackson all told 25 adjust opportunities but he turned it into just 28 yards. My hope here is that Zach Moss is back next week because I don't wanna touch this backfield and if Moss is back, it gives me a pretty good excuse to do so. They're facing Houston, maybe Moss winds up earning enough work to be a legitimate force but this backfield looked not ideal in that game. They need JT back pretty quick. So hopefully Hall is okay and hopefully Moss is back soon because I just don't wanna target this backfield in any way. Let's talk now about some role updates from week number one. And there are some big ones for some very big players. We had talked on Thursday, entering the week about how I was worried about Christian McCaffrey losing work to Eli Mitchell because it sounds like they wanna keep McCaffrey healthy. We saw Mitchell mix in quite a bit last year so I thought going in, maybe we get the McCaffrey we got last year and Mitchell was healthy which was not perfect for his salary in TFS. That did not happen. Even in a blowout against the Steelers, McCaffrey had an 85% snap share. He had 22 carries and five targets which translated to 169 yards from scrimmage. McCaffrey also got 205 red zone chances for the team which is big because again, last year, he did lose red zone work to Mitchell when Mitchell was healthy. So I had been a bit worried, I am no longer. When you give me this workload with this talent, it's the moon is the ceiling for Christian McCaffrey. Looking forward to week two, McCaffrey is taking on the LA Rams. I can't really play name that sour because he's the top guy in salary for this slate. As you can see, if you're watching a Fandral TV Plus or the Fandral YouTube page, McCaffrey's salary is $9,500. I think that's probably where I would have put it anyway but it's well earned. The Rams defense played well Sunday but not the most talented team by any means. So either McCaffrey at 95, well worth that salary because of the work that he got in week one and because he's pretty good at this football thing too. As for the rest of the team, the 49ers funneled targets, their best players, Brandon Iuk, Debo Samuel, George Kittle all had at least a 20% target share. Debo had two rush attempts, Iuk went nuts through the air. I think seeing Brock Purdy play well here should boost the entire offense because the concerns around that elbow pretty much gone, I would say. So I still prefer Debo over Iuk and I'm not as in on Kittle just because the target, the raw targets are not that high but are you clearly gonna earn work here? So I would say expectations for me on every 49er are up because they're gonna funnel work in a very efficient offense, that's all great. So arrows up on all these guys but specifically most on McCaffrey and I'm more willing to use Debo and Iuk that I would have been entering this week. Tyree Kill went insane on a bananas workload. He had 15 targets in that game, eight of those were at least 16 yards downfield and he caught six of those 8D targets for 188 yards. What on earth? And he also had four red zone targets so it's not just that he had those two touchdowns but he also was getting work towards a goal on and converting on that work too. Jalen Waddle, five targets are 78 yards. Durham Smythe actually second on this team with seven targets, which is very weird because I kind of view him as more of a blocking tight end but seven targets, not nothing. I'm still gonna rank Waddle pretty firmly the number two guy on this team, no shocker but and Waddle will have good games too. So don't just fixate on Hill because he went nuts on Sunday but he's probably gonna go nuts again. And Waddle very much in play. They are the Sunday night game next week taking on New England. But I mean, what else can you say about Tyree Kill? What else is it about Tua with what he did there too? So this team very much carrying over what they did pre-injuries for Tua last year. Travis Etienne had a pretty nice game Sunday but he did lose goal line work to Tank Figsbee which was kind of the concern with this team heading into this year. Etienne did score but it was on a longer run. So, you know, that's good to score on longer runs because it can earn you more work. It shows burst and stuff like that. And there were also some other positives. Etienne actually earned five targets in this game. He had five and that actually ties the high for Etienne from last year. So I'd entered this year kind of worried that Etienne might both not earn targets once again and also lose work at the goal line to Figsbee. The goal line work was actually something that did play out. So that part is legitimate. But maybe if he earns targets, he can partially offset that. I think that like a decent comp is probably like Tony Pollard last year after his breakout where you had Pollard getting good overall work and getting targets in the passing game while still losing at least some work to Ezekiel Elliott. I