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I am going to be glued to my little phone screen as I'm biking today watching these games because it could not be bigger for me in my matchup. I have to go up against Jaylen Herz and AJ Brown. I have Saquon Barkley and Dallas Goddard. So that Eagles offense is going to be everything whether I win or lose and it's going to be today.
But let's go ahead. Let's talk about all the injury updates that we have. Then of course we'll answer your questions.
Um, let's go through and let's skip past this crap. Doesn't matter. But Ricky Pierol doesn't practice again on Friday. So, if you were banking on Ricky Piol, if you had a 50/50 call with somebody else, I probably would go in the other direction. Now, honestly, I think Pawall probably ends up playing, but obviously I wouldn't be super excited about it.
Um, Woody Marks, Nick Chub, both listed as questionable for week 16. Um, if Woody Marks were to play, I mean, he is a pretty good start given the matchup that you have against the Raiders, but obviously we just have no clarity on if he actually is going to be good to go. If Woody Marks misses, I don't want to start any Houston running back.
Devonte Adams is unlikely to play week 17. So, if you're surviving this week with Adams, you're going to have to try to survive one final week without him.
RJ Harvey, not listed on the injury report. So, R.J. Harvey is 100% a must start player for you.
Going through and looking at our next important thing. Rashi Rice is ruled out for week 16. This was the expectation when we made the wide receiver rankings video when we made the flex tier video. Um Travis Kelce probably somebody that you need to go ahead and start, but outside of that, nobody really in Kansas City would be interesting.
Quinton Johnson listed as questionable for week 16. I wouldn't play him if he is good to go, but hopefully my underdog baseball teams he is a-ok. Okay.
Marvin Harrison said he is good to go in week 16. I would prefer benching Marv if you have him, but if you have Michael Wilson, I would still probably play him, but obviously with much lowered expectations.
Alvin Kumar ruled out week 16. Not super interested in Esté if I'm going to be honest with you.
Drake London is going to be playing in week 16. Drake London will be a mustart name. David and Jooku as well as Dylan Samson are both ruled out. So Harold Fannon is 100% somebody that you could go ahead and look at.
Um Tagan's questionable for week 16. Still don't have clarity there. Garrett Wilson will not play the rest of the season.
And I see people in the chat asking about DeAndre Swift. I'll go ahead and pull up the most recent report that we have with Swift. I'm going to be honest, I have to play against him. So, I am rooting for DeAndre Swift to miss selfishly. Um, I guess actually my opponent would be able to play Michael Carter. So, Michael Carter would be just fine regardless. But DeAndre Swift as of six minutes ago is expected to play against the Green Bay Packers. So, if you have Swift, you definitely can go ahead and put him in your lineup. I wouldn't expect him to have as good of a week as what he did last week, but yeah, sounds like Swift is good to go.
So, let's go ahead and let's start answering some of your questions. Obviously, we have a while until kickoff, but we also have a lot of questions to go through. So, this first one's going to be who do we start between Javvante, Dererick Henry, and Amari Hampton. We have a flex call as well. I would bench Amari and Hampton out of these guys. I really do like the matchup against Dallas, but the other two running backs, you just get guaranteed all the volume.
Now, wise guy here at quarterback between Joe Burrow as well as Bo Knicks. It's honestly going to be a little bit tough. I probably do end up going Joe Burrow. I'd be much more excited about it if you were to have Taggins playing. And then here for the flex, um I think it's going to come down to do you have Josh Jacobs playing or not? As of right now, we don't have any clarity on that situation. But if Josh Jacobs were to play, then at that point, I think you go ahead and you play Michael Carter. However, if Josh Jacobs were to miss, you would go Emanuel Wilson. So, you're going to have to wait for that Jacobs rule.
Now, let's move this over to JRR here. Quarterback, it's either Bo Nicks or Jackson Dart. Um, for me, I think that it's going to be very, very close between these two names. Honestly, if it weren't for the fact that they are asking Jackson Dart to run the ball a little bit less, I would jam Dart. But also, one thing that you have to be concerned about with Jackson Dart as well is it's a little bit of a tougher matchup against Minnesota. You have the Broncos projected to score five more points than the New York Giants this week. So, I probably do end up going with Bo Knicks.
And then looking at what we have for the flex play, um, you're either looking at DK Metaf, Courtland Sutton, or I guess you could be playing Chris Rodriguez. There's no part of me ever that would want to go in that direction. So, it's really Sutton or Medaf. I probably go ahead and play Courtland Sutton. The only hesitation that you could have is if you already had Puka Nakua going nuts and you're going to start Bo Knicks, you could play it safe and go with like, I don't know, DK Mechaf and Bo Knicks just in case you have a collapse from the Broncos.
Now, bottoms here, Drake London will be an auto start. You have no Rashid Rice, so it's going to come down to and no Garrett Wilson. So, it's effectively going to come down to Jacobe Myers, Jordan Addison, Terry McLuren, and Devont Smith. I do have Smith slightly ahead of these other names, but I mean Jacobe Myers is pretty much backtoback with him. And then going down to your flex for me, I would be most interested in looking at a running back here. More likely than not, somebody like Rico Dael.
Okay. Now, Renard here, we need two flex spots. Our best running back's going to be Pard over Jaori Kroski Merritt. Our best wide receiver would more likely than not be Adonai Mitchell. Like looking at my wide receiver rankings this week. Actually, I guess I have Godwin right there. We have Godwin ranked ahead of Adai Mitchell. I actually no, I have Adai Mitchell at 32, Godwin at 36. So, our gut reaction was the correct one. And then tight end. Thank god we benched Andrews and Parkinson. Um, honestly, I would probably go ahead and bench Pard if we could in most spots just because this Titans offense is so damn bad. But with Evans being back, I don't know if the volume Godwin's going to see will be consistent enough to tell you to play Chris Godwin. So honestly, I think you end up going with Tony Pard as well as Adani Mitchell. The guys in garbage offenses, but at least they're going to get volume.
