Why Rondale Moore, Jayden Reed could deliver as last-minute fantasy pickups
Fantasy Football Live’s Andy Behrens and Matt Harmon looks at the last minute transaction trends in fantasy ahead of Week 11
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ANDY BEHRENS: Good morning, people. It's week 11. The playoffs are in sight. I'm Andy Behrens joined by Matt Harman. We are here to help you set the best possible lineups, taking a look at the latest transaction trends in Yahoo leagues. As always, you guys can follow along. You just go to the Research tab in your league, hit Transaction Trends. You can take a look at the laundry list of names right along with us.
Matt, as we look at the most added players, who jumps out to you?
MATT HARMON: Yeah, well, look, obviously, with Michael Wilson being down, there's a good bit of people adding Rondale Moore. While I think Rondale Moore is a fake receiver, he's not-- well, you know what? Maybe at this point in his career, we can just call him a typical bunnyhop slot receiver. I think he's graduated, Andy.
I'll say this officially. I will declare it right now. He has graduated from fake receiver to bunnyhop slot receiver, which is still not my ideal grouping of players. But 7.5 average depth of target last week. He had 8 looks overall with Kyler Murray back.
Again, I think you're kind of PPR scamming a little bit. Shoutout to our friends Josh Norris and Hayden Winks for that term. I think you're kind of doing that if you add Rondale Moore and start him immediately. But I do think if you're in a desperate spot, I can endorse that.
Now, the name Jayden Reed, who's on there, that excites me much more. I know you and I are big fans of Jayden Reed. We got laughed out the building on our postdraft podcast for suggesting that Jayden Reed might even be better than Christian Watson at some point, might be the most valuable Packers wide receiver.
We're not there yet because Reed hasn't been a full time player. But the more I've seen of Jayden Reed, the more I want to see of Jayden Reed. I think he's been a really good player, gets a lot of separation, plays from the slot, but wins downfield passes, like what we just talked about with Rondale Moore and the bunnyhop slot group. Jayden Reed is verifiably not in that group.
And against a Chargers' defense that, I mean, really, just cannot stop the pass in any sense of the word-- I know Jordan Love has been shaky trying to pull off a lot of trick shots. But I do think that Jayden Reed makes for a low-end wide receiver 3, pretty boom-bust.
I mean over 80 yards in the last two games but then 19 yards in the game sandwiched between there. That's kind of what you're looking at with Jayden Reed. But he's a guy I do love picking up, maybe playing this week but certainly stashing down the stretch.
ANDY BEHRENS: Yeah, I've actually got Jayden Reed ranked above both Christian Watson and Romeo Doubs this week. It might be the first time that I've actually had Reed as my top-ranked Packers receiver. So that was kind of exciting.
And it's just in line with the year-to-date production, right? He leads the team in receiving yards.
A couple names that jump out to me, I feel like we've got to mention Pat Freiermuth. He's back from IR. He's on the list here at tight end. He's returning from a hamstring injury. I will just say, if there's any level of excitement about adding Freiermuth and activating him for this one, he's got a brutal matchup with Cleveland today.
So maybe just give it a week. Run him out there against Cincinnati in week 12. He actually hasn't seen more than 4 targets in any of his healthy games this season. So I wouldn't necessarily consider him a no-doubt start.
Also, top of the list, kind of love to see it, Darrell Henderson. He gets one last turn as the Rams' presumptive lead back. This is before Kyren Williams returns. It is a great matchup this week against Seattle. The Seahawks have allowed the fifth-most fantasy points to opposing running backs.
They've also just absolutely been carved up over the last three weeks by Brian Robinson, Antonio Gibson, Keaton Mitchell, Gus Edwards, any of various Browns like. All these guys had big days against Seattle. So even though it hasn't been great for Henderson, he's averaging fewer than 3 yards per carry so far on the season, this could be a good spot for him. And he could find the end zone.
Those are just a few of the pregame transactions that the people are making. Let's make good fantasy choices this week, people. Go get a win.
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