Welcome everyone to the score fantasy football podcast. I'm your host, Justin Boone, the lead fantasy analyst at The Score. Thanks for hanging out

with us on an exciting week here. We're in the fantasy semifinals in most leagues, and that means

you are probably checking your roster like a million times. You were thinking about who you should

start, who you should sit. Maybe I can help with that today during our final start-sit

stash-quit episode of the season. Not going to be recording SSSQ during the holidays next week. And if you made it to the finals, I think you're going to be okay. I'll still have my waiver wire column up. I'll still have my rankings up all week long. And we'll do the Monday show as usual. And then the week 17 preview episode, that's going to come out a day early on Tuesday which is Christmas

Eve but that's next week I'm getting ahead of myself here I will say I appreciate

everybody out there who's listened to these starts at stash quit episodes all year

who's watched the videos on YouTube even though I know a lot of people miss the written

version we'll see what we can do about bringing that back next season but let's

dive in today with my key starts for week 16 and at quarterback I'm looking at

Baker Mayfield at Dallas Baker was on fire early in the season then he had a bit of a

lull for a few games and Mike Evans was banged up but now he's heating up again

Baker's thrown seven touchdowns over the last two games finishes the

QB 8 and the QB 5 in those contests now he gets one of the easier matchups

of the season going against the Cowboys defense that's giving up the seventh most

fantasy points to quarterbacks and this game is the highest projected point

total of the week so I'm expecting Baker and company to go off again. He is a top five fantasy QB for me.

For the start at running back, it's kind of obvious, but I got to do it. James Connor against

the Panthers. And it's not just that this is a great matchup, because Carolina is the softest

matchup for fantasy backs. And it's not just because they've allowed a running back to top

120 yards against them in three straight contests. It's also because Connor might not have the same kind of competition for touches this week. Trey Benson's dealing with an ankle injury. Amari Demercato, he's on IR. And we know Connor can excel in these spots. He's been a top seven fantasy back each of the last two weeks. So get ready for that to happen again in week 16.

At receiver, Jackson Smith and Jigba taken on the Vikings and very few players have broken out the way that JSN has this year.

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