Now, Go Utes Tommy. Always happy to see you here, my friend. Running back, you know, Taylor's an auto start. Um, Trevian Henderson at this point has to be an auto start as well. Tyler Warren verse Lovelin, give me Lovelind with no Luther Burton as well as no Roma Dunce. And then in the flex spot, it's going to be pretty easy to just go with the starting running backs in dattle as well as RJ Harvey, especially knowing that you have RJ Harvey um completely removed from the injury report.
Now the Lance says, "Thanks, Mason. If Higgins misses, who do we start?" So if you have no Higgins, your best receiver would be Godwin. And then in the flex, I mean, honestly, I'm not interested in Alier, Jean Tucker, Belle Tutin. So, in the flex, I think you would go Quinton Johnston if he were to play, but if he were to miss as well, then you probably end up pivoting over to Jaden Higgins. But yeah, this team definitely needs to hope that we get Ciggins playing now.
Boots quarterback between Caleb as well as McCarthy. Give me Caleb. And then I guess that's maybe the only question that you had here because we didn't fill out anything else. But yeah, I mean, if we were looking at Caleb versus McCarthy, um Caleb's going to run the ball a little bit more and the Bears project to score more points.
Now, Gavin says, "Hey, Mason, good luck this weekend. Just need help in the quarterback department. Superflex, so we're starting two of them." Um, Dak Prescott's going to be an auto start. I mean, you have the Dallas Cowboys projected out as a top five offense this week. If it wasn't for Dart going up against a tough Minnesota Vikings defense, I would go Dart there over Bo Knicks, but this week, I think I would prefer Bo Knicks against Jacksonville. And then moving down to what we have with the flex. It's between Hubard, Rashad White, Tez Johnson, and Demario Douglas. Dear God, I'd probably go Hubard and hope that we get something similar to what we did three weeks ago when he actually did play more snaps than Dowel, but it's unlikely.
Now, Chris, quarterback between Herbert and Goff, I'm going to go Goff. the Lions project to score the most points in the NFL this week. Wide receiver slashflex, I think you actually are going to end up playing a running back in your flex spot. Whether that's Bree or Tracy, in my mind, they are comparable. I have Bree at RB20. Tracy at RB21. However, the expert average rankings on the site have Tracy well ahead. Let me see just what the underdog projections are to make sure that I'm not way off here because again the expert average rankings have it as an easy call to go ahead and to take Tracy but my ranks I have Brie at 20 and Tracy at 21. I could also be very biased and that I do have Brie in my own team. So let me go ahead pull this up. So Bree Hall currently is higher lower 12.05 points, 78 and a half total yards on underdog. Tracy is currently higher lower 9.35 points. Yeah. So I would stand by my rankings. I would go Bree over Tracy. And then moving down to wide receiver, it's really do you want Jawan Jennings or do you want Jacobe Myers? Um, I have them ranked back toback. I have Jawan Jennings at 23 and Jacobe Myers at 24. So again, I think I could be very wrong on either one of these calls. I'd probably say Jennings because of the matchup in comparison to where obviously Meyers has to go up against a very tough Denver Broncos defense. Looking at the projections that you have here with the receivers, they currently have Jawan Jennings higher lower 10.85 fantasy points as opposed to Jacobe Meyers who is at higher lower 10.55. They actually have Jennings as the play as well.
But I I do want to point out one more time. I know I don't need to go through and say, "Hey, sign up to underdog. Use code flock blah blah blah." You'all already heard me say it a thousand times, but I would take advantage of the underdog offers that they have for y'all right now where you get a free Josh Allen gimme pick. If you haven't checked the I mean whether you're on the app every day or if you haven't checked it in a while, just go to your pick them, take advantage of the free Josh Allen pick. Higher, lower, half total yard. Everybody should have that. And then there are also some additional boost that you're getting here during the holidays. And on Christmas, you get a free Jir Gibbs gimme pick. Higher, lower, half a total yard there as well. So definitely make sure you're taking advantage of these. Again, I know I don't need to do like a fiveminute underdog ad. Y'all are all already on the app. But um when they do those gimme picks, there's no reason not to take advantage of them. like I take advantage of everyone.
Okay, and let's move this over to our next question. Mystery girl says, "Wide receiver Reed or AD Mitchell on the waiver wire and then should we drop Brian Robinson for Gainwell quarterback? Give me Burrow vers Lamar's honestly pretty tough because the Ravens project score more points. You would think that Lamar would run the ball more as well. So honestly, yeah, we got to go Lamar over Burrow, but Lamar's been so damn bad. Wide receiver, no, you're jamming in Drake London. London looks good to go. And I would also play Michael Carter. And then if you wanted to drop Brian Robinson for Kenneth Gainwell, I'm not going to fault you for it. I don't know if I'd play Gainwell, though. I think you could play Carter here.
Now, Brandon says, "Get me to the championship, Mason. Appreciate you, my guy. Here, quarterback between Mchu Rogers, Mariota." Mariota's actually going to run the ball a bit. The difficulty that you're going to have here is it will be a tough matchup for Mariota of course having to play against Philly. Um right now the Commanders project to score 18.8 points. The Pittsburgh Steelers do project to score slightly more. They're going to be trailing that game to Detroit, so they're going to run the ball more. He'd probably go Rogers. If it wasn't a tough matchup for Mariota, I tell you go Mariota. Wide receiver, give me DJ Moore as well as Z Flowers with all the injuries that you have in Chicago.
Now, Duke here, wide receiver, you have no Roma. So, it's really like Jacobe Myers or Brian Thomas. And I'm definitely going to go Jacobe Myers at this point. Um, for the Flux, I don't know if we started Kenneth Walker or not. I would have said not to, but dear God, the man had an incredible day. So, hopefully you did start him. If you didn't, I would say Brian Thomas is in one slot for you and then Jordan Addison would be in the other. But hopefully you started um Kenneth Walker. So, hopefully we have a good little lead.
Okay. Now, Bro Bay here, running back, we're going to take Jamir Gibbs as well as Trevon Henderson over Quinn Sean Judkins. Wide receiver, London and Jameson Williams are going to be the auto starts. So, the flex really comes down, do you want Chris Ave or do you want Quinn Sean Judkins? If this was a nonPPR format, you would go Judkins. But in a full PPR league here, it really is just going to be a L for me. Keep it stupid simple. Take the receiver that has the guaranteed target volume.
