0:00The NFL trade deadline could create a league winner and Monday night actually opened us a nice little flex starter.
0:05The week 8 waiver wire has to get us ready for the fantasy football playoffs.
0:09That is your job as a fantasy manager right now. If you have a great team, you need to be getting your roster ready.
0:13Beginning with the S tier, we are not going to talk too much about Marlon Mack Jr. because we've talked about him a lot
0:18on the waiver wire show and you guys play in serious fantasy football leagues. There's a very low chance that he is available. Same deal with Joe
0:24Mixon. The reason why Joe Mixon is not on the thumbnail is Joe Mixon has already been on a thumbnail for this
0:30channel. In all of my fantasy football leagues, Joe Mixon is already rostered.
0:34Obviously, if he is not, you need to make sure to get him on your roster. He would be the highest priority waiver
0:38wire add for me this week. In his first game back for the designated for return IR, he played 33% of the long down and
0:45distance snaps, played 50% of the overall snaps. JK Dobbins' role that was so large after Sean Payton took over the play calling was massively reduced. I
0:53would guess that JK Dobbins can almost trend towards almost zero in this offense if, you know, what Sean Payton said. Cuz the first thing Sean Payton
1:01said after the game is we need to get the ball to Joe Mixon even more. RJ Harvey had the 52-yard receiving
1:06touchdown and and JK Dobbins scored the short yardage touchdown. But, Mixon, I mean, in my rest of season rankings, I think I might have Joe Mixon as my
1:14highest ranked Denver Broncos running back for the rest of the way. Seth McGowan is our potential league winner.
1:20I thought his usage in the most recent game against the Vikings was very telling. They were clearly giving him an audition because the Indianapolis Colts
1:27absolutely want to trade Jonathan Taylor. They are in the middle of a massive rebuild. They are starting over from scratch. They're going to trade
1:34anything that is not tied down.
1:36My guess would be if the Colts get a second-round pick and a good day three pick or just a first-round pick overall,
1:43Jonathan Taylor is going to be out of the door. We've already gotten reports from Schefter and other insiders that they are taking calls and that they
1:49would like to trade Jonathan Taylor.
1:51Seth McGowan is the only other running back who has played for the Indianapolis Colts this season. In my stuff, you know, the slot model over at
1:57flockfantasy.com, he was a pretty middling prospect, but that basically doesn't matter at this stage. Like, the prospect profile stuff, we can leave
2:04that behind, and all that matters now is how good McGowan is going to play as a professional. He got an extended
2:10audition in this game against the Vikings, played pretty well, actually ended up playing 36% of the long down and distance snaps as well. McGowan is
2:17my number one priority in all my fantasy football teams that are trending towards making the playoffs. Now, I already have McGowan rostered in some of my really
2:25important leagues, but seriously, your friends are not going to be smart enough to know this. Like, they're only going to check the box score, they're going to
2:32sort by projected points. You are smarter than your friends because you watch this channel. So, make it a priority to add McGowan.
2:39And if it gets through the trade deadline, and Jonathan Taylor doesn't get traded, then, you know, no harm, no foul, we can go ahead and drop him. But,
2:45he prevent he offers the most asymmetric upside in fantasy football right now.
2:50Same deal with Ka'imi Fairbairn. The 49ers are going into their bye this week. He had a good game last week.
2:55Christian McCaffrey told writers that he got, quote, "a dead leg. My leg just died on me." Christian McCaffrey is 30 years old. We've had these efficiency
3:04concerns. Jordan James has got nothing on offense. Ka'imi Fairbairn needs to be owned in 100% of fantasy football leagues, even over the 49ers bye. And
3:11then again, we've talked about Jordan Tyson a ton, but now we have the Saints going into their bye week. Jordan Tyson
3:17is on the designated for return IR. I would guess that he plays in week nine.
3:23I would have them ahead of De'Von Achane in the rest of season rankings, and I would certainly have them ahead of Juwan
3:27Johnson in my rest of season rankings.
3:29So, in terms of like, my personal priority, this is how they are ranked: Cooper, Coleman, McGowan, Black, and Tyson. But, I anticipate because you
3:37guys play in serious fantasy football leagues, the only one who's going to be widely available is going to be McGowan, and you need to make sure to use him
3:44this week. I would use my number one waiver priority on him. I would spend, you know, 15, 20% of my FAB to To
3:50McGowan. He's very, very high priority here.
