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Good evening and welcome to the show. Got quite a bit to talk about because it is now the

post season for many of you in fantasy football and quite a bit to go through in terms of the injury front.

So let's get right down to it with the major injury news that broke was the fact that James Connor running back of the Pittsburgh Steelers

is going to be out this week playing the Raiders so obviously James Connor

being down puts this in a very precarious position for the Steelers because

Laveon Bell is gone, so there's not much else to be talking about tonight in terms of replacements with

the exception of jail and Samuels the tight end slash halfback slash full back slash now starting running back of the Pittsburgh

Steelers so you've got jail and Samuels sitting there in the vast majority of

leagues so his ownership is under 10% overall.

So there will be a bidding war for his services, depending on what the waiver wire order is, or if you've got a fab budget

folks will be spending up for them especially now that it's the

playoffs of single elimination and with the simple fact that the matter is that you know it could be

the first round of playoffs for some leagues or other leagues where it's just 14 playoffs

and you the playoffs start next week so especially in those leagues you're

going to be battling out for that last playoff spot you know this is where it kind of

comes down to who do you go ahead and target?

Because you got Jhelan Samuels to the Steelers.

But lo and behold, we've got two other running back options.

People should be taking a hard look at.

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