Now, Shaquille Oatmeal, quarterback between Brassette and Shroud, Kobe Brassette, easily top five quarterback this week. Running back Derk Henry and Travis CTN easily wide receiver London and Nico are auto starts. And then down in the fluxes, you're going to go Jameson Williams. And then the last spot is where we finally have some questions. So the last one we are between Quinn Sean, Michael Wilson, Jaylen Wadd as well as Courtland Sutton. So if you would have had no Marv, it would have been very easy to tell you to just jam in Michael Wilson here. But with Marv playing, that does make it much more difficult. Let me see what the updated projections are with these guys, cuz honestly, I have no idea how to sense what the deal is with Michael Wilson here. Michael Wilson currently is higher lower 56 and a half total yards. So that is down from previous mark. Waddles at 52. Sutton's at 59. And then Judkins is going to be for more yards, but obviously he's going to have fewer receptions. And in a full PPR format that's going to matter. So, it really comes down to me. I guess we probably need to move Michael Wilson in our weekly rankings behind Courtland Sutton. We're to drop Michael Wilson to the bottom of that B tier. So, Wilson's going to be wide receiver 15 for us this week. Still somebody that you probably start on most teams that aren't absolute units, but this one is a great team. Yeah, looking at my flex ranks, I also have Sutton ahead of Judkins here. So, I think you go Courtland Sutton, but it is very tough. If you had no Marvin Harrison, it'd be very easy to tell you to go Michael Wilson.
Now, Nick at Knight here, quarterback Josh Allen auto start. Running back, I would go Travis ETN. And then down in the flex, I would play Judkins and Amari Hampton over Jefferson. like Judkins gives you better guaranteed volume, but honestly, I'm probably going to go ahead and take Hampton. One, I think he's a better running back. Two, I think he's in a better offense, and three, I like his matchup against Dallas.
Okay, now Cyberwolf, quarterback between Garner Menchshire. I guess this is just the superflex spot, right? And I'm almost certain we're going to want to start him in the super flex. will change your mind here if the skill positions are loaded, but running back sounds like DeAndre Swift's going to be good to go. Um, you can play DeAndre Swift and Rico Dattle here quite comfortably. Then down in your last three flex spots, your best wide receiver looks to be Jacobe Meyers. I would go Meyers in one flex, Aaron Jones in another, and then you're down between one last flex bot. Dalton Schultz is your best tight end. Stefon Diggs is your best receiver and I guess Chuba Hub would be your best running back. So honestly probably end up going ahead and playing Stefon Diggs out of that list. But yeah, I definitely put Gard Mchu in the super flex spot.
Okay, now Tron Wayne here at tight ends between Darren Waller, Tyler War, and Theo Johnson. I'm going to go Tyler Warren. Don't feel great about it though. Okay, then in the two flex spots, Drake London's an auto start and then you're going to go T against plan A. But if Tigens doesn't play, then you'll pivot over to Darren Baller. But obviously we'll have that clarity by the time that we need to with them playing in the same game.
Okay, now Quinn Gonage says flex against wide receiver/r running back Nico worries me if Jacobs is out maybe do we pivot to Emanuel Wilson Carter Gainwell Debo at the wide receiver/tight end. So it's effectively one of these flex spots we are going to need to have um a wide receiver essentially that's what you're telling us. So, you just plan on going Debo Samuel in one of these. And then if we are looking at the other one between Dow, Michael Carter, Quinton Johnston, I would plan on going Rico Dattle. Now, if you're saying that um Josh Jacobs misses and Emanuel Wilson's on your waiverwire, hell yes. go pick up Emanuel Wilson right now and cut Quinton Johnston and then if Josh Jacobs were to miss I'd play Emanuel Wilson over to Rico Dattle. Like I have Josh Jacobs and Emanuel Wilson on my team. And at this point I'm hoping that Josh Jacobs misses because I would rather play Emanuel Wilson with no Jacobs than Jacobs when Emanuel Wilson's in the game if that makes sense. Like, can y'all let me know in the chat? Am I crazy in saying that? Who would y'all rather play? In a hypothetical world, Jacobs tonight if he plays or Emanuel Wilson tonight if Jacobs were to miss? In my mind, I think Emanuel Wilson smashes so hard if you have no Josh Jacobs because he'll be the only back left. Let me know if y'all think that. That is crazy. Come on. Because what I'm worried about is I'm worried that Jacobs plays and they split the backfield because he's not healthy. We got Wilson, Wilson, Jacobs, Wilson, Wilson, Jacobs, Wilson, Jacobs, Wilson. Yeah, that's what that's what I'm hoping. I selfishly hoping that Emanuel will I'm sorry Jacobs misses so I could just jam Emanuel Wilson as the only back there and then Jacobs gets fully healthy for next week.
Okay, now Lil Florida would love says I'm cooked no rice and do we risk Carter Hall his ass? I would go Bree Hall. I agree. Bree Hall doesn't look great, but still Tyler Warren tight ends and then in the flex he played Jawan Jennings. I mean, I understand where you're coming from, but the spread on the Jets game is like six points. It's nothing like it was last week.
Okay. Now, Mcloven, quarterback between Dak and Dart. It's Dak. Dak's an auto start, frankly. Wide receiver, you play Mike Evans over Ibuka Flowers. Tight ends, I would go Gadston against Dallas, to be honest. And then in the flex, I would just go ahead and play RJ Harvey now that he's fully removed from the injury report.
Now, Cali Jack, happy to see you. Quarterback between Burrow Dart, give me Burrow Darts in a really tough matchup. Wide receiver, London's going to be an auto start. I would go Jennings. Actually, I'm sorry. I'd go Michael Wilson. Tight end, give me Tyler Warren. I'm Harold Fannon over Tyler Warren. And then in the flex spots, this is where things maybe get a little bit difficult. I think you probably go Jawan Jennings in one of these, especially with Ricky Pier missing practice yesterday. Actually, can I tell you to go Jennings over Jefferson? I can't. Here's the smart thing to say. The smart thing is to say go Jawan Jennings over Justin Jefferson. That's how the expert average rankings have it on the site. I can't I would go with Dowel and Justin Jefferson. But again, the expert average ranks on the site have it as Jennings over Jedha's. I'm not smart enough to do that though.