3:53Moving to the A tier, we talked about him last week, so I don't need to spend too much time on it, but Antonio
3:57Williams with Terry McLaurin out for the rest of the year, Dan Quinn said they don't expect Stefon Diggs' workload to change all that much, and they're going
4:04to ask the other guys to step up. The only guys who are are capable of stepping up are going to be Antonio
4:09Williams and Chig Okonkwo. 85% of the route share with no Terry McLaurin on the field in their most recent game against the 49ers, 78% route share for
4:19Antonio Williams after McLaurin left the game. These two, if the Commanders are able to make a run, and they have one
4:24win right now, but the division, I mean, their division is gettable. If they do end up making that run, it will be
4:30because Antonio Williams ends up playing very, very well, and Chig Okonkwo ends up playing very, very well, because the ground game is not going to get it done.
4:37Yeah, I mean, I guess maybe the Commanders could trade for a running back, maybe they trade for Tony Pollard or something like that, but a ground
4:44game of Austin Ekeler, Rashad White, and Jerry Jeudy Nichols, I don't think is going to get it done. And if they're
4:49telling the truth about Stefon Diggs not being able to scale up to like a nine and a half target per game guy, then
4:55it's definitely going to fall and Antonio Williams and Chig Okonkwo. I slightly prefer Antonio Williams. I think his average depth of the target
5:01will be higher, and I actually liked him a good bit as a prospect um coming out of Clemson. I I think he's relatively
5:07interesting and will be able to play uh outside and in the slot, which is is quite nice. Mekhi Leven had 19.7 PPR
5:15points. You might be saying, "Hey Davis, why is he not in the S tier? You know, you liked Mekhi Leven as a prospect. The
5:20route share was really high, the target share was really high." So, this is my deal with the Eagles. I am worried that
5:25we are heading into like just nuclear disaster Chernobyl territory for this offense.
5:32Tanner McKee was absolutely brutal in that game, you know, like just like couldn't even I think he couldn't even get to 11 fantasy points against Dallas.
5:39He was taking sacks, he was turning the ball over. He He was really, really quite poor in that game. The offensive
5:44line play, they did get Dickerson back, but just like the offensive line has been a huge issue and they're down. So,
5:50Barkley got injured. Uh he injured his hamstring on his very first play, was able to kind of you know, gut it out for the rest of the
5:57game and then compensation injury, injured his back, only came back in the game because Damien Pierce got injured, which which left Elijah Mitchell as the
6:06final available guy. I mean, completely insane that we are talking about Elijah Mitchell in fantasy football in 2026. I mean, this guy couldn't get on the field
6:15for the Kansas City Chiefs last year. He ends up playing the final, you know, 23% of the snaps. He might be the starting
6:21running back for the Philadelphia Eagles for the rest of the season. Barkley now has a hamstring and a back injury.
6:25Damien Pierce left the game in the fourth quarter and did not return. To return to Mecole Hardman, I would obviously love to have him. The issue is
6:33you are now looking at him being something like Cornell Tate, but in an even worse situation and a little bit worse of a player with Dallas Goedert
6:41still on the field, right? So, Dallas Goedert is going to be better targets per route run than any of the Cornell
6:45Tate's teammates. And I mean, is Tanner McKee worse than Cam Ward? He might be about the same ability as Cam Ward. Um
6:53it it I guess maybe maybe I should have Mecole Hardman ranked first in this tier because if he were available in one of my leagues, I
7:01certainly would include him on my claims this week. Also, I guess another one of the things is that most of my fantasy
7:06football teams are relatively strong at wide receiver. Here's a good one and I don't even know if I have an answer to
7:11this question. Would you rather have Josh Downs or Mecole Hardman?
7:15I think maybe maybe the answer is Mecole Hardman. I mean, I mean, 19.7 points with a touchdown. Josh Downs Josh Downs
7:20would bite your arm off to get 19.7 points. Though, Josh Downs could theoretically be traded, which which would help. So, Hardman, I wouldn't go
7:28any more than like 10, 15% and I and I would prefer Antonio Williams to him for sure. Elijah Mitchell is going to be a
7:34guy I add a ton on waivers cuz I would again guess that most people who are just kind of average fantasy football
7:40players, they are not Maddic fantasy football channel watchers. They don't even realize that Elijah Mitchell might start for the Philadelphia Eagles. They
7:47They didn't realize Damien Pierce got hurt. They didn't realize that Saquon Barkley has a back injury and a hamstring injury. Jayden Blue, I mean,
7:53Jayden Blue is just never ever ever going to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. So, Elijah Mitchell might just be Damien Pierce next week. Devin
8:00Singletary caps the Giants game off with a rushing touchdown. Tyron Tracy left that game early on with a hamstring injury. And then on his final rush of
8:08the game, Cam Skaduboo got a hamstring injury as well. Now, Skaduboo and the Giants are heading into a bye.
