0:00What's going on, man? Welcome back to the basement. I'm Ron and we are officially at the halfway point of the fantasy football regular season and this
0:09is where things get real. Every single match up matters moving forward, butt holes are tight, playoff chances are on the line, and the
0:17waiver wire is crucial to nail down this time of the year because not only does week eight have one of the best waiver
0:24wire crops of the season so far, we need to be setting up our roster for the stretch run. So, today I'm going to give
0:31you my must-add waiver wire targets for week eight of the fantasy season. All of these players are under 50% owned in
0:38ESPN leagues and again, I think this is a week where there's going to be a lot of value out there to go splurge on. So,
0:43with that being said, leave a like, subscribe if you're new, and let's talk about my priority adds for week eight.
0:50Now, priority adds means I am using 10% or more of my FAB budget or using my waiver priority on any of these players.
0:57And of course, if you want my exact FAB recommendations for every single player, how this always goes is I make this
1:04outline, record this video, and kind of organize my thoughts and then in an article form on the Patreon, patreon.com/ronstewart, I rank every single player mentioned,
1:15throw in some extras, give you the notes, give you the exact FAB recommendations that I will be bidding on all of these players to get you right
1:23for week eight. You can find it in the description and the comment section below. Of course, the man of the hour is
1:28Jonah Coleman. Now, I believe I told you to pick him up last week, but he gets activated off of IR and
1:36immediately gets nine carries, 54 yards, six yards per carry in an offense that JK Dobbins has been struggling to run the football in, and he gets a 49% snap
1:46share. He leads all running backs in this game. He also gets used in the passing game, two catches, 15 yards. He
1:52had two runs of 10-plus yards. He had two missed tackles forced. Both of those led the Broncos running backs and gave
1:58them a much-needed jolt in the rushing game after what's been a really disappointing run out for J.K. Dobbins.
2:05And then R.J. Harvey is more of their pass-catching specialist. Now, I will say I'm not sprinting to start Jona Coleman in my RB2 spot anytime soon. I
2:13think people are going to be very aggressive with ranking him this upcoming week against Kansas City. I think he's more of a post-by rookie bump
2:19candidate. We have KC, we have Carolina, a bye week, and then I think that's where things are going to really roll
2:24for Jona Coleman, but he is one of the most high-upside players you can grab right now. He's available in 75% of
2:30leagues, and he has a lot of upside as a rookie running back. My only concern is a three-way backfield is always going to
2:37be tricky. I think Dobbins is still going to be there potentially as the goal-line hammer. And then R.J. Harvey will always get his,
2:46you know, two to four designed targets in the screen game, a carry here and there, and it'll make it so Jona
2:52Coleman's the between-the-20s guy getting 10 to 15 touches as things progress. But there's a chance, as always, that Dobbins could get hurt, or
3:01somebody could get released, or traded, or There's a lot of different outcomes for Jona Coleman to truly emerge, or he could just fully run away with things,
3:08especially after that bye week. But regardless, in a landscape where running back upside is scarce and running back injuries are a plenty, Jona Coleman is
3:17the number one add on the week. Now, the rest of our priority ads. There's going to be a lot of guys here that are
3:23already owned, right? So, we have Casey Concepcion, we have Omar Cooper, Jordan Tyson, Antonio Williams. Let's actually talk about these two first, or these
3:31three first. Casey Concepcion, Omar Omar Cooper, and Jordan Tyson are probably not available in your league. But I was looking at the ESPN percentages, a lot
3:40of them are available. We have talked about Omar Cooper, I think, last week.
3:44We talked about Jordan Tyson plenty.
3:45Casey Concepcion, there's no way that he's on waivers out there. But of course, these guys are must adds if they are hanging around.
