Good morning. It’s time…

Time to neglect work, postpone starting a family and prep those waiver claims. “Leagues are won in these three weeks”, I kept telling her as she took the kids and left in my Honda Civic.

Good news: Joe Burrow is great on and off the field. He gifted teammate Jake Browning’s family box seats for Sunday’s game against the Colts. Browning detailed his path to success with the Bengals in this conversation with Peter King.

TRIVIA

RANKINGS

📉 Patrick Mahomes falls to QB5. Only one top-10 QB finish in his last six games and thrown for over 300 yards three times this season (Sam Howell has done it five times). Mahomes is struggling without OC Eric Bieniemy, posting the worst statistical output of his career.

📈 Deebo Samuel rises to WR13. He’s the WR2 since returning from injury five weeks ago, averaging 23.4 FPPG and scoring 7 TDs (per @17gamepace). His volume is inconsistent, but Deebo can take it to the house whenever he touches the ball.

Our rest-of-season 0.5 PPR rankings were updated early this morning 👇️ 

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WAIVER WIRE

Running Back

Ezekiel Elliott is the obvious must-add, but already held. With Rhamondre Stevenson out, Elliott handled 29 of 30 backfield touches, generating 140 total yards and a touchdown.

Ty Chandler is next man up in Minnesota. Yes, Alexander Mattison (ankle) could miss multiple weeks. Chandler has been the better RB and has a favorable Week 15 matchup against a Bengals run defense that ranks 29th in DVOA. Here’s your chance to roster a potential league-winning flex play, stats per Pat Fitzmaurice of FantasyPros. Chandler took every RB snap after Mattison left in Week 14.

Chase Brown “is bringing a big-play ability to the Bengals offense, and he's been a nice change of pace for Joe Mixon. He looks like one of the must-have RB handcuffs right now, because if anything happens to Mixon, Brown looks like a potential [league winner 👀],” per Chris Towers of CBSSports. We’ve had him listed for weeks.

Zamir White could start in a Thursday night matchup with the Chargers. Josh Jacobs sustained an injury on Sunday and was in considerable pain upon going down. “Given the quick turnaround, we should probably plan for his absence,” per Andy Behrens of Yahoo.

• But don’t break the bank, as Zamir White is expected to handle early downs while Ameer Abdullah catches the passes and plays on third downs. Abdullah is a deep league, PPR streamer.

• After Jacobs went down in the 4th qtr:

  - Abdullah 4 of 6 snaps

  - Zamir White 2 of 6 snaps

Jerick McKinnon only logged 7 touches but saw a season high 45% of snaps. He was in on the majority of the Chief’s short down and distance snaps, as well as the 2-minute drill plus long down and distance snaps.

“As was the case when he took over near the end of 2022, McKinnon’s snap total and touch counts will be limited, but his efficiency will break charts,” per Kyle Dvorchak of NBCSports.