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The biggest questions heading into Week 5 of Fantasy Football get answered by CBS Senior Writer Dave Richard, from key start-or-sit decisions to breakout candidates, sleepers, and players you should keep an eye on.
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00:00So, Dave, you touched on Jaden coming back for the Commanders.
00:02We know Terry's banged up.
00:04Stephon Diggs pops up on the injury report yesterday,
00:06also with a hamstring injury.
00:08Can people trust Antonio Williams at this point?
00:11Like, what's your advice there with the Commanders receivers?
00:14I think it makes it easy to trust Antonio Williams
00:16in the event McLaurin and Diggs are out.
00:19We're just going to have to keep an eye on this injury report
00:21all the way through Friday
00:22and see how many of these guys practice by Friday.
00:26And if it just comes to pass and neither one is practicing by Friday,
00:29then it's easy.
00:30You know what to do.
00:31I think you have to lower expectations across the board for the Commanders.
00:34But we saw Damian Brown basically replace Terry McLaurin last week.
00:37Antonio Williams would replace Stephon Diggs.
00:39They would get another receiver.
00:41It's not going to be Jalen Lane.
00:42They'll find somebody else.
00:43Maybe it's Luke McCaffrey.
00:43Maybe he gets a shot.
00:44Or maybe it's Traylon Burks, who had the big play in England.
00:47It'd probably be Burks.
00:49Not that I would start any of these guys with supreme confidence.
00:51Maybe Antonio Williams as a No. 3 type of receiver
00:55and maybe Chico Conquo as a bye-week replacement at tight end.
00:58But they'd at least get on the radar.
01:00And it would lower expectations for Jaden Daniels especially,
01:03which is why Jaden Daniels is actually behind Winston and Brissett in my rankings.
01:07It's upside-down land in fantasy football when Daniels is behind those two.
01:11Yeah, it's weird.
01:11Dave, I looked at your tight end rankings.
01:13You've got Kittle slightly ahead of Likely.
01:16Likely's questionable.
01:17I'm not sure what you know about that.
01:18But Kittle's going at Seattle.
01:20Very difficult to score against them, obviously.
01:22And then Likely's here.
01:24And tight ends have killed Washington this year.
01:26Tight ends have just...
01:27A lot of catches, a lot of touchdowns so far.
01:30But you still have Kittle ahead of Likely.
01:34I can't resist it.
01:35George Kittle's just been playing so great.
01:37And the way that Brock Purdy's been playing,
01:39I know the matchups are really difficult,
01:40but I can't help but think that George Kittle can find numbers there.
01:43Especially of Evans and Debo Samuel.
01:45Evans especially not at 100% in the matchup.
01:48And we know how Seattle's defense plays.
01:50They play a lot of heavy zone coverage.
01:52They don't want to give up the big play.
01:53And so I think you're going to see a lot of Brock Purdy
01:56checking it down and looking for plays after the catch.
01:59Who are the explosive pass catchers in the 49ers offense?
02:02Well, there's McCaffrey, obviously.
02:04There's Debo.
02:04And there's Kittle.
02:06And we've already seen, in the case of Debo and Kittle,
02:08each of them get the ball in a short space
02:10and turn it into a big play.
02:12That's the kind of stuff they're going to need
02:14to succeed against Seattle,
02:15which is why Kittle is ranked as a top five tight end.
02:18And Isaiah Likely, for now, is not.
02:20All right, let's go to the phones.
02:21800-636-1067.
02:23People have a ton of questions for Dave.
02:26All right, let's go to Don in D.C.
02:30Don, you're on with Dave Richard.
02:32What's up, Don?
02:33Start one.
02:34Start one.
02:35That's a good one.
02:35Joe Burrow, Kirk Cousins.
02:38It's Burrow over Cousins.
02:39You definitely want to go with Burrow
02:41in a get-right game for this Bengals offense
02:42against the Dolphins.
02:43And I know that Jamar Chase is not expected to play.
02:46If T. Higgins doesn't play either,
02:48then that does lower expectations for Joe Burrow.
02:51But I can't get away from him.
02:52We know that he's capable of huge numbers.
02:55All right, thank you, Don.
02:56Let's go to Jacques.
02:57Pastor Jacques.
02:58Bristow, what's up, buddy?
02:59You're on with Dave Richard.
03:01Hey, good morning, fellas.
03:03Good morning.
03:04Hey, Dave, it feels like this year,
03:06there's like four or five guys,
03:07if they're on your team, you win every week.