3:52And why you're going to see a lot of rookies here is because this time of year this is where we want to find the league
3:58winners. If you think about last year, Treylon Henderson, RJ Harvey, even in a down year for rookies were guys who averaged 15 plus points per game from
4:06week nine on. And when we look at rookie receivers, this is where we get a lot of late season upside. This is from Ryan
4:11Heath here showcasing first half points per game versus second half points per game for rookie wide receivers. Some of the biggest seasons are guys, you know,
4:19some of these guys aren't even amazing in terms of looking at their entire career. Like I'm saying, Elijah Moore had 20 points per game in the second
4:26half of his rookie season. And then we never heard from him again. A lot of times we do see flashes in the pan
4:31similar with Tank Dell, but he did have his injury. Amon-Ra St. Brown, we're looking for the next Elijah Moore, Tank Dell, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jaylen Waddle,
4:38Brian Thomas, Ladd McConkey, Jayden Reed, Rashee Rice, Christian Watson, Jalen McMillan, Zay Flowers, Xavier Worthy, DeVonta Smith. Even on the bottom there at 12 points per game in
4:48the second half, that's still a meaningful boost to your flex spot if you can find that off of waivers. Now, I
4:53didn't mention guys like Malik Nabers, Ja'Marr Chase. Those guys were drafted highly, but a lot of these guys were league winners found off of waivers, and
4:59I think that's what these guys profile like, the Casey Concepsions of the world, the Omar Coopers of the world.
5:04Omar Cooper, of course, goes nuts.
5:06We can show the rookie receiver report here if you missed it yesterday. You have Omar Cooper at the top, 25% targets
5:12per route run, 4 plus yards per route run on the year, 13.5% first downs per route run on the year. All of those are
5:17absurd. They're unsustain- unsustainable, but absurd. He looks awesome, back-to-back 100 plus yard receiving games. He is in a very rare list right now in terms of how he's
5:26pacing through three career games. He gets hurt early in week one, but still had a 20 plus yard catch there. He has
5:32looked amazing. Now, they're going to remember that Garrett Wilson is a target earner, and things are going to flow to AD Mitchell, and his route share came
5:40down, but at the very least, he is a really strong flex option moving forward. Same deal with Casey Concepsion, where this was his true
5:46breakout, eight catches, 129 yards, six first downs. He looks awesome. He's a wide receiver three rest of season.
5:52Essentially, when we talk about this crop of guys, right? We just had Jerry Bernard. Now we have Conception. Now we have Omar Cooper. Jordan Tyson's a guy
5:59who could join this list. He's of course not on the rookie receiver report. He's had a hamstring injury, but he goes into
6:04the bye week here. He apparently traveled with the team to Paris. He seems to be close to returning in the Saints passing game that is throwing the
6:11ball a lot and using their tight ends like Oscar Delp and of course Juwan Johnson who Juwan Johnson will talk about at the
6:17end. We'll talk about some drops here.
6:19Juwan Johnson is pass blocking a lot because they're suffering a lot of these offensive line injuries. I believe that they lost Kelvin Banks early on. So if
6:26we're going to have tight ends blocking and then we're going to have of course Olave, but then you're going to have
6:31Jordan Tyson really just competing with targets Devon Valle, Bryce Lance, uh Barryan Brown are the other guys. So there's going to be plenty to go around for
6:42Jordan Tyson. We can kind of scroll up here. Antonio Williams.
6:47He needed to be added last week, but if somebody out there dropped him because they said, "Okay, I need somebody for
6:52this week, right?" Washington's on bye.
6:54Antonio Williams is a huge candidate to be one of these back end producers at wide receiver. He has had about a 75%
7:01rapid participation. He's coming off a bye. Can he get the post bye rookie bump here? His per route numbers across the
7:06board are solid and that's enough for him to really make a difference. I love Stefon Diggs, but he's a part-time player in this Washington offense. He is
7:14never going to be a 90% plus rapid participation guy. That could be the case for Antonio Williams in an offense I like. David Blau calling plays, Jaden
7:22Williams at quarterback. The only other guys to compete for with targets is Stefon Diggs, Chigo Conkwo who I like, and Rashad White who I like, but that's
7:29not the most star-studded receiving room of all time. We're talking about a running back and a tight end of course.
7:35And then our last priority ad is Mekhi Leven, the man of the hour on the Monday Night Football game.
7:43I'm conflicted on Mekhi Leven.
7:45He has to be rostered. He has to get picked up.
7:49But I will pump the brakes ever so slightly. Now, if you want to blame some of it on Tanner McKee, right? If you
7:53want to kind of defend your dynasty bags, that's 100% okay. But for redraft, the quarterbacks for the Eagles are going to be Tanner McKee or Joe Milton
8:01or Cole Payton. None of these guys are all that inspiring in terms of options.