Okay, now Jay Dog here running back. We're going to go ahead play Travis ETN over Tyrone Tracy and then down in the flex. I think you just probably play Tyron Trac. Well, I'll take Debo out of here. I think I can make an argument for playing Michael Carter over Debo. I mean, if you really want to play him, it's close. five them in the same tier. But yeah, I'm going to go ETN and Tyrone Tracy.
Tommy says, "Lost Mahomes and faced the Apuka Aukop." I I can't read. Says, "Need a quarterback. Young's also available in general lineup help." So, we're either looking at McCarthy or CJ Stroud. Texans project to be one of the higher scoring offenses in the league this week. They are 14 and a half point favorites, though. They're probably just going to be able to run the ball over and over again. Um, going over to the flex. If Woody Marks were to play, you go Woody Marks. Your backup play is Michael Carter. Let me look at what the projections are for these three quarterbacks because I'm going to be honest, I don't know. I don't even know if we included Straoud, McCarthy, and Young in that quarterback rankings video because I was like, I figured nobody would have to make this decision in the fantasy playoffs. Um, underdog of the moment has Strad higher lower 17.25 points. They have Bryce Young currently higher lower 15.45. And they have JJ9 McCarthy higher lower 15.95. So they also have Shroud as the best play. And like I said, you definitely have um I don't know. You definitely have the Texans projected to score the most points out of those guys.
Now, GT007 says, "In the playoffs, but feeling super nervous. I'm afraid both my starting wide receiver spots in one flex need major help. Please take a look at the bench as well and let me know who's worthy of being cut, who should we pick up from the waiverss." Thank you, Mason. Appreciate always. Appreciate you, my guy. And let me send you over another free start set question. Um, just to make sure that we got you covered here if I accidentally do anything wrong. But our best option on the waiverwire, you actually have a couple interesting names. You got Travis Kelce, Kyle Manung, guys, Zach Charbanet. Um, I would plan on starting right now Wilson and Mike Evans at wide receiver this week. In your flex spots, I would go Josh Jacobs. I'm sorry, in your running back slots, I would go Josh Jacobs as well as Saquon Barkley. And then you have a singular flex, which I would plan on having Woody Marks in there under the assumption you've already benched Kenneth Walker, but I'd play Woody Marks. And if Markx does indeed end up getting ruled out, then at that point I think you pivot over to Terry McLaren. So, let me just make sure we're all on the same page. You play Wilson and Evans at receiver, Jacobs Barkley at running back. Obviously, if Jacobs misses, you pivot to Emanuel Wilson. But Jacobs Barkley at running back, Wilson, Evans at receiver, flexes Woody Marks. If Woody Marks misses, you pivot over to Terry. And then in terms of waiverwire pivots that you need to make, I don't really see anything like there are good players on the waiverwire, don't get me wrong. But at the same time, I don't necessarily know if there's a spot in which I can say, "Oh, pick up Kelsey and we would start him." Like, obviously, you're not starting him over McBride. So that would be my plan A. But in case I answered that wrong at all, I sent you over a free start question.
Now Keyage says wide receiver three and Flex Debo ad and I Waller. We need two of three. Okay. So we you're saying we need two of three of these guys. I would bench Darren Waller to be honest with no Tua. definitely play doubt over those. But if you had to pick one guy to bench between Adani Mitchell, Debo Samuel, and Darren Waller, I know obviously Darren Waller coming off an incredible day. But yeah, I think you go ahead and honestly you just sit waller. It's a great matchup, but it's so hard to know what you're going to get with yours versus Tua.
Now, CMA and Chi says, "My guy, just two more wins to secure the ring. What are your thoughts on Estime over Pitman? PS, happy for Sammy, but how would one be able to join the Flock League winner auditions? Would I need to qualify for next season? Will there be a slot open? Thanks for getting me to the semi-finals." Appreciate you, my guy. Let me just go ahead and show you real quick and you can get a sense of if anybody here watches the Flock League and didn't see this. If y'all want to know how Sammy got in the league and how you can get in the league next year, we held auditions which if you follow me on Twitter, if you're in the Discord, if you watch the live streams in the offseason when I'm doing drafts, you'll see like all the announcements for it. But um so this is the flock league blah blah blah. Let's just go to actually one of the videos recommended. So the video 200 fans audition to join our fantasy league. This was um what's it called? So essentially what I did in this was I had asked I asked everybody to send us email. Uh essentially I put my email out there. I said hey make an audition clip, submit it and we graded all the audition clips that were submitted and yeah Sammy was the one that won. though. If y'all didn't see how Sammy got in the flock league or how you could get in in the future, like just go ahead and watch this and we'll hold auditions again in the offseason. And um yeah, just you'll just end up uploading a email I'm sorry, uploading a YouTube video as an unlisted video and then sending me emailing me the link and then um what I had to manually do it this past year where I narrowed it down to like the top 10 12ish auditions and then we all voted on it. But next year I'll probably honest I'm assuming we're going to have more people audition next year. Um, and so honestly I may have Nick the editor pick his like pick the top 10 or top 15 we'll vote on or maybe he picks the top 20 then I narrow him down to the top 10 or something along those lines. But anyway, my guy just two more wins to secure the ring. So what are the thoughts of going estimate over Pitman? I would be fine going estimate over Pitman. Very similar to what we said with Kobby Parkinson. I know a lot of people are excited about Colobby Parkinson this past week where we were like, eh, um, you can put him in as a desperation play, but definitely don't want to be excited about it. That's how I would treat Esté this week. Estimate you can put in as a desperation play, but I don't want to be excit I'm not excited to play Esté for sure. One pivot that I would make is I would cut Britain Strange, pick up Darren Waller. I'd play Darren Waller at tight ends. Quarterback between McCarthy, Mariota, give me Mariota. Running back, you start CMC and Taylor. Then going over to receiver, you have Juanale. And then, yeah, I'd probably go estimate, but I'm assuming that you're going to need a flex here. So, I think you end up maybe having to go Pitman anyway in the flex. But yeah, I would go I think this kind of No, I'm sorry. You need a wide receiver, too. So yeah, I think you flex Estabbay on this team, but I would also cut Britain Strange and play Darren Waller instead. But appreciate you as always, my guy. Let me make sure we send you over a free start question. Um, just to make sure if I did that wrong. But here, I think maybe you're including some of the waiverwire options and with Estimate. Yeah, my plan would be go to Estimay and the flex and then I would go with Well Robinson and probably Khalil Shakir at wide receiver.
