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Fantasy Football Today

Week 5 Start or Sit! (10/10 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today

CBS Sports

Sports, Football

4.68.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

How to approach the 49ers this week, what to do with the Dolphins WRs and Bengals RBs and how we feel about the backup RBs that take center stage today.

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0:00.0

Good morning everyone and welcome to fantasy football today in five. It is time to answer your starter sit questions get ready for that London game.

0:11.0

Adam A's on Heath coming here on an early Sunday morning. We have 9 30 a.m. Eastern football for those of you west coasters getting up to watch the game. Good for you.

0:20.0

Very brave even in the the other the non Eastern time zones is still pretty early. All right. He let's go through some of the major injuries here. First of all the 49ers. So Tray Lance is starting but no George Kittle. So what does this mean for D. But what does it mean for Lance? What does it mean for I you for Ross Duely? What do you mean? What he's it mean for the Niners?

0:38.0

Yeah, well, the other side too where Elijah Mitchell is going to play. So Tray serving Elijah Mitchell. We don't even know who the main running back will be I I think you view Lance as a high end number two quarterback with number one upside. But he's going to have to run a lot for that to happen. I'm still starting Debo Samuel.

0:55.0

Well, he is a borderline starting tight end if you don't have anyone else and I prefer not to start either running back. You think just it's messy there. We just don't know because Mitchell was getting so much work. They both got a lot of work when the other was out basically.

1:11.0

We have no idea. I don't know. I can and there's a lot of situations like that. But this one in particular, it wouldn't surprise me if Mitchell got 18 carries and sermon got one and it wouldn't surprise me if sermon got 18 carries a Mitchell.

1:23.0

And you're not moving you as a sleeper now. No, Tray Lance has thrown 19 passes so far this season zero of them have gone to Brandon. I you.

1:32.0

All right. Dolphins wide receivers. Do we know anything about the Vante Parker and how would things change with him in or out?

1:41.0

I don't know that it really changes too much. I think if Parker plays is a number three wide receiver. If he doesn't, Jalen Wattles probably going to be a number three wide receiver either way. You like him more in PPR because the volume should be there. But everything's so close to the line of scrimmage. It's hard to get super excited.

1:56.0

What do we know about Joe Mixon and Daven Cook right now?

1:59.0

Being told that Daven Cook is a game time decision and that Joe Mixon is expected to play but not be 100%. I think with Daven Cook, it's pretty easy. If he plays, even if he's not 100% to be plays, you play him. It's the Lions. It's Daven Cook.

2:12.0

If he doesn't play Alexander Madison's a top five must start no doubt running back.

2:17.0

Joe Mixon is much much messier. I've got him around RB 30 right now. The main takeaway for me is it's just take some Ajay P Ryan and any hope of Chris Evans, the sleeper and throw it out the window. I have no interest in those guys anymore.

2:30.0

Mixon is a flex. I hope that I have two better running backs. You have no floor there. But if you don't have two better, I would start Joe Mixon over both the 49ers. I would start Joe Mixon over both the Broncos. It's those types of guys that I think you have to go with mixin.

2:46.0

What about Jamie and Williams or Mixon?

2:48.0

I would go with both Damien Williams and Harris over mixin.

2:51.0

Okay. And Chuba Hubbard and Chuba Hubbard.

2:54.0

Damien Harris, you mentioned and he's got four offensive linemen, four starting offensive linemen missing. And it's not like they were all playing in the first four games, but this is something this is something different here.

3:04.0

So it is the Texans and hopefully a good game script, but this is a guy who's had like four to six carries or something in two straight games.

3:12.0

So what do you think about Damien Harris?

3:15.0

Yeah, I've got to protect for 18 carries just because of the expected game script. Now I've got him at three and a half yards per carry. So it's not probably going to be a very fun 18 carries. I think his touchdown odds are pretty good. I think he will get the volume.

3:27.0

He is a low end number two running back and non PPR and a high end flex and full PPR.

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