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Move over NBA. Christmas is no longer only your day. We now have THREE NFL games to celebrate the holidays (please ignore only half the teams have their starting QB playing).

It’s the beginning of the championship week for fantasy playoffs and decisions must be made. Who to start, who to bench, or what deity did I need to provide an offering to for my low owned best ball player to be active? Time to jump in and hopefully help you all out.

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📝 News & Notes

Injury reports are going to be a bit tricky this week with Christmas landing on Thursday. Wedneday’s reports are always unreliable and we won’t get another practice report until Friday. Only advice I can provide is if you have a reliable alternative playing today to a questionable guy later in the week, might be worth starting the guy today.

Going to rapid fire through the notable items today so you can enjoy the holiday.
- Brock Bowers and Rashee Rice to IR
- Jordan Love practiced Wednesday, has legitimate shot to play this weekend
- Javonte Williams a Full Participant in practice, strong bounce back candidate against a weak Commanders defense
- JJ McCarthy, TJ Hockenson, and Jordan Mason to miss Week 17 game for Vikings
- Dylan Sampson back at practice Wednesday, could be in for a large workload with no Judkins or Ford
- David Montgomery is Questionable with illness but expectation is he’ll play
- George Kittle has “a chance” to play; my money is on he sits
- Bhayshul Tuten back at practice Wedn (limited), though not expecting him to play this week
- TreVeyon Henderson (concussion) limited at practice Wednesday, gives hope he may actually play this week
- AJ Brown does not make wise decision, has his wisdom teeth removed the week they play Buffalo

📺️ Thursday Games Preview

8:15pm ET on Amazon Prime: WAS @ GB (GB -3.5, O/U 48.5)

Start with confidence
Washington - Terry McLaurin
Dallas - Dak Prescott, Javonte Williams, CeeDee Lamb, George Pickens, K Brandon Aubrey
Detroit - Jahmyr Gibbs, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jameson Williams, DET DST
Minnesota - Aaron Jones, Justin Jefferson
Denver - RJ Harvey, Courtland Sutton, DEN DST
Kansas City - none

Start them if you need to
Washington - Chris Roriguez, Deebo Samuel
Dallas - Jake Ferguson, DAL DST
Detroit - Jared Goff, K Jake Bates
Minnesota - Jordan Addison
Denver - Bo Nix, Troy Franklin
Kansas City - Isiah Pacheco, Travis Kelce

Sit them if you can
Washington - Josh Johnson, Jeremy McNichols, Jacory (Bill) Croskey-Merritt, K Jake Moody, WAS DST
Dallas - KaVontae Turpin
Detroit - David Montgomery
Minnesota - Max Brosner, K Will Reichard, MIN DST
Denver - Evan Engram, K Will Lutz
Kansas City - Chris Oladokun, Xavier Worthy, K Harrison Butker, KC DST

My Favorite Bet of the Day
Parlay the three favorites to win at -140: DAL, DET, DEN
The favorites are going up against Josh Johnson, Max Brosner, and Chris Oladokun. When your family inevitably asks who you bet on, take solace in being able to say the team that’s likely embarassing their opponent on national tv. These type of parlays may not always be the sharpest but on Christmas, take the extra life EV, enjoy the extra time with the family as your bets become a lock 15 minutes into each game.

📊 Poll of the Day

Yesterday’s poll: How do you plan to treat rookies in 2026 compared to 2025?

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