03:09And if they're not, you're playing against them,
03:10and you lose every week.
03:11And since I have none of them,
03:13I'm asking this gross question
03:14in a half-point PPR,
03:16Alvin Kamara or Carnell Tate?
03:19That is gross.
03:20I'd lean toward Tate,
03:21and part of it's because his target volume
03:24has really ticked up over the last couple weeks.
03:25The Titans realized,
03:26hey, wait, we drafted a wide receiver
03:28with a top-five pick.
03:28Let's use the guy.
03:30And he's actually looked halfway decent,
03:31and he's making Cam Ward look halfway decent.
03:34So as long as that target volume is there
03:35for Carnell Tate, you can't help but feel like
03:37he can get you there for fantasy production.
03:40Certainly out of Alvin Kamara,
03:41who lucked into a couple of touchdowns
03:43on Monday night.
03:44Now a difficult matchup against Minnesota.
03:46They have been really, really good
03:48against opposing running backs.
03:50Kamara's one of the guys we talked about
03:51on our podcast,
03:52the Fantasy Football Today podcast,
03:54as a player you could sell high on.
03:55He has this big game.
03:56He's got a nice big fantasy points number
03:58next to his name.
03:59Someone in your league is desperate for running backs.
04:01Somebody in your league is starting Will Shipley
04:04in their lineup in week number five.
04:06They might give you somebody decent
04:08in exchange for Alvin Kamara.
04:10And so if you've got Kamara
04:12and you're not using him,
04:13maybe think about flipping him.
04:15All right.
04:16Thank you, Jock.
04:16Let's go to Matt in Stafford.
04:19Matt, you're on with Dave Richard.
04:21Hey, thanks for having me.
04:23And we saw, Dave,
04:24that Michael Pittman came into
04:26the Steelers' locker room on a scooter.
04:29How does that affect your ranking for Roman Wilson?
04:32Are you starting him now with confidence?
04:35I'm starting with confidence,
04:36not because of anything having to do with the scooter,
04:39but having to do with the fact
04:39that Michael Pittman's been messing up in Pittsburgh.
04:43And Roman Wilson will probably have a moment
04:45where he messes up, too.
04:46But I've liked this talent a lot out of Michigan.
04:49He's a really good route runner.
04:51He's got underrated speed.
04:52I think he's got good hands,
04:53although he hasn't quite proven that part yet.
04:56In the NFL,
04:56yes, he's easy to start ahead of Michael Pittman.
05:00And I'm starting him out of a Mecca Bucca tonight
05:02against the Cowboys.
05:04A Bucca, not a tough matchup,
05:05but a tough quarterback situation.
05:07In fact, any Bucs receiver,
05:08I'd be nervous to start.
05:11And I think Roman Wilson
05:12in the matchup against the Colts,
05:13and that's a Colts secondary
05:14that has played way below expectations this year.
05:17You guys saw it last week.
05:18Sauce Gardner got burned on two deep balls.
05:20One of them was against Traylon Burks.
05:22I can't help but think
05:23that that aggressive man-to-man style
05:25that the Colts play
05:26is going to be something
05:27that Aaron Rodgers licks his chops over.
05:29And we're not only going to see
05:30DK Metcalf have a good game,
05:32but I think Roman Wilson's worth
05:33taking a shot on as a flex.
05:35All right, let's go to Heather in Dumfries.
05:38Hey, Heather.
05:39You're on with Dave Richard.
05:40Hey.
05:41Hey, guys.
05:41Hey, Dave.
05:42Hello.
05:42Hey, for my flex spot at the PPR League,
05:46should I play Emmanuel Wilson,
05:47Braylon Allen, R.J. Harvey,
05:50or Rome, I don't say.
05:52I don't say.
05:52It's actually close between
05:54a dunze and a manual Wilson.
05:56And I want to double-check my rankings
05:57just to be sure.
05:58And I don't...
05:59The point here is that
06:00I don't want to get caught up
06:01in what a manual Wilson did last week.
06:04I do have him ranked higher than a dunze,
06:06but it's close.
06:07So, yes, I will say a manual Wilson
06:08against the 49ers
06:10and a decent run defense.
06:11I don't want to get caught up
06:12in what Wilson did last week
06:13because the numbers were great,
06:14but it's kind of like
06:15an Alvin Kamara situation
06:16where he found a couple of touchdowns.
06:19One of them was a receiving touchdown.