Now Brandon, here for the flex, you have ETN right now. Your best name to get in the lineup would be Terry McLaren. So now you're going to leave this as is. And your team looks great. Be honest. Do you have a different quarterback you could go with? Oh, I would go Jacobe Brassette over Caleb Williams. Jacobe Brassette is an auto start in this matchup. has been a top 12 quarterback every week that he started this year, and this matchup's a lot better than the Texans one was last week.
Big Route says, "Hey, Mason, this is the championship. Need your help to win the league for the second season. Thanks." Thank you, my guy. Um, and yes, I I'm very much rooting for you. Go ahead and you play Jacobe Brassette, running back, Buckyy's an auto start. Wide receiver J's an auto start. And then I would go a lav now over Michael Wilson since you have Marvin Harrison playing. If you had no Marvin Harrison then I think you could go ahead and you could say that you would take Michael Wilson over a lav. But just it's been a night and day difference in the games that Michael Wilson's played with Marv versus without Marv.
Okay, but give me one second, ladies and gentlemen. Okay, I'm sorry about that. Ladies and gentlemen, this for Kee on Page here. Give me Harold Fannon. I think we had him like tight end five. Kobe Parkinson like tied in 14 this week. And then running back, give me doubt. But if Josh Jacobs were to miss, you pivot over to Emanuel Wilson.
Now space ace here at quarterback obviously Stafford Allen. Running back you have Gibbs, Trevion. Wide receiver JSN Evans. And then I didn't even notice you have CMC. So CMC is in one flex spot. Then I guess Bree Hall would be your best remaining running back. Your best remaining receiver would be Wadd. I'd go Waddle. And then I'm probably going to take Breeze over Ibuka to be honest.
Now Sabas here running back. If Woody Marx plays, I go Woody Marks. If he doesn't, I pivot over to Michael Carter. I'd be more interested in Michael Carter over Aric Esté to be honest.
Now Liam Longoria here wide receiver between Jefferson Reed, DJ Moore, give me Justin Jefferson and then in the flex I think you just end up having to play Trevon coming off a monstrous week.
X-Man running back James Cook auto start wide receiver St. Brown auto start. tight ends. I would go Tyler Warden over Darren Waller, but it's close. And then in the flex, give me CD Lamb. Sadly, I think you bench Bucky Irving, but obviously I'd rather not.
Kyle, wide receiver, you go Ibuka, as well as Michael Pitman. And then at tight ends between Darren Waller, Gadston, and Jawan Johnson, I would go Gadston, but obviously Darren Waller is a great matchup. I'm just a little nervous with Waller again because you're transitioning from Tua to yours.
Now, Max here, wide receiver, you're going to take, you have no rights, you have no Adam, so your only options are Debo and Devont. And then in the flex, you play Quinnshan Judkins over Kyle Pittz, Michael Carter. I hope you didn't start Colobby Parkinson. I hope you played Kyle Pittz. Obviously, we put out our tight end rankings for that game and we had Parkinson as tight end, too. Pitlick as a top three tight end. Um, appreciate you, my guy. I would more likely than not go ahead and probably just play Joe Burrow.
Now, FZ Kiwi for the flex. I think you're going to take the combination of Mike Evans and Michael Wilson. If you were to have no Josh Jacobs, then you take out Evans and you put in Emanuel Wilson.
Now F Murphy, give me Burrow over Party. It's close though. If you have no Higgins, you could pivot. London will be an auto start. And then in that final flex, you go T. Higgins. But if T Higgins were to miss, you pivot to Jacobe.
Now Pico here, wide receiver, we're going to go Drake London. Flex, you play DK Metaf and Michael Wilson. Maybe I'm a little bit biased here. I'm having to go up against DeAndre Swift myself this week. But with the DeAndre Swift groin injury, I very much am hoping that they limit him and use a lot of Kyle Manungai. It's very selfish, but that's what I'm hoping.
Okay, now Joey here for the flex. You have no rice. Your running backs aren't interesting at all. I'd play Bouet, Nai Mitchell. I don't even know what other direction you could possibly go in. If you had no DeAndre Swift, obviously Cal Man would be a must start name.
Now Payton here, quarterback between Dak and Herbert. Give me Dak. Nob brainer. God, I have like some post-nasal drip going. Does not feel great. [snorts] Hopefully I'm not getting sick. And knock on wood. Knock on whatever. But one thing I'm very grateful for is in 2025, I think I only got sick once and it was for like three days and it was because after I ran the LA Marathon, I tried to get back to working out the next day and it was too early. So, I got sick from that because my immune system was shot. But outside of that, I haven't gotten sick this year. Um, for the flex, again, Michael Wilson would have been an auto start if it wasn't for the fact that you have Marv playing. Now, I'd probably go Michael Wilson and Amari Hampton, but it's a lot tougher to play Wilson over Evans now that Marv's good to go.
Now, Silky Flocky says, "Huge matchup with injuries. We could use some help." um quarterback between Dart Caleb. Honestly, it's not going to be the easiest call here. Let me see if I can pull up the projections that we have. Again, I don't like the matchup for Dart. Dart's at higher lower is 17.65 fantasy points. I don't like with Caleb that Caleb's at higher lower is 16.85. I don't like that you have no Rome and you have no Luther Burden. Justin Herbert's been horrible with the broken hand, but at the same time, he has a great matchup. Herbert's higher lower 18.25. Let me pull up my rankings on the site. I had initially ranked Caleb as the highest guy, but honestly, I think I'm going to move Herbert ahead of him. I think I'm gonna move Caleb down given the injuries that Caleb's dealing with. So, I think I maybe go Herbert here. And then running back, give me Amari Hampton in a good matchup as well. Wide receiver, London's going to be the auto start. And then in your flexes, you go Tagans and Quinn Sean Judkins. If Tiggins misses, you pivot over to Jaylen Wadd.
