 If you had told me 10 days ago that I'd be leading off the week to recap show talking about how fantasy friendly the Los Angeles Rams are, I'm not sure what I told you back because this team was not fun down the stretch last year, even with no Cooper Cup. Not a lot of guys emerge to be viable fantasy options. Even Cam Acres, I had my concerns run. If you had said, hey, a month ago, it'd be the Rams fantasy friendly. Maybe it's Cooper Cup. Maybe it's Cam Acres. Instead, we got Kyron Williams and Puka Nakua and suddenly the Los Angeles Rams are one of those fun teams for fantasy in the entire league. We're going to break down expectations for those guys going forward. Other injuries and roll changes across the NFL to recap week two and get you ready for week three in the NFL. Welcome on into the heat check fantasy podcast part of the fan dual podcast network. My name is Jim Sonnis. 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My gosh he's up to a 39% target share for this year he's catching it literally everything so not only is he getting volume but he's converting the volume because Matthew Stafford looks healthy right now and Stafford with healthy is a quality quarterback. So they also gave him a red zone rush attempt which means to me that they want the ball in this guy's hands when it matters. So everything lines up well for Nakua and we've seen it for two weeks now with insane volume I think 35 targets across two weeks we got to buy into that. Now the Rams are not on the week three DFS main slate because they play in a Monday night double header against the Bengals next week. So we can't play name that salary we toss out a salary on fandal and if we are if our salary for that guy is higher than what's actually on fandal it means there are value if it's lower that means that there might be a bit overvalued. But I think that also giving you a salary can kind of give you a baseline of where I'm at on this player because if you're a long time DFS player you know what a guy with an $8000 salary means versus a guy at $6000. So I'm still going to toss out where I'd put these guys from a salary perspective if they were on the main slate to kind of give you a gauge on how I feel about them through two weeks for Nakua. It's a quality quarterback and Matthew Stafford he's getting a lot of volume and converting on it and he's getting like some high leverage work to in addition to the fact that he's getting all this volume. I think Nakua's salary should probably be like 8081 somewhere in there which probably sounds very high because his salary and fandal this week was $5800 but we've now seen it for two weeks against two very different defenses. I think that's enough where we got to buy in. So until Cooper Cup is back I'm going to view Nakua as being $8,800 as being fair market salary for him based on the way he's played so far. It's a similar discussion for Kyron Williams. KMakers of course are active for this game and Williams wasn't every down the back. He had a 96% snap rate. He handled 14 carries and 10 targets and he also had six out of seven red zone chances. The other red zone chance was a Nakua carry. So this is just an insanely fantasy friendly team both for a running back and for Nakua. So again let's play the same process here with Williams as Nakua. Let's assume that Williams were on the main slate. I feel like his salary would probably be somewhere in upper sevens like 79 or so. I think that'd be appropriate. Now I think if I were to pick either too low or too high on that for Williams I might be a bit too low. I'm just skeptical that like given his body type he winds up being a 96% snap rate guy for the entire year. Maybe that's wrong of me but just a little bit skeptical there. He's getting a lot of red zone work. He's getting passing game work again. 10 targets on Sunday. Just some lingering concerns. Maybe Sunday night it's like maybe that sounds too high to you. Maybe I'm hedging it for no reason but they're pretty fun and I don't think it's going to be entirely fluky. So Nakua, Kyron Williams I think are two guys we have to buy into and that game against the Bengals. Single game slayer for that will be insane because it's maybe I know Chase and Higgins haven't been phenomenal so far outside of Higgins in the second half on Sunday but they're legit and they're going to be worthy of your attention for the single game slate and the two game slate next Monday night. Let's dive in now to some injuries here from week number two and begin things with Saquon Barclay. Spray and his ankle and the Giants come back win over Arizona. Barclay played all but a few snaps so hard to get a read on his backup here. They play Thursday so seems like a pretty short turnaround for Barclay to be out there. The Giants 10 point favorites against a very tough 49ers team so that's not ideal. I would guess they lean on Brita here. Last year on week 18 Barclay sat and Gary Brightwell did run ahead of Brita but that was also before their playoff game. So they could have been saving Brita for the playoffs so I'd lean towards Brita being the primary back but it's not going to be a situation where anyone will be a certainty to be the lead back for the Giants and get some good reporting and there are good beat reporters for the Giants. Maybe we do get that but I'd expect