Welcome everyone to the score fantasy football podcast.

I'm your host, Justin Boone, the lead fantasy analyst at The Score.

Great to have you spending some of your day with us here. And I just appreciate the community that we've built over the last, what? I think it's been seven years we've been doing the show. Just wild. And we're going stronger than ever right now. We're heading into the final month of the fantasy season. That's why I got a few awesome guests on the way for the remaining Wednesday episodes starting today with our buddy Nate Yonkey, a pro football focus.

But before we get Nate in here, let's take a look at my top targets this week presented by Audible.

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And now that we're at the point in the season where the trade deadline has passed in most leagues, I'm going to highlight a mix of players each

week. So some are going to be quote unquote trade targets, but really those are going to be players who I like more than consensus the rest of the season. So if you could trade for them still, great. And in some dynasty leagues where there's no trade deadline at all, you could go after them. And then I'm also going to highlight some other players who might be available on waivers, but I think need to be rostered for the fantasy playoff.

So the first player that I think you should be trying to acquire before week 14, Rico Dowdell on the Cowboys. And Dallas's coaching staff, they seemed kind of reluctant to give him that workhorse role this season. I don't know why that was. Ezekiel Elliott did not have much left in the tank. Neither did Delvin Cook. But in the games where Dowdo got at least 20 touches, he's done really well. It happened three times. It resulted in 134 scrimmage yards and a receiving touchdown in week five. And then the other two instances, they happened over the last two weeks. He had 98 yards in week 12 and then 123 yards and a rushing

touchdown last week. So it seems like they've finally come around to the idea of Dowdo being

that Bel Cow lead back and it's occurring at the right time for fantasy because he gets some

decent matchups with the Bengals and the Panthers over the next two weeks. Even the Buccaneers game

in week 16, that one's not bad.

The only problem is the fantasy championship week. He has to take on the Eagles. That is a very

tough opponent. So Doudo might be able to help you make it to the fantasy championship as a

fantasy RB2, but if you get there, you might have to lower expectations on them for week 17.

For my second player to target this week

tajey spears on the titans and this isn't one where you're adding him and then you're putting

them directly into your lineup but spears is still available in 58% of league so you can get them off

the waiver wire in a lot of spots and the titans have an incredibly easy schedule the rest

of the way the jags the beng, the Colts and the Jags again.

If Tony Pollard did miss some time, Spears is the definition of a league winner.

And he is going to be nice and fresh too because he's missed a bunch of games earlier in the season with injuries.

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