Roundtable: Dart Throws on the Cardinals

The Footballguys staff shares which unsung players from the Cardinals have the best shot become successful fantasy dart throws.

Matt Waldman's Roundtable: Dart Throws on the Cardinals Matt Waldman Published 11/12/2026

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Welcome to Week 10 of the 2026 Footballguys Roundtable. Our intrepid panel of fantasy pundits discusses and debates four topics every week. We split the conversation into separate features.

This week's roundtable features these four topics:

Let's roll...

Matt Waldman: Marvin Harris, ineffective and traded. Jacoby Brissett is a Raven. Gardner Minshew II played a game and a half effectively. Michael Wilson broke his neck on Sunday.

Jeremiyah Love is on IR. It's a brutal scenario for this offense. Choose two players from the offense that you believe offer the best chance at fantasy value as at least a flex play other than Carson Beck and Tyler Allgeier. Who are your dart throws for the end of your roster? 

Phil Alexander: When I took this job, no one warned me there would be work hazards. Yet here I am being forced to justify TWO players from the remaining 2026 Arizona Cardinals as viable dart throws. This is an open-and-shut hostile work environment case, and you can expect to hear from HR, Matt. 

Waldman: You're softer than Rex Ryan's podiatrist's hands. Be productive; I don't care about your welfare, Phil. 

Alexander: Since I'm being forced to answer under duress, I'll reluctantly pick Elijah Higgins first. Arizona already runs 13 personnel on 26.5 percent of its offensive plays, the league's third-highest rate.

Considering its starting wide receivers are now Reggie Virgil, Devin Duvernay, and Simi Fehoko, we can safely expect even more tight-end-heavy personnel packages. Higgins is big, fast, athletic, and had a late-season spike in efficiency last year when his route share increased. 

The second dart would have to be Virgil, simply because we know Duvernay and Fehoko aren't the answer. I won't pretend to be familiar with the nuances of Virgil's game, but he was Arizona's most-targeted receiver behind Wilson in Week 9 and led the team in air yards by a healthy margin.

 If you're in a terrible way at wide receiver, feel free to give Virgil a shot, but the chances of any non-Trey McBride pass-catcher emerging as a fantasy starter in Arizona the rest of the way are thinner than a slice of deli ham.

Andy Hicks: Best chance or no chance? This is a case of abandon ship if ever I’ve seen it. Reading the question carefully, I cannot pick Carson Beck or Tyler Allgeier. Well then, one of my two has to be Trey McBride.

Guess that wasn’t the intent, but he’s one of my two.

Waldman: No, it's fine. 

Hicks: The number one-ranked tight end is likely to get targeted even while he’s on the bench, which, given the reports on Beck’s accuracy during training camp, makes it more likely he'll hit McBride there. Outside McBride, the obvious answer is Reggie Virgil, the fifth-round pick out of Texas Tech.

Simi Fehoko is a 29-year-old career journeyman who has 11 catches in his six-year career. Devin Duvernay is a similar age, and despite early career promise with 90 catches in his first three years with the Ravens, he has only 21 in his four years since, with four different teams. Virgil has a similar snap count to Duvernay and Fehoko in recent weeks, so give me a rookie’s upside over two underachieving veterans.

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