to be some sort of split in a very tough matchup. Hopefully Saquon is healthy soon because he's fun to watch and this backfield is not going to be, I don't think, the most fantasy friendly without him out there. Jalen Waddle ruled out last night because of a concussion. The Dolphins rotated guys behind Tyree Kill last night. Nobody other than these two, Tyree Kill and Jalen Waddle played more than 34% of the snaps among the wide receivers. Durham Smythe plays a ton of snaps though. He has a 14% target share in two games while playing almost entirely with Waddle and Hill. I don't view Smythe as being an elite pass catcher. I was shocked when I saw his route run and target numbers last week but if the salary is low enough I could definitely at least see that. So let's check up, pull up the week three salaries over at Fandold.com and check in on Durham Smythe see where he settles in. $4,800 taking on Denver. Not out of the question I wouldn't say. Just because again he's going to play every snap of Waddle, can't go, opens up some targets too. So that could work. Braxton Berrios, other guy who is somewhat enticing at salaries 51. Berrios, 3D targets in week number one. He'd be my preferred guy among the receivers but I think what happens realistically if we get no Waddle is that we downgrade the offense and downgrade to a tongue of Iloha. Tyreek Hill, pretty much status quo because like he can't really get more work. So his salary is 96. You can see here if you're watching on Fandold's YouTube page or FandoldTV+. He's at 96, can't really get much more volume than what he's been getting. So slight downgrade for Tua if Waddle can't go. Maybe we get to Durham Smythe, maybe Braxton Berrios I feel like we need to be in a pretty rough salary situation to get to those guys. Another bummer one, Anthony Richardson ruled out in the second quarter due to a concussion for the Colts. He'd already scored two rushing touchdowns before that time. So it just stinks if he misses time because he's so fun to watch so far. Gardner Minshew played well in Relief of Richardson and completed 19 out of 23 passes. Passing net expected points per dropback again. Passing NEP is number fires expected points model. 0.43 is very good. Lee Auerge around 0.1 typically for a quarterback. So he was great. And I think that's that's big to see Minshew play well because we want competent quarterback play in this offense. And if there's no Richardson, you know, that can be scary, but Minshew is at least fine. He can be fine in short stretches. The reason we want competent quarterback play here is because Zach Moss played all but one snap on offense for the Colts. He had 18 carries and four targets for 170 yards. He had three out of seven red zone chances. We talked about this a bit on Thursday where Dion Jackson was awful in week one and Evan Hall is on IR. No Jonathan Taylor to the least week five. So I think Moss is in play even if Richardson cannot go next week. Now next week they face the Ravens and that's a very tough matchup. Indie eight and a half point underdog in that game, but it's still a guy who's going to get a lot of work. And Ravens defense is beat up primarily in the secondary more so than the linebackers don't really want to go at that Ravens front. But it's a really good workload. I would say Zach Moss is salary for week three considering the match up to the Ravens. I'd probably put him in around 7000 flats and it's salary is $6400. So Moss might be a guy we need to go to despite the fact his matchup is tough just because Minshew can be good enough to get the job done. And that workload for Moss at least in week two was good enough where I really would have a hard time passing that up at such a low salary. Moving on here, Joe Burrow tweaked his calf late in Sunday's loss to the Ravens. He said it's sore but he was planning to return to the game if they had gotten the ball. The problem is that Burrow was starting to look a little bit better in the second half before than he had in week one and first half of week two. T Higgins benefited but I mean he didn't look healthy and now you ding up that calf once again. It does increase the volatility in this offense a lot at Burrow is not 100% for the near future. So looking forward to that Rams game next week. That's a tough spot. The defense is not tough for the Rams by any means but it also means as a result we're going to want to go at the Bengals for the two game slate. And I'm not sure what level of confidence we can have given Burrow's calf. It seemed to impact him in week one, seemed to impact him in week two and now it's banged up again. I think that is a downgrade for this offense given that Burrow is in a pretty rough situation for right now and hopefully he wants it being okay. Devontae Adams is in concussion protocol for exiting Sunday's game. He has a 35% target share this year. It's uncertain if Jacoby Myers will be able to play next week. If both wind up sitting I would just downgrade this offense in a pretty big way. They're on Sunday at a football taking on Steelers so a very tough match up there as well. If both these guys sit it can be hard for them to move football on the Raiders. If one of them plays without the other I'd expect that guy to be a pretty big target monster for this offense. Because Myers actually