think that's worth a salary of around $7,700. Now, I know that's what Etienne's salary was entering this week and he did get boosted up but I also was not an Etienne for this week. So it's just boosting him up for me from where I viewed him which is probably around like 72, 71 or so, boosting him up because the passing game work back gets into 77. Etienne's salary for that shootout with the Chiefs in week two is 82, so a bit high. I'm gonna have a hard time getting there. Between him and Calvin Ridley, I feel much better about Ridley at his high salary than I do with Etienne at his. So to me, if we're talking Jags Chiefs on the Jag side of things for that fun game, I'm gonna lean Ridley relative to salary for these two guys. There have been a ton of reports in the off season that Kenneth Gainwell might be the Eagles lead back and to my surprise at least he actually was on Sunday. He had 14 carries and four targets and he turned that into 74 yards from scrimmage. We also saw Gainwell get three out of four red zone chances, not just among running backs but among all players on this team. Now, Jalen Hertz will run the red zone. So you know, just to kind of keep that in mind with the Eagles backs, but we saw Miles Sanders on a pretty similar workload go really well last year. And when you attach that work to Jalen Hertz who kind of boosts the efficiency of the team's rushing offense, that's pretty good. Now they play Thursday taking on the Minnesota Vikings and spread his length into seven and a half because the Vikings struggled in their game with the Buccaneers. But Gainwell, I think definitely gets a boost up as a result of what we saw in this game. If he were on the main slate, I'd say appropriate side for Gainwell probably around $6,900, $7,000 somewhere in there just because I want access to this offense and he actually had a pretty good role both from an overall perspective and getting goal line work, getting targets. I think arrows up for Kenneth Gainwell for sure. Now Derek Henry in his game had a really big catch but he also lost a quality amount of work to Tyjay Spears. Spears out snapped Henry 56% to 48%. And he also ran seven more routes than Henry. He had one more target than Henry. So Henry has big play upside because he's a very good football player and he's gonna be able to burst off those big runs and that can give him very good gains as a result. But I don't think the median expectation for Henry will be as high as usual if this role persists where you see Spears continuing to steal work. In the past we would see Henry get spelled by other backs in this team but they wouldn't get a lot of work whereas here they kind of did. So I would say I'm gonna bump down Derek Henry a little bit as a result of this game. Now Tennessee next week is on the main slate, I believe trying to find who they're facing. They're facing the Chargers. That's actually a pretty fun game. Total is 45 and a half. The Chargers favored by three. So based on that role for Derek Henry based on that matchup, I feel like I'd probably bump his salary down to like 74 or so respecting his upside still but acknowledging that there are some flaws in the role that he has. And looking at Henry in week number two over on Fandral his salary is 83. So the ceiling's still there. So we might need to be there regardless because he could burn us. But for cash games, I think that salary is too high. I think it's high enough where I'd rather look elsewhere. And for tournaments, I wanna make sure my exposure is low because you kind of have to ask yourself what are the odds he stiff arms me into oblivion for not using him and then use that to kind of guide your exposure to him but a little bit high and a little bit of downgrade for Derek Henry based on what we saw in week one. Same team, Deandre Hopkins had 13 targets in his Titans debut. Didn't do a ton with it, 65 yards for Hopkins. Four of the targets were deep, which is pretty good. But Ryan Tannell just really, really struggled in this game facing the Saints on the road in the Superdome. So, you know, some factors there to consider but I don't know, I'm not super enthused about this offense overall. Hopkins is gonna get targets because he's very good and he's gonna get doubtful work it seems like we'll just need to pick and choose the spots for him. And maybe it does want to be in this Chargers game. So let's actually just take a quick look at what Hopkins salary is for this game against the Chargers. Hopkins comes in at 71, it's not bad actually, might be more intrigued by Hopkins than I am by Henry at their respect to salaries. We'll see though. I think that he's at least someone I'll probably wind up talking about Thursday just to end a game that we might wanna be on. Nick Chubb's first game with Cream Hunt, another spot where it was kind of a mixed bag where Chubb looked great. He had 18 carries and four targets for 127 yards in scrimmage. The targets