Now Austin here, our best name on the bench would be Quinton. I mean, Brian Thomas and nobody in this lineup I would take out to play Brian Thomas. Obviously, Genty's in a garbage offense, in a garbage matchup, and Genty looks like he's about to face plant, but at the same time, like he's had enough of a receiving role that it'd be tough to play Brian Thomas over him when Brian Thomas also has a tough matchup on his own plate.
Okay, so now our next question. It's going to be from Bingers. Bengals Super Bowl tight end. Give me Lovelin over Tyler Warden given all the injuries that you have in Chicago. Javvante is going to be an auto start in one of the flex spots. And then you go, it's either between Michael Wilson, Mike Evans in the other one. Um, again, it would have been Michael Wilson easily if it wasn't for the fact that you have Marv back. So, we did have to move Michael Wilson down a ranks. I still think I probably prefer Michael Wilson over Marv because it is a really good matchup as well. That's worth pointing out. But, not a super easy call by any means, but I think I still probably go Michael Wilson here.
Okay, now let's move this over to our next question. This one's from Azie says like you win against JSN or playing from behind. Um, if I went up against JSN and honestly I'm not that upset about it. Like I think I'm don't get me wrong, at halftime I was very very excited and I ended up a lot less excited once he scored that touchdown to end the game. But if you didn't go up against Puka and you just went up against JSN, like I don't think you should be upset, my friend. But I would go Chase Brown at running back with RJ Harvey and the flex. The only thing that would make me possibly consider changing this is I think you could throw potentially Emanuel Wilson there in the flex instead if you were to get news that Josh Jacob's going to miss. But if Jacobs plays then I think that'd be a little bit tougher. I mean then I mean if Jacobs plays it's easy because you don't play Emanuel Wilson.
Now Pog here your best name on the bench right now is Brian Thomas. There's no way I put Brian Thomas in the lineup over Taylor Wils. Actually, I guess you could put him in over Lad, but Lad has a good matchup. Both of these guys have been absolute bums this season. Lad's actually been better between the two. If there was a swap to make, it'd be take out Lad Mani and put Brian Thomas in.
Now, Doobie between Bree Tracy, I have Bree Hall ranked higher and projections like Bree Hall a hell of a lot more, but he's coming off a garbage week. You go Lovelin. Loveland's a really strong start with no Luther Burden as well as no Roma Dunce. And then in the flex spots, Drake London's an auto start and Tyrron Tracy will be your last one.
Now, gripping fund here at wide receiver. Tens is an auto start if he plays. Then in your two flex spots, you'd go Bree and Judkins. If Tiggins misses, you pivot over to Debo Samuel.
Now CJ here, running back, you're going to play David McGomery over Alir and Jordan. And then tight end, give me Tyler Warren. And then in the flex, actually, Christian Watson looks like he's good to go. And if Christian Watson does indeed play, I think you probably go Christian Watson over Ibuka. Is it the easiest call in the world? Probably not, but it's probably something you do.
No. Shimska here. Quarterback between Caleb and Boicks. [sighs and gasps] I probably go B next with both of the Chicago receivers being out. Give me Mike Evans and Sutton. Actually, no, never mind. I think he goes Sutton in one of these spots and then it actually is a conversation between Mike Evans and Amari Hampton for the last one. Because of how strong the matchup is, I think I would possibly end up going ahead and taking Amari and Hampton against Dallas. Again, it is just a really strong matchup that you have for Hampton.
Okay, now our next question is LeBron Goat. Quarterback between Caleb McCarthy, Tyler Shuck, give me Caleb. Running back, I'm going to go Hampton and probably Breeze. Tight end, give me Lovelin over Waller. And then in the flexes, you just take the running backs with the guaranteed volume, Jodkins and Tracy. In my mind, if you can just jam four running backs with guaranteed volume in your lineup like this, it's a pretty good idea. Like I don't necessarily see how that goes wrong for you to be honest.
Okay. So now our next question is also from LeBron goat here running back between DEL as well as RJ Harvey. Harvey is definitely a lot more appealing now that he's fully removed from the injury report and honestly I think you go back and forth. projections have doubt as a slightly better play, but again, you can go back and forth there between Pitts as well as Bowowers. Pit's going to be in a much better offense. I'd go [sighs] I'd probably go Evans in the Flux and then Pitts Bowowers. Let me look at what the projections are. I had Pitts ranked out of Bowowers initially, but now that London's fully good to go, it's a little bit tougher. Pitts higher lower 9.55 fantasy points. Bowowers higher lower 9.45. Again, I also had pits ranked higher than Bowowers, but it's just a tough call to make now given the fact that London's good to go. And since London's good to go, it's just going to be harder for you to come out here and be confident with the targets that you're going to get from Kyle Pittz.
Now Jay Jr. here, quarterback between Dart, Bo Knicks, give me Bo Knicks, running back between Chris Rodriguez, Kyle Manungai, Raadre, Brian Robinson. I hate every wide receiver going to go sudden. And then here at running back, I have no freaking idea. Chris Rodriguez, absolutely brutal matchup. I think you may end up actually going Kyle Manungi and hoping I don't know hoping that the DeAndre Swift groin injury is serious enough where Kyle Benai sees an expanded role. I think that'd be what you'd have to hope for.
Okay, now Bryce here at wide receiver between Ibuka Meyers, Evans, give me Evans, and then for the flex, it's going to be between Bree Hall and Jacobe Meyers. I think it'd be easy to say Myers if My Meers didn't have a brutal matchup. And honestly, for that reason, I'd probably go Breeze. if we're just going to be completely honest.
Okay, now our next set of questions. Let's load them in here. Oh, we're not that far behind. Good. Now, a DK Dean here. Running back, we know Gibbs, James Cook are the auto starts. wide receiver. London and Sutton are going to be your two starts. Tyler Borin, and then you're just going to play the two running backs, Chase Brown and Javvante. Your team has enough depth where the Devonte Adams injury doesn't kill you. Obviously, a lot of teams are not going to be in your same situation, though.