8:15And Skaduboo said that he was fine. But, I mean, first off, Singletary is just now going to be the running back two on
8:20a team that has not had the answer at running back all year. I mean, it's it's actually been kind of comical how many
8:25different combinations of players the Giants have tried in their rushing game.
8:30I would basically just say Singletary is just going to be kind of a guy who just any given week, if you absolutely had to
8:35plug him in at running back two. I I mean, I would rather have him than like Roshan Johnson on any of my fantasy
8:40football teams cuz Singletary is going to have a role. Singletary is going to be a handcuff. And if Tyron Tracy has to
8:46go on the designated for return IR, I mean, Singletary is probably just going to be in a time share with Skaduboo.
8:51They have been loath to give Skaduboo like true workhorse volume. Doesn't mean it won't happen. Doesn't mean you can start Singletary. And And obviously,
8:59he's Devin Singletary. Do not go crazy.
9:02Don't spend a number one waiver priority on Devin Singletary. Don't spend, you know, 10% of your fab on him. But, he is
9:07just kind of a nice like low-end running back at right now. Caleb Douglas, I did include him in the A tier. However, I
9:14I'll just say skin in the game, I will not really be adding Caleb Douglas. I don't really want to be adding any Miami
9:19Dolphins. They got, you know, what was effectively like one of their only winnable games of the season against the Jets. He was only targeted three times.
9:27He just happened to score two touchdowns, including one absolutely broken play, uh 70-yard touchdown against the New York Jets. I just Malik
9:34Washington, Chris Bell, Caleb Douglas, like even Greg Dulcich who had a really good game. I'm just out. The the the drop-back rate is too low. Malik Willis
9:42is dead last in the NFL in percentage of drop-backs that turn into a target. Like I just Really, the only Miami Dolphin
9:49that I want to be starting is I mean potentially Malik Willis in in some spots for the rushing and Ali Gordon.
9:55And then our final of the A tier, I've got Jacobi Lane, who I actually Hand up, this one's on me. I forgot to include
10:00him in the A tier last week. Just want to note he came back with a 75% route share, 50% target share. Still no Lamar.
10:08Still no Lamar and a lot of weirdness.
10:10So, the head coach Jessy Minter was asked some questions about Lamar and he gave a very weird answer. So, it appears
10:16that Harbaugh, you know, Lamar Turns out that maybe Harbaugh was not the one in the wrong and that Like I I guess at the
10:22end of the day, the thing with Lamar is he just doesn't play hurt and is unwilling to play hurt. And I'm not even
10:27going to fault him for that. Like I'm certainly not one of these anti-Lamar guys, but it does make this stuff a
10:32little bit annoying where it's like I'd be really interested in adding Jacobi Lane if I knew he was going to play with
10:37Lamar for the rest of the season, but it appears that he is not. So, that is the A tier. Moving to the B tier, we have
10:42got Bam Knight. Again, I'm just not going crazy on this guy. Jeremiah Love is going to be back. You basically have
10:47a handcuff running back on the Arizona Cardinals. I did have Bam Knight ranked ahead of Tyler Allgeier last week and if
10:54we get another game where Jeremiah Love misses, I would have Bam Knight ranked ahead. So, if you are totally desperate for a running back two and Jeremiah Love
11:01is going to be out yet again in this game against Dallas. I mean, it's a very good game actually against Dallas. So,
11:06maybe if you're truly desperate and we get word in like the next 12 hours that Jeremiah Love is like not going to
11:13practice or not close to returning, maybe you could bump your your Bam Knight bid up a little bit. Dylan Sampson returned to play 47% of the
11:20snaps, got 80% of the long down and distance work, 10.7 PPR points. The only issue with Dylan Sampson is that he is a
11:26Cleveland Brown, but he's clearly the handcuff running back in my opinion to Keaton Mitchell. Judkins, he is going to get enough weekly work to sort of be
11:34like a a a total desperation what the heck flex for the Cleveland Browns. And 47% of the snaps, I mean, I talked about
11:40this yesterday in the what mattered in week seven video, but he's in like it's a problem for Quintez Durgin's. It's a