8:04He played against the Cowboys, of course he was going to do well. Eight targets, seven catches, 67 yards and a touchdown.
8:10Season highs across the board for all of those numbers. Season high in yards per hour run at 1.91. But still, we're
8:16talking about a 5-yard A-dot. He's still not getting valuable targets. He's getting gadget looks and it's just not great. They're using him almost like a
8:25running back in terms of his receiving capability. It is very weird. It's annoying. It's not high enough efficiency looks. It's kind of like
8:32early season Casey Concepcion. That could change, but it hasn't yet. He played against the Dallas Cowboys. He had 19.7 PPR points. I wouldn't get too
8:40high, but he absolutely needs to be rostered and he absolutely has late season upside. Now, moving on from that, we have the rest of our ads for today.
8:49And there's still plenty of strong ads across the board. These are just guys I wouldn't be unloading fab on or using
8:54waiver wire priority on. I'd be looking to get these guys anywhere in the 0 to 10% range on waivers as they roll
9:01through through potentially for free.
9:02Now, of course, if you're in a deep league or a 14-teamer, you can up your urgency to get these players. But first
9:08up, we have Seth McGowan. He's available in like 96% of leagues right now. He just had a season high in carries. He
9:16had 11 carries. Six was his previous high. 12 touches, a career high as well.
9:21Essentially pointing at the idea of were they looking to see what they had in Seth McGowan to potentially trade away Jonathan Taylor. Seth McGowan has also
9:28been efficient this year. He's had over 4 yards per carry this week, the previous week. He has run well even against the Minnesota Vikings defense.
9:3511 carries for 46 yards is pretty damn good. A season high in snap share at 34% as well. He's a kick returner. He is a
9:43fun prospect where he had like some off-the-field issues, so he's like a 25-year-old rookie. But, he was really good as a I think freshman at Oklahoma
9:52and then kind of had a weird route, but he's also a pass-catching back. He's also a good athlete. He is a really intriguing
10:01pickup.
10:02Where you know what? As I'm kind of talking this out, I'm going to upgrade him.
10:07I don't want to be too aggressive cuz if if you just go if you do like a you know 20% bid on Seth McGowan and Jonathan
10:13Taylor just stays there the entire year, you're going to be upset. But, if you are down bad at running back, you can be
10:18aggressive on Seth McGowan because the upside is truly astronomical. If Jonathan Taylor gets traded and it's a running back room of Seth McGowan and
10:25whoever else they have running there between like I know they have DJ Giddens. I know they sometimes will bring in like a receiving back here and
10:32there. Like I know last year they had Amir Abdullah. Of course, that's not the case this year. Uh but, he is definitely
10:37interesting and somebody you have to roster. Then we have Keelan Black as my second must add. He scores a touchdown in this game for the 49ers. Of course,
10:44CMC is banged up. He said he his thigh died on him or whatever. They go into a bye week. So, I'm not I don't have as
10:50much urgency there because this could be a situation where you spend big on Keelan Black and then next week, right? So, week eight and
11:00then week nine McCaffrey comes back and McCaffrey is fine and good to go. Now, on the bottom you see the handcuff
11:08check. This is where I would be getting these handcuffs that aren't available in your league, but if they are available, Mike Washington and Emari Demercado are
11:14no-brainer really high-end handcuffs.
11:17Then we have Dameon Pierce and Elijah Mitchell. I have them both listed because we don't have clarity yet on Dameon Pierce's injury. He leaves late.
11:24Of course, the big one is that Saquon Barkley gets hurt.
11:28I was going to say early in this game, but he comes in hobbled and then it seems like he pulls his hamstring and
11:32then it's actually a back injury, and there's like a chance he goes on IR or he misses multiple games. And if that's
11:37the case, starting running backs in any situation are valuable. We saw Dameon Pierce have a serviceable day the week previous where he scores a
11:46touchdown. This could be the case again.
