Week 5 Recap: Backup RBs SHINE & MASSIVE Duds | Fantasy Focus 🏈

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Welcome back to Fantasy Focus! Daniel Dopp, Field Yates, and Stephania Bell are here to recap an eventful Week 5 in the NFL. Rico Dowdle, Rachaad White, and Michael Carter all shined in Week 5 replacing their teams’ injured running backs, but are they viable going forward? After another great game for Emeka Egbuka, could he be a top 10 wide receiver in fantasy this season? And Is Stefon Diggs reemerging as a must have wide receiver in fantasy? Plus, studs and duds from Week 5. 00:00 Welcome to Fantasy Focus 3:50 The Real Deal 5:50 Monday Morning Blitz: Winners and Losers 24:20 Main Takeaways 45:30 Studs and Duds 56:25 MNF Preview 1:00:43 Mailbag Questions 1:03:40 Thanks for Watching Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.3	My name is Daniel Dopp.
0:50.3	We are here to recap week five.
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0:53.3	We got the majority of the week in the books. Obviously, there's a Monday night football game still. But a lot of football was played yesterday. Hopefully you guys had a little bit of fun. Did your fantasy teams do all right? So far, so good. Yeah. We got some action left to be determined tonight. Field and I have a matchup that comes down to tonight's game. Tell me about it. FF now Show League. FF now Show League, yes.
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