out targeted Devontae Adams before his concussion in week number one and both guys had at least a 34% target share in that game. If neither guy can go I feel like we'll just see a lot of Josh Jacobs. I can't really feel good about projecting any of the other wide receivers but Jacobs six targets on Sunday. He'd probably get a ton in that Steelers game and if with no hayward again for the Steelers probably to see a lot of Jacobs in that one. David Montgomery got ruled out a Sunday's game due to a thigh injury. Sounds like it's a bruise and maybe he'll be okay but Craig Reynolds mixed in even with Montgomery being out. Jameer Gibbs after Montgomery's injury played 17 snaps whereas Reynolds played 10. Sounds like Montgomery should be okay but if he does miss time Gibbs will get a ton of passing game work while holding some touchdown concern after he had 0 of 7 red zone opportunities on Sunday. The Lions next week are taking on Atlanta. That is going to be a very fun game from a stacking perspective. Total is 46 and a half. I think that's a bit low personally for this one. So we're going to have a lot of interest here. Gibbs's role is still not great. Let's check out what Gibbs's salary is here in week three. I think it's probably going to get pumped up because of the uncertainty around Montgomery and it should. But I still think the concerns would make him be in my eyes around like 66 or so is a fair salary for Jameer Gibbs. He's 7000 so you did get that bump as a result of Montgomery's injury. I get it but that's a little bit lofty for a guy who's pretty much a guaranteed has some touchdown concerns. I like the passing game work a lot but you know if Montgomery can't go. We might have to be there but like I'm not going to feel good about it is what I would say with Jameer Gibbs. Darnell Mooney left Sunday's game with a knee injury and did not return. It kept Chase Claypool involved in this offense despite the fact the Bears very obviously do not want him involved. DJ Moore was the productive one here. No shocker. I can't trust Claypool. It's more or bust for me if I'm going at this offense even if Mooney does miss time. Now they're facing the Chiefs in week three so they're going to have to throw probably quite a bit. But I really don't want to get to Claypool unless absolutely for us. Let's just check really quickly what the salary is in Claypool just because I'm curious. Claypool is 55. That's probably not low enough for me and DJ Moore is 64. That's not bad. So DJ Moore could be the guy we turned to there as far as a bring back option for the Bears and for the Chiefs. Oh no. Beckham left Sunday's game with an ankle injury and did not return. John Harbaugh said he didn't think it was serious. So Beckham may not miss time. Mark Andrews led this team with eight targets. Nelson Aguilar had six. Zay Flores had five targets for 62 yards. Rashad Bateman three targets still was not playing every snap. You played more snaps than you'd think based on the three targets. But it's not great for Bateman. I like Bateman a lot as a player. But his role so far has been very, very muted. Now Lamar looked great. So I'll probably want to get to Lamar against the Colts. But if I'm stacking Lamar, I think it's really just Andrews first followed by Zay Flores. Maybe Aguilar wants it being a legit option. But I think to me I'd really rather focus here on Andrews and Flores in that order. Finally, Logan Thomas left the Commanders game with a pretty scary looking concussion. John Bates ran 18 routes to Colt Turner's 10. John Dotson currently leads this team with a 19% target share. Terry McLaurin is at 16%, but he does lead with four deep targets so far. I think that McLaurin and Dotson get a slight bump if Thomas can't go. Bates will probably have an okay role, but I don't know if it'll be enough to consider him for DFS. So the Commanders next week, taking on Buffalo, probably going to have to throw a bit in that game. I think it's more so benefiting. Those benefactors there are more so McLaurin and Dotson than going to one of the tight ends. Let's shift now and talk about some role updates from week number two in the NFL. Deandre Swift, awesome role for him with no Kenneth Gainwell on Thursday night against the Vikings. Swift, 76% snap rate. He had 28 carries and three targets, so we're getting a better idea of the pecking order on this team. Gainwell and Swift are very clearly the top two guys in this backfield right now. We just don't know how they'll rank when Gainwell is back now that Swift has beasted out and shown what he can do in this offense. So there's a lot of uncertainty with Swift's role that we'll have to keep in mind, but every single touch or carry in this offense is valuable given how good this offense can be. So I think we're going to take cracks at this backfield. They're on the short two games late on Monday. I just don't know what the distribution will be given that we have not seen both Gainwell and Swift in this offense since Swift showed what he can do. So a lot of uncertainty there still with Deandre Swift, despite the fact that he did Thursday was very, very fun. Mike Evans is getting a ton of work from Baker Mayfield right now. Across two games, Evans has a 29% target share with half of the deep targets, and he's been very efficient on those deep