Week 13 Inactives: Allen, Olave to play; Pacheco could be huge
Fantasy Football Live’s Andy Behrens and Matt Harmon react to the latest injury news before Sunday’s Week 13 games kick off
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ANDY BEHRENS: Good morning and welcome to week 13. It is winning time in your fantasy life. Much too late in the season to take a loss. We are here to help I'm Andy Behrens. I'm joined by the great Matt Harmon. We're here to help you set the best possible lineups.
We're going to take a look at the latest transaction trends in Yahoo leagues. You can follow along. You can go to the Research tab then transaction trends. Read right along with us. Matt, bunch of sketchy names on there today. What jumps out at you?
MATT HARMON: Yeah. There's not a lot of beautiful solutions. Not a lot of like, oh, we're trying to help you set the best possible lineup. There's a lot on the waiver wire you can just pick up. I mean, the names on the transaction trends, a lot of New Orleans Saints, honestly, which definitely has not been an ecosystem that you want to go trickle down deep in to try to find fantasy superstars.
You know, Rashid Shaheed has been widely dropped. He's part of the transaction trends. We get that. He's going to miss some time here. Juwan Johnson and our guy, Taysom Hill, among the most added players. I mean, we are at that portion of the season.
We have finally arrived, Andy, where it's like, is Taysom Hill just in a great spot? Because Andy, if you look at it, he is kind of in a great spot. I mean, there's a lot of factors at play here. One, Chris Olave is going to play in this game.
He's cleared the concussion protocol. He's going to be out there. So, I mean, look. That obviously would have opened up a ton of passing volume, but we have talked about other injuries. Michael Thomas is out. Rashid Shaheed is out.
And this Lions defense has really crumbled in the second half of the season. They tried to add some pieces in the secondary. A lot of those guys got banged up to start the year. They're not really rushing the passer like they were to start the season.
So they can be beaten on the back end. But it's a little bit of a movable force versus stoppable object type of situation here because it's not as if, again, the Saints have been a great offensive ecosystem. But the one thing that does seem to work for them, especially when they get down into the red zone-- I mean, Derek Carr has been kind of a disaster in the red zone.
That Taysom Hill-Khalen Saunders package down there has been awesome, has been electric. So look. If you are desperate at the tight end position-- and plenty of us are, especially with all these players on buy-- but just generally I don't hate picking up Taysom Hill or even Juwan Johnson just because of the match-up and streaming them at the tight end position this week.
ANDY BEHRENS: Yeah. I've got Taysom Hill as a top five fantasy tight end this week. What a world. I guess want to mention another tight end because he's at the top of the transaction trends in terms of adds. And that's Brevin Jordan at the Houston Texans.
No Dalton Schultz this week. He's going to miss at least a game with a hamstring issue. That's 5, 6, 7 targets per week. He's been very productive. He's been great in the red zone. The match-up is great too.
I don't want to over promise with Brevin Jordan, right? Because he's played minimally. We did see him on the field a bit in week 12. But this is a great match-up on paper. The Denver Broncos have allowed the most fantasy points so far on the season to the tight end position.
Six touchdowns I want to say so far to opposing tight ends. This is a good spot. Have they been better defensively over the past month or so? Sure, absolutely. They've cleaned some things up since they gave up 70 to the Miami Dolphins.
So things are trending in the right direction. But pretty much every tight end who faces them gets 50 yards with a good shot at a touchdown. So that puts Jordan at least on the map. I will say, however, the Texans also get Noah Brown back this week from his injury.
You might recall that in the last two games we saw from Noah Brown he went over 300 receiving yards. So they have a bunch of weapons in this one. You're not guaranteed that the entire workload that would have gone to Schultz now goes to Brevin Jordan. But he is, again, in a pretty good spot.
All right. Those are the transactions that people are making. Go get a win this week, and let's reconvene in week 14.