Fields, Injuries, Favorite Player Prop (10/07 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 7 October 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Is Alex Collins about to step in for Chris Carson on Thursday? How excited are we for Justin Fields? And we've got more injury news and Dave's favorite player prop for Thursday night!
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| 0:00.0 | If Chris Carson's out, how much would we like Alex Collins? |
| 0:06.7 | Should you be adding Justin Fields? |
| 0:08.2 | We'll give you the latest news and our favorite player prop for Thursday night football |
| 0:11.5 | right now on Fantasy Football Today in 5. |
| 0:14.6 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Adam Azor. |
| 0:16.2 | I got Dave Richard here. |
| 0:17.6 | Dave, let's start with that Seattle running back situation. |
| 0:20.8 | Carson beat up. They got the Thursday night game. He really might. There's a with that Seattle running back situation. Carson beat up. |
| 0:21.5 | They got the Thursday night game. There's a chance he might not play. So what would you do with |
| 0:25.8 | Alex Collins? You think he's a must start? I think he's pretty close to it. I think he'd be in line |
| 0:31.1 | for at least 15 touches against the Rams. In the past, that's been a terrible thing. You think about |
| 0:36.1 | that Rams defense last year, they didn't even allow a single 100-yard rusher this year through four weeks. They've already allowed two. So it's a different type of situation. And fantasy managers need running backs that are going to get 15 touches. I think Collins will be in line for it. I wouldn't love to start them. I prefer him as a flex. That's what the expectation would be. But that's what I would kind of count on right now, is that Collins would be available as a flex at minimum. Maybe he'll get you 80 total yards. Okay. Justin Fields. I'm just going to look up the roster percentage for Alex Collins as of right now, as of Wednesday night. But Justin Fields is going to start for the rest of the season. At least that is the plan. As of Saturday, as of Wednesday afternoon, he was 59% rostered. Do you think that should go up? Alex Collins, by the way, 26% rostered. So take a look at him. But do you think that you think that should go out? You got to get Collins on your bench now. |
| 1:29.8 | What about Fields? |
| 1:31.2 | What about them? |
| 1:32.0 | I think that the problem with the Bears' offense is that they don't throw a lot. |
| 1:36.6 | Maybe that changes a little bit, especially not necessarily this week, but certainly after |
| 1:40.9 | this week when they start getting into some tougher run defenses. |
| 1:44.4 | I'm, I'm okay with having him on the bench. He's not going to be a starter for me. |
| 1:49.5 | The problem is, Adam, and you know this, and most people already know this. There is a slew of |
| 1:54.1 | quarterbacks out there that people know they can go to the waiver wire and get. Fields upside, |
| 1:59.7 | it feels like it's not quite as strong because we haven't seen them play amazing. We haven't seen him put up those gaudy numbers yet. So I don't think he's necessarily a guy that you have to have on your bench in a one quarterback league. Okay. And Christian McCaffrey might be able to play this week. So if you're deciding... Limited in practice on Wednesday. Between a Thursday night guy and say Chuba Hubbard, you should probably go with a Thursday night guy. Give me your favorite player. We'll do some more news in a second, but I want to hear your favorite player propp for Thursday night, Seattle and the Rams. We got to go back on the winning side of this thing and we've got to go back to |
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