The Best of the Fest: Breakouts, Busts, Rankings & Sleepers From Fantasy Football's Top Analysts (Ep. 1658)

Andy Behrens (@andybehrens) of Yahoo! Sports joins us to look ahead to Week 5 matchups and Andy's rankings compared to the Expert Consensus. We begin by trying to unpack the recent news concerning Odell Beckham Jr's motivation (1:48) and then we move on to quarterbacks and examine some signal callers Andy likes better or worse compared to the expert's consensus (5:20). We continue with running backs and discuss the Miami backfield (11:24), Terrence West (13:51) James White (16:41), Zach Zenner (18:40) and Duke Johnson (19:33). We move on to wide receivers (21:09) and look at how Sammy Coates, Tajae Sharpe, Victor Cruz, Terrelle Pryor, Mike Wallace, and Chris Hogan are ranked by Andy compared to the consensus. We then look at tight ends and why Andy likes Kyle Rudolph and Jason Witten in their Week 5 games (33:02). We take a quick look at some intriguing DST plays (36:05) before finishing up with bold predictions for this week's slate of games (38:21).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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2016's most accurate expert, Dan Clasgens of GetSportsInfo.com joins Bobby Sylvester to discuss Week 5's top Waiver Wire options (27:36) including Karlos Williams (26:08), Kenneth Dixon (29:09) and Hunter Henry (36:58). The pair discuss highlights from Week 4 and rest of season outlooks (2:09) including Jimmy Graham (14:35) and Matt Ryan's (3:27). They also spend some time talking about the impact of a few injuries (16:28) ranging from Cam Newton (16:42) to Matt Forte (22:33).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Doug Norrie (@DougNorrie) of Daily Fantasy Sports Rankings joins us to cover Week 4 from a daily fantasy perspective. We being by discussing quarterbacks and decide who is a better expensive cash game play between Cam Newton and Drew Brees (4:28), our top value QBs (7:58), and we give a few contrarian plays that could end up in million dollar winning lineups (12:01). Moving on to running backs, we discuss who could be the top owned player this week and if he's worth fading (15:55), how to treat lower priced backup players with good opportunities (17:16), which obscure player could finish with the highest score (24:29), and we give our predictions on who could finish with the most carries in Week 4 (28:26). We continue with wide receivers beginning with whether we think Antonio Brown is worth his massive price (32:10), cheap players we think could score enough points to be value plays (35:35), our favorite options in PPR formats (39:17), and who between Marvin Jones, Kelvin Benjamin or Stefon Diggs will have the best week (43:08). Our tight end discussion features Rob Gronkowski (45:55) and Hunter Henry (47:39), then we cover defenses and examine the projected best plays and some possible contrarian options (48:40). We finish with stacks and give our safest picks, along with stacks that have a chance to score points despite possible low ownership (52:02).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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James Koh (@JamesDKoh) of the NFL Network joins us to discuss Dez Bryant's injury (2:35), Week 4 rankings at quarterback (5:02), running back (10:27) and wide receivers (18:44), and then answer a question from the listener mailbag about sell-high and buy-low players. Then, Greg Smith (@gregsauce) of TwoQBs.com comes on the show (31:13) to answer more listener mailbag questions about Start/Sit, Spencer Ware, Sterling Shepard and more players. We conclude the show by making some bold predictions (47:12) about Zeke Elliott, Kenyan Drake and Tyrell Williams among other players.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Jake Ciely (@allinkid) of RotoExperts joins us to break down Week 3 of the NFL season and how fantasy owners should react moving forward. We begin by looking at which 3-0 teams are most surprising to us (2:17) and which teams we think can be Super Bowl contenders in the NFC (5:59) before moving on to injuries and standout performances from Week 3. We start by covering Rashad Jennings and the Giants backfield (12:28), Marvin Jones' hot start (13:42), Jimmy Graham's respectable production (16:08), Russell Wilson's sprained MCL (16:41), Kelvin Benjamin's scoreless week (18:57), Ryan Matthews' injury concerns and how it impacts the Eagles tailbacks (21:06), the mess in the Dolphins backfield (24:00), Christine Michael's performance during Thomas Rawls' absence (24:53), Jeremy Langford's injury and Jordan Howard's value moving forward (29:20) and Terrelle Pryor's presence as a multi-threat player (32:40). We continue by looking at high upside waiver wire pickups and discuss Dwayne Washington (35:52) and DeAndre Washington (37:22). We have a quick Adrian Peterson (39:28) digression where we discuss his injury timetable before diving back into the waiver wire and examine which wide receiver you should pick up between Davante Adams, Cole Beasley and Jamison Crowder (42:36), which running back between Cameron Artis-Payne, Kenneth Dixon and Chris Thompson (49:06), which tight end between Zach Miller, Jack Doyle and Cameron Brate (48:07), and we finish by looking at the top streaming defenses for Week 4 (51:26).