especially are awesome because the four targets for Chubb are tied for the most he has had since the beginning of last year. He's still at a 47% snap share though, ran a route on just 28% of drop backs. Now part of that could have been because Joe Burrow left that game early and the Bengals pulled the plug but Chubb was out there after Burrow left. So I don't think that was the entire case. This could mean the passing game work where he didn't run a lot of routes could mean that the Browns are prioritizing getting him the ball when he does run around. We saw this with Henry with the Titans the last couple of years they had done that where he wouldn't run a lot of routes but he'd get a lot of targets on those routes. Maybe the Browns are doing that with Chubb which I would adore but I think it's more likely the passing game work that Chubb got is not super, super sticky. So I thought it was probably kind of a neutral game for Chubb where he was explosive as always, the offense. I thought got better as the game went along. Rough start for Deshaun Watson but they did get a bit better but I think it was overall pretty neutral game for Nick Chubb. Elijah Moore got more work than I thought he would in his debut. Taitamari Cooper on the team lead with seven targets. One of those for Moore was deep whereas Cooper had two. More I would say if you're talking about the stacking pecking order on this team it's Cooper still one. I would say more though as past Donovan People's Jones and David and Joku to rank second in the pecking order on this team. So to me it's Cooper one, Elijah Moore two, DPJ three and Joku four. Actually no in Joku three DPJ four with regards to stacking pieces on this team. Miles Sanders had six targets in his Panthers debut. That's as high as total since 2020. So it's been a long time for Miles Sanders. Snap right for Sanders 58% so he was still losing work to Chuba Hubbard but Sanders had 30 adjusted opportunities which is carries plus two X targets because targets are with twice as much for running back as a carry. It's actually not a bad workload for Sanders. They play on Monday night against the Saints really tough matchup there for this Panthers offense hard to be super, super high on them but I didn't think it was least encouraging for Sanders to see him get that much work in the passing game. Givante Williams had a 45% snap share in his first start after his knee injury. Sean Payton had said that Williams would be on a snap count. I think the total snap number there was 28 for Givante but 13 carries and six targets. So he was involved getting a carry or a target on 19 out of 28 snaps. That's very good. Resulted in just 57 yards so not a ton of productivity for Williams in that time and then Broncos offense wasn't great overall but if Williams is gonna get that kind of passing game work it's going to make him at least interesting I would say for sure. So they get Washington at home next week another tough defense there for the most parts but I think it's an okay look for Givante Williams to get that much work in the passing game even though the yardage was not there. Kyrie Williams played a lot of snaps to the ranks and actually a positive game script. I thought that if they had gotten a positive game script it'd be Cam Akers who'd benefit and Williams would be more of the negative game script guy but he was great. He played two thirds of the snaps, Akers played the other third. So Akers got a lot of carries. His volume was good but he randomly two routes in the entire game. So I'm not gonna touch Cam Akers. No interest, he's a hard cross off for me. Williams had 15 carries and two targets on 26 routes so very good passing game work. He handled eight out of 14 red zone chances and scored twice. Akers was not effective. So I do think we need to at least keep a close eye on Kyron Williams which is a bit surprising to me. I know they've liked him a lot for a long time but didn't think we'd see quite that. Do want to take a quick peek at his salary out of curiosity just to see if he's super, super low. Again facing San Francisco next week so they're seven point dogs at home but it's at least a good role. Kyron Williams salary next week is 59. Okay, low enough where we don't cross him off is what I would say. Despite the tough matchups similar to Pukinakua the Rams may be a team we have to go to despite the fact that matchup with the 49ers very, very tough for next week. Kendrick Bourne 11 targets to the Patriots but some of that was because they were just down most of that game. Patriots through 52 times. So 11 targets was a 20% target share. Bourne did get three deep targets and two inside the red zone. I would just keep in mind the fact they were down for the entirety of that game when looking at Bourne's game logs. Nachi Harris got a downgrade in week one at least for me may have been due to the negative script for them but Harris played just 53% of the