1050: Mailbag - Rome Odunze's Struggles, Stashing Defenses, and More
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Is Rome Odunze doomed? Is now the time to stash defenses for the fantasy playoffs? Should fantasy managers finally be excited about Marvin Harrison Jr.? JJ answers those questions -- and more -- on this week's mailbag episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the late round podcast with your host, JJ Zacharisa. |
| 0:10.0 | What's up, everyone? It's JJ Zacharisen. |
| 0:14.2 | In this episode 1050 of the late round fantasy football podcast, |
| 0:18.8 | Thanks for tuning in. |
| 0:24.2 | Before I get to the mailbag questions this week, I just want to remind you guys to subscribe to the Late Round newsletter. It's absolutely free. |
| 0:27.6 | All you got to do is head to LateRound.com, click newsletter, and submit your email address. |
| 0:32.1 | That's it. |
| 0:33.2 | In that newsletter during the season, you get the 15 transactions email, you'll get the weekly |
| 0:37.5 | data dump that I publish on Twitter and Blue Sky, and you'll get a nice recap of everything from David |
| 0:42.1 | Kitchen at the end of the week. Out of season, I send out studies, I do other research articles |
| 0:47.7 | that I send out in that newsletter all the time. That's late round.com and then click newsletter. |
| 0:56.1 | Okay, now let's get to these mailbag questions. |
| 1:00.6 | The first question this week is from Carter on Patreon. |
| 1:04.8 | It says, I saw you still have a dunes day ranked as a wide receiver one this week. |
| 1:08.9 | Feels tough to just send them back out there after a bagel against Cincinnati's defense. |
| 1:11.1 | It feels like he just hasn't been a priority for that offense since the buy, but I would love to believe he's coming back. What's giving you |
| 1:16.2 | that confidence to keep him ranked up there? There's actually a lot to unpack here. Let's first |
| 1:21.9 | just start with a dunzee and what's been going on with him. The Bears had a week five buy. So they |
| 1:27.1 | played weeks one through four. They had a buy, and then they played since then. |
| 1:31.2 | That gives us a really nice and clean four games split. |
| 1:34.6 | Four games pre-buy, four games post-buy. |
| 1:37.7 | In the pre-buy games, Adunze was averaging a 27% target share per game rate and 19.9 ppr points per game. Post by, those numbers have fallen |
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