Week 16 Winners and Losers (12/27 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
CBS Sports
4.9 • 721 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Joe Burrow is of course a winner and Cordarrelle Patterson is a loser. We have many more players to discuss and a look at the Week 17 waiver wire.
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| 0:00.0 | We've got your week 16 winners, hopefully you and your fantasy teams, and losers right now on fantasy football today in five. |
| 0:11.0 | Adam and Heath on Sunday night reacting to what we saw on Sunday afternoon. |
| 0:15.8 | All right, so how about that burrow guy, Heath, what do you make of that? |
| 0:19.4 | And can they carry it over to week 17 |
| 0:21.3 | for the fantasy championship against the Kansas City Chiefs? He looked like one of the best quarterbacks in football. He looked like somebody who wanted to be in that top five discussion next season. And if he finishes it off, if he does carry it over for two more weeks at the end of the year, he might be in that discussion. But I think it's probably best to temper expectations just a little bit going into week 17. |
| 0:41.2 | He'll be a low-in starter against the Chiefs. It's a more difficult matchup. This matchup sets up so well for their offense. And I thought both he and T. Higgins were winners because the last time we saw Jamar Chase go off against this defense, Chase was still very good in this game, but T. Higgins were winners because the last time we saw Jemar Chase go off against this defense, |
| 0:54.8 | Chase was still very good in this game, but T. Higgins had the monster performance. |
| 0:59.0 | The other winners that you gave were Rex Burkhead and Gerald Everett. So Burkhead, 31% roster, 24 carries, |
| 1:06.6 | 149 yards, two touchdowns. He will face San Francisco and they're ridiculously good running defense next week. Is he a start or is this a one-week wonder? Oh, this is a one-week wonder, but I just thought he deserved to be acknowledged. It was the fantasy semifinals, and whether or not you started him, he showed up. And what about Gerald Everett? It's a little bit more sustainable for him and a great matchup against Detroit next week. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah, I think he's probably a top 12 tied end and the top streamer. He has been basically since Russell Wilson came back, just almost in a three-way tie with D.K. Metcalfe and Tyler Lockett in terms of involvement in the offense. And I wouldn't expect that to change against a good matchup. |
| 3:09.6 | Dave's winners, Rashad, Penny, Joe Burrow, and Ammanra, St. Brown. Penny and St. Brown squaring off lions at the Seahawks next week. So are they both starts next week, Penny, with 135 yards and a touchdown, but no catches. St. Brown with nine more catches, 91 yards. Do you think they're both starts next week? I do. I think Penny's a better start in non-PPR than he is in full. He's probably a mid-range number two in non, and a low-end number two in full. And Monroe St. Brown's kind of the opposite. He's a good number two in full PPR. Better if there's no D'Andre Swift, but even if there is Swift, he'll be a good number two. And non-PPR, I don't know that he's going to score a touchdown next week, so I'd still view him as more of a number three. Let's take a look at Cordaro Patterson. He's one of your losers. He had seven carries, 14 yards, and a touchdown. Can you have any faith in him at Buffalo? None. He has not looked the same. And for now three or four weeks, the Falcons haven't been using him the same. I think he's come back to Earth, whether he's run out of juice from what I had earlier in the year or what, but he's basically splitting with Mike Davis evenly now. And Davis is outperforming him on a semi-regular races. If we take a look at the waiver wire, the initial reports on Clyde Edwards-Z-Lair, not as bad as they could have been. It doesn't look like he has a broken collarbone. X-rays were negative, but he will – I shouldn't say he doesn't have a broken collarbone. He'll need an MRI, but x-rays were negative, which is good. But you look at the Chiefs backfield and really the Eagles backfield |
| 3:07.8 | and the Jaguars backfield. And who are we looking at on waivers? I would probably go for Darrell Williams first because I think it's least likely that Clyde will play as opposed to both Sanders and Howard. If we find out early in the week that Sanders and Howard are not going to play, then Boston Scott would jump towards the top of that list as well. And then Agung Buwale would be behind those guys. |
| 3:26.9 | All right. |
| 3:28.1 | Anything else? |
| 3:29.3 | What else did that? |
| 3:30.5 | What else did that? |
| 3:31.3 | That was really efficient. |
| 3:32.7 | Well, I think we should talk about the losers. |
| 3:34.3 | Sequin Barkley, if you were able to survive his disaster, whether you play him at Chicago may just come down to whether Akeem Hicks plays, |
| 3:43.5 | because that bear's defense is either atrocious without Hicks, the run defense, or really good |
| 3:48.7 | with Hicks. It would also help if Mike Glynham was back, but he's probably more of a low-end |
| 3:54.1 | number two or flex this week. Okay. And other losers, Emmanuel Sanders, Craig Reynolds for you. I think we're pretty much... Are we done trusting Emmanuel Sanders? Because he does have Atlanta next week. And if Davis and Beasley are out, you know, do you can reconsider Sanders? Do you maybe go toward Isaiah McKenzie? I think I would go towards Isaiah McKinsey. |
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