Big show for you here today. It is a packed episode. I'm telling you what you're going to love this one.

We have a rookie check-in with Nate Tice for the fantasy film where we go through running backs,

sort them into buckets, tell you what you need to know. We do a deep dive. Of course we do on the

receiver position and a little quick note on the tight ends as well. Then Joel Smith joins us for

Buzz is building five players in situations you need to know heading into week nine.

All that more coming up on this packed episode.

Let's get into it.

What's going on, everybody?

I'm Matt Harmon.

Welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy forecast,

and it is a hell of a day to talk ball.

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who's all in, all all season and joining me today is

Nate Tice. Nate, very exciting episode we got before us today. It's the episode that we're always

like, is this the week for this? Is this the week for this? And it's like, nope, nope, we held steady,

you held steady because I wanted to push it a couple weeks ago. So you held steady. I'm very excited to get into this because I think it's always a fun topic. No doubt. Today we are doing a little rookie check-in. And yeah, this is the perfect time to do it because now, especially for some of these receivers, they've started to get a little bit more playing time. So we've got some real data here to work with. Nate,

I actually do my rookie report for reception, all the charting, like the mini sample that I put out.

I put that out before week 11 every year. I give myself a couple more weeks to gather some more

data. So it's not technically midseason. It's a little bit past midseason because, yeah,

especially for those receivers, you need a few extra games when the team start to trust them and stuff. So that's going to be the main topic today in the first two blocks. We're going to dive into the fantasy film room, and we are going to look at running backs to the first segment and then pass catchers in the second segment with, of course, a deep dive on some of these rookie receivers.

Then we'll preview Thursday night football.

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