11:47And then if not, the next best running back is Elijah Mitchell. They've definitely been churning this part of their backfield where they've had They
11:55brought in, of course, Tank Bigsby and Will Shipley both banged up. And then they bring in JaMycal Hasty and then they cut JaMycal Hasty. And now Elijah
12:01Mitchell was the last man standing, but that's definitely one where you have to keep on monitoring who they bring on, who's healthy,
12:07and how that all goes. And we have Bam Knight.
12:10He gets Dallas this week. Jeremaih Love was going to practice this week, but there's a chance that it's only a limited capacity and then he's not good
12:16to go until week nine. And then Bam Knight has been efficient, he's been explosive, he's been the better running back between him and Allgeier. And this
12:22could be a situation where he's ranked as like the RB 25 this week against Dallas who is really favorable to opposing running backs. Then D'Onta
12:30Foreman, a really strong handcuff, also somebody with standalone PPR upside. He had nine touches in his first game back from injury, a 47% snap share. And it's
12:39really nice that this is a two-man backfield. The only running backs who took snaps, even though they both came back from injury, was D'Onta Foreman and
12:46Quinton Johnston. It's consolidated enough so that if you are really down bad, you can throw D'Onta Foreman in your starting lineup. But most likely,
12:53he's just an awesome handcuff. Then we have Samaje Perine, another handcuff.
12:57Chase Brown still doesn't look that great. Perine was the preferred back on the goal line as well. And then Devin Singletary, he'd probably be way higher
13:04than this if the Giants weren't on bye.
13:06Taiwan Jones and Tyrod Taylor both picked up hamstring injuries in this game against the Texans. Singletary scored a touchdown. He had eight touches. They
13:16seem pretty content on wanting to rotate these running backs through. Singletary definitely worth an add. Then we have our wide receivers
13:24for the week. And these are all stashes.
13:26We are kind of past the part of the year where you can just, you know, pick up a Keenan Allen or a Trey Tucker or a solid
13:33starter in a given week. So, these are really all stash plays. We have Jacoby Lane here. He is up to 75% of the
13:40routes. We have the rookie receiver report here. You can see Jacoby Lane goes from 0% to 58% to 75% of the
13:46routes. And as he's ramping up, as he's earning targets, as he has an 8.8% first downs per route run, we have a situation
13:53here that when Lamar Jackson turns the corner on his injury and it's time for him to show up, and then all of a sudden
14:00there's enough passing yards, touchdowns, completions to go around besides to Zay Flowers, Jacoby Lane could be a guy down the stretch.
14:10Same deal with Caleb Douglas. I'm a little bit lower on Caleb Douglas. Yes, it's encouraging that he had three targets, two catches, one long bomb
14:18where he I say long bomb, but really just like one long catch and run. He caught it short and then just took off on the
14:25entire defense. Two catches, 70 yards, and two touchdowns. That's just not sustainable in this Miami Dolphins passing game just isn't very good or
14:32high volume in general. So, I don't know what Caleb Douglas' upside is, but I don't mind him. Then we have Travis
14:38Hunter. He has been playing really well.
14:41They've been kind of easing him into the offensive side of the ball. And until that trade deadline passes, I want to be
14:46rostering Bryan Thomas in case he gets traded somewhere. I want to be rostering Travis Hunter and Josh Cameron cuz if Bryan Thomas goes, we're
14:54going to see routes flow to Travis Hunter and Josh Cameron. Travis Hunter, of course, had a awesome day. He had like four catches, 48 yards, a touchdown
15:03on a very small sample of snaps on offense in the London game.
15:10I believe that was against the Texans.
15:11He looked amazing and an interception in that game. We could see him get more and more involved in the offense, but if
15:17it's not him, it will be Josh Cameron.
15:20Josh Cameron has had a solid start to his rookie season so far. The targets per route run isn't amazing, but 1.95 yards per route run, 10% first
15:29downs per route run. He has been very solid and can see a bigger role attached to Trevor Lawrence if we were to see
15:35Brian Thomas get traded. And then Cyrus Allen, this one is a super low-key one.
