Draft lottery picks? 12 players with MASSIVE contingent fantasy value you need to target

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

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4.7 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

‘Boom or bust week’ rolls on this week with Scott Pianowski joining Matt Harmon to go full BOOM. The two identify 12 players with massive contingent value of players who are “one injury away” from being instant fantasy contributors. Nailing these picks late in your draft could make or break your entire roster.

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0:00.0	Today, Scott Pianowski joins me to identify the 12 players who have crazy contingent value this season.
0:08.3	That's right.
0:08.8	Who is the guy behind the guy?
0:10.9	The starter goes down.
0:12.0	This player gets a big bump up in our fantasy rankings.
0:14.7	That's what we're breaking down for you here today.
0:16.3	We've got names like Ray Davis, Isaac Garando, but also, yes, some names that you have not considered yet.
0:22.0	I promise there will be a few that take you by surprise. All that more cut up on today's show.
0:26.4	Let's get into it.
0:41.0	What's going on, everybody?
0:41.9	I'm Matt Harmon.
0:46.6	Welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast, and it is a hell of a day to talk ball.
0:50.0	And join me to do just that is my good buddy, Scott Pianowski.
0:51.2	Scott, what's going on, man?
0:53.0	Not much.
0:56.0	Middle of August, middle of draft season. Actually, in the second half of August. So a lot going on. ADP's shifting drafts, salary cap drafts, all this
1:02.5	stuff going on. We have new formats on Yahoo this year. So I feel more juiced for the season than
1:08.4	maybe I have in a while because there's just a lot of new stuff going on. A lot of exciting changes have been made and just trying to get my, my toes
1:15.5	into as much of it as I can. August always feels like a whirlwind every single year. And this
1:22.0	year is certainly no different, you know, a lot of new things going on here at Yahoo, which is really cool,
1:28.3	a lot of fun stuff. I'm also, Scott, I don't know about you. I'm in probably like four slow
1:33.7	drafts right now. So I'm in a constant exercise of, oh my God, am I, am I on the clock? Like that,
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