Week 3 Waiver Wire Targets + Biggest Risers & Fallers

Daniel Dopp (0:00)

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What's up friends, welcome in to Fantasy Focus Football alongside Field Yates and Liz Loza. My name is Daniel Dopp, very excited to be here on a Tuesday.

Liz, how you doing?

Liz Loza (1:05)

I am great. Thank you for reminding me what day it is though. I'm a little bit discombobulated.

Daniel Dopp (1:10)

Yeah, we had a long weekend, lot of football going on. I wasn't here yesterday. I so appreciate you guys being able to do the show without me. Thank you for holding everything down, especially because you had to work with Mike. I know that's so difficult, guys.

Field Yates (1:21)

Honestly, we survived. You did. Sorry, I was staring at my watch because I pressed a button and all of a sudden, my watch stopped. And I couldn't figure out what I pressed, but I think I fixed it.

Daniel Dopp (1:29)

Okay, good. I'm glad that that makes me feel better. By the way, I didn't see you yesterday. I wanted to say this. Shout out to you for Sunday. You looked so good on Fantasy Focus Countdown Field. I realized that what you look like when you dress down is what I aspire to look like when I dress up.

That's when we hit our equilibrium. Like, our powers combine. Like, you look so good on Sunday, not in a suit for the first time, hosting the show. You look good in a suit as well. I'm just saying, I thought you looked nice.

Field Yates (1:57)

I don't know what. Do you need something?

Daniel Dopp (1:59)

No, no, no.

Liz Loza (2:00)

I just wanted to tell you that.

Field Yates (2:01)

Thank you for that. I wanted to make Mike feel awkward as the only person wearing a suit. Wearing a suit?

In my defense, I did tell Mike in advance, like, hey, I felt like after last week when a lot of the crew was dressing down and you and I were dressed in suits, that maybe we were the oddballs. So I thought we could meet in the middle.

Daniel Dopp (2:18)

Yeah.

Field Yates (2:18)

Mike was like...

Daniel Dopp (2:19)

You did a great job. No. No.

Field Yates (2:22)

No, Mike, he said, he goes, Field, you can't hide money, right? So let me keep dressing up.

Daniel Dopp (2:29)

What do we got on today's show? Today we're going to recap that Monday night football game, unfortunately, dive into a couple of waiver targets. And then we also have some of the biggest risers and fallers after the first two weeks. We'll dive into a number of names that have been definitely on the move. But let's start with a little bit of news first, and most importantly, Caleb Williams.

Guys, avoided a major hamstring injury, expected to be week to week, quote unquote, is what we hear from this situation.

Don't know if that's one week, don't know if that's three weeks. Yeah, awesome clarity. Don't know what that means there. But what it does mean to us in fantasy is that if you have Caleb Williams, one, you need to make a plan. You need to go out and find another quarterback. Curious, have you guys started to think about how this is going to impact your Chicago Bears rankings across the board, knowing that you will probably have a Tyson Bajant under center here?

Field Yates (3:14)

I mean, guys, how much lower could these guys go?

Eric Moody (3:17)

That's a great question.

Field Yates (3:18)

This is a double edged sword, right? So on the one hand, Caleb Williams to Tyson Bajant is a legitimate downgrade, a significant downgrade. Tyson Bajant's a serviceable backup quarterback, but we thought Caleb Williams was heading towards potential superstardom. He looked like one certainly in week one. But Caleb Williams was a superstar in week one without any of his notable contributors doing a thing for fantasy amongst the pass catchers, right? So we have the fact that these guys are just generally downgraded as a group. And the fact that Caleb's not going to be out there. You're going to be hard pressed to convince me that Roma doonsay and Luther Burden belong in lineups in week three in a tough matchup. Yes, they're playing at home. Hopefully it won't be raining like it was on Sunday. But against the Eagles, you want a piece of that? That's certainly not an offense that I want a whole lot of right now, assuming Caleb Williams misses week three.