938: 15 Transactions for Week 10

JJ Zachariason (0:11)

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Add Zamir White. So just last week on this show, I talked about Alexander Madison being a buy because he'd been performing like a bell cow, but no one seemed to care. Now, when talking about Madison, I talked about how fragile his situation was. When we're talking about non-elite players in fantasy football, there's always a chance that their usage changes. We're not talking about Bijon Robinson here. We're talking about Alexander Madison. He's not locked in to see a bell cow workload, and that can impact the fantasy asset's bottom line. That's part of the reason that he has a lot less value, despite the fact that he was seeing a lot of work. Now, on Sunday, obviously, Madison went out and he had his lowest running back rush share in a month, and it wasn't that Zemir White was just taking over that backfield. Madison saw significantly more snaps than White did. It's just that a negative game script hit, and Amir Abdullah ended up playing the most snaps in that backfield as their pass catching back. Now, I'm bringing all of this up because these situations are not set in stone. When discussing these mid-tier players, things can change in a literal instant, and that's especially true when the people making those decisions are no longer around. The Raiders fired offensive coordinator Luke Getzey on Monday. Things are changing for the Raiders. And if that means that the Raiders want to divvy up that backfield differently, then they're going to divvy up that backfield differently. They have a bye week this week. What if they come out of their buy, and they say that Zameer White is now our lead back? So I would be willing to stash Zameer White in order to find out. And this could obviously go in the other direction, too, and severely favor Alexander Madison. We just don't know. We should prefer Madison based on how he's performed, based on how he's seen work. But this call out on today's show, during a weak waiver wire week, this is to say that, yes, Zameer White has had a rough year, but volume is volume. And if his coaching staff wants to give him more volume, then Zameer White could be viable in fantasy football. Because coaches at Running Back, they're the ones who are dictating how much work a particular player is going to see. And what if this coaching staff, what if these changes mean that Zameer White gets a little bit more work?

By Marvin Harrison Jr. So there's been a real lack of consistency from Marvin Harrison Jr. this year. And I know the fantasy managers who have them, they're annoyed. He had three straight weeks of 15 plus PPR points earlier this season, and then it was a stretch of just horrible outings. Then in week eight, he had that 23 point outing. And then he followed that up with just two catches for 34 yards in a fumble. The Cardinals passing attack was not very good in week nine. They had a tough matchup, but it was also partially because they didn't have to be that good. They only had 19 total targets. And the good news for Marvin Harrison Jr., he had five of them. He had a 26 percent target share. Since week one and completed games, Harrison Jr. has averaged a target share per game rate of 27.5 percent. He hasn't fallen below 21 percent in a single game during the stretch. Those are really good numbers. He just hasn't converted very well. But a 51 percent catch rate, which is where he's at right now, that's a pretty low number. Like, sustaining that low of a number might be hard to do. And yes, some of that has to do with a low catchable targets rate. But the Cardinals have a chance to turn that around down the stretch. According to Adjusted Fantasy Points Allowed, they have the third best short-term schedule for wide receivers. Their rest of season schedule is ninth best. Now, it might be a little bit tough against the Jets this week, but after New York, the matchups look pretty good. You don't need to be overly aggressive here. It's just always a good idea to try to get someone cheap who's coming off a bad game or multiple bad outings when the target share is there and the talent is there. You want to always match those things up.