Week 5 Preview: RB + WR Injuries to Monitor & Starts of the Week! | Fantasy Focus

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🗓️ 3 October 2025

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Welcome back to Fantasy Focus! Daniel Dopp, Field Yates, and Mike Clay break down everything you need to know heading into Week 5. Which quarterbacks are set up with good matchups? Can Derrick Henry get back to his usual self? The Focus crew also updates you with all the latest injury news and buzz ahead of kickoff this Sunday. Plus, with bye weeks beginning, who are some strong streaming options for QB and WR in week 5? 00:00-05:05 Intro and Welcome In 05:05-13:12 TNF Recap 13:12-17:50 Lamar Jackson & Derrick Henry 17:50-21:15 Texans Offense vs Baltimore defense 21:15-27:25 Week 5 Injury Report 27:25-31:02 Bryce Young streaming option 31:02-40:55 WR back, not back, all the way back 40:55-44:23 Bills pass catchers 44:23-47:48 Seahawks Backfield 47:28-52:47 Evan Engram back? 52:47-1:00:00 Starts of the week! 1:00:00-1:03:45 Mailbag and Goodbye! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:18.1	Fantasy.
0:20.6	Fantasy focus. What's good friends?
0:29.6	Welcome into Fantasy Focus presented by Little Caesars alongside Mike Clay in a NASCAR shirt and
0:35.6	Field still wearing half his pajamas from last night.
0:55.4	My name is Daniel Dopp. We are here to have a fun show. Does it kind of look like the top to a bottle, like a pajama set a little bit? Can I feel that? Yeah, please do. Yeah, that's cozy. Do you guys wear pajamas? Like pajamas? No. Okay. I don't. Do you have any, though? I would love to have like a pajama set to be an adult. I think I have one Christmas themed
0:57.4	pajama set to be an adult.
0:55.4	I think I have one Christmas-themed pajama set that I got a long time ago that just, like, hangs around to be used once around Christmas time. Gotcha. And by the way, I'm a man of pop culture, a man of the people. I was told today we wear orange, Taylor Swift's new album. Oh, look at you, Mike.
1:10.1	And orange is the color.
1:10.7	So I'm just following the lead.
1:12.6	And by that, what I actually mean is Little Caesars is orange. That's why I'm saying. That's what I meant to say. But also, Shadow Taylor Swift, why I'm Missing's own or Redding's own from my old neck of the woods. What is the, what's the name of the new record? Life of a showgirl. Life of a showgirl. Mike and I got here a little before Daniel this morning and we were talking about like music. Mike was like Daniel has no idea who Taylor Swift is. I was like he probably thinks Taylor is DeAndre's sister. Yeah. Yes. But she could be. Who knows. He's too mainstream for you. That's right. Yeah, she's a little too mainstream. Little too mainstream. No. Yes. But she could be. Maybe who knows. He's too mainstream for you. That's right.
1:44.4	Yeah.
1:44.8	She's a little too mainstream.
1:46.4	Little too mainstream.
1:47.3	No big deal. We got a very fun show playing for you guys today. We got a Thursday night football recap as well as part two of our week five preview. We're also diving into some of our starts of the week. If we have time, we'll get to a mailbag.
1:58.9	We'll see how that goes.
1:59.6	But before we get into all this,
2:01.4	I want to set the table on some things
2:03.0	that we're going to need from our
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