Week 16 Fantasy Football Reactions & Injuries + Early Week 17 Waiver Wire (Ep. 1911)
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Celebrate or commiserate on how your team fared in the semi-finals! Join Seth Woolcock and Tera Roberts for their Week 16 fantasy football reactions, injury updates and early Week 17 waiver wire advice!
Is Los Angeles Chargers RB Omarion a must-start option in championships with RB Kamani Vidal banged up? Are any Kansas City Chiefs pass-catchers playable after QB Gardner Minshew went down? Plus, what makes Cleveland Browns TE Harold Fanning Jr. a lineup lock the rest of the way?
The Pros react to who helped their squad sink or swim in the semis!
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Intro - 0:00:00
Injury Updates - 0:01:41
Quinshon Judkins (RB - CLE) - 0:01:47
Kimani Vidal (RB - LAC) - 0:04:17
J.J. McCarthy (QB - MIN) - 0:05:48
Jordan Mason (RB - MIN) - 0:07:40
Gardner Minshew (QB - KC) - 0:09:11
Autographed Bijan Robinson & Drake London Mini Helmet Giveaway - 0:11:43
Top Storylines - 0:12:40
Los Angeles Chargers - 0:12:43
Harold Fannin Jr. (TE - CLE) - 0:15:23
Chris Olave (WR - NO) - 0:17:38
Taysom Hill (TE - NO) - 0:19:46
Quarterback Landmines - 0:21:36
Hard Rock Bet - 0:23:43
Panic Meter - 0:25:10
FantasyPros Discord - 0:30:44
Listener Questions No. 1 - 0:31:20
Outro - 0:33:04
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.1 | All right, and welcome into the Fantasy Pros, Fantasy Football Podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | It's the Week 16 Sunday Night Recap Show, our final instant reaction episode of the season coming to you live right here on the FP YouTube channel. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm your host, Seth Wilcox. |
| 0:20.5 | And a lot like many of you, I'm still very much sweating out some semi-final matchups and back with me as a woman who, I'm sure, went through it last night with her Green Bay Packers blowing a big time game to the Chicago Bears. She's Tara Roberts. Tara, how are you, hopefully a little better than about 24 hours ago? No, it didn't get any better. It's just been a cascading sad week. I got puked. Green Bay got nuked by every injury possible. Like, yeah, I need to pick me up. So let's have a happy positive show. Pick Tara up from her, from her Green Bay sadness. All all right well send us some uh spam the chat |
| 0:56.3 | with some emojis for Tara she needs all the good vibes she can get right now as I'm sure do |
| 1:00.0 | many fantasy managers tonight's program does look like this we'll break down all the notable |
| 1:04.8 | entries and the potential fantasy impact then we'll give you our top five storylines of the day |
| 1:09.9 | we'll take a trip to the panic meter and then we'll round out the program with a rapid fire Q&A. So if you're still alive, if you have them 2026 questions as well, go ahead and drop those below and be sure to get to as many as we can. And before we jump in, huge shout to everyone tuning in with us either right here on the Fantasy Pro's YouTube channel or the audio feed after the fact. We appreciate all the support so much, especially this time of year. I know it's very busy with the holiday season kicking into gear. So thank you for that. Please also be sure to subscribe if you're new. Help us. We are trying to get to 300,000 subscribers by the end of 2025. We can only do that with your help. And Tara, |
| 1:45.9 | what do you say? We go ahead and jump right into the injuries. Yeah, let's do it. All right, |
| 1:50.4 | here we go. And it starts off at the top with a pretty brutal one for Cleveland Browns, running |
| 1:54.9 | back, Quinnshot Jekins, carted off with a leg injury. This was described as a fractured fibula, |
| 2:00.8 | a dislocated ankle with a potential |
| 2:03.0 | knee injury as well. Terra obviously significant hit to Judkins' dynasty value and his 2026 outlook, |
| 2:10.3 | but in the meantime, it also really muddies the water for this Cleveland Browns backfield |
| 2:14.3 | against Pittsburgh next week. Jerome Ford is on IR. |
| 2:19.6 | Dylan Sampson missed his second straight game. |
| 2:25.4 | And we had Trayvion Williams take 20 snaps this game, 9.5 fancy points for him. |
| 2:26.2 | He's been a vet. |
| 2:27.5 | He's been around this league for a while. |
| 2:31.6 | And then Rahim Rocket Sanders, a favorite from the Devi community a couple years ago, end up having a bad injury down there in Arkansas transferred to a different SEC school where he was okay for the last remainder of his career, |
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