Welcome everyone to the score fantasy football podcast. I'm your host, Justin Boone, the lead fantasy analyst at the score.

Appreciate you hanging out with us today. Another awesome guest joining me in a bit here. John Daigle have established the run. I've been playing the hits lately. Lots of friends that we get on year after year. We're very lucky to have them. And we got plenty to talk to Daigle about, including the Deontay Johnson trade, the Texans losing Stefan Diggs for the year, Joe Flacco taken over in Indy, the early returns on James Winston starting in Cleveland. The list goes on and on. But before we get him in here though, let's take a look at my top trade targets this week as we kick things up a notch with our friends at Franks Red Hot. Let's Frank it up. And the first name on my list heading into week nine, Dak Prescott on the Cowboys. It hasn't been a great fantasy season for Dak so far. Just two QB1 fantasy finishes for him. But he's through the hardest part of his schedule and six of his next eight opponents are inside the top 10 for fantasy points allowed to QBs, including matchups with the Panthers and the Buccaneers in the first two weeks of the fantasy playoffs. So don't give up on DAC yet. I'd be making a move to try to acquire him before he turns things around. The second player I think you should trade for this week, James Connor on the Cardinals, and the veteran, just the RB20 on the season and half-PPR scoring, that feels a little bit low to me, considering he's played pretty well.

But in the end, he's been good. He hasn't been a great fantasy starter this season. However, I think the best is yet to come for him. He still has his buy coming up at week 11. So keep that in mind. But after that, we're talking about some very friendly fantasy matchups like the

seahawks in week 12 and week 14 the patriots the panthers and the rams during the fantasy playoffs

from weeks 15 to 17 all those defenses that i mentioned there they're all in the top 13 and fantasy

points given up to running backs this season so as long as connor stays healthy he's going to be a

major factor in fantasy title runs and i'm confident that the last name on my list here is also going to be Nico Collins on the Texans. And this one, maybe it's not that much of a buy low. You might have to pay up a little bit to get him because we know how good he is. I think most fantasy managers are on to him now. And the Stefan Diggs injury, that means Collins could see even more targets the rest of the way once he returns. Now, he's on injured reserve for at least one more week, but the reports are making it sound like he's probably going to return in week 10. So this might be your last chance to get him here. You'll hold him for a week and then you have him as he just goes wild and you're starting lineup the rest of the way and it's not impossible that

Collins could actually be the highest scoring fantasy receiver from week 10 on

that is legitimately within his range of outcomes that is as long as he is back to

full health but he should be in the conversation regardless as the top five

fantasy wide out so if you go and you

get them for low end wide receiver one or maybe even wide receiver two prices i would make that deal

all day long and if you're trying to decide which players that you could potentially put in a trade

offer for these guys i always advise go check out my updated trade value charts over at the score

you know your league best of course but those charts they can give you an idea of player values and maybe who could get a deal done or at least get you close, get that conversation started, and then go out and send some offers and take your roster and frank it up, just like our friends at Frank's Red Hot. All right, let's get our guest in here, and I spoiled it already, but it's

John Daigle of Established the Run. He's on X or Twitter at Not J. Daigle. I always love seeing that handle. It will never get old to me. He's also another and just a long line of great guests that we've had on this year. He's been crushing it every step of the way in his career, been rising up the industry year after year and as my friend Jonah Beerenbaum at the score would say you know

them you love them. So welcome back, Mr. Daigle. Thank you for making some time during the season. Man, I know it's always tough. And we're approaching here the end of October. How of the first two months of the season been for you this year? The halfway point of the season. Sometimes it does feel like we're closer to the end. And what was odd is, I don't know about you, but in terms of my day-to-day routine, it took probably a full month to get going to feel like I was back in the grind after the off season. So here we are now. Everything's going really well. Unlike the past years, we've also had some big trades. And so that's pretty much on the top of everyone's mind for fantasy. Yeah, the league has been really kind to us this year. It's almost like they're spreading out these trades and spreading out some of the news so that we have plenty to talk about every week. Because a couple weeks ago, it was Amari and Devante those trades happening.

Last week, DeAndre Hopkins going to the Chiefs. Now this week, Deontay Johnson going to the Ravens. And we're going to talk about the Panthers side of it in a second. But I want to know, what's your outlook for the fantasy assets in Baltimore? Now that they're adding a guy like Deontay to an offense that already had a young star wide out in Zay

Flowers has Rashad Bateman who's been doing more than he really has ever done in his NFL

career this season a Mark Andrews Isaiah likely they're popping up with usable fantasy

weeks maybe not quite as often as fantasy managers would have liked though Andrews has started

to come on more lately. And now you're adding

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