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Justin Elick of DailyFantasyCafe joins host, Bobby Sylvester to break down the top plays for Week 3's DFS contests. The duo begins by discussing the obvious and contrarian stacks (1:08) then moves over to quarterbacks where they agree on some of the top plays (4:09). In the running back segment (13:24), they agree on DeAngelo Williams and Melvin Gordon then each toss out some bolder plays. Justin tells us in the wide receiver segment (24:07) why Stefon Diggs is a must-play, while Bobby is bullish on a few other players. Both Justin and Bobby are high on Delanie Walker as this week's top tight end (33:12). They close out the show by discussing Defenses to target including the Dolphins and Bucs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Jeff Ratcliffe of ProFootballFocus joins host, Bobby Sylvester to discuss big NFL news (1:07), Jeff's week 3 rankings compared to the Expert Consensus (9:40), questions from our listener mailbag (37:39), start/sit (49:22) and top predicted performers of the week (53:03). Player mentions: Adrian Peterson, Jerick McKinnon and Matt Asiata (1:07), Ameer Abdullah and Dwayne Washington (3:20), Donte Moncrief, Phillip Dorsett (5:33), Ezekiel Elliott and Alfred Morris (7:00), Doug Martin (7:25), Jay Cutler (7:30), Josh Gordon (7:45), Ryan Tannehill (10:08), Dak Prescott (12:19), Carson Wentz (12:44), Russell Wilson (13:49), Ben Roethlisberger (15:32), Cam Newton (16:22), Justin Forsett and Kenneth Dixon (18:05), Jeremy Hill (19:24), Shane Vareen and Rashad Jennings (21:09), Thomas Rawls, Christine Michael and C.J. Prosise (22:26), Devante Parker (26:00), Michael Thomas, Willie Snead and Brandin Cooks (28:07), Le'Veon Bell (31:44), Mike Wallace and Breshard Perriman (33:01), Julian Edleman (34:55), Will Fuller and Sterling Shepard (35:55), Le'Veon Bell and Odell Beckham Jr. (37:39), Theo Riddick (42:58), Blial Powell, Kevin White, Derrick Henry (44:12), Tavon Austin, Steve Smith, Darren Sproles , Ryan Matthews (46:43), Derrick Carr and Jameis Winston (49:22), Jamaal Charles, Carlos Hyde, Jay Ajayi (50:22), Corey Coleman (51:43), Matt Ryan and Drew Brees (53:03), Charles Sims, DeAngelo Williams, Melvin Gordon (54:02), Dez Bryant and Marvin Jones (57:05), Delanie Walker and Antonio Gates (55:53)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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John Halpin (@jhalpin37) of Fox Sports joins us to run through waiver wire targets and recap all of the action in the NFL. We begin with the slough of injuries and discuss Adrian Peterson (2:09), Arian Foster (4:53), Doug Martin (6:05), Jonathan Stewart (8:18), Rashad Jennings (11:20), Thomas Rawls (13:23), Ameer Abdullah (16:02), Danny Woodhead (17:37), Jamaal Charles, and Rob Gronkowski (19:44). We look ahead to some backup quarterbacks like Jacoby Brissett (20:59) and Cody Kessler (23:02) who could impact their team's offense and defensive matchups while the starters are out. We get some breaking news about Adrian Peterson's injury and offer analysis on what we think about him and the Vikings running backs going forward (27:50). Moving on, John gives us his top running backs (30:52) and wide receivers (32:00) on the waiver wire worth picking up this week, and then we look at tight ends (38:08) and quarterbacks (38:55) worth streaming in Week 3. We finish by discussing players whose stock has risen or fallen for us after the second week of the season including Russell Wilson (41:30), Tyrod Taylor (42:58), Jameis Winston (44:13), Brock Osweiler (45:11), Matt Ryan (46:24), Isaiah Crowell (47:25), Matt Forte (48:20), Tevin Coleman (48:33), Ezekiel Elliott (49:08), Jeremy Hill (50:10), Travis Benjamin (51:58), Jeremy Maclin (53:07), Stefon Diggs (54:13), Will Fuller (55:17), Allen Robinson (56:05) and Michael Floyd (57:22).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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