Start Emmanuel Sanders? Add Jaret Patterson? (12/25 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 25 December 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Gabriel Davis is out. Nick Foles is starting for the Bears. Antonio Gibson is questionable. We react to all of the latest news and tell you what it means for your Fantasy rosters.
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| 0:00.0 | We've got a lot of injury updates for you right now on fantasy football today in five. |
| 0:09.1 | Merry Christmas, everybody. |
| 0:11.4 | And good luck to you in week 16. |
| 0:13.2 | Adam Azer and Jamie Eisenberg here. |
| 0:15.1 | Let's give you the latest news. |
| 0:17.1 | Let's start with a wide receiver that we had some excitement for picking up off the waiver wire, throwing in our lineup. It's Gabriel Davis. He is out, but Emmanuel Sanders is going to play, Jamie, at New England on Sunday. What do you make of this for the Bill's passing game? I think Sanders is the number three receiver. Remember, Cole Beasley's also out, so they're down two of their guys that they've been relying on that Josh Allen's been relying on. Clearly, Sanders has not been a good fantasy receiver and he's really struggled for the bills, but hopefully he's healthy and the opportunity is there now for him to get, I would guess, some of the neighborhood of eight to ten targets because of how this offense will operate and maybe Josh Allen staying somewhat away from Stefan Diggs and Dawson Knox based on matchups. So don't love |
| 0:54.7 | Emmanuel Sanders, but you might not have a choice but to rely on Emmanuel Sanders potential. |
| 0:58.6 | So how would you compare him to say Alan Lazard if MVS remains out or Mikhail Hardman or something |
| 1:03.7 | like that? Behind those guys. You know, I had much more optimism for Gabriel Davis because |
| 1:08.7 | of just what he's shown us the last couple of weeks. So Sanders is more in the Tyler Johnson, you know, Scotty Miller type of range than he is |
| 1:16.5 | more so in those other guys you referenced. Got a question here in the chat. Josh Allen or Jalen |
| 1:20.5 | Hertz? Does this drop Josh Allen down? I already had Jalen Hertz ahead of Josh Allen, so that's an |
| 1:25.5 | easy one for me. So I haven't moved Josh Allen yet, so I don't know if I will. But the thing you got a hold for with Josh Allen is use your legs, make plays when they're available to you. Hopefully receivers catch the ball. Remember, Dawson Knox could have had some opportunities in that first game even in the win to help Josh Allen's stat line. So I don't know if Josh Allen's horrendous in this situation, |
| 1:46.4 | but I don't love the upside now. |
| 1:48.6 | Miles Sanders didn't practice. |
| 1:50.1 | Antonio Gibson did not practice. |
| 1:51.6 | These are Friday's practice reports here. |
| 1:53.7 | They're coming off short weeks. |
| 1:54.9 | They're playing on Sunday, NFC East Games here. |
| 1:57.7 | Jordan Howard, Jared Patterson, Boston, Scott. How would you rank them to pick up? Howard is the easy one. Pick him up and start him potentially. I might lean Scott over Patterson, to be honest with me, just because you know that the Eagles are going to run the ball. You know that there's probably a neighborhood of 10 to 15 carries available to Boston Scott. He's got the track record against the Giants. I don't think you want to bank on that, but it's just, you know, something fun. So the carries could be the same. The work in the passing game can be the same. I just don't want to trust really anybody for the Washington football team if I don't have to, given the time of the game since it's Sunday night and the Cowboys defense is still really good. Do you want to trust any Bears with Nick Foles starting for the Chicago Bears? That's the news there. Fields and Dalton are out. Yeah, I think you're going to just rely on David Montgomery, maybe drop him down a few spots, but still the guy you're going to start, at least as a number two running back. And I don't think, you know, this necessarily should make you run away for Cole Commet because think about Nick Foll's history. |
| 2:52.2 | You know, when he was in Philadelphia, it was a lot of Dallas Goddard and Zach Ertz and Dallas Goddardt. And Cole Commet, I think, is going to have an opportunity to get targets. Alan Robinson is still on the COVID list as of Friday afternoon. So, you know, I think Darnall Mooney and Commetta are going to get as many targets they can handle, but Mooney's got a tougher matchup. |
| 3:08.2 | So number three is here at best frame. |
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