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Week 2 Fantasy Football Rankings: Biggest Risers, Fallers & Must-Starts

Fantasy Focus Football

September 16, 2026

Welcome back to Fantasy Focus! Daniel Dopp, Field Yates, and Mike Clay are here to breakdown their Week 2 rankings. Is Brock Purdy a top-3 play? Who are the must-start running backs? Plus, what are realistic expectations for Malik Nabers?

Speakers Field Yates, Eric Moody, Daniel Dopp, Mike Clay

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Field Yates (0:00)

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Eric Moody (0:47)

Fantasy Focus You and the Home 6-0-1-0 Fantasy Focus Fantasy Fantasy Focus Fantasy Focus What's up friends?

Daniel Dopp (1:00)

Welcome into Fantasy Focus Football alongside Field Yates and Mike Clay.

Eric Moody (1:05)

You guys know what day it is?

Daniel Dopp (1:06)

Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. You know what day it is?

Eric Moody (1:08)

Pump Day!

Field Yates (1:10)

Well executed by this movie.

Daniel Dopp (1:12)

We didn't even plan that. I'm glad that you knew. I know what it is.

You're no fool.

Field Yates (1:17)

It's interesting though, because you may have noticed that Daniel tried to tease something hilarious and funny up to Mike, and Mike indulged him and played along with the bit.

Daniel Dopp (1:25)

He did?

Field Yates (1:26)

Meanwhile, I try to do things to kind of peak Mike's interest a little bit, get him going, maybe draw some energy out of Mike Clay, and he Eeyores me.

Mike Clay (1:33)

That does happen.

Daniel Dopp (1:35)

What?

Field Yates (1:36)

You Eeyore me.

Daniel Dopp (1:36)

Eeyore. Do you know who Eeyore is?

Field Yates (1:38)

Just like, that was a joke.

Mike Clay (1:40)

Oh, got it.

Daniel Dopp (1:41)

Oh, that was the joke.

Field Yates (1:43)

Nailed it. All right, you know what they say when you have to explain the joke. Yeah. Perfect joke.

Daniel Dopp (1:47)

We're very excited to have Field back. Obviously, spent a little bit of time yesterday in Miami, then flew up really quickly to the Cape Cod, and then finished out with dinner in Jackson Hole before making his way back here to us.

Field Yates (1:57)

Little Tanner. Do you guys see it on the watch tan?

Mike Clay (1:59)

Yeah, I can see it. I can see it.

Field Yates (2:00)

The watch tan is prevalent today. That Miami sun in September does not skip a beat.

Daniel Dopp (2:05)

Does not at all. You know what else doesn't skip a beat? This show right now as we dive into all the fun stuff that we're going to get into today, we're going to pay off everything that was week one really quickly with the starts of the week. Normally we would do that yesterday because Field wasn't here. We wanted to wait and do it today.

Field Yates (2:19)

Yeah, we did do the knockout league though.

Mike Clay (2:21)

And we did.

Daniel Dopp (2:22)

Your team got chopped obviously.

Mike Clay (2:23)

So we just feel great. Don't worry about it. We don't have to talk about it any longer.

Field Yates (2:27)

It's funny because yeah, they don't see it that way.

Mike Clay (2:29)

Yeah.

Daniel Dopp (2:29)

We got week two rankings as well. And some random rankings. We got a loser punishment as well that Field is going to spin the wheel on. But first and foremost guys, let's start with the starts of the week really quickly. We'll close out all the things that was week one. For our production team up there, just so you guys can have a little peek behind the curtain, we got no monitors in here today.

Field Yates (2:45)

We cannot see our starts of the week. I think Field pulled some plugs out.

Mike Clay (2:48)

Yeah. That's what happened.

Field Yates (2:51)

Actually, you know what? I felt at the end of Sunday night, I was like, okay, that team was really bad. My starts of the week team, it wasn't as bad, but I mean, it was the worst out of the three of us, but it was a little closer than I thought it was going to be. Agreed. He's like, I was really bad, but actually you guys were bad too. You guys were pretty bad too. I forgot that I had Breece Hall. That was the thing is I forgot that I had Breece Hall. I had two respectable picks, an OK pick and the worst pick of the week by far. The worst pick of the season. Mine were OK.

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