06:20That's something that we did not
06:21project for him whatsoever.
06:23And then otherwise,
06:23his efficiency wasn't great.
06:25A dunze had the big game last week
06:27against zone coverage.
06:27I think he'll see a lot of zone coverage
06:29again this week.
06:29So maybe it works out for a dunze.
06:31I think you can trust him
06:32as like a high-end flex,
06:34maybe even a low-end number two wide receiver,
06:36especially if we just don't have
06:37a lot of these receivers
06:39coming back from injury.
06:40The Justin Jeffersons, for example,
06:43or even if we lose wide receivers
06:45and we don't get DJ Moore,
06:46we don't have Chris Olave,
06:48we obviously don't have Jamar Chase.
06:50These are all situations to watch
06:52and it kind of pushes up wide receiver.
06:54I'm going to take a manual Wilson here,
06:55but it's close between him and a dunze.
06:57Dave Metcalf or Zay
06:59if Lamar misses in a full PPR?
07:02It's got to be Zay Flowers.
07:04There's just way too much upside there.
07:06I don't have the guts to tell you
07:08to sit Zay Flowers for DK Metcalf,
07:10but I will tell you this.
07:12I believe it's 14 career games
07:14that Tyler Huntley has started
07:16in the NFL and includes a playoff game.
07:18It does not include his Pro Bowl appearance.
07:21Four times.
07:22Four.
07:22As a wide receiver,
07:23had at least 14 PPR points or more.
07:26Obviously, it'd be 14 PPR or more
07:28if I said at least I'm an idiot.
07:29But only four times in 14 games.
07:32And if we just up that number to 15,
07:33it's only twice in 14 games.
07:35This dude looks for tight ends
07:37and running backs
07:38just about as much as he looks
07:40for wide receivers.
07:41And that's usually a problem.
07:42But Zay Flowers just has so much upside.
07:44He can take any one catch
07:45and turn it into a highlight reel play.
07:47You've got to roll with him
07:48if you've got him.
07:49Time to line up people
07:50for the speed round.
07:51800-636-1067 is the number.
07:54You know how it works.
07:55It's rapid fire.
07:56No stammering.
07:57No stuttering.
07:58No small talk.
08:00Shaky voice is allowed per Dave.
08:02No dumb questions.
08:03No Bluetooth or speaker phones are allowed.
08:06And please do not disrespect Dave's sage expert advice.
08:11Can I ask a borderline dumb question?
08:13Would you, in a standard league,
08:15would you start Jaden Daniels this week or no?
08:19It really depends on who else you have.
08:21It comes down to,
08:22if it's against Winston or Bursette,
08:24somebody that just has a little bit more upside,
08:26I would take that chance
08:27on the higher upside, older QBs.
08:30And it also depends on who Daniels is throwing to.
08:32If he does not have Terry McLaurin
08:35and Stephon Diggs,
08:36it is really hard.
08:36Plus, it's going to be raining.
08:37It's going to be real good about Jaden Daniels.
08:38It's going to be,
08:38weather's going to be an issue.
08:40And the one thing that's always
08:43in the back of fantasy managers' minds
08:44is re-injury.
08:45What happens if he just falls the wrong way
08:47on that left arm and he's gone
08:49and we're seeing Kallik Maness again?
08:51Yep.
08:51Dave has Jaden ranked 11 currently
08:54at quarterback.
08:55All right.
08:56Let's pay off these calls.
08:57Let's go to Jack.
08:58Jack, speed round, go!
09:01Two of three.
09:02Hurts, love, Watson.
09:06I'm sitting Jalen Hurts.
09:08Let's go to Jimmy.
09:09Speed round, go!
09:12Bretton Strange or Jake Ferguson?
09:15Oh, that's bad.
09:17First, I would go and see
09:18if you can get Mike Gusecki
09:19or TJ Hawkinson off the waiver wire.
09:21And if you can't get those guys,
09:22it's got to be one of those two.
09:23I'll take Ferguson tonight against the Bucs.
09:26Cole, speed round, go!
09:29Trade Justin Jefferson
09:31and Quinchon Judson
09:32to receive
09:34Tett
09:36and
09:37Oh, you're playing me out!
09:40I need to add no trade questions
09:41next week
09:42for the rules.
09:43It's too
09:45It's too
09:45You used to have that in there, Kay.
09:46I used to.
09:47It's too unwieldy
09:48for the speed round.