11:47it's a big problem for Quintez Durgin's that Dylan Sampson is able to come in and immediately off the designated for return IR, basically play half the snaps
11:55on offense cuz there was a thought that Durgin's his role was going to increase and it just doesn't look like that's
12:00going to happen at this point. Travis Homer coming off the Jacksonville Jaguars bye, there's a huge chance in my opinion that Brian Thomas Jr. gets
12:07traded. If Brian Thomas Jr. does get traded, obviously Josh Cameron is going to get an expanded role on offense, but it's also I think a sign that they are
12:15ready to start playing Travis Homer more on offense. He did only play nine snaps in week six, but generates four for 59
12:22and one. Travis Homer is the type of ad you make on a good team. Like if you're undefeated right now or you only have
12:28one loss and you're getting ready for the fantasy football playoffs, I would consider Travis Homer like a priority ad because as we are getting closer to the
12:35fantasy football playoffs, the only thing that matters for us is more avenues to to extreme high points in our lineup. It's why Seth McGowan's on the
12:43thumbnail. It's why I have him as an S tier ad. You know, in in week three when I'm still trying to figure out what I've
12:48got and I you know, I'm I'm trying to like maximize points in my starting lineup right now, McGowan would not be
12:54as high of a priority, but I assume if you're watching this video, you are probably feeling pretty good about your fantasy football team cuz if you're
13:01already out of playoff contention, you're probably not watching waiver wire videos and that type of team can really use Travis Homer. Like would you rather
13:07have Here's a good example. Would you rather have Travis Homer on a really good fantasy team or would you rather pick up Kalif Raymond because Cole Cole
13:16Kmet is out for the season and he might get more routes in 11 personnel. Like to me, that's not close. It's definitely
13:22Travis Homer. And then Samaje Perine did only get 24% of the snaps, but basically I'm just starting to feel that Chase
13:28Brown is in line to have one of the absolute most snake-bitten seasons in fantasy football history and that Samaje Perine is the obvious beneficiary of
13:37that. So, I I quite like you know, again, on on teams that just need running back twos, the teams that just need to churn out some points. You
13:44know, Perine is actually a better ad for a bad team. You know, if you are if you're one game below 500 and you're
13:49like, "Dude, I don't know what I'm doing at running back two." Samaje Perine would be a potential answer there. Quick note on SuperFlex, I would expect
13:56Fernando Mendoza to start relatively soon.
13:59We've already started, you know, ask Clint Kubiak about when he's going to play. If they lose this upcoming road game to the Jets, I would expect that
14:07Mendoza is probably trending towards starting on Sunday, November 8th against the 49ers. The Kirk Cousins thing has been a nice story. It's been all well
14:15and good, but I think we're I think we're past the Kirk Cousins part of the season.
14:20QB streamers this week, if you've been doing this, Jacoby Brissett is clearly the top one against the Dallas Cowboys.
14:26They're at Dallas, so they're in the dome. 24 and 1/2 play team total. We know the Arizona Cardinals are going to
14:31absolutely chuck. I would consider this to be very very similar to when everyone went crazy for the Arizona Cardinals against the Detroit Lions. This is
14:39basically the same thing. Jacoby had a decent game there. He's going to have a decent game here. If you just if you
14:44just need 17 points a quarterback, like I I I will probably have Jacoby ranked as a top 20 quarterback this week would
14:51be my guess. And then Michael Penix Jr., he's actually been playing quite well.
14:56You know, obviously gets the beneficiary of throwing to Bijan Robinson, Drake London, and Kyle Pitts, who people forget is still kind of good. And and
15:03gets to play against the pass funnel defense, Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
15:06Buccaneers run defense quite good.
15:08Buccaneers pass defense, I know the Buccaneers are coming off this crazy good game against the Carolina Panthers.
15:13I I don't think that they are, you know, the purple people eaters or whatever.
15:17So, these would be my two preferred quarterback streamers this week. Moving to the defenses, the Jags would have gotten dropped in ton of your leagues.
