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Today it's a fantasy live edition of the fantasy football podcast.

I'm Patrick Claibon.

I'll be joined by Marcus Grant and Adam Wright.

Coming up today, we recap a massive night for all your 49ers on Monday night football. Plus, Adam Rank opens up the Waver Wire hot sauce, and Marcus Grant separates reality from Mirage. And we hand out the hardware for Waver Wire pickup of the year. That's all today on the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. Everybody, everybody. Welcome to NFL and Fantasy Live. Patrick Claibon here with Adam Rank and

Marcus Gray here to kick off week 17 of the fantasy football season. Congratulations to all

of you who made it to a fantasy championship. Also, happy birthday to Jim Harbaugh and Algy Crumpler.

Two days to an even bigger day, that's when people are going to have to make some weird starts to try to win that championship. No, love for Steve Harris of Iron Maiden? No, it's Dave Murray. Sorry. I got my Iron Maiden. Dave, catch the straight one there. No, Dave, the guitarist. Not Steve Harris, the bassist. My bad. I'm going to hear about it now.

It's an easy mistake to make. I do it all the time with two people that I've never heard of until now.

Well, you know, speaking of making weird starts, the Indianapolis Colts have had to make a weird start for a couple of weeks now, including Phil Rivers playing it on Monday night football last night, but he was not the star, Marcus. He was not. Christian McCaffrey, not a weird start at all. 146 scrimmage yards, six catches, a pair of touchdowns gave you nearly 33 fantasy points. He continues to be the top score in all the fantasy football, about 35 points ahead of Josh Allen.

Had his third 30-point game of the season last night.

He scored a touchdown in 11 of 15 games.

I can keep going on with these superlatives on pace for 421 touches.

They have built the whole plane out of him at times there with the 49ers offense.

And for all the consternation about where to pick

Christian McCaffrey, he's been great for you. And now all of a sudden, he's back in the conversation

for probably being a top three pick next year in fantasy drafts. Yeah, he helped get me to my

finals and my league of record. I don't know if I can play him this week against the Bears. I know.

I probably will not be starting. He scored over 30 fantasy points on Monday night,

close to 300 passing yards, five touchdown passes. He's really the guy who makes this offense

really click. Some would say he's the Dave Murray of this offense. But here's the thing.

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