snaps. Jalen Warren and Anthony McFarlane both mixed in quite a bit. I don't think Harris will get a ton of work in the passing game and he needs that because the inefficiency running the football tends to be pretty high with him and this team. They were better down the stretch last year in the second half but wasn't great in a very tough matchup on Sunday. So I think Harris pretty close to being a cross-off for me for DFS. They're not in the main slate next week so not a concern but it's a downgrade from already a not super optimistic situation. I had interest in Damian Pierce entering week one but that backfields a cross-off as well. Snappering for Pierce was under 50% both Mike Boone and Devon Singletary mixed in. So the Texans easy backfield to avoid right now I don't really just wanna go there at all. We could use Niko Collins though because Niko Collins had 11 targets. Robert Wood said 10 but Collins had two out of the three deep throws from CJ Stroud. So Collins to me is the one usable Texan. They're facing the Colts next week pretty tight spread obviously not the highest total because it's two rookie quarterbacks playing their second game but it is indoors. So let's just take a look quick peek at Niko Collins to see what his salary is. Week number two, Collins' salary 62. It's not appropriate. He was 58 entering this week. So 62 to me is pretty fair given that's not the world's best game environment. Final mode here is in the Bears backfield. It was a full committee. Now obviously we had to keep in mind this was a very negative game script for the Bears. They got down to the Packers but Roshan Johnson led in snaps and got all the red zone work. He also had seven targets but again it was almost as negative of a game script as you could possibly concoct. So I'm not gonna go to the Bears backfield until that one sorts itself out. It seems like all three guys will be involved and I need a better offense to take a stab at it when that is the case. Okay, let's take a look forward now to week number two. We've been talking about some salaries throughout the show here for today but want to go through and look at the week two main slate over on Fandwall.com go position by position and just kind of talk about salaries that stand out to me, whether it be too high salary or too low salary and just kind of take notice of some guys who could be on the menu or off the menu for next week. When I pull up quarterback for week number two there are a couple of marquee games next week. I would say the Chiefs and the Jaguars is the number one for there. You could talk about the Rams and Seahawks in that regard, very high total in that game. Las Vegas and Buffalo also a high total. So Josh Allen does the highest salary at $9,200 Mahomes at 9,000. Thinking about other guys and shootouts though next week. Yeah, Trevor Lawrence coming in at $7,800. To me, that stands out because they're gonna have to push that they want to keep pace with Patrick Mahomes. And I talked before about how Ridley's salary was about 200 more than I thought it would be. This offsets that. And if you're talking about them, just like as an overall stack, they're affordable in my eyes. Trevor Lawrence $7,800. I think I'm gonna be pretty high on him this week. But I think the most noteworthy salaries both come in the same game. Both are on a couple of teams that struggled in week one with the Ravens and the Bengals. Lamar Jackson's salary is $7,600 and Joe Burroughs is $7,400. Oh boy, that total right now since then 45 and a half. I believe in the look ahead line it was either 47 and a half or 48 and a half for that game. And did anything actually happen in those two games that justified downgrading this game two or three points? I don't think so personally. I know, I mean, the Ravens might get Mark Andrews back. The Bengals had a bad game. Teagan's 0 for 8 on eight targets. Like, you know, I think it's kind of a bad game. Both these defenses are respectable. So maybe that's why we see that. But I think Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrough really under salaryed at 76 and 74 respectively. And guys I'm gonna wanna be on this week. I also do think that lowers my interest in Jared Goff. If you told me that Jared Goff at 73 and a potential shootout with the Seahawks I'd probably have interest there. But given the fact we have Burrough and Jackson at such low salaries it does lower things a bit for Jared Goff. Gino is 7,000 on the other side of that game. I don't really see a lot of other salaries at standouts. Maybe you could be enticed by Baker. No, that's stupid. Don't listen to that. Just kidding. This is a live show. Otherwise I would redact that. But either way, I think that to me standouts a quarterback gonna be Burrough at 74, Lamar at 76 and then Trevor Lawrence at 78 because all those guys have passed to legit upside in very good games and do not cost you a lot in terms of salary. Moving over to running