09:49Let's go to Jeff.
09:50Speed round, go!
09:53Drake May
09:54or Jaden Daniels?
09:56Hmm.
09:57I believe I currently have Daniels
09:59a few spots higher than May.
10:01It's close.
10:01I don't want to buy back
10:03into Drake May
10:03so fast here.
10:05I know last week was great.
10:06I don't know if that means
10:07he's turned the corner.
10:08I don't know if it means
10:09the Bills' defense is really bad.
10:10I think it might mean
10:11that the Bills' defense
10:12is really bad.
10:12You got Daniels
10:13one spot ahead of May.
10:15Yeah.
10:16That sounds about right.
10:17Otherwise, it's going to be
10:17wheels up for Stafford
10:18this weekend.
10:19It should be a big one.
10:21Oh, yes.
10:21You would think.
10:22Yes.
10:22Top three.
10:23Yeah, he's got Stafford three.
10:24Maybe top two.
10:25Jeff, speed round, go!
10:27Might be too low.
10:29Josh,
10:30what are you doing?
10:32Bluetooth.
10:33You can hear that?
10:34Chris, speed round!
10:35For Bolton!
10:36Yeah, you're right.
10:38Jeff!
10:40Jeffy.
10:41Oh, I'm sorry.
10:41I didn't put it.
10:42It's Chris, speed round, go!
10:45Chris.
10:46All right.
10:46Let's go to Mark.
10:47Speed round, go!
10:49Isaiah Likely or TJ Hawkinson?
10:53Likely over Hawkinson.
10:54That guy's good under pressure.
10:55I can tell.
10:55I want to hire that guy.
10:59To be your latex salesman.
11:00I don't care what it's for.
11:02He performs under pressure.
11:03Right.
11:04All right.
11:04He was prepared.
11:05Yeah.
11:05Yeah, he's ready to go.
11:06Let's go to Vinny.
11:07Speed round, go!
11:09Daniel Ball's name
11:11over on Wilson.
11:12This guy, too.
11:13Like it.
11:14I've got Boston ahead of Wilson,
11:15but it's close.
11:18Benji!
11:18Speed round, go!
11:20Benji!
11:22Terry or Josh Downs?
11:24Who?
11:25Terry.
11:25Josh Downs.
11:26You know the first name.
11:27Terry, I think.
11:27Terry.
11:28McLaurin.
11:28Terry.
11:28Terry McLaurin.
11:29Yeah, if McLaurin plays,
11:31yeah, if McLaurin plays,
11:31you'll start him.
11:32Otherwise, Downs is your guy.
11:34I think it's dicey.
11:35I think it's going to be dicey.
11:37All right.
11:37Let's go to our guy.
11:38Try again.
11:39Week five.
11:40Let's go to John DePompa.
11:42Hey, buddy.
11:43Hey, easy pickle.
11:44Three out of four puts you in the Hall of Fame, buddy.
11:46Okay.
11:46All right.
11:47Hello, Dave.
11:50I'm in a PPC league, Dave.
11:52That's points per clog.
11:53What's more clog?
11:54Jason's windpipe before 7 a.m.
11:56or the plumbing in Little Italy when Pauly Flicks was finished with it?
12:00Oh, man.
12:01Pauly's catching strains.
12:02Oh, you can add Bickles to windpipe today.
12:05I'm going on 25 years of history, Lurch.
12:08I can't argue with it.
12:09He's a volume play.
12:10I can't argue with that.
12:12All right, Dave.
12:12Good stuff.
12:13Thank you, John.
12:14Thank you, Dave.
12:14Dave Richard on Twitter.
12:16You got a question for him?
12:19Dave?
12:20I think he's got a question for me.
12:22Yep.
12:23My question is, will you accept text on Sunday morning?
12:27On Sunday morning.
12:28Always important.
12:29There's a price for that.
12:30There's a price for that.
12:31I know you're very busy on Sunday mornings, but I get desperate.
12:34Yeah, I am.
12:35I'm on the air from noon to 1 on CBS Sports HQ on Pregame Live.
12:40Come and check us out as we help you set your lineups and get your bets straight.
12:44Very good.
12:45Week 5 of the NFL.
12:46That's Pregame Live, noon, free on CBSSportsHQ.com.
12:51Nice.
12:51Nice plug there, Dan.
12:52Thanks, Dave.
12:53We'll talk to you, Dan, next week.
12:54That is Dave Richard, Fantasy Football Expert.