Now, Stacks says, "Need help with the starting running back, tight ends, and who to flex?" Okay, so running back Sorry, one second. Do you have Jacobs? Still not certain if he's going to play or not. I will say if you were to have No, Jacobs. Emanuel Wilson would be a better play than DeAndre Swift. Emanuel Wilson would be a better play, then Tracy, than Breeze. Now, obviously, if Jacobs were to play, you can't start Emanuel Wilson. [sighs] So, in that instance, I would probably plan on going Breeze Hall to just be completely honest. And then tight end, I would go with Coulson Loveland. I think Loveland is a very strong start at tight end this week with no Rome as well as no Burden.
Now JC Gak, sorry, one second. Wide receiver, you're going to go ahead. You have Marv back, but I would play Wandale, Tedoa, and Ibuka over him. And then, ooh, you actually have really good flex options. I'd play Barkley over a banged up Jacobs kind of regardless. And you know what the flip that you maybe make is you probably play Christian Watson instead of Ibuka with Christian Watson being back in. I think that's a pivot you probably make. Trying to think if there's any other way you could go about that, but Ibuka was already so bad. And now at the same time, you have additional target volume competition with Mike Evans. So in that instance I don't know how you could play him. Trying to think. No, you can't. Can you all please spam the chat? Who would you rather play, Christian Watson or Ibuka? Am I overthinking this? Would you go Christian Watson or Ibuka? We got Watson, Ibuka, Watson, Watson, Watson. Watson, Watson, Watson, Igbuka. So, it does look like most people are on Watson there. So, yeah, I think that's probably the direction you go in.
Okay. Now, GT 007 running back, we play Jacobs, Barkley. Obviously, if Jacobs were to miss, he pivots to Emanuel Wilson. Wide receiver, Mike Evans, Michael Wilson, Trey McBride at tight end. And then in the flux, I think your plan A is Woody Marks. And then if Woody Marks misses,
You pivot over to Terry McLaurin. Um, but I will say with this as well, of course, that if Jacobs were to miss, you have a very easy pivot where you just go to Emanuel Wilson instead.
Okay. Now, this next question is going to be from Clint, says, "Need some advice for this week on who to play. Quarterback between Caleb, Dak, it's just an auto start with Dak. Tight ends, I would go Lovelin over Warren Waller. Actually, I would go Kelsey. Obviously, you have no Mahomes, so the offense is going to be worse, but you also have no Rashid Rice, so they're just going to have to funnel Kelsey with targets. If you wanted to go with Loveland, it's not going to be a bad call, don't get me wrong. But yeah, I think you probably go Kelsey. And then for the flex bots, we know Derrick Henry's an auto start. I would go Bree over Genty as well. Your best, you know, London's an auto start. You have no Rice. I'm not playing Marv. You have no Rome. I'm not playing Ibuka. So yeah, I think you go with Bree, Henry, and London in the three flexes. Now in Bari here at wide receiver between Michael Wilson, Terry, I'm still going to go Michael Wilson and then I'd go Mari and Hampton as well in a really good matchup. Both players have good matchups. Lowered expectations of course with Michael Wilson now that you have Marv back, but still.
Okay, now Marshmallow here, quarterback. Give me Brassette over Bo Nix. Wide receiver between Sutton, Rice, Wadd. We're going to go Sutton with no Rice. And then you just play the two running backs with guaranteed opportunities with Judkins and Chase Brown in the flex.
Now Handy Mcan says, "Rome's out, Burton out, leaning towards DJ Moore. Um, I don't know who your other option would be. Actually, it's a 10 team, two wide receiver, one flex. So you're having to essentially choose two receivers between Sutton, Say Flowers, DJ Moore. My call would be Sutton and Flowers. But if you wanted to go ahead and instead play the combination of Sutton and DJ Moore, I'm not going to fault you for it. Like I completely understand why you would do it.
Now Rudy here at running back between Harvey, Dow, Hampton. Sending me Harvey now that he's fully removed from the injury report. And I probably go with Deari and Hampton as well in a great matchup against Dallas. Scott, give me Herz over Love. Running back, give me James Cook, Chase Brown. Wide receiver, you take CD Lamb, AJ Brown, Michael Wilson. Actually, I'm going to go Sen over Michael Wilson. Tight ends, give me Schultz. I would have played Parkinson though for the record, which would have been the wrong call. And then in the flex bots, I would go Genty. And if Jacobs were to miss, you play Emanuel. Actually, I'm sorry, you go Michael Wilson. And if Jacobs plays, you go Ash and Genty. But if Jacobs misses, you go Emanuel Wilson. So obviously, you're just going to have to wait till later today when we get the clarity on exactly what will happen there.
Okay. Now, unsafe Chris, running back. Give me RJ Harvey. But if Josh Jacobs were to miss, I would play Emanuel Wilson over RJ Harvey. And then wide receiver between Rome, Burden, Flowers. You have no Rome, you have no Burden. It's really Flowers or Wandale. I'm going to go Wandale actually. And then I would probably end up going Tyrone Tracy in the flex.
Now, Ma Mada here at wide receiver, you're going to go ahead and take Michael Wilson. Yeah, I'd still go Michael Wilson over Evans, even with Marv back, but you're going to go Evans in the flex spot anyway. And then, yeah, no part of me wants to play Marvin Harrison. Not going to act like Marvin Harrison doesn't have the ceiling. Like Marv, we've obviously seen the ceiling with Marv to know that he could have himself a great day, but he also has the floor where he could score a total of two fantasy points. Like the dude's floor is horrendous. Okay.
Now, unsafe Chris, running back. Give me Judkins over Emanuel Wilson and Jones assuming Jacobs plays. Wide receiver, give me Metaf and then Evans in the flex. And if Jacobs were to miss, I would take out Mike Evans and I'd put in Emanuel Wilson.
Now, Ry Doggy here at wide receiver, Sutton is going to be an easy play for you. And then in the two flex spots, this is where things get a little bit tougher. You can go Tetero McMillan and Jacobe Meyers. But with Meyers having a tough matchup, I wouldn't fault you at all for pivoting elsewhere. Like I have Genty at 44 and Meyers at 46 in our flex rankings this week. So technically I have Genty over Meyers given the matchup. But to be honest, if Woody Marks were to play, given the fact that the Texans are 14-point favorites, I would probably play Woody Marks over all these guys anyway. I just don't know if you're going to get that opportunity.