15:39Don't sprint to stash Cyrus Allen, but bye week 13% route share, 28% route share. Can we climb up to a 40% route share anytime
15:49soon? Can we get to a 80%? Can we get to 90% by the fantasy playoffs? And then all of a sudden we are cooking with some
15:55gas. Really, really small sample, but 20% targets per route run, 2.25 yards per route run, and a 10% first downs per
16:02route run is essentially elite across the board, but again on a very, very, very small sample. So, I'd be hesitant to call him
16:07elite. I'm just saying so far it looks good. Then we can move on to our tight ends in terms of who we're going to add
16:14this week. First up, Hunter Henry, he's not available in your league, but he plays against Miami who's allowing the third most points to opposing tight
16:20ends. He has 10 plus PPR points in four straight. The more realistic add here is Chego Conquo. Awesome, awesome, awesome add. Uh now that we have
16:29McLaurin out for the season, we have Washington off of bye, O'Conquo can get healthy, and because we talked about it earlier, for all the reason I like
16:36Antonio Williams, I like Chego Conquo as well. Where Diggs isn't going to be out there for every single passing down play. He's a part-time player, a
16:44hyper-targeted one when he's on the field, but when he's not, Chego Conquo is going to be the one that gets a lot
16:49of targets. He has six targets in his last two games going into the bye. Now he gets the Eagles. He is somebody that
16:55could be a top 15 tight end rest of season very easily. Brevin Jordan Strange not available in your league, but he has seven plus targets in three
17:01straight games. Mason Taylor, this is where we're getting into a deeper situation here. I'm not dying to start Mason Taylor, but if you're in a rough
17:08spot, he has a 20% target share in back-to-back games. He looked awesome this past week against the Dolphins scoring two touchdowns, both of them
17:15contested catches. And then, Terrance Ferguson. This is purely a stash.
17:19He's injured. We don't know when he's going to be back, but because of the Davante Adams injury, because they're not really finding much between Davis,
17:25Allen I know that they scored some touchdowns between them, but in terms of like efficiency and big plays, and Colby Parkinson, I think pulled up with an
17:31injury like twice in this game against the Raiders. We could see Terrance Ferguson make a difference down the stretch. And then, we have our
17:38quarterbacks this week. Jacoby Brissett gets Dallas. That's a great matchup.
17:43Malik Willis now has 20-plus PPR points in each of his last two starts, but he gets New England. That's a tough
17:48matchup. And then, Geno Smith. I'm never really trying to start Geno Smith in fantasy, but he did just have a good
17:52week against the Dolphins. And he's a strong start in a revenge game at home verse the Raiders. And then, we will end
17:59it off with my drops. Now, I do want to make it clear, this is in no particular order. It's just if you're looking for
18:04players to drop, these are guys that, you know, I could say Justin Herbert or uh guy, you know, De'Von Achane. Like guys
18:11from earlier in the season that are injured or droppable. This is really just from this week, what I saw this week, guys I'd be looking to drop.
18:17Kenyan Drake, they're just not using him enough. Ted Ginn Sr. Uh he's just running routes that are empty calories. Like he's just a sacrificial X
18:25downfield. Chris Bell, I don't think there's going to be any room for him next to Malik Washington and then also next to Caleb Douglas.
18:33Jalen Nailor, turf toe, bye week for the Texans, then a deep wide receiver rotation there. Marshon Lloyd, Jacob's is back. Christian Kirk,
18:42zero and then into the bye week. I think Mike Evans or Deebo should be back.
18:46Juwan Johnson, he is purely a pass-blocking tight end in this offense.
18:49He is unusable the last two weeks. Not purely a pass-blocking tight end, but he's taking enough routes away that things are looking tough for him. And
18:56then, Treyvion Henderson, if you want to drop him, you can. He looks to be clearly just a handcuff to Rhamondre.
19:02And I think even the more damning thing is that if Rhamondre was to go down, I think Corey Kiner would still be
19:06annoying uh in terms of like being a pure handcuff. So, Treyvion Henderson, if you are in a pinch for roster room,
19:14you can drop him. Now, of course, I'm going to upload this video and then start typing away on the waiver wire
19:22report article I drop every single week.
19:24You can find that over on the Patreon, patreon.com/ron stewart in the comments in the description down below where you can get my waiver wire article, my rest
19:32of season rankings, my weekly rankings, my start sit streams every Sunday, my dynasty content, everything I do is there. But, as always, thank you guys
19:40for watching and I'll see you in the next one.
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