15:23They are clearly the top streamer of the week. They get to play Daniel Jones and the Indianapolis Colts. They get to do
15:28so at home. 19 and a half implied team total for the Jags. Clearly top streamer. The Bengals get to play Cam
15:34Ward. I mean, honestly, maybe an argument. You could tell me that you prefer the Bengals over the Jags, but I'm really trying to get these two
15:40defenses this week. The Las Vegas Raiders get to play at the New York Jets. The only issue with playing a defense against the Jets is the Jets
15:48just don't want to throw that much. And then the Washington Commanders, if you're if you're in a very serious deep competitive league, maybe you get to do
15:54that. I mean, we got to see even the Dallas defense ended up having a good game, you know, for for fantasy purposes
16:00against Tanner McKee. So, I don't mind taking the Commanders defense. Our streaming kickers top is going to be Chase McLaughlin against the Falcons.
16:07Tyler Bass within a crazy 28 and a half implied team total for the Buffalo Bills. Chad Ryland, again, I mean, hey,
16:15go pick up Jacoby Brissett. Go pick up the Jags D. Go pick up Chad Ryland and you're going to stream yourself a ton of
16:21points. Drew Stevens gets to be the kicker against the Philadelphia Eagles.
16:24He's like 1% owned. And then just I actually don't even mean, obviously, this is a good match up, but just check
16:29and see if Cam Little got dropped in your league. People do drop these like good kickers over their bye week. So,
16:34check and see if he's out there. And then heading to our drop list, these are all guys that I currently have pending
16:41waiver wire claims where I'm dropping them. Beginning with Treylon Henderson.
16:45Obviously, you don't have to drop Treylon Henderson, but if you're in a 10 team league, if you're in a shallow bench league, and you like need points
16:52right now. I talk about this a lot in my videos, but about being biased towards action. Being biased towards action would be dropping a guy who has an
17:01injured ankle, who keeps fumbling, who is losing entire drives to Corey Kiner.
17:05Again, I'm not saying you have to drop him, but it's kind of similar to like Courtland Sutton. Sure, if you drop
17:10Treylon Henderson, is he going to get picked up? Yes, he is. If you drop Courtland Sutton, is Courtland Sutton going to get picked up? Yeah, Courtland
17:16Sutton is probably going to get picked up. But like, what do you lose? I mean, sure, maybe Ramondre twists his ankle in
17:21practice this week and you just feel sick to your stomach, but if you are trying to generate fantasy points, Trevian Henderson is not going to help
17:28you do that. 4.3 points, 24% snap rate.
17:32Jaylen Waddle, I got a ton of questions about this. I mean, again, do you have to drop Jaylen Waddle? Do you need to?
17:39Is he unrosterable? No, of course not.
17:41Like, I do still think Jaylen Waddle might end up having a nice run at some point. You know, Bo Nix figures it out a little
17:50bit. If Like, there there are ways, but I am just so frustrated The two guys I'm like most frustrated with this year in
17:58in ways like, "Oh, I should have seen this coming." were Jaylen Waddle and Josh Downs, where they're just like so so annoying to me because the routes
18:05have been there, the targets for Waddle have been there, just the fantasy points have just have not have not come. So, if
18:10you you have my permission if you want to make a move, like if you want to grab Omar Cooper Jr. or you want to Like,
18:17here. If you want to grab Mekhi Lemon instead of Jaylen Waddle, you have my permission. Will I have it ranked that
18:22way rest of season? Probably not, but I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with making that move. Marshawn Lloyd, easy drop
18:30with Josh Jacobs returning. He's He's the backup running back. He's a handcuff running back for the Green Bay Packers now. Can I drop Mumpfield? Yeah, it's
18:36not happening. Not happening for Mumpfield. Not happening for Jordan Winnington. Not happening for any of these tertiary Rams. They they really
18:43really really need to get Terrance Ferguson back. Jaylen Nowell, turf toe, 50% of the routes. I I look, I think Jaylen Nowell's great. I think Jaylen
18:51Nowell should play more. He's not going to. You know, it's it's just not going to happen with the turf toe. And then
18:57Roschon Johnson could get Kahlil M'und Guy back this week, but even if he doesn't, the role is just really not ideal there, and their their run game is
19:04also going to be worse with Cole Kmet out for the year. Think that's going to do it for the waiver wire. I will answer
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