Okay, so now Jack and Barack says, "Canced or Lovelin?" Give me Lovelin for sure. And then Emanuel Wilson or a Lave. If you have no Josh Jacobs, give me Emanuel Wilson. If Josh Jacobs does play, give me a L. But wishing you the best of luck, my friend. Noah Brassette is an auto starter quarterback. I know Herbert has a good matchup. Obviously Bo Nix is giving you some spike weeks, but in my mind, there's just simply no getting away from Jacobe Brassette in this matchup with how damn good he has been.
Now, Estacy says, "Appreciate any help on wide receivers or the flex spots." So wide receiver, you're going to go ahead. You're going to play the combo of Flowers. And then it really comes down to Brian Thomas or Lad Mani. Both have been very bad. Do we have running backs we can play? Um, not really. You're going to have to play both these receivers. Anyway, we're have to put Lad in at receiver, Brian Thomas in in one of the flexes. And that last flex spot comes down to your best running back. Most likely, your best running back is not even playable. Your best wide receiver would be Troy Franklin. And your best tight end is Coulson Lovelin. And with no Roma Dunay and no Luther Burden, I would flex Lovelin before I would Franklin. So I think you honestly go ahead and you put Brian Thomas and Loveland in there in the two flexes.
Okay, now 2K Z is AJ Brown or Amari and Hampton in the flex. Okay, I would go with AJ Brown. I very much am hoping that I am wrong though because I am having to go up against AJ Brown myself this week. So, you better believe that I am praying on the downfall and we'll see if it happens, but probably it won't.
Now, DT90 here at running back, Bucky Irving, Josh Jacobs, and then in your flex, you're just going to go ahead and play Drake London. If you were to have no Jacobs though, you pivot over to ETN.
Now, Nananiel here, running back, you play RJ Harvey now that he's fully removed from the injury report. Mike Evans at wide receiver and then in the flex Rico D pretty easily.
Now, Furball, I'm going to send you over a free start sit question. I'm assuming obviously that we don't have any questions regarding trades as there's no way that you can still make trades on your team. But we'll look at the waiver wire. You have Ibuka out there on waivers. And don't get me wrong, I understand Ibuka is much worse than he was early in the season, but I would still personally drop Jaden Reed to pick up Ibuka. Quarterback, we know Josh Allen, just the auto start. Running back, you're going to play ETN, Trevion. Wide receiver, AJ Brown, Tedaro, McMillan. You need two flex spots. I would go Judkins and Michael Wilson. And then Kelsey at tight ends. I guess maybe the waiver wire pivot of Reed for Igbuka. It doesn't really matter much if you're not playing Igbuka this week anyway though. But maybe if Igbuka is a big week this week, then you could look at him next week, which I would be very hesitant to ever tell anybody to play Reed.
Now Linglaw says, "If Jacobs is out, starting Wilson over Judkins, but worried about Smith. Ever sit Smith for Judkins estimate?" Um, yeah, I think if I wouldn't sit him for Estime. I think you go Quinn Sean Judkins, Devont Smith, and then Harold Fannon at tight end is plan A. But if Jacobs misses, then you can take out Devont Smith and you could put an Emanuel Wilson in his spot. But yeah, I'm not going to look at Estime there to be honest. Obviously, the matchup's great, but I just don't think the talent's there from a running back perspective.
Now, Loco the go here, wide receiver. We're gonna play Wel Robinson very easily. Very easily. Isaiah, quarterback, give me Lamar over Caleb, missing all his receivers. And then I don't see what the flux play was. Maybe you just had that one quarterback question.
Bone says, "Should should we start at the flex, Stefon Diggs or Jaden Reed?" So, if you go ahead and look at Jaden Reed since coming back, I mean, he is this past week, scored 10 and a half fantasy points. He had six targets. Last year, he was the wide receiver, 41 in points per game. This year, he's the wide receiver, 63 in points per game. Jaden Reed's really just a name. Stefon Diggs has played really poor as of late as well, though. Stefon Diggs this year is the wide receiver, 42 in points per game. Past three weeks have been horrible. You can go ahead. You can take if you wanted to go Jaden Reed over him. I'm not going to fault you for it. I think you're flipping a coin here kind of regardless. Trying to think if there's any like maybe the tiebreaker is Christian Watson being pseudo banged up. You'd hope that they run Jaden Reed more routes because the issue with Jaden Reed and it's always been the issue is he just doesn't get on the field enough.
Okay, now Floss Brock here for the flex between Brian Thomas, Terry McLaurin, I would go Terry McLaurin. Don't love the matchup, but Brian Thomas is a tough matchup as well. Now down in the flex, I would go it's really do we want Justin Jefferson, DJ Moore, Michael Carter, Harold Penn. I'm gonna go Jetta. Obviously DJ Moore gets a bump up with no Rome and with no Luther Burden. DJ Moore has also been garbage this year so far.
Now Jay Rudllo here, give me RJ Harvey very easily over these other names now that he's removed from the injury report. And I also think that if you wanted to, you could. I don't know. You could go ahead and put Jawan Jennings over Devont Smith in the flex. That would be the pivot you could possibly make. But it looks like we are all caught up on questions. This is going to be maybe the biggest fantasy football day and definitely of the year for me, but I almost want to say of my entire life. Like I want to win this so badly. And in my matchup, I'll just break this down for y'all. All right, look at everything I got going on today. My opponent has Jaylen Herz. My opponent has DeAndre Swift. My opponent has AJ Brown. I have Saquon Barkley, Josh Jacobs, Dallas Goddard. And if Jacobs doesn't play, I just have Emanuel Wilson sliding in. So, today is freaking massive. Unbelievably big. I'll probably know if I'm winning or losing um this week after tonight's game. And I just want to win this so badly. You have no idea. But I think we're going to call it here. Really appreciate y'all, ladies and gentlemen. Let's pray that Saquon Barkley and Dallas Goddard score the touchdowns today's game, not AJ Brown and Jaylen Herz. But much love, really appreciate you. And I'll possibly stream after the games tonight if anything interesting happens. Not going to guarantee it, but possibly.