Risers and Fallers: Selling the Jets? Buying the Bears? Fading De'Von Achane? (08/18 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
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4.6 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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After an encouraging Sunday night performance from Caleb Williams, Dave talks about what he saw from the Bears and Bills in their joint practice last weekend (3:25). Then we play some "Hey, Real Quick" (4:35) with trending players like Puka Nacua, TreVeyon Henderson, Justin Fields, Omarion Hampton and Ricky Pearsall. Within this, we talk about the sputtering Jets offense ... Some of our biggest risers (13:40) include Braelon Allen, Emeka Egbuka and Keon Coleman. Some of our biggest fallers (29:30) include DJ Moore, Ken Walker and Rashee Rice. Walker isn't falling too far, but there are some concerns ... News and notes (42:15) on De'Von Achane, Terry McLaurin, Malik Nabers and more. Then we go through more risers (54:30) including Derrick Henry, Calvin Ridley and Rome Odunze and more fallers (1:06:05) including Tank Bigsby, DJ Moore and Tyreek Hill ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com
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| 0:38.0 | It's time to dominate your fantasy league. |
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| 0:45.1 | Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. |
| 0:51.0 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:52.2 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:53.1 | This is Fantasy Football today, presented by BetMGM, the sports book Born in Vegas. Monday, August 18th. It's a big day. It's a big morning because 23 of the 24 FFT Open Leagues started their draft 14 minutes ago at 10 a.m. Eastern, and we're going to be tracking it. |
| 1:10.3 | Oh, who didn't? |
| 1:11.6 | Tom Fornelli started his last week. I think he already finished. |
| 1:15.6 | He did a complete... |
| 1:16.3 | He could have did it last week? |
| 1:17.9 | No, because most of the leagues, not most, but about half the leagues, we had some managers |
| 1:24.5 | who I just got them in like a few days ago. |
| 1:45.4 | So the leagues weren't full, but some of the leagues were full. But anyway, I wanted, I think it's this fun day. It's FFT Open Day. It's starting today. All these leagues, over 20 leagues, drafting right now, untimed, or three hours between picks. First three picks of my league are a lamb or Chase Lam Bejohn Robinson. |
| 1:50.9 | So lamb went second. Mine too. Really? Yeah. Not mine. What's yours? |
| 1:59.0 | Chase Bejohn Robinson. Yeah. All right. I got Bejohn at two. Very, very good. This is 12 team full PPR, but you only start two receivers. Small lineups, quarterback, two running back, two receiver, one flex, one tight end. No kicker, no defense. Anyway, you didn't come in to hear about that. Jamie's on the clock. I want to know what he does. Oh, fourth. All right. What do we got? Oh, my God here. Gives it four. Robinson went three. |
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