Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Andy Behrens discuss how good Russell Wilson has looked starting for the Steelers and how he and George Pickens are clear pickups you should target before the fantasy football trade deadline. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Comeback win for Pittsburgh.

This is, uh, this is three wins in as many starts for Russ, right, uh, three touchdown passes.

He's about to enter an incredibly friendly stretch of the schedule, right.

They get, they get all these division games coming up and it turns out that every division opponent is a really friendly pass defense, right?

They get, they get Baltimore coming up and they're giving up over 290 passing yards per week.

So, since stretch of games coming up for Russ and he was really good in this one.

George Pickens was mostly great in this one.

The touchdown catch was phenomenal.

There's always something weird with George Pickens, right?

Like what, what was he doing on the deep ball interception?

I've, I've no idea.

This is, this is well beyond anything that I expected from Russell Wilson.

And I think he's a legitimate fantasy ad right now and somebody that you can, you know, in a, in a smaller league, you're, you're streaming him for the next 45.

I mean, it's like a month and a half of relatively friendly opponents coming up on the schedule.

So he's gonna be a streamer and, or, you know, a deeper league starter for a little while.

Yeah, I love that.

You point out that schedule.

Uh, George Pickens is a guy who might be you.

I love that.

You call him a party.

I always say that there is never, um, like you can't have a normal conversation about George Pickens.

Probably you can't really even, like, have a normal game from George Pickens at this point.

But that schedule coming up, especially some of these defenses that Baltimore vulnerable to the deep pass.

You know, um producer Colin and I were talking about this, this week, I think like, how does anybody beat Baltimore right now?

They just look so, so good.

I'm like, well, let me tell you what or actually, I think we were talking about the Steelers at one and just, I was like, no, this, those are probably like a top 10 team in the NFL right now.

And by the way, they're definitely beating Baltimore like one of these two games.

They're, they're, they're, it's a lock, they're beating Baltimore at some point and a lot of it I think will come because George Pickens and Russell Wilson are gonna drop heaters on that secondary all game long.

Yeah, I had, I had written about this in the, in the newsletter last week just running through some guys that I thought were, if not, if not by lows, they were at least just by candidates, right?

And II, I really think Pickens was just, is such a screaming by and, you know, that this was a pretty noisy game for him.

Uh, a really good stat line and I think people are gonna start looking ahead at this schedule and they got the, you know, again, they got the Ravens twice, uh, twice more.

They got Cleveland twice more.

They got, they got Cincinnati coming up like it's just, it's, I, I don't know, it's not, if not a layup line, it's about as close as you can get.

So I think he's got a bunch of, of just huge weeks ahead of him and we've got the Yahoo Public League trade deadline, like a few days away.

So, um, that, that is definitely somebody I'm being proactive with.

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