back, McAfrey has mentioned is 95, Eckler is 92, Derek Henry is 83. Let's scroll here and see if we see some guys who might be a bit under salary. Tony Pollard is in a pretty tough matchup taking on the New York Jets. But again, Pollard last night had a very good role. Let me scroll over here now and see what Pollard's snap rate looked like last night. Obviously the score played an impact but still a 64% snap rate for Pollard, 14 carry from three targets, 82 yards in that game, 8,000 is not a bad salary for Tony Pollard on a game that should be more competitive. They're playing indoors, they're at home. Again, the Jets defense rock solid. Not a team I wanna go at very often but pretty intriguing number there for Tony Pollard. Scrolling down a bit further on this list Aaron Jones can't go, A.J. Dillon's salary is $7,000. James Cook is 66, kinda wanna see what his role looks like for tonight because they're facing the Raiders and the Raiders played well on Sunday against the Broncos but I think James Cook's role might be pretty good. If he gets the passing game work I expect from him, $6,600 might wind up looking pretty good in retrospect. So I wanna keep a very close eye on James Cook for tonight. David Montgomery's salary is $6,300. I know there was talk about how Jameer Gibbs will get more work as he goes along but also like Montgomery played well. Now no targets from Montgomery in that game but he had 21 carries and four and eight red zone targets or four and eight red zone chances for that team. $6,300 is a pretty low number for Montgomery. So I feel like he'll be on the menu too although I just got distracted by a guy right below him and I think I might be even more there. That is Rashad White for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They're facing the Bears and that plays a big role in this because the Bears looked really bad. Rashad White against the Vikings had a 79% snap share, 17 carries and two targets. Didn't do a whole lot with that work but it seems like he is the legitimate leadback on this team and is now at home facing a pretty leaky defense. So Rashad White at 62, I'm probably gonna be all over that for this week. Scrolling down elsewhere, I mentioned Kyron Williams before with Sauer 59. Don't really have interest in the Ravens guys with Gus Edwards at 59. Zip Acheco, Sauer is down to 57. His role was not great but it was kind of similar to last year. Acheco finished with eight carries and four targets. 54 yards, one out of seven red zone chances. I definitely liked the other guys more than him. The guys we discussed in Rashad White and David Montgomery but Acheco in a game we're probably gonna wanna stack with the Jags and Chiefs. It's not like a cash gameplay but like for game stacks I think he'd at least be worth considering at that number. Gaining that low 5,000s don't see a lot that really grabs my attention. So I think we are good to move over to wide receiver now. Wide receiver, we don't have Justin Jefferson I think on this slate because the Vikings play on Thursday nights. There's no AJ Brown either. Looks like we're missing a couple of key guys here because the highest salary receiver is Jamar Chase at 84. I know again, the Bengals did not play well on Sunday but that's probably a little bit light for him. Malin Rosse Brown, $8,100. Again, Eisenstaff on digs for tonight because his salary is $8,000. He could potentially be enticing at that number. Scrolling down a bit further mentioned before the injury to Jacoby Myers. Devonte Adams still at a 34% target share for the Raiders now goes in the road to face Buffalo. His salary is $7,500. That's pretty good. So Devonte Adams, definitely a guy I could see myself being on for week two. Garrett Wilson, 74, depending on what the workload is for him for tonight, don't mind that at all. Top of four about how the Bucks get a good matchup here with the Bears, Mike Evans, salary is 71. He had 10 targets in Baker Mayfield. Baker was efficient. I know I don't want to get into Baker but like Evans is 71, not a bad number. Do like Rashad White as well. So Evans, I think that's a pretty good start for him. Teagan, 7,000, coming off the offer. The Donut, I could see being there too. Debo Samuel, sorry, went down to 69. Not sure why it went down. I guess like he didn't do a ton with the work that he got but like again, Brock Purdy look healthy and I think that's the biggest thing for the 49ers right now. So Debo at 69, I think is definitely a guy we may want to focus on later. Mike Williams, 67, he missed a decent chunk of Sunday's game due to being checked for a head injury but came back in and looked okay. So Mike Williams, 67, I think that could be a good spot. Pretty tough matchup for him but I'm not opposed to him at that number. Zay Flowers talked about him before at 66, gonna be there. Title lock-in at 65. Another guy who missed a lot of time getting checked for a head injury, came back in. He's $6,500 on the road against Detroit. Detroit's defense is much better now than it was last year but lock-in I think is a guy we'll definitely want to be on at that number next week. Scrolling down, getting down to the low 6,000 range, checking on the 59s as well. Pukinakua talked about him before, $5,800. It's a pretty good start for him given the workload that he got in that game. Trying to find any others. Al Mazzard is 57, could be interesting depending on what the workload looks like for him in the opener for the Jets for tonight. Tutu Atwell actually got a lot of work for the Rams. Again, he was second on the team and targets behind Pukinakua and got three deep targets. They're at home, $5,500 for Atwell is not the worst thing I've ever seen. I could see myself digging into that later on because that might not be totally, totally off the board. If you decide you wanna stack up the Colts Texans game for some reason, Josh Downs is 52, had an okay workload. I thought in week number one, so not opposed to that. That could be one to focus on later. I think that's probably gonna be the main one. Jaden Reid had a good role. He had cramped up late in that game against the Bears, so he's gonna be okay. $5,100 for him facing Atlanta on the road, indoors. If Christian Watson, this is another game, Jaden Reid might not be totally, totally out of bounds. Five targets for him, 48 yards again, despite missing some time due to cramping. Not opposed to that number by any means. Not gonna scroll too far down here. I think we probably reached the end of the viable wide receiver. So again, Pukinakua, Zay Flowers, maybe Jaden Reid, all the rookies apparently, guys who are popping, and then Tyler Lockett at 65. Another guy who I think could be a good value for this week. Tight end, oh boy. Darren Waller has the highest salary of $66,000. You can see on Fanduul, the Fanduul points per game, and it's all just one game for all these guys. In the scrolls, I find a guy who hit double digits because did we have anybody who was on yesterday's slate, who was on the week two main slates who had 10 points? No, I don't think this is literally anybody. So tight end is gonna stink. Kiddil is 62, Angrums, 6,000s. We might wanna be in there just because of game stacks. Kyle Pitts, if you think the Falcons throw a bit more, could be intriguing, but I don't, do we really wanna do this to ourselves? I don't. Dalton Kinkade is 52. I wanna see what his role looks like on Monday night because if it winds up being a good role, they're facing the Raiders. That game is a pretty high total. We know we'll want access to the bills in that game. That's not bad at all. I could see being into that. Sam Laporta, $5,100, and Luke Musgrave at 5,000. I feel like I'm just naming every rookie, but every rookie had really good workloads week one. Laporta, route rate was around, I think like 70%, 74% somewhere in there. Five targets in that game. Facing the Seahawks, I will look out there, but then also Luke Musgrave at 5,000 just because had a pretty good workload as expected in week one based on what he had in the preseason. He had a couple of situations where he almost scored. He had one where he like fell down. So Musgrave, definitely a guy I could be intrigued by at $5,000. Scrolling down further at tight ends, Isaiah likely. How dare you? Actually, where is Mark Andrews? Mark Andrews, it's 8,000. Oh, so he's Mark is not active on FanDuel because he was inactive this past week. That'll get scrubbed, but he's $8,000. So he'll be the one higher salary tight end in the slate. Maybe we just go to Mark Andrews. If tight end is so awful, maybe we just find a way to jam in with the salary savings via Rashad White, Pukinakua, Zay Flowers and guys like that. Looking down further at tight end, not a whole lot jumping out at me. So primary values here seem to be maybe Laporta, maybe Musgrave. And then there was someone else in the low $5,000. It's all thinking K to 52. So again, it's all about the rookies at tight end, but they're gonna get that much work. We have to at least give them some attention. That is all that we have here for today. For this week one, Recap week two. First look here on the Heechech Fantasy Podcast. If you have some thoughts on the format and anything you want tweaked, I'm open to change things because brand new show for this year, brand new format for the show for this week. So if you want to hear more about one thing, less about something else, feel free to let me know. You can have me up on Twitter at Jim Sonnis with your thoughts on the show. Make sure to follow Fandal Research at Fandal Research. We're back with you once again, Thursday to preview the week two Slate info with myself and Brandon Cadulla. That'll be live on the Fandal YouTube page at 10 a.m. Eastern, also up on Fandal TV Plus and the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed. 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