Prop Points | September 7, 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 and welcome to another edition of Prop Points here on VSiN. I'm John Hansen of fantasypoints.com, the program per usual being produced by Mr. Michael Cohen. And what a program we have for you on this year, Labor Day. Happy Labor Day. Happy birthday to my oldest son, Christian, by the way.

I was a fantasy football fanatic when I became a father at the ripe old age of 24, just turned 24 And of course, my son was born on Labor Day and I was figuring out my fantasy scores that morning, preparing for the child. My wife did not like that, but that's neither here nor there. Happy Labor Day and happy birthday to my son here.

Big show forthcoming. We'll catch you up on all the news and storylines. We'll also in segment number one, take a look at the injury report ahead of the opener on Wednesday night. And we will also recap my top picks for the season. Basically, I narrowed it all down. Everything we did last week, I narrowed it down to the top 12 We'll also take a look. And, you know, if you're playing Fantasy, especially in high stakes, this is the time. Tonight, tomorrow, Wednesday afternoon, some of these things, I'm sure the FFPC does it too. They go into, you know, the weekend. I know there's a big event in Vegas. Well, I drafted a team in the FFPC. $2,200 entry.

So big time stakes here. I had the eighth pick of the draft. Thought it went really well. I followed my draft plan. So we'll take a look at that and I'll offer up some insight if you're still to draft in a high-stakes league. Our guy, Tom Brolley, aka The Grinder, Last Chance Saloon, for his season-long futures.

And maybe a pick or two for Patriots Seahawks. And then we'll close out the show with a list that I have dubbed the Dirty 30

Filthy, no, it's not that dirty, but these are 30 players that I'm passing on. And real quick in Fantasy Drafts, real quick, you may want to pay attention to the segment because here's last year's list, or most of it, by the way. Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray, Saquon Barkley, Alvin Kamara, Joe Mixon. Okay, somewhat easy calls there. JK. Dobbins, Chuba Hubbard, Isaiah Pacheco, Tyrone Tracy, Marvin Harrison, Terry McLaurin, Travis Hunter, Tyree Kill, DK Metcalf, Chris Godwin, Roma Dunze, Brandon IU., Cooper Cup, Evan Ingram, and David Njoku on the list. And I do have some bigger names, I think, on that list here for 2026

Without any further ado, oh, make sure you download the Prop Points podcast wherever you get your pods, Apple, Spotify, or wherever the hell you get them. Make sure you're downloading that and checking it out every single day, Monday through Friday at the very least. The Atlanta Falcons have named Tua Tunga-Veloa their starting quarterback for week number one. Kind of figured this was happening. I was surprised people were talking up Pennex. I mean, the guy hasn't really, I don't think he's practiced fully for maybe a day or two. So it's going to be Tua.

That could work out for Kyle Pitts early in the season, but maybe not as much for Drake London. Drake London did click pretty well last year with Michael Pennex. Tua reportedly clicked with Kyle Pitts, basically. Much like he clicked last year, by the way, with Darren Waller. Once they put Darren Waller out there, given Tua a second option, felt like he leaned pretty heavily on throwing to that big body receiver in the middle of the field. And interestingly enough, this is like what? The sixth straight year that the Falcons have opened the season with a starting quarterback, a different one, basically. Matt Ryan in 2021, Mariota in 22, Des Ritter in 23, Kierke in 2024, Pennex in 2025, and of course, Tua here in 2026 The Rams expect wide receiver Pukka Nakua to play on Thursday versus the 49ers. Trevion Henderson did not practice yesterday or today. I saw that come down the line not too long ago. The Giants have given Jameis Winston a two year $13 million extension. Si's John Shipley reports that Travis Hunter is expected to be the Jags number one cornerback week one and beyond. And that's kind of what my thinking has been all along. That's why I've said nothing positive about Travis Hunter the receiver. All right, while we still have some time here, we did five shows last week, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. We covered all the positions, quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, tight ends. I popped out a bunch of props for all these positions. But what I've done here is I've narrowed them all down into my top 12 season long props. You notice this year, I'm trying to kind of pull back a little bit. Last year, we just simply, we gave out too many picks last year. This year, we're going to give out probably the same number of recommendations, but we're going to cut it in half and we're going to have some leans and we're going to have some official plays. These are all official plays. Let's start with Malik Willis.