Maria

Beeper

Wildman

Here we go! God, I could stay character!

I wanted to. Oh, I felt good. It's a great, great week to look at the waiver wire, right?

Guys, anyone but Damien Williams available? Not really? Okay, enough of...

Let's talk about Damien Williams. We need to start with Damien Williams. He's the guy

that everyone's looking at on the waiver wire. How much do I bid on Damien Williams?

Well, the answer is all you have. He's going to be a starter for five weeks if he stays healthy.

That's a big if. He's 29 years old. He's not been known for being durable. So it's a big if.

The Bears are not a strong running game. It's a weak offensive line. It's a weak overall offense.

So this is not the perfect situation, but he's only available because he was behind David

Montgomery. Who is it bear? If he were on Arizona or Los Angeles or even Tampa, like one of

these teams with a great offense that we can trust to score fantasy points, we can weak out.

Well, the problem is all those secondary running backs are rostered, right? People have them

already. Like, you're not going to get them on the waiver wire. The backups you're going to get

that are Chuba Hubbard behind a full blown bell cow on what has been historically in an

emic offense. Now the Carolina Panthers are this prolific offense. But a couple of weeks ago,

when someone was stashing Chuba Hubbard, it was like, well, I guess, right? If you're

stashing Damien Williams, you're like, I guess it is the Bears, but right? He is a direct backup.

There are very few out there. You would classify as a handcuff running back. There are just

precious few direct handcuff running backs available. Damien Williams was one of them. That's why he

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