targets. I think he's caught four out of six deep targets for like 150 yards to touchdown. So he looks like Mike Evans of all the Baker Mayfield playing some of his best football he's played outside of maybe that one playoff year. Chris Godwin 23% target share so far with 17% of the deep work and 43% inside the red zone. So Mayfield is playing very well. Part of that is because of matchups and he's definitely benefited from that. And he's facing the Eagles next week. Now the Eagles secondary is pretty banged up. But I think we got to take note of what the Buccaneers have done through the first two weeks on offense. Yes, again, the matchups have been very good for them, but doing well in plus matchups is important as well. And they've done exactly that. So I didn't got to bump up Evans in a pretty big way for that two game slate on Monday. And in general, bump up our perception of this Buccaneers passing game because Mayfield looks good. Evans looks good. Godwin looks fine. And that means we can go back to viewing this as being an offense we can use in a daily fantasy once again. We finally got a glimpse. The Cowboys without a complete blowout here and the offense revolved around Tony Pollard and Seedy Lamb. Pollard had 25 carries and eight targets. There was like that report last year where like, oh, we don't want to use more than 30 snaps, but he had 30 opportunities on Sunday. He had 41 adjusted opportunities, which is carries plus 2x targets because a target is worth twice as much as a carry on Fandall. Pollard also had 11 out of 23 red zone chances. Lamb, 13 targets. Two of those were deep. So it's just kind of their offense right now. And Dak Prescott is like very good across his first two games. Now in week number three, the Cowboys face the Arizona Cardinals. And the Cardinals have looked better than, better than expected the first two games, but still a very plus matchup for both of those guys. Let's play name that salary on these two guys here for week number three. Pollard, a lot of work, good matchup, good player, offensive line is banged up. I think that salary is worth around $8,700 and Pollard's salary is 94. My goodness. It's fair. I get it. But it's Christian McCaffrey on this slate. No, he's on Thursday. So we lose McCaffrey. Pollard might wind up being like the number one guy at running back on this slate, depending on the status of Austin Eckler. But like 94 is a little bit high. I get it. He's due for some, I mean, you know, he had two touchdowns in week one, but like probably due for some positive touchdown regression based on the work he got week number two. So I love the higher I thought it might be, but I get it with Pollard. As far as lamb goes again, high usage player, good offense. Maybe Arizona gives more pushback than we thought they would because of how well they played, at least yesterday. So that could be an okay situation. I would say lamb salary, give me around 82 for CD lamb in week three. He's 85. So I think both the Cowboys guys got jacked up a bit because of the matchup here with the Cardinals, which again is very fair. They played very well, but we're not going to catch Fandall sleeping on those two guys, but it's justifiable for sure. With no Austin Eckler, Joshua Kelly struggled for the Chargers 79% snap rates. The lack of yardage understandable, given it's a Titans who have like one of the best defensive fronts and fronts and football, but Kelly didn't get enough work in the passing game. Now he had a lot of routes, 29 routes, but just one target there. Maybe Kelly would have been more productive front, but it was pretty discouraging. I thought what I did like though was the passing game. Justin Herbert had a 10.6 yard eight-odd in this game, average depth of throw. That's the third highest single game mark for Herbert in his entire career. Keenan Allen, 28% target share so far. Mike Williams, 26%. He has 42% of the deep work. I think Arrow is up on this offense, even though they did lose this game to Tennessee. They go on the road next week to face the Vikings, which is guaranteed to be the dumbest game on the Slates. Very high total of those. We're going to talk about it. I have a lot of interest in Herbert in that game, just because of the eight-odd being higher there. $84 for Herbert in week number three. I get that. I think that's pretty fair. Not opposed to that. Not sure how much he's running right now. Let's check on that quick. Only one rush attempt on Sunday, five in week number one. Not running a whole lot, but still pretty fun. Mike Williams' salary is 72. Keenan's probably 8,000 if I had to guess. He is 88. Wow. Okay. Again, we are not going to catch finals sleeping on these guys right now. Yeah, I get it. It's a better offense from an eight-odd perspective, but give me Mike Williams there when those guys have their respective salaries. I think that would be the popular play is Williams with Herbert because of the salary, like I'm a fish, I guess. I'll just go that way. Regardless, but in general, I like this offense more now than I did before. Same thing could be said about Derek Henry. His role is much better in week two than week one. Henry had 95 yards, but it came on 25 carries and four targets. Snap rate there, 73%. And the inefficiency is excusable because there was no Peter Skoronsky in this