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Peter Klein

Fantasy Football starts to get tough this week with bye weeks so the RB decision gets really tricky. Peter Klein lays out a few RBs you can trust in Fantasy Football this week.  Apple Pod: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeH... Twitter: twitter.com/primetimeklein IG: instagram.com/primetimeklein Facebook: www.facebook.com/Couchpotatodiary Kick: Kick.com/primetimepk Email: couchpotatodiary@yahoo.com We Had No Idea: every Wednesday morning,  instagram.com/wehadnoideapodcast

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00:00Krimny, with a couple of thoughts, as well as Conrad.

00:02I'm rolling the dice on DK and Wandale, as both are listed as questionable.

00:07Yeah, I think they'll play.

00:08This... I don't get this.

00:10You know what I miss?

00:11Probable.

00:12I don't know why the NFL got rid of probable.

00:14Because that was... that was a whole lot... questionable was like,

00:17oh, it's 50-50, I don't know.

00:19And now that's the best one you have.

00:21So, I don't know why we got rid of probable.

00:23That was so nice when we lived in probable, questionable, and doubtful.

00:27You know, they never tell you that you're in the good old days.

00:29Until after, right? Or whatever that line is.

00:33I miss... I miss probable.

00:36And so I would assume, Conrad, that DK and Wandale would both have been listed as probable,

00:41had that distinction been allowed in this silly league that we call the NFL.

00:46But I would feel comfortable with them.

00:48And honestly, I think both guys have good games.

00:50Seattle... I mean, both in the same game.

00:52Seattle going up against the Giants.

00:54Giants can't stop a nosebleed.

00:55And Seattle, like, Wandale-Robinson is going to be that number one option

00:59for the Giants, which is damning with faint praise.

01:04But also, Seattle gave up a bunch of yards through the air last week.

01:09So I do think that there's going to be volume and maybe some opportunity

01:12for Wandale-Robinson moving forward.

01:14Krimney need a running back this week.

01:16Is it smart to pick up Ekler?

01:17Their defense had a lot of injuries.

01:20Ekler also got banged up last week, so I would check on that status if I...

01:26You know what? I'm here.

01:28I obviously have an internet connection.

01:30So let's see. How are we looking?

01:32Austin Ekler-wise.

01:34Because McNichols came in and actually looked pretty good in replacing him.

01:38Clear to play on Sunday, so he should be good to go.

01:41That was 26 minutes ago, according to rotoballer.com.

01:45And if we cannot trust Rotoballer, who can we trust?

01:49Cut to three weeks from now, me working for them.

01:51But I think Ekler's an okay pickup.

01:54Yeah.

01:55Um, if I'm looking at, like, desperation-type moves,

02:00I think there are a couple of the pass-catching option running backs

02:04that you can trust maybe a little bit more than Ekler.

02:06Because Robinson's been a beast for Washington.

02:09Now, Robinson sounds like he's going to be a game-time decision.

02:13So this is one of those roll-the-dice things that we talked about before.

02:16If Robinson's banged up, then Ekler all of a sudden becomes a really good play.

02:22And Ekler, it's a concussion.

02:24It was a concussion for him.

02:26And obviously, like we've seen with Tua, once that button—

02:29From experience, once that button gets pushed, it's easier to push it again.

02:34But it's not the same as, like, an ankle injury, where it just—

02:39Like, you can kind of tweak it or whatever.

02:40You can't tweak a concussion.

02:43So, I mean, you probably can.

02:45But you know what I am saying?

02:46Like, it's not as easily re-injured or whatever, right?

02:51Like, everyone can get concussions. It's football.

02:53So, what I'm saying is, if Robinson is out, then Ekler is an amazing pickup.

02:58A couple other guys who I wouldn't mind, like I said before,

03:01Justice Hill for Baltimore is, I think, a good play,

03:04given how close the Baltimore-Cincinnati game projects to be.

03:08I do think there are going to be some drives where Baltimore needs to throw the ball,

03:11and that ain't Derrick Henry's bag.

03:13So, I think Justice Hill is actually going to get a pretty good chunk of the snaps

03:16this week, and thus a pretty good amount of the opportunities.

