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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 Rank. Coming up today, we've got to look ahead to a few upcoming schedules that could be a

trick or a treat for fantasy managers. Plus, which of the standout rookie running backs are real

and which are a mirage? And in honor of Halloween, Adam Rank busts out the Waver Wire EMF meter

to detect the ghosts lingering on the wire. Everybody, welcome to NFL Fantasy Lab. Patrick Claibon here kicking off week nine with Adam Rank and Marcus Grant on a day where we had some sports last night and we're all well rested and ready to get back at this way. Oh, see, this is the joy of being an Angels fan. I went to bread by any early. Didn't have to worry about it.

I knew they weren't going to pitch to my favorite player showing it on this. I'm like, oh, I'm good. Yeah, I just pretty much rolled last night into this morning. So we're still up and running. So as long as the show just keeps going, I'm good. But the moment I sit down, it's probably a wrap. All right. Well, let's keep it going and get into, yeah.

The game we're talking about was the Washington Commanders at the Kansas City Chiefs. And what a performance, Marcus, from Rishie Rice. Rishie Rice, fantastic. You see that on the screen. Nine catches 93 yards at a touchdown, even a couple of runs. averaging 24.3 fantasy points per game in the two games he has played since coming off of suspension,

targeted on 40% of him. averaging 24.3 fantasy points per game in the two games he has played since coming off of suspension,

targeted on 40% of his routes. And I was sort of worried about how the distribution was going to go with

targets. At this point, the argument is who's the number two target in the target tree for Kansas City?

Because it's apparent that Rashid Rice has locked down that top spot.

Yeah, this was the game we actually watched in my house because my daughter would not allow us to watch the Dodgers, but she loves Travis Kelsey. So this was easy for me to watch. And Patrick Mahones had a really nice game for the cheese. It didn't start off great. There was a little bit of trouble there. It nodded up at halftime and you're like, ooh, because I remember recommending to a lot of people. Now that you need recommendations to play Patrick Mahomet. We had talked about him on this show, on another show that I do. We're just having a good time talking about Patrick Mahomes. Then it was not working out. But he rallied in the second half, three touchdown passes. He now has seven games with at least 22 fantasy points this year. That's the most among quarterbacks. And it's funny because for this draft season, it felt like people

were really fading Patrick Mahomes. Like, ah, the game might have passed him by. Like, yeah,

I don't think so. It's inevitable. Just like that win last night for the Dodgers.

It's inevitable that the Chiefs are going to get back.

Yeah, a great night in the rank house because baseball saw it.

Travis Kelsey had a big night at tight end for fantasy football.

21.9 fantasy points could have been even more.

He had one that he coughed up and gave back to the commanders,

but eight targets caught six of them for 99 yards and a touchdown. Those 99 yards, the most he's had this season. And congratulations to Travis Kelsey now tied for the most touchdowns in Kansas

City Chiefs history with 83. So congratulations to Trav elsewhere on the offense.

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