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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Week 5 Pickups: Replacing Michel, Chubb & Ekeler

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

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4.7737 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

As more and more injuries pile up in the NFL, Andy Behrens and Scott Pianowski are here to get you back on track to a league title.Sony Michel, Nick Chubb and Austin Ekeler are the latest star running backs to get banged up. Should you turn to Damien Harris, D’Ernest Johnson, Justin Jackson or Chase Edmonds?It remains to be all about the rookies at wide receiver on the waiver wire. Will Tee Higgins replace A.J. Green as the Bengals top target? (34:47)And at the tight end position, Scott and Andy each give you a streaming option ahead of Week 5.Remember to stay tuned to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast, which will now have FIVE new episodes per week! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Andy Barron's, joined as usual by Scott Pianowski, and welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast, presented by planters satisfying your snack cravings for over 100 years.

0:14.5

Do you know what satisfied me today?

0:16.3

Actually, not just today over the past week.

0:19.2

Scott, I have really, really enjoyed the fact that LeBron James is tweeting during NFL games.

0:25.2

I'm really loving it.

0:26.1

That helped make the Thursday night game between Denver and the Jets.

0:31.4

I hope make it go down really well.

0:32.9

I was satisfied to see Miami win that third game, so maybe we'll get some kind of a series

0:36.6

because when the Miami team photo got hurt early in the series and the Lakers got up to nothing, I thought,

0:42.4

okay, this is, you know, Lakers in three, right? I mean, it just seemed like such a non-series.

0:47.4

I still don't think Miami can get back in it, but at least we'll have something to watch and they've look I'm also satisfied by the fact that given where sports

0:55.9

were at a few months ago the fact that they successfully successfully played us the only cup finals

1:01.2

the NBA is going to crown the champion they've gotten the golf tour which I'm a big golf fan

1:05.4

they've gotten that going again they're going to have the masters in a few. And somehow we keep trucking through the NFL season.

1:12.8

Here we are, you know, almost on the, as we tape this, we're just about done with week

1:17.0

four.

1:17.7

And a few days ago, I wasn't sure there's going to be a week four.

1:20.8

So I'm satisfied by that too.

1:23.4

Yeah, how about it?

1:24.3

We're sputtering a little bit.

1:25.7

It's like, this has been a busy news a couple of days here, but the NFL has strengthened, enhanced, buffered somehow their COVID protocols. So with any luck, maybe we won't get future postponements or near postponements and all the madness that we had this week. This week is a reminder that this can definitely happen later in the season.

1:44.4

It's something that fantasy managers have to plan for and whatnot. We also had a bit of news

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