Fantasy Football Insights: Should You Pick Up Jameis Winston?

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00:00Let's take a look at some of the highlights.

00:05Lots of players available this week. Some trades, some injuries as well.

00:07Let's start off George in Cleveland, where Deshaun Watson injured last week.

00:11He's out for the season.

00:13Dorian Thompson Robinson, you know, actually in a very deep league, like a dynasty type league.

00:18You may want to grab him and just see what happens here, because Jameis Winston is the starter in Cleveland.

00:23And, you know, Jameis Winston in 2019 or whenever that was, was pretty fantastic for fantasy.

00:30He's always been better in fantasy than reality.

00:33And I guess, George, I guess that is the question going into this week.

00:38I think we tend to overrate him a little bit in reality.

00:41I think if you lose points for interceptions, I'm not sure that he's a startable player.

00:45He's a fun player. He's a likable guy.

00:48But, I mean, I certainly don't know how this is going to translate to the football field this week.

00:52I have no clue.

00:54I don't think any of us do, by the way.

00:56I think most of us believe, and you actually put it perfectly, he's a better fantasy player than reality one.

01:00He can throw the football. As long as he's got it, he can throw it.

01:03But it's just like he doesn't mind completing the ball to anyone, his team, the other teams.

01:08All right, as long as the ball doesn't hit the ground here.

01:10So, well, your interceptions can be a problem here.

01:12We have to remember there's no Omari Cooper here.

01:14All right, so that's going to hurt him as well here.

01:17You're not starting in one quarterback league.

01:19That means you just got crushed and there's nobody available and you've got to do what you've got to do.

01:22In a two-quarterback league, you likely are starting him.

01:25It'd be a low-end QB, too.

01:27You know, like I said, everyone's playing this week, but you're starting him over guys, you know,

01:31I always tell them, over anybody on the Raiders, you know, guys like that.

01:34Over Rattler, I'm starting him.

01:36So we can nail down a few where he could be, you know, the number 23 guy, number 24.

01:40So the bottom of the pack as far as a quarterback.

01:42He is playing the right team as far as a team that has trouble in the secondary and the Ravens.

01:46Coming up a short week, the Ravens, they're going to be trailing probably by a lot.

01:51I think he's going to have to throw the ball 40 plus times.

01:53So we're looking for volume here.

01:55So I think he could be a sneaky play this week, but it's a huge gamble.

01:59He hasn't played in a while, let's put it nicely.

02:02But that being said, we all also believe that the Browns should have, if not for that terrible contract for Watson,

02:08he probably would have been inserted in there weeks, if not months ago.