game. Skoronsky hadn't happened decked to me, so hopefully he's back here soon. Skoronsky, despite being a rookie, probably their best offensive lineman, but Ryan Tannenel played a lot better this time around. So Henry got better work than week one. Ryan Tannenel played better. Next week for week number three, the Tennessee Titans are facing the Cleveland Browns. Very good defense. And that could be an issue for them, but short week for Cleveland, maybe that helps. Henry, I would say his salary from me back up to around like 83 is appropriate for Henry. So that's pretty much in line with expectations. So I think Henry's fair at 84 did get a pretty big boost up as a result of Tannenel looking more competent and the increased workload that he saw and increased snap rate. Bijan Robinson also had a better role in week two than week one. 73% snap rates. He had 19 carries and five targets and turned that into 172 yards from scrimmage. Tyler Algier was still involved in the red zone, though. Both those guys had four out of 16 red zone chances. I'm higher on Bijan now than it was before, but that red zone issue is still there. And I'd expect Algier to play more in positive scripts. Now they get the Lions next week, which is a very, very fun game. But I think that the comp for Bijan is kind of, I had said Aaron Jones last week, which I think was a bit low because Aaron Jones would split work with AJ Dylan, very, very efficient on the work he got, but split work with AJ Dylan. I think he's more like Austin Eckler before Austin Eckler got all the goal line work. Like there was that time when I think it was Anthony Lin was the head coach at the time, where he didn't really trust Eckler towards the goal line, but Eckler's other workload was fantastic. I feel like that's kind of what Bijan is. And to me, that salary is like 85 or so where the yardage upside is very, very high, but there are concerns around the touchdown equity. Now you can see Bijan here actually on the screen is salary is 9,000. A little bit higher than I thought it'd be, but again, I get it. So based on looking at salaries right now, it seems like things are pretty tight for week number three. So Kudos to Fandle for not sleeping on salaries here. They're definitely on top of things, but might be scrounging for some value in week number three. Where Aaron Jones out AJ Dylan's role was underwhelming. He played 68% of the snaps, 15 carries in one target. He had just two out of eight red zone chances. Dylan's still like a mid-range running back even when Jones is out. And you know, we've seen this a lot now. I should have been more hit to that. I still didn't have like a ton. Like I had, you know, to me, not a ton is like 30% or so. I don't know what my final number was on Dylan, but I don't know. I feel like I should have had less than that. His salary is 7,000. He should be around the mid 6,000 range. Now they get New Orleans next week. New Orleans still a good defense, but did lose a lot of pieces along the defensive front this off season. So I'd really rather not go there unless he gets a major salary decrease. Checking quickly on Dylan's salary at 63. So they did bump him down. So that's fair. But I'll be where he should be. Sounds like Christian Watson will be back next week, but Jaden Reid is likely earned a role even when Watson is back. He scored twice on eight targets. Two of those were inside the red zone. I think we're going to see a lot of guys in the sixth target or so range in this offense, which is not great for DFS. They're facing New Orleans toughest tasks they've had so far next week. So maybe that's where we see these guys come back to earth. But a little bit worried that they've got too many mouths to feed between Romeo Dobbs, Aaron Jones unhealthy Watson, Jaden Reid. That might be enough where maybe they're just too many mouths in an offense. It's not like elite, like they look good, but they're not elite for DFS. James Cook had 159 yards from Scrimmage on Sunday, but he lost a ton of red zone. The bills ran 22 plays from inside the red zone. Cook had just one out of 22 red zone chances. Latavius Murray had five, Damien Harris had three, Josh Allen had three. So Cook is going to get yardage, but it might be tough to get him touchdowns. So keep that in mind when you look at projections on touches and yardage for him, because there are some concerns in the red zone usage. And it's not like he's B-zone Robinson where it's a 73% snap rate and insane levels of efficiency overall. I'd have some, some qualms about James Cook facing Washington next week, decent defense. They haven't looked great so far, but like, you know, the overall personnel is pretty okay. I'm a little bit lower on him on James Cook than I was before. Christian Kirk's roll bounce back Sunday in a nice way. He led the team with 14 targets and he lined up in the backfield on a good number of plays, which says to me they're trying to get him involved. Across two games, Kirk's target share is 23%. Calvin Ridley is a 26%. Zay Jones and Evan Enger both 18%. Now, Jones missing time on Sunday due to an injury did come back in, but you know, so maybe bump up his target share a bit. Kirk has the least deep work of the bunch, which makes sense if he's going to be like a slot-only guy now. Ridley and Jones have all the red zone work. I'm