Week 8 Waiver Wire Must-Add Players, Kevin O’Connell Questions, Fixing Kickers, and Maine’s Umbrella Cover Museum

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Featured on today's episode of The Ringer Fantasy Football Show, we go over all the top waiver ads. Christian McCaffrey says his leg died. What do we talk about, Craig? Axl Rose, umbrella covers.

Craig Horlbeck (1:21)

What else? What were the other trivia questions?

Crazy how quickly they leave your brain. What were they? I won one of them. I don't know what it was.

Danny Kelly (1:30)

No idea.

Danny Heifetz (1:32)

All that and more after the break.

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Welcome to The Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Heifetz, and I'm joined by Danny Kelly, Craig Horlbeck, and we're going over all the players to add after week 7, entering week 8, perching halfway through the NFL season.

We're going to go position by position. We're going to give our best player at that position, and then we'll probably pick similar people. Then we'll do a trivia tiebreaker. It's not that complicated. You'll figure it out as you go along. Email us at ringerfantasyfootball.gmail.com, send us trivia questions, send us fantasy courts as well. We want your fantasy courts. We will litigate. We'll just settle all the arguments in your group chat.

SPEAKER_1 (2:54)

And also now, stupid court.

Craig Horlbeck (2:56)

Stupid court. Stupid court. Yeah.

Danny Kelly (2:58)

Much more importantly.

Craig Horlbeck (2:59)

It's really it's perfectly named to stupid court.

Danny Heifetz (3:02)

You know what I mean?

Craig Horlbeck (3:03)

Sometimes it is that simple.

Danny Heifetz (3:05)

We should give out stupid prizes.

Stupid games. Stupid prizes.

SPEAKER_1 (3:11)

Yeah.

Danny Kelly (3:11)

Yeah, I got it.

SPEAKER_1 (3:12)

Yeah.

Danny Heifetz (3:13)

Yeah. Wasn't that funny?

SPEAKER_1 (3:14)

Okay.

Danny Heifetz (3:14)

Without further ado, DK, who's your number one running back entering week eight that you would add off waivers?

Danny Kelly (3:18)

I'm going to go with Jonah Coleman for the Broncos off the IR for a high ankle sprain. He came back and he basically led the team in snaps, rushes, touches and yards.

In his first game back, kind of relegated JK. Dobbins to third string. And then RJ. Harvey was sort of being the complimentary back. You never freaking know what the Broncos, whether this is going to hold or like who's going to be the lead guy in any given game. But I do think the signal right now is at least that Jonah Coleman is kind of their guy going forward. So we'll see what happens.

Craig Horlbeck (3:49)

I completely agree. He is my choice as well. I feel like with running back this week, there's a lot of stash options. There's a lot of like Seth McGowan in Indianapolis because maybe they trade Jonathan Taylor. It's like Mike Washington, in case Genti gets her. Kailin Black, because McCaffrey's leg died, is an actual quote that McCaffrey said. But Jonah Coleman is the guy that you could play next week. And like just looks like the best running back on the team already, even though he's a fourth round rookie, he's coming back from an injury. He just has the most juice and Sean Payton clearly likes him. And he already played half the snaps in his first game back. I just think he's the best running back on the team already.