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Week 1 Fantasy Football LOCKS: The Players We're Starting Everywhere artwork

Week 1 Fantasy Football LOCKS: The Players We're Starting Everywhere

Fantasy Focus Football

September 9, 2026

Welcome back to Fantasy Focus! Daniel Dopp, Field Yates, and Mike Clay are here to discuss everything you need to know ahead of tonight's season opener. Is Jadarian Price safe to start as your RB2/Flex? Will Jalen Hurts be one of the top QB performers in week 1?

Speakers Daniel Dopp, Field Yates, Mike Clay

TopicsSports

Daniel Dopp (0:00)

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What up, friends? Welcome in to Fantasy Focus Football. That's right. Alongside Michael Lester Clay Jr. and Field Minister Yates, my name is Daniel David Dopp. Super pumped about today.

Field Yates (1:20)

I don't get a middle name.

Daniel Dopp (1:22)

Didn't I say Minister Yates?

SPEAKER_4 (1:23)

You did. Okay, sorry. I blacked out for a second.

Mike Clay (1:25)

Sorry about that. I was distracted because we have some TV viewing for this evening.

SPEAKER_4 (1:30)

Yes, we do.

Daniel Dopp (1:31)

Wednesday Night Football. You know what doesn't roll off the tongue quite the same?

Field Yates (1:34)

Wednesday Night Football.

Mike Clay (1:36)

It sounded like an email and it was something about the game and it was WNF.

SPEAKER_4 (1:40)

That feels weird. TNF or MNF. It was weird.

Mike Clay (1:42)

But we'll take it.

Daniel Dopp (1:43)

Yes, we will.

Quick shout out before we dive in to that. Our buddy Eric Moody hanging out in chat as he always does. Follow him on social media at Eric and Moody. By the way, when you're watching Fantasy Focus Countdown on Sunday morning, getting ready for the rest of week one, have up that second screen experience. You can watch Eric Moody on Fantasy Focus Sunday Kickoff, presented by Lowe's Live on the NFL and ESPN YouTube page. While you are watching us on Fantasy Focus Countdown, you can get your lineups answered during the commercial breaks. Moody in there doing all the stuff, shaking babies, kissing people, all the good things.

Mike Clay (2:16)

Shaking babies? You're not supposed to do that. Yeah.

Daniel Dopp (2:18)

Kissing people, shaking babies. No.

Kissing hands, shaking hands.

Mike Clay (2:22)

Shaking hands, kissing babies. You did a bad job. I'm wondering, it's presented by Lowe's. So does Eric have to like, is he on camera like building something?

SPEAKER_4 (2:28)

He has to wear a construction hat. Yes.

Mike Clay (2:29)

Yeah, he has to like, he has to do some sort of construction while answering questions. I feel like that should be a thing. Like he has a workshop.

SPEAKER_4 (2:35)

Yes.

Mike Clay (2:35)

We're shopping lineups and he's workshopping a bird house.

Field Yates (2:39)

I took my kids to Lowe's this weekend and the stuff that they wanted to buy was the most ridiculous and hilarious collection of stuff. Like my middle child wanted to buy about 100 rat traps.

SPEAKER_4 (2:51)

Just for fun?

Field Yates (2:53)

We need these, dad. Thankfully, there are no rats in the house, but we don't need them.

SPEAKER_4 (2:57)

You'll know when you need them.

Field Yates (2:58)

Then she was like, okay, however, have you considered this laundry detergent? Because we've got 150 ounces worth of laundry detergent available at a very discounted rate.

Mike Clay (3:06)

Hey, those stores are awesome.

Field Yates (3:07)

I was going to say the same thing. I went there because I love this place.

Daniel Dopp (3:13)

Yeah, I love that. Hey, we're diving into our week one rankings as well, which is a really fun ranking segment at the end of the show. I promise you want to stick around for this one. But first and foremost, guys, normally we do our previews at the end of the show. I don't want to wait. We've been waiting for football for forever. Let's dive into our Wednesday night football preview.

SPEAKER_4 (3:30)

Patriots and the Seahawks.

Field Yates (3:31)

That was a sick graphic that just happened.

Daniel Dopp (3:33)

We got lineup locks for this one, straight from Mike Clay's playbook, potentially out today on the.com.

SPEAKER_4 (3:39)

We'll find out.

Mike Clay (3:40)

Hey guys, since week one, I decided to file early, so maybe it'll be live today.

Daniel Dopp (3:44)

All right, then I'm going to hand this over to you. Who is a lineup lock from your playbook, Mike Clay?

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