okay putting Kirk back in the discussion. It is concerning though that there will be game plans where he's just not involved. They go heavier personnel. So I'm okay with him. Did bump him up for sure, but still not overly enthused. They face Houston next week. Houston's defense did not play well without their two safeties in week number three. So we'll be on the Jags once again, but I do want to be a bit cautious with Kirk in that matchup. Even with Deontay Forman and Active, it was still a committee backfield for the Bears. Khalil Herbert played 59% of the snaps. Roshan Johnson was at 43%. Neither guy hit 60 yards from scrimmage. I'm not looking at anybody here unless they are in an incredible spot. Next week they face the Chiefs, so likely a very negative game script. Maybe that does skew more towards Johnson than Herbert, but I'd rather not. I'd rather look at other offenses I have higher expectations for. Melvin Gordon was active for the Ravens, I believe, but did not play a snap. Backfield was still gross despite that. Justice Hill 11 carries and three targets. Gus Edwards 10 carries and zero targets. It's hard to have a ceiling game like that. So I'm going to continue to pass in the Ravens backfield until further notice. Tank Dell popped up, had a really nice roll this week for the Texans. He played 80% of the snaps. He led the team with 10 targets, one of which was deep. Robert Woods and Nico Collins both had nine overall targets. Three of those were deep. The Texans trail big early. So they threw a bunch, very negative script, but all three guys had a 20% target share. And CJ Stroud was pretty efficient. So I'm kind of okay with this offense, at least for bring back options. I think they've done enough to earn that level of faith here. I'd rank Collins first followed by Woods two and then tank Dell three. I think Woods is still going to be involved enough to be where he cuts into the appeal of Dell and Dell more so than Collins. Let's take a look here at some salaries. We need to save some salary in week three based on the other guys we've got. The Texans are on the road to face a jag. So pretty past heavy script for once again, likely Nico Collins salary. I think he deserves to be like 68 and he is 69 there. Tank Dell is 54. That's not bad. Again, I liked his role this week. Seems like he's earned a work and it wasn't just like fluky snaps or tank Dell. They placed Noah Brown on IR. So that's why his role went up. So 54 for Dell is not bad. And then Robert Woods Bobby Trees is 58. So not bad across the board as far as salaries go for those guys. And that could be a rat. We say some salaries Texans passing offense in week number three. Jordan Addison got three deep targets on Thursday night for the Vikings. He had one in the opener. He played a lot of snaps in this one. He has to fight KJ Osborne and TJ Hawkins in the volume, but he's still worth monitoring despite that because the Vikings offense is pretty fun. They're facing the chargers. And again, what should be the dumbest game of week three, but also the highest scoring potentially Addison salary is yeah 68. That's too high. Osborne comes in at 56. I probably like KJ Osborne more than I like Addison at their respective salaries. Maybe that's probably stupid. Yeah, it's dumb. Okay. Well, either way, I think that Addison salaries a bit lofty. Hawkins in 75. My gosh, salaries are tight this week. Looking forward to the salary scroll to find any value on this slate, but Addison 68 is probably a little bit high for me right now. Seems like Josh Reynolds is in the DJ shark roll now for the Lions. And if you know me, you know, I love the DJ shark roll where it's a guy who will get some deep work, be somewhat efficient on it. And that's kind of fun. He has Reynolds, three more deep targets on Sunday. Two touchdowns. His target share is 20% across two games. Sam Laporta is at 17%. I think they're both pretty viable. What do you want to stack Lions games? Obviously we prefer a Monroe St. Brown, but like, you know, it's not bad, especially in a game with what I think should be a pretty high total for Detroit, Atlanta. It's not super high right now, but I like the over in that one at least on a first look there. Let's see here. Josh Reynolds, yeah, three deep targets in both games so far a Monroe St. Brown two in both. Yeah, I kind of don't mind Josh Reynolds. Let's take a look at some salaries here. I'm worried to see based on my guessing so far, I've been low on pretty much everyone. I would say a Monroe St. Brown is 80 desserts here on 83 or so. He is 79. Okay. I know he's banged up. I left the game for part of it on Sunday, but did come back in. I'm assuming he's okay. He had a catch after that and looked really pretty good. So a Monroe 79, that's not bad. That's like the one under salary guy so far outside of Zach Moss Reynolds. I would say shark was usually around like upper fives, low sixes. So let's say 62 for Josh Reynolds. He is 7,000. What in the world? This is deeply upsetting. I don't know how I'm going to feed my family in week three if they don't lower these salaries. That's bad. I mean, it's not bad. It's smart, but like it's going to be very tough to find salary savers this week. And then let's check out La Porta. He was in the low fives this week. I think he's like a 55 kind of