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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

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

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

CBS Sports

Sports, Football

4.9721 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.

0:07.0

It is time to answer your start or sit questions.

0:09.0

Get ready for that London game.

0:11.4

Adam Azern Heath Cummings here on an early Sunday morning.

0:14.5

We have 9.30 a.m. Eastern football, for those of you West Coasters, getting up to watch the game.

0:19.7

Good for you.

0:20.5

Very brave. Even in the non-Eastern time zones, it's still pretty early. All right, Heath, let's go through some of the major injuries here. First of all, the 49ers. So Trey Lance is starting, but no George Kittle. So what does this mean for Debo? What does it mean for IUC? For Ross Dwelly. What do you mean? What does it mean for the Niners? Yeah, well, yeah, the other side too where Elijah Mitchell's going to play. So Trace Serman and Elijah Mitchell, we don't even know who the main running back will be. 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. Ross Wally is a borderline starting tight end if you don't have anyone else, and

0:59.7

I'd prefer not to start either running back. You think just it's messy there? We just don't know

1:06.3

because Mitchell was getting so much more. They both got a lot of work when the other was out,

1:09.7

basically. I think we have no idea. Right. 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 and Mitchell got one. And you're not moving IUC as a sleeper now? No. Trlans has thrown 19 passes so far this season zero of

1:30.6

them have gone to brand and iuk okay all right uh dolphins wide receivers do we know anything

1:34.5

about devante parker and how would things change with him in or out it i don't know that it really

1:40.7

changes too much i think if parker plays he's a he's a number three wide receiver if he doesn't jalen think if Parker plays, he's a number three wide receiver.

2:02.1

If he doesn't, Jalen Waddle is 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. What do we know about Joe Mixin and Dalvin Cook right now? we are being told that Dalvin Cook is a game time decision and that Joe Mixen is expected to play but not be 100%. I think with Delvin Cook, it's pretty easy. If he

2:07.1

plays, even if he's not 100%. If he plays, you play him. It's the Lions. It's Delvin Cook.

2:11.8

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

2:17.0

Joe Mixon's much, much messier. I've got him around RB 30 right now. The main takeaway for me is this just takes Samaj, P. Ryan, and any hope of Chris Evans as a sleeper and throw it out the window. I have no interest in those guys anymore. 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, like I would start Joe Mixen over both the 49ers. I would start Joe Mixen over both the Broncos. It's those types of guys that I think you have to go with Nixon. What about like Damien Williams or mixing? I would go with both Damians, Williams and Harris, over mixing. Okay, and Chuba Hubbard? And Chuba Hubbard. Damian 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. So it is the Texans and hopefully a good game script, but this is a guy who's

3:08.4

had like four to six carries or something in two straight games. So what do you think about

3:13.6

Damien Harris? Yeah, I've got him projected for 18 carries just because of the expected game

3:18.1

script. Now I've got him at three and a half yards per carry, so it's not probably going to be

3:21.6

a very fun 18 carries. I think his touchdown odds are

3:24.8

pretty good. I think he will get the volume. He is a low end number two running back in non-PPR and a high-end

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