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Dynasty Nerds Podcast | Dynasty Fantasy Football

The Biggest Risers and Fallers From NFL Week 16! Dynasty Fantasy Football Podcast - EP. 769

Dynasty Nerds Podcast | Dynasty Fantasy Football

Rich Dotson

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Dynasty Nerds Dynasty Fantasy Football Podcast crew delivered their final weekly buy and sell recommendations of the season, identifying key players whose values have shifted heading into championship week and the offseason. Garret and Jagger broke down late season opportunities across multiple positions, offering insights on which players to target now before values shift again. Kirk Cousins emerged as a surprising buy recommendation despite his benching in Atlanta. With numerous teams needing quarterbacks in 2026, including the Giants, Browns, Jets, and Saints, Cousins could land in a situation where he provides fantasy value similar to Joe Flacco. The hosts suggest acquiring him cheaply now and flipping him for a 2027 second or third round pick once desperation hits in Week 5. Cam Ward also drew discussion as a soft buy, with improved play suggesting he may not be the bust many feared. While concerns remain about decision making, Ward is no longer drowning when things go wrong, making him worth a late first round pick. Running back remains tricky with Josh Jacobs showing troubling signs of hitting the age cliff, while Omarion Hampton looks like the clear rookie running back one heading into next season. FastDraft: Download and deposit $10 using code NERDS on the FastDraft app and join your first draft to be eligible for a free one-year full bundle membership at Dynasty Nerds (new members only). FastDraft will match your deposit up to $50. Draft best ball teams in under 5 minutes! 00:00 Start 00:45 Injuries 02:40 Dynasty Fallers 04:51 Dynasty Faller: Brian Thomas Jr. 08:30 Dynasty Faller: Josh Jacobs 12:20 Dynasty Faller: Baker Mayfield 16:30 Dynasty Risers 16:53 Dynasty Riser: Kenneth Gainwell 20:05 Dynasty Riser: Kirk Cousins 24:04 Dynasty Riser: Jakobi Meyers 26:30 Dynasty Riser: Omarion Hampton 29:19 Dynasty Riser: Cam Ward Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back into the Dynasty Nerds podcast, Rizers and Fallers Edition. Just the two of us today.

0:07.7

I'm your host, Garrett Price, here with my main man Jagger May. Jagger, how you doing?

0:12.3

I am good. It is the last one of these. I'm a little sad. I'm a little sad. We don't get to

0:17.6

panic or over hype. No. No, no more of it.

0:21.6

We should say no more.

0:22.6

We'll get you once a month, once a month.

0:25.6

Because right now, you know, it's a in the off season, it guys don't move that much.

0:32.6

So we'll get you once a month.

0:34.6

But other than that, yeah, we're getting rid of the weeklies until

0:38.9

that time. But it's to make way and make room for prospect discussion, which is near and

0:44.7

near to our hearts. All right. Well, let's go ahead and get into it on notable injuries from this

0:50.2

week. We have Jordan Love. He had a concussion.

0:55.4

I think, and I could be wrong.

0:59.0

I think Trevion is also a concussion, but I wasn't able to like verify why he was actually out anywhere.

1:05.5

Yeah.

1:05.9

That's a, and that was a one game.

1:07.6

I wasn't, and I'm a Patriots fan, so I felt sad that I wasn't paying close attention to during that time.

1:12.6

I was like rapping Christmas gifts. And I was like, oh, where's Hindo? Where's Hindo? And like you, I was on like Twitter. I was like, what's wrong? I was like, well, let me ask Gemini. You know, it's like, what's wrong with Trivion Anderson? it's like i couldn't find it anywhere it's like no no one said why, but based on like the replays,

1:30.3

it was the only thing that really made sense unless it was like a back injury. So I think it's a

1:36.6

concussion. We'll have to kind of wait and see. We also got ankle for Jordan Mason. He left the game,

1:43.4

didn't return. We had Josh Jacobs. His was an interesting one. We'll talk about him a little bit more actually in this episode. But he's been having issues with his knee, with his ankle. It seems like every week we don't think he's going to play. And then he does. Same thing happened this week, although we didn't see him much in the third quarter, but we'll get to that in a bit. The biggest one, though, was Quinn Sean Jed happened this week although we didn't see much in the third quarter but we'll get to that in a bit the biggest one though was quinshawn jedkins this week fibula injury uh fortunately

2:07.8

how everything kind of turned out they're looking at a four to five month timetable so he didn't

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