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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Dan and Jacob are back to deep dive running backs for the rest of the season and profile the wide receivers and tight ends you need to know about to make a second half push in your fantasy league.

(0:00) Intro + Jacob’s player he’s most excited to talk about

(1:55) Travis Hunter deep dive

(18:30) Rest of season running back rankings

(34:23) A Jaxon Smith-Njigba sidetrack

(36:43) Jordan Addison

(43:27) Alec Pierce

(53:30) Rashee Rice

(57:25) Zay Flowers

(1:02:20) DeVonta Smith

(1:14:10) Oronde Gadsden

(1:30:41) Tucker Kraft

(1:37:30) Tyler Warren

(1:44:18) Listener Question

(1:51:56) Waiver Wire

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0:00.0	Welcome back.
0:09.9	It's Beyond the Box Score.
0:11.2	I'm Dan Schneier.
0:12.1	That's Jacob Gibbs.
0:13.5	I'm very, very excited about today's show.
0:15.6	And no, it's not because I'm wearing a brand new shirt I got at a concert last weekend for all those sickos in the comments. Oh, stop wearing the same sweatshirt. I'll wear that same hoodie as much as I want. Just kidding. I'm excited because today we get to go over player profiles of a lot of players that Jacob signed this week because we're excited about them. And I got to watch their tape. And I got a lot of things to say about these players. We're going to get into specific players this week that we like rest of season or that we don't like rest of season.
0:40.8	Players that you either will be wanting to look to buy low on or buy high on.
0:46.2	Won't mention them now.
0:47.4	But who is the player you're most excited to talk about Jacob today?
0:50.5	That's the one I was curious about.
0:54.9	I feel like Travis is the most interesting.
0:57.6	We're going to talk about Travis Hunter.
1:00.6	Okay, actually, I'm going to go with the Ronde-Gadsden is the one.
1:03.2	Yes, that's what I was hoping you in sec.
1:06.9	All right, but we will start today's show with Travis Hunter.
1:10.4	I've got so much Gadsden and Dynasty.
1:13.3	And it's like really, really an interesting, like, decision, like what to do with him.
1:19.6	Like I had a buddy over last night and he threw out Colson Loveland in a second for your Gadsden.
1:25.4	And I was like, how do I not do that? Like, I'm the biggest
1:28.2	love in Boulder is. But man, as we'll get into later with Gadsden, there's so much to be excited about.
1:35.3	Okay, so Travis, yeah, I watched every route that he ran in week seven last night. I also tweeted out
1:43.0	a cut up of every target that he's drawn as a perimeter
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