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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

Week 6 Start 'Em & Sit 'Em: Bears, Cardinals RB questions (10/12 Fantasy Football podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

CBS Sports

Sports, Football

4.9721 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Can you trust D'Onta Foreman if Roschon Johnson is out this week? Can you trust any of the Cardinals running backs? Dave Richard and Chris Towers talk through those questions and more to preview Week 6. 

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0:00.0

Let's talk some start sick calls for week six next on fantasy football today in five.

0:11.5

Welcome to FFT and five. I'm Chris Towers here with Dave Richard. We're talking to start sick calls for week six of the fantasy football season.

0:18.5

And like we've had a lot of injuries in the past couple of days.

0:21.9

So we're going to hit on some of those situations.

0:23.8

But first I want to ask about a somewhat tough Thursday night start sick call, I think.

0:29.0

And then that's would you be willing to start Russell Wilson against the chiefs on Thursday night?

0:34.7

I think if I start him, I'm open for garbage time.

0:37.4

And I admit that he has played

0:39.9

much better this season. But I would expect that Russell Wilson will see a lot of pressure. And

0:47.0

when he's seen a lot of pressure, he hasn't done very well. Last week was an example of that. He was

0:51.9

sacked four times over 17 dropbacks,

0:54.7

complete only three of eight throws when he was pressured. I don't feel great about starting

1:00.3

Russell Wilson. He's at best a biweek replacement for me. Would you start him or Jared

1:04.8

goth at Tampa Bay? I believe I have golf ranked higher. What about this one?

1:12.0

That's falling a lot.

1:13.6

Dak Prescott at the Chargers this week.

1:16.8

Yeah, I think this is a bounce back spot for Dak.

1:19.9

Okay.

1:20.2

I'll take Prescott against the Chargers, and it's a good matchup for him.

1:24.1

All right.

1:24.3

We've got a couple of running back situations I want to talk to you about.

1:26.6

First off,

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