We're talking about the top waiver wire options for week eight next on fantasy football today in five.

Welcome to FFT in five.

I'm Chris Towers and I'm here by myself.

To get you ready for the week eight waiver wire, obviously make sure you listen to the full episode of fantasy football today on your podcast feeds

for a full breakdown of the top options for week eight but first let's talk about that 49ers

Vikings game where the Vikings surprisingly upset the 49ers here 2217 and I think the biggest

takeaway from this game is just hey Christian McCaff McCaffrey played, and he looked pretty good.

He did Christian McCaffrey things, 96 total yards, two touchdowns, only three catches, only 15 carries.

But it wasn't a game where the 49ers played a ton of snaps.

The Vikings had the ball a little more often.

So it doesn't really seem like there was anything limiting him with that oblique injury. Elijah Mitchell and Jordan Mason, who we spent all that fab money on last week, combined for one carry for negative one yard. So yeah, no limitations there with Christopher McAfee with his oblique injury. And as long as he doesn't suffer any setbacks, which is always possible with oblique. So I want to stress. But as long as he doesn't suffer any setbacks, he's going to be good to go. He's the number one running back in fantasy football. He should be the number one running back in fantasy football moving forward. And I think if we were redrafting, he might be the number one pick in all fantasy leagues for the rest of the season. So no concerns there. There were a couple

of scares on the Viking side as far as the injury front goes. T.J. Hawkinson had a couple of scares

with an ankle injury, but he played through it. Jordan Mason also left the game. It was a little

scary late. He grabbed at his foot. Turns out it was just cramping. So he was all good. He came back in the game. T.J. Hawkinson played through that ankle injury. No concerns there. And they both had great games. They stepped up. This is what we were hoping to see when Justin Jefferson went down. T.J. Hawkinson, 114 yards. T Seven catches, 124 yards, two touchdowns on 12, on 10 targets.

One of those touchdowns was just a bonkers play where he just outmuscled the 49ers

defensive back.

49ers defensive back Ward stepped in front of the pass, looked like he had an interception

and Jordan Addison just took it from him and ran the rest of the way, looked like he had an interception, and Jordan hasn't just

took it from him and ran the rest of the way for the touchdown. It was a rare kind of play

from a guy that we hope was a rare talent, and he's starting to show that he can be that kind

of guy. He's making plays down the field. He's garnering a solid target share. It was about

22%, 23% today not quite alpha number

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