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Jimmy Garoppolo is a fantasy football waiver wire pickup option for quarterbacks. Target him as a free agent add off waivers for Week 17 of the 2021 NFL season.
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ANALYSIS: Update: after this post was written it was reported that Garoppolo got a thumb injury and might not be able to play this upcoming weekend. Keep an eye on the news as there has not been any clear report yet about his potential availability. If Garoppolo is out, then you can pass on Trey Lance and look for other options for the position.
A lot of voices have claimed for San Fran to start rookie Trey Lance at the quarterback position. That said, though, Jimmy Garoppolo has not been anything even remotely close to a horrid QB this season. In fact, only once has he finished a game outside of the QB2 realm (all the way back on W4) while playing to QB1 levels in three of his 14 games played through W16 (missed W5 entirely).
Jimmy G is completing a high 68% of his passes this year, and although he had a kinda-rough start to the season (no QB1 finishes in his first five games played topping at 18.6 FP and averaging a measly 13.0 FPPG) he's gotten things more right than not since Week 8 when he exploded against Chicago for 27.3 FP (season-high). Garoppolo has throw for 230+ yards in five consecutive games and is coming off a 322-yard outing in which he threw a TD against 2 INTs. Nothing to like about those picks, I know, but he had avoided getting intercepted in the prior two.
Garoppolo has scored a touchdown (either passing or rushing) in every game this season and missed on passing for one just once in Week 8 when he made up for it with a couple of rushing TDs. It's been four weeks in a row in which Jimmy G has played as the QB16 of the league at the worst, with a couple of borderline QB1 finishes dropping 18.0 and 19.1 FP in back-to-back games on the W13-W14 span. Houston is next on his schedule while the Texans boast just the 13th-best (almost middle of the pack) defense against fantasy QBs.
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