tight end and he is 52. Okay. There we go. So Sam La Porta, Monroe St. Brown might be our sources of value for stacking that lion's Falcons game. Unfortunately, my guy, Josh Reynolds is not. Alas, we gave it a run. Let's transition now into the salary scroll for week three and try to find some value because my goodness, salaries are high for week three, at least based on the guys we've looked at thus far. Now as far as like the Marquis games for week number three, highest total so far are for the Chargers and Vikings, 51 and a half. The Chiefs and the Bears, 49 and a half. And then I do, like I said, the Atlanta and Detroit game at 46 and a half. That's probably going to be the main games. I think the Jacksonville, the Jacksonville, Houston game might be kind of fun as well. So starting off a quarterback, looking at salaries on the week three main slate over on Fandall, Patrick Holmes, 92. I'll shout out if I see anybody, anybody who wants it being a little bit low to a tongue of Iloa 81. If there's no waddle that becomes less attractive, but if waddle were to be able to play that could work out for sure. Scrolling down a bit further here. Dak at 76. I mentioned before how high the salaries were for Pollard and for Lamb. 76 for Dak is not terrible. He hasn't done a ton so far, but he hasn't had to. Maybe he won't have to against the Cardinals either, but that's somewhat interesting. Trevor Lawrence 76, taking on Houston, struggled quite a bit in week number two, but not going to face Chris Jones this time around. So maybe that, that does help him there. I think Lawrence will be in play at 76. And actually the mid seven thousand range is not terrible. Maybe I shouldn't go Jared golf, but like, I think it could. We always say that with a pocket pastor, you need to go for like, you need to have the potential to go for 350 and four touchdowns. If you want to be like a perfect line of quarterback without running golf, three 23 and three touchdowns on Sunday. So we can do that. So maybe golf winds up being in play to Sean Watson, 75 really tough matchup against Tennessee based on their front, but he ran a lot in week one. So maybe we wind up seeing some interest there. Scrolling down further. I don't think I'm going to find a whole lot. Maybe Derek Carr $6,900. I like that offense in week one kind of want to see what they do in week two, but Derek Carr 69. That probably is stupid, but whatever. It's early in the week. I can be dumb now. Yep. Okay. So might have to dip into the mid 6,000 or mid 7,000 range of quarterback. We're going to guys like Dak, Lawrence, golf, Watson. Maybe that's where we go. But I think we might need to save some salary there. Running back as mentioned, Pollard leads away 94. Bijan Robinson, 9,000 with Nick Chubb at 86. Let's scroll here and see if we can find some under salary guys. Etn apparently got banged up on Sunday. Oh, cramping. Okay. 8,000 a bit high for a guy who saw some red zone concern didn't pop up on Sunday, but that's because they were barely in the red zone. So I think that those concerns are still present. Montgomery, 72 give 7,000 James Cook 69. Fine. I get it. Miles Sanders face in Seattle. Spread in that game at least as of this morning was four and a half for the Panthers on the road. Sanders got six targets in week one. Didn't do a whole lot with it overall with his volume, but like that's not bad. Or he mosted 66 again. He probably is not going to have a lot of yardage juice, which is concerning, but you know, he's at least out there. Maybe if there's no water, he gets more targets. I kind of doubt that and a chain I'd expect to continue to get ramped up as things go along. Here we go. Maybe this is one of them. Andre Stevenson, $6,500 taking on the New York Jets. Remondre last night in that game. 15 carries and three targets, only 60 yards, but Remondre three out of five red zone chances. Back in week number one, Stevenson 12 carries, six targets, 89 yards. So the yardage has not been there because the offense has been dinged up. The offensive line especially facing a very tough Jets defense, but it's probably a bit easier to run on them than throw on them. Maybe Stevenson or Zach Moss wind up saving us in salary, Stevenson 65, Moss is 64. Alexander Madison obviously had a pretty rough game in week number two, eight carries and six targets. Still in a 75% snap rate, the concern would be that the fumbles eventually lead to Ty Chandler getting more work there. But I think you could justify taking some swipes at a guy like Madison at 63. Given we'll probably have to save some salary. So he's at least on the radar for this week. Givante Williams taking on Miami at $6,100. I've been getting a lot of passing game work. Givante on Sunday, 12 carries, three targets, 58 yards, one out of 10 red zone chances played. I think 28 snaps for the second consecutive week. So snap count has not increased as of yet, but that's not a bad salary for him. Joshua Kelly mentioned before the concerns around him, but his salary 61, a lot easier to run on Minnesota than it is on the Titans. If there's no Echler, I'd probably go back to Kelly. Again, no target, only one target, but a lot of routes run. I think that could be enough to make him viable this week. So maybe we're spending down the $6,000 range of running back. That could be the way we go. Isaiah Pacheco played more than half the snaps on Sunday. I know I shouldn't do this and I really don't want to, but like he's facing the Bears. Maybe the matchup is enough to jack him up. 12 carries, two targets, 70 yards and scrimmage for Pacheco. Three out of eight red zone chances. I think his role is a little bit better than maybe perception, but 57 is low enough. So it might be a week where we use some pretty gross value plays or running back in order to get to some other guys we like. Wide receiver, of course, you got Jefferson 97, Tyree Kill 96, Keenan Allen 88, Seathalam 85. All those guys make a lot of sense. Kind of surprised to find Diggs is 8,000 still. Given that he's had a pretty massive workload each of the first two weeks, 13 targets in the first game, seven in the second. I'm not usually a Diggs guy, but maybe compared to the other guys I can get there. Amon Ross, St. Brown, 79. Again, I think that's low for him, assuming that he does want it being okay. Again, it was cramping that took him out. He looked fine after he came back in. I like him. I think 79 is a good number for him and probably a guy I want to get to. Calvin Ridley bumped back down to 75, but if you kind of take his two games together, I think his role has been good enough to justify that. Taking on the Texans here, again, that secondary is banged up specifically at safety. Ridley so far, a 26% target share with 38% of the deep work. Only three deep targets so far because they haven't thrown deep a lot, but should be better able to do so against this Texans team than against the Chiefs. Ridley at 75 is intriguing to me. Scrolling down here a bit further, trying to find some value at wide receiver. Gabe Davis's role was okay in week two. 67 is probably appropriate for him. Michael Pittman, 67. He's had double digit targets in both games so far. Only one deep target overall, and Minshew is fine as a quarterback if it winds up being him. I can see that being a good bring back for Raven's teams though, especially with that secondary being banged up. So Pittman at least is fine at 67. Deandre Hopkins, 66. That ankle's kind of concerning. D.G. Moore, 64. Again, negative game script for the Bears. Maybe that winds up working out okay. Zae Flowers back down to 63. Okay, I got to stop saying every salary. That's probably annoying. Rashid Shahid is 6,000. Maybe I'll talk myself into that in week two. Sunday, Sunday. All right, Jayden Reed's 59. With Watson coming back, not really sure what his workload will look like, but that's not the worst. Again, Woods at 58 is okay. 10 and nine targets. Three deep targets, I think in both games for Robert Woods. Let me check that really quick here. He had, oopsies, scrolled too far down. All right, Robert Woods in week one. He had three in week two. 58's not a terrible number for him. So maybe we wind up being on him, given the salary is somewhat low there. Scrolling down into the mid-5,000 range at wide receiver, if Charks roll, tonight is okay. This hour is 56. I could see that being okay. Canaries Tony, like, I don't know, five targets again. He looked better this time around, but I don't really want to go to anybody in that passing game right now to be fully honest with you. Tankdale 54, that might wind up being our value play of the week, just because we really do want to save some salary somewhere, and he does get us that. Had 10 targets this week, partly due to the script, but still somewhat worth mentioning there. Getting down to low 5,000 range. Justin Watson has actually been getting a lot of deep work for the Chiefs, plays a lot of snaps to 45 and 62 yards so far. I don't hate it. It's not the worst thing in the world I've ever seen, but, you know, obviously not going to be super, super drawn towards that. Finally, a tight end. No, oh yeah, Mark Andrews isn't the slate. His salary is down to 74. I think that's intriguing, given that he is now a week further removed from his injury. So don't mind that at all. And then there's nobody in the 6,000 range at all. I tied it. Evan Engram is an extra by 59. Engram again, 18% target share so far, 49 and 57 yards. I don't think that's terrible. I remember before though, we were looking at La Porta down in the low 5,000 range. La Porta is 52. Dalton Kincaid, 5,000. Hasn't had the best role as of yet. Four and six targets. It's been an okay role, though it's not a lot of deep work for him so far, which is somewhat disappointing. Jake Ferguson, another big game on Sunday as far as targets go with four. Only 22 yards so far, but you know, getting some work at least. Maybe that's not as intriguing as I thought it was before I clicked in there. Durham Smyth 48. So again, at tight end, you're kind of betting against Kelsey, Hawkinson and Andrews, but not a lot of salary overall to be had for week number two. So I think we're going to be scrounging for salary pretty much across the board. And week three, it's going to be dicey for sure. That is all that we have here for today on our week two NFL DFS recap. Make sure to join us once again Thursday for the week three preview podcast. That will be live over on the FanDuel YouTube page at 10 a.m. Eastern. You'll go up on the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast after that. 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