Best of Follow the Money | August 28, 2026

**Paul Stone** (0:07)
This is Follow the Money on VSiN.

**Mitch Moss** (0:11)
Our first guest today, Nick Whelan, with Roto Wire, Series XM Fantasy as well. He is in town, huge weekend here at Circa, joins us today. You are looking like a million bucks. You got to get out of this really sharp looking suit to go get your golf wear on. You're heading across town to go golfing here in a little bit, huh?

**Nick Whelan** (0:28)
That's right, man. That's right. This weekend has become one of my favorite weekends of the year.
All the Beeson guys, the Circa guys are nice enough to bring us out here, help promote the contest, do some live shows. And of course, we always try to sneak in at least a couple rounds of golf. So, yeah, myself and Jeff Erickson, we were out at Paiute yesterday. All right. Running it back today, baby. Good stuff.

**Mitch Moss** (0:47)
I've heard, I have seen this on social media with fantasy people going back and forth about, well, maybe Lamb is not the number one in Dallas. Maybe that's actually George Pickens this year, believe it or not. Let's tie that into a player prop that you like here with him.

**Nick Whelan** (0:59)
Yeah, I like George Pickens to go over 9.99 and a half receiving yards. So essentially to hit 1000 yards. And I think you can look at last season as probably going about as well as it could have for year one in Dallas. I think we had some pretty serious questions about the work ethic, about can he stay on the field? Is he going to be somebody who can fit in with a new team? I think for the most part, we don't really have those same concerns. He went over 1400 yards a year ago. So even if we are projecting that CD Lamb stays healthier than he did last season, if we think Ryan Flournoy is more involved, Jake Ferguson bounces back. Even if that happens, I think we have enough wiggle room where Pickens doesn't have to match last season, and he can still go over this number. And the thing with him, the difference between Pickens and CD Lamb is George Pickens was six in the NFL in yards per reception a year ago. He finished with more yards than Jamar Chase on 32 fewer catches, more yards than St. Brown on 24 fewer catches. So he doesn't need that crazy target volume in order to rack up yards.

**Pauly Howard** (1:53)
Good back and forth yesterday with Paul Ciarci and on Henry. I was saying not enough touches and Munkin did a horrible job at times, not even having him on the field, especially in the fourth quarter. What does Henry do in Baltimore?

**Nick Whelan** (2:05)
I'm still in on Derrick Henry. I think almost any player who has his mileage, he has some injury history, he's obviously entering his mid 30s.
You start to worry typically, but Derrick Henry to me, it's almost like LeBron in the NBA where we've been waiting for LeBron to fall off for like six years and if you've been betting against him and hasn't gone well, and I feel like Derrick Henry, the way he takes care of his body, I just haven't seen any physical decline. So he's somebody I would look at over 1249 and a half on the season long rushing number. Somebody I love grabbing in the second round of fantasy drafts and I think that workload is going to be there. This was a guy who, there was a four game run early last season where he was averaging under 40 yards per game. We're wondering what's going on with Derrick Henry, what's going on with the Ravens offense, and then we get to week 18 and he almost wins the rushing title. So I think he's one of those guys that he could survive a bad month and he could still go well over this number.

**Pauly Howard** (2:53)
Good discussion you guys had on the show earlier in the week. I'll give you a door one and door two. Door one, Gibbs has a LT type season from 2006 or like a monster Marshall Falk type running him. Or door two, the quarterback play is so bad, Robinson has a tough year in Atlanta.

**Nick Whelan** (3:11)
So which of those is more likely to happen?

**Pauly Howard** (3:13)
Yes.

**Nick Whelan** (3:14)
And I think it's probably the all time season for Gibbs because I think he's that good. I think the schedule stacks up really well for Detroit. And I think the thing with the Lions, and I think this applies to the Bears, too, they don't mind embarrassing teams. They're the opposite of the Green Bay Packers, where it feels like Green Bay goes into every game and says, can we win this 23 to 16? Or Detroit's like, can we put up 45 or 50 points? So I don't worry about any kind of pullback there.