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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Early Waiver-Wire Pickups and 2020 Bold Predictions

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Yahoo Sports

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4.7737 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It’s never too early to hit the waiver wire! Yahoo’s Andy Behrens and Scott Pianowski discuss pickups ahead of Week 1 and their bold predictions for the 2020 NFL Season![Create or join a 2020 Yahoo Fantasy Football League for free today] Every week through the NFL season, Andy and Scott will comb through the waiver wire and free-agent lists to highlight players you should consider adding to your fantasy roster. Our pre-season pickups: Chris Thompson: With no Leonard Fournette to compete for touches, Thompson will be called on early and often to catch the ball out of the backfield. Preston Williams: With a narrow passing tree to battle for catches and early training-camp buzz, Williams could continue last year’s breakout. Darrel Williams: Even the second-string running back in Kansas City’s high-powered offense will be worthy of flex consideration, and what if CEH flops? Bryan Edwards: The rookie Raiders receiver will be called on early and often in the Vegas offense with Tyrell Williams hitting IR. Late-round Tight Ends: Chris Herndon, Blake Jarwin, Irv Smith, Ian Thomas, Jack Doyle could all provide top-5 TE value. JJ Arcega-Whiteside: Despite last year’s debacle, another offseason could mean a breakout year. And our bold predictions for 2020 — please don’t at us if these are wrong, they’re supposed to be bold! Joe Burrow puts up the greatest rookie fantasy quarterback season of all time. Terry McLaurin is a top-5 WR in 2020. Both DJ’s, D.J. Chark and D.J. Moore, put up top-10 WR value. New England Patriots win less than 8 games in 2020. Matthew Stafford leads the NFL in passing yards and is an MVP candidate. Derrick Henry doubles last year’s number and catches 40 passes Zack Moss is better than Devin Singletary CeeDee Lamb beats out either Amari Cooper or Michael Gallup to become Dallas’s second best fantasy receiver. Remember to stay tuned to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast, which will now have FIVE new episodes per week!Follow Andy: @andybehrensFollow Scott: @Scott_PianowskiCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Yahoo Fantasy Football forecast presented by planters satisfying your snack

0:07.3

cravings for over a hundred years. You know what satisfied me today? Number one, like, it's week one.

0:15.6

Week one is happening. Week one is underway. We've got Deshawn Watson and Patrick Mahomes,

0:20.3

like, in just a couple days.

0:21.9

So that's exciting. Number two thing satisfying me is that for the second time this draft season just recently, I had simultaneous fantasy drafts going on.

0:32.6

Like both of them starting at 8 p.m. both on Yahoo. Both was separate Andy Barron's videos popping up in the

0:40.2

draft room right before we started. It was pretty amazing. It was pretty hectic. But it is

0:44.9

draft season. That is always both satisfying and exciting. I am joined today, and this is going to be

0:50.9

a regular occurrence throughout the NFL season. I am joined today by Scott Pianowski, a multi-sport legend, host of the Yahoo Fantasy Baseball podcast and an excellent football analyst in his own right.

1:02.2

Scott, what's up?

1:02.9

How are you doing?

1:04.2

Doing great.

1:05.1

I want to jump in the satisfying thing.

1:07.1

I get satisfied by planners cash shoes.

1:09.4

When I'm going planners, I'm going cashews.

1:11.7

And it also sounds like Minshu.

1:14.1

So, you know, I'm thinking cashew, minshu.

1:16.8

There's probably a fantasy team name in there.

1:18.8

And so excited.

1:20.5

What, we're just a week away from the season.

1:22.1

Yeah, I hear you.

1:23.6

This is like week one is always, especially if you're a fantasy analyst, a fantasy writer,

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