Prop Points | September 4, 2026

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This is Prop Points on VSiN, the SportsBetting Network. Now here's your host, the guru himself, John Hansen.

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Good afternoon. Welcome to another edition of Prop Points here on VSiN. I'm John Hansen of fantasypoints.com. This program, as always, is produced by Mr. Michael Cohen. Big program forthcoming once again on Friday, September 4th, a Labor Day weekend here. Everyone going to check out maybe for a day or two or three. And then we are on to week one of the National Football League. The kickoff of the 2026 season is a Wednesday night. We are fired up.
We don't have props yet, although I do have one in mind already. But we're going to be all over the Wednesday game, the Thursday game, the week one slate next week here on the program here today.
We'll take a look at the news and notes coming down the line right at the top, per usual. We've been breaking down all the positions. If you missed any of the shows, you can check it out on demand. We've talked quarterbacks on Tuesday, running backs on Wednesday, wide receivers on Thursday, today being Friday, naturally, it is tight ends. We'll also talk injuries with our Dr. Jeff Moeller. Well, we won't talk with him. We will cite him, though, his article up at fantasypoints.com. Basically, it's an injury tracker, and it's got a lot of insight in terms of, you know, a percentage production drop for each individual player based on the injury and the player himself. So we'll talk about all the tight end injuries here. There's about five of them that are kind of critical. Some other news and notes as well we'll touch on. Then we'll get into, since we are talking all day about tight ends, we'll talk about my fantasy targets, at the position I am all or nothing boy. When it comes to tight end this year, I'm either going to pay up for Brock Bowers or, spoiler alert, probably my favorite, Tyler Warren. Otherwise, I'm going to wait until the end and target some old heads. And you could probably guess who they are, but we'll pop them out in the next segment. And then after that, Josh Chevalier of Fantasy Points College Football is back triumphantly.
And he has fired up to contribute to the program. They do props over there at Fantasy Points for college football. They do rankings. They do projections. So we're all about, I'd probably do some DFS as well. So he's got some week one college football props. He's got a slew of them as well. I believe he's got five. And then I, at the end of the program, in the final segment, will pop out my favorite 2020-06 tight end futures, basically tight end season long player props. I've got about five or six of those. So big program forthcoming. Make sure you download the Prop Points podcast, wherever you get your pods, Apple, Spotify, or wherever else you get them. All right. Well, news and notes here. Some nothing major coming down the line here. I mean, a lot of teams are going to kind of lay low this weekend, but Miles Garrett, voted by his peers as the NFL's best player in the league's annual top 100 list. Congratulations, LA Rams. I mean, you're loving life if you're in LA right now, although my Dodgers have been struggling here, but we got Tarik Scoobel. A guy can't buy a win, but he's awesome.
Never really saw a Tarik Scoobel pitch before this year, but LA's loving life here with these Rams. And we'll see about my Dodgers in terms of the World Series. Can we go for the three-peat? That would be nice. The Texans actually agreed to terms with Tankdell, which certainly bodes well for Tankdell's ability to play football this year, basically. One year, $1.7 million contract restructure. Cowboys create a little bit more cap space, restructuring some contracts with guys like Kenny Clark, Daron Bland, also tight end Jake Ferguson, who we will talk about today. Now, in Chicago, talking about injuries, we did have a couple of scares. It's very frustrating. I do this big article for fantasypoints.com, the draft plan. I spent hours updating it and hit submit, hit publish, put on the website. And all of a sudden, two of my guys that are on my target list got a little bit dinged up. But it looks like we avoided a serious injury with number one, Deandre Swift, who left practice early. According to our guy, friend of the program, who was on the show yesterday, Mr. Adam Schefter, it was merely a cramp. So hopefully all is well. And also, Roma Dunze, soon as I saw that he was a little bit dinged up and he went down, I'm like, oh no, please don't be that foot. That was very worrisome last year, of course, and might continue to be, but not the foot, it's a leg issue. He should be all good after leaving practice yesterday. And thank God. Also, the Athletics, Andrew Destin, believes that wide receiver Rashid Shahid could very well usurp wide receiver Cooper Cup as the number two receiving option. Now, I think we all view Rashid Shahid as the two, basically, with Cooper Cup as the third in the slot. But I think what this means is that Rashid Shahid might see a little bit more volume this year. We all know what happened last year. He got traded mid-season, and it probably took him a minute to pick things up, get acclimated to his new environment. He didn't go off, really, down the stretch. He did make a couple of big plays. And all I know is we did go over on his receiving yardage line. It was like pretty low in the Super Bowl. I think it was like 19.5 or 21.5, and he did hit that. So thank you, Rashid Shahid. I actually did a draft today, this morning, on Sirius XM. Fantasy Points has the morning show there, by the way. 7 and 9 a.m. Eastern, we did a draft with a bunch of listeners, 14 teamer. I did, in fact, take Rashid Shahid. I mean, there was nothing available in the latter stages of that draft. I also took Brock Bowers, by the way, in round number two. We're gonna be talking about Brock Bowers in the next segment. Also in Seattle, the Athletics, Andrew Destin, believes the Seahawks will, in fact, feature, running back Judarian Price on early downs, as we, I certainly fully expect. I'm very high on Judarian Price. We're already in on a Judarian Price rushing prop. I think it's 724.5 or 725.5. I feel good about that. Not really worried about his receiving work, which is good because it looks like George Helani, who is kind of like a hybrid fullback running back, quite frankly, looks like he'll play third down, get the short yardage and goal line work. They also do have Emanuel Wilson, the former Green Bay Packers, but it should be all about Judarian Price. And one thing about Rashid Shahid, Judarian Price is going to face a lot of pressure as the primary runner for the Seattle Seahawks this year. Pretty decent old line, but they did lose their offensive coordinator, Kubiak, of course. When a guy like Shahid starts making big plays down the field, though, that's when those safeties start creeping back a little bit.