Prop Points | October 20, 2026

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Now here's your host, the guru himself, John Hansen.

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And I'm going to be your host, John Hansen. And I'm going to be your host, John Hansen. Jason, I'm John Hansen of fantasypoints.com, the program per usual produced by Mr. Michael Cohen. Big Fantasy Day on a Tuesday, coming out of week number six. We'll check in on my top 10 waiver wire pickups. Pretty active out there. It's kind of some experimentation. It's kind of, you know, seasons within the season. We're not really oftentimes looking that far into the future. Just get us through the next couple of weeks. We'll also do a little buy low, sell high in terms of fantasy. That's what we do on a Tuesday. Players to trade and trade for. We also check in with our guy, Steven O'Rourke of Fantasy Points and Fantasy Points Data to pop out some early data points. Relating to week number seven to help us win, make sure you're downloading the Prop Points podcast wherever you get your pods, Apple, Spotify and the like. We'll take a look at some interesting news items coming down the line here as well on a Tuesday. But it's time to recap DC at SF last night, wrapping up week number six, Monday Night Football. We did have a pretty good night. That's kind of what I thought. Coming off a not so good Sunday, we are kind of even Steven over here. We go three and one. We did have a pretty major buzz kill though. It was the last one at the very least. I do still rank these, so let's go over. We had, as a lean, Stephon Diggs. He was a little bit banged up dealing with the hamstring injury. And he was probably aided by the Tara McLaurin injury. But 38.5 minus 113, that was a relatively easy win. And a lot of the plays that he made, and he only had 44 yards, but a lot of the analysis held up basically because it was all like short stuff basically at this point of Stefan Diggs' career.

They're playing a lot of too high safety, so some room underneath, and that's exactly what played out. He caught six of seven targets, 44 with a touchdown. And by the way, the news on Tara McLaurin, there's nothing official yet, but multiple reports coming out of the game, listening to Dan Quinn. There is fear that it's a long term situation. Obviously, a no contact injury for McLaurin. Wish him nothing but the best. I mean, I respect the heck out of Tara McLaurin as a ball player, just doesn't work for me in terms of fantasy. I actually liked Tara McLaurin this year, and it's been a little bit of a struggle, but hopefully, for his sake, the season's not over, so we'll stay tuned for that.

Getting into the rest of the props, I did say yesterday that if this were a normal game on a Sunday, I probably wouldn't be in on any of them, but look, this is what we do. We're trying to get the best plays for whatever game we have to deal with. If I had to pick one prop that was the best prop, it was Kittle, and granted, it won, but not by much. He got 69 yards, 63.5, that was the concern. It's always the concern. One team doesn't show up. That pretty much happened. Brock Purdy only throws it 29 times, but man, Purdy is absolutely on fire. George, hey, he caught five of eight targets. Good game. Scored a touchdown, 69 yards. Good stuff. He's an incredible player, and this is an incredible offense right now. So he comes through. Now, the big one was Rashad White, and I was deliberating. Full disclosure, I am a Rashad White apologist, and this is another example of, you know what? I'm gonna try, maybe I'm wish casting over here, but I'm proceeding as if I'm the coach, and if I'm the coach of the DC Commanders, I'm using Rashad White in the passing game because he's one of the best receiving backs in the NFL. Otherwise, why is he here? Basically, that did play out, and it did hold up. Austin Eckler did not hit that very enticing looking prop at six and a half yards, only two grabs for four.

I thought he would probably have to get it at the end of the game. That's basically what happened. He only had one catch for five at the half, but he actually ends up with four grabs for 30 with a touchdown. So shout out to Rashad White. The one thing I wish I laddered up was McCaffrey. I mean, I was feeling it in terms of him catching a ton of passes. It was great. He caught the first two balls, catches. He had three catches on the first drive, and that was an easy win by the half over 4.5 receptions there at minus 114 But there's always got to be a buzz kill.