Ito Smith (RB, ATL) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 4% of Leagues ANALYSIS: While Ito Smith has not been as productive as he would like, the truth is that Ito Smith is Atlanta's no. 1 rusher these days in terms of the opportunities he's been handed weekly. Smith has out-performed both Todd Gurley and Brian Hill […]

Tony Pollard (RB, DAL) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 21% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Before you go ahead and try to add Tony Pollard to your roster, consider Pollard for what he's more than not: Ezekiel Elliot's partner-in-crime and no more than an RB2/replacement with random-week upside for more. That being said, Pollard has been great on […]

Cole Kmet (TE, CHI) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 6% of Leagues ANALYSIS: If you just go by last game's results, then you'll be banking on Jimmy Graham for next weekend's fantasy slate of games. That makes sense, considering Graham scored more than 6 fantasy points for the first time since Week 9 while Kmet could […]

Irv Smith Jr. (TE, MIN) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 6% of Leagues ANALYSIS: As great a thing as it'd be to have more than one (Travis Kelce) reliable tight end to play weekly in our fantasy leagues, that's not the truth. This is Kelce's world, and we just live in it. Other than the Chiefs stud, […]

A.J. Green (WR, CIN) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 37% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Don't look now, but are we experiencing a veteran-WR renaissance led by the likes of T.Y. Hilton and A.J. Green? It's been three weeks in a row now for Hilton hitting 18+ PPR points, and A.J. Green joined him this Sunday with an […]

Russell Gage (WR, ATL) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 11% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Russell Gage had a monster start to the year. The Falcons wide receiver played 69 and 82 percent of Atlanta's snaps on offense, finished W1 and W2 with 20.4 and 16.6 PPR points respectively (good for WR11 and WR20), but then proceeded to […]

Nelson Agholor (WR, LV) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 35% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The days of low-volume, high-efficiency Nelson Agholor are over. Agholor is not your boom/bust, four-target-or-less player anymore. The Raiders have made Agholor a fundamental part of their offense and it's been four games in a row in which the WR has logged 6+ […]

Tim Patrick (WR, DEN) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 28% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Now that Tim Patrick has played 12 games, we can easily split his season into two halves which align with the before/after bye-week games of Denver. In the first half of the year Patrick averaged 11.7 PPR points per game while posting his […]

Jalen Hurts (QB, PHI) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED: 17% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It happened. We've been calling for sitting Carson Wentz since maybe Week 2 when Wentz just finished putting up back-to-back 14-FP performances to kick the season off. The Eagles opted to keep Carson manning the pocket until that changed yesterday when Jalen Hurts finally […]

Drew Lock (QB, DEN) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 11% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Has Denver found its franchise quarterback in Drew Lock, once for all? Hard to say, but in my opinion, he's as close as they've gotten as of late. Lock isn't mindblowing, and perhaps his turnover-issues will kill his real-life upside, but he's not--by […]

Tua Tagovailoa (QB, MIA) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 20% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It took Tua seven appearances and six starts, but he finally got things right right. Facing the Mighty Chiefs, Tagovailoa was able to put on his best pro-game to date racking up 28 FP while playing all of Miami's 83 offensive snaps. He put […]

Derek Carr (QB, LV) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 47% of Leagues ANALYSIS: We're already one game into the fantasy postseason. If you still need to read my columns to remind you that Derek Carr is pretty much a must-have quarterback in every relatively-deep league, then something is wrong here. Carr has been quite productive for […]

Steven Adams (C, NO) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 64 Overall CURRENT ADP: 78 ANALYSIS: The rumors finally became a reality, with 1) Oklahoma City entering full rebuild-mode and 2) Steven Adams being moved out of town as he didn't make much sense to keep there anymore. That's why Adams in now a Pelican and will share the court with […]

Brook Lopez (C, MIL) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 72 Overall CURRENT ADP: 89 ANALYSIS: After eight seasons playing big-man-ball, Brook decided enough was enough all the way back in 2017, when his three-point attempts jumped from 0.2 per game to 5.2 while still in Brooklyn. From that point on, Brook has been stretching the floor day in and day […]

Tristan Thompson (PF/C, BOS) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 85 Overall CURRENT ADP: 135 ANALYSIS: With the addition of Andre Drummond last season, the paint of the Cavs' squad was getting a little clogged. Thompson, a free agent this offseason, thus opted to bolt away and pack his bags to land in Boston where he will be the no. 1 […]

Joe Harris (SG/SF, BKN) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 90 Overall CURRENT ADP: 130 ANALYSIS: The Nets made it very clear from the very first moment that one of their priorities this offseason was to re-sign UFA Joe Harris, which they did at a high $75-million deal for the next four years. That's no small dough, folks, and even with […]

Bogdan Bogdanovic (SG/SF/PF, ATL) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 80 Overall CURRENT ADP: 96 ANALYSIS: Leading-man Trae Young bitched about the Hawks organization not making enough of an effort to put the team closer to the playoffs by last season's trade deadline. Atlanta added Clint Capela, but he couldn't even debut for the team. In another flurry of moves, the […]

Goran Dragic (PG/SG, MIA) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 84 Overall CURRENT ADP: 117 ANALYSIS: While Dragic was a key piece in Miami's run to the Finals, the truth is that he inflicted most of his 2020 damage once the Heat arrived in the bubble. Prior to that, Dragic had riden the pine all year long ceding starting-PG duties to […]

Malcolm Brogdon (PG/SG, IND) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 48 Overall CURRENT ADP: 61 ANALYSIS: The Bucks decided to pass on re-signing Malcolm Brogdon a couple of offseasons ago, and now folks are saying that it could cost them Giannis re-upping with the team to some extent. Will Brogdon also be part of Victor Oladipo's decision to stay or leave […]

Will Barton (SG/SF, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 95 Overall CURRENT ADP: 131 ANALYSIS: It was a real shame that we couldn't watch Will Barton ball inside the bubble last season. Denver surely missed him at times, and who knows what would have happened had he been available during the WCF... Anyways, looking at Barton's regular-season numbers from last […]

Nikola Vucevic (C, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 20 Overall CURRENT ADP: 35 ANALYSIS: I know. I know this series is meant to highlight draft sleepers. While Vuc is not a literal sleeper (ADP nearing 35) he is definitely an undervalued player, so I'm writing about him whether you like it or not. A modern, floor-stretching big, Vucevic might […]

Mohamed Bamba (C, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 100 Overall CURRENT ADP: 120 ANALYSIS: Although Bamba is actually getting drafted by fantasy GMs this season (ADP of around 120), he should be much better for the Magic than that number suggest. Mo has ample competition in Orlando to get heavy playing minutes in the zone, sure, but while Bamba […]

Michael Porter Jr. (SF/PF, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 50 Overall CURRENT ADP: 62 ANALYSIS: It took Michael Porter Jr. (or better said, Denver) time to look like the late-season version of himself, but it finally happened. After red-shirting for a year in 2019, Porter debuted last season for the Nuggets and the truth is that his 55 games (and […]

Buddy Hield (SG, SAC) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 40 Overall CURRENT ADP: 58 ANALYSIS: For someone with so many doubts around his name and role entering 2021--not to mention he's part of the very putrid Sacramento Kangz--, Hield's ADP is rather high in peak draft-season. Even then, though, Hield's performance