03:19And like I just said in the Monday Night Game,

03:20I think Samaje P. Ryan has the option, just given the lack of weapons out in Kansas City,

03:26that he is going to get, I think, a few pass-catching options as well.

03:30So, I would probably rank that Ekler, Hill, and then P. Ryan.

03:34But I would maybe, if it does seem like Robinson's going to play,

03:39I would maybe flip Hill and Ekler, just for the situation that I think Baltimore is going to be in.

03:45But I do think Ekler is a pretty good play.

03:47Toxic saying here, Jonathan Taylor officially out.

03:50And so, Toxic, very sneaky during the show,

03:52races out and picks up Trey Sermon in the Vampire League.

03:58And so, Krimney, for you, if Trey Sermon's available in your league,

04:01I think that's a pretty good pickup as well,

04:03going up against a Jacksonville defense that, off the top of my head,

04:06I don't think they're, like, a stalwart against the run, or anything like that.

04:12Like, Houston didn't really get to them a whole lot last week.

04:15Buffalo, I mean, just kicked the shit out of them.

04:17So, they probably ran the ball for half of the game, so you don't get a good read on that one.

04:20I feel like Drumford had an okay game against them, and then Miami's Miami.

04:24So, you don't really have a good sense of that, but I do think that Trey Sermon has a good game.

04:28So, I would maybe put him at the top of the list for those kind of desperation running backs.

04:33Conrad asking, thoughts on Cam Akers as a streamer?

04:37You have Houston going up against the Buffalo Bills.

04:40I, with Joe Mixon out, I think that Cam Akers has an opportunity here.

04:44He is, ah, someone picked up Sermon already, alright, sorry Kermit.

04:48I think, like, Cam Akers is very obviously limited by the injuries that he has had in his career.

04:53He has kind of turned into, coach told me there'd be hole here, so I run through hole here.

04:58And I, he is not getting anything that isn't blocked for him.

05:01The good news is, Buffalo can give up a lot that isn't blocked.

05:05So, I think that he is a good option as a streaming running back.

05:09It seems like running back is the topic du jour this week.

05:12Um, I probably said that wrong.

05:15Either way, when you look at this, now, the running backs that we have discussed here today.

05:21I still think I would put Sermon first, and then, boy, where would I put Akers in that whole thing?

05:29Sermon first, I do think I would probably go Akers second, just on the volume that he would be getting.

05:35And then Hill, and then Eckler, and then Perine.

05:38But again, all of them, I think are varying degrees of pretty good options.

05:42This week.

05:43Um, Sutton, Wandale, Higgins, and Shaheed tossed up on who to start.

05:47Boy, that is an interesting question.

05:49I, like, the Raiders do give up big plays.

05:53We talked about it when we were doing that preview, where there is a play in that game against Cleveland,

06:00where Amari Cooper gets an 80-yard touchdown.

06:04And everyone's celebrating, and it comes back because of a holding call.

06:07Not saying that Denver wouldn't hold or anything like that,

06:10but there are at least those options available for big gains for the Denver Broncos in this game.

06:16Wandale, I think you have to start, given the situation that he is in.

06:20He's the number one wide receiver on his team, and he is the guy that I think can take advantage of

06:26where Seattle is lacking in their secondary.

06:29So I would start Wandale for sure.

06:32He would be my one in that list.

06:35Um, Higgins, I still need to see it a little bit more,

06:38and I think Baltimore is familiar enough with the Bengals that they'll be able to figure that one out.

06:43So I would probably, and then Shaheed, we talked about it,

06:46Kansas City is good at taking away your number one option,

06:48and number two options have kind of thrived against the Chiefs so far this year.

06:52So I think Shaheed actually has a pretty good day.

06:55So I would probably rank those Wandale, Shaheed, Sutton, and Higgins right now.

07:00That would be how I would rank those ones.

07:04It's crazy. Who would have thought?

07:05Probably at the beginning of the year, we would have assumed Higgins would have been the bottom of that list

07:08because of how everything went, but going into training camp,

07:11who would have thought that Higgins would be at the bottom of that particular list?

07:16That's absolutely crazy.

07:18So anyway, should be a fun week.

07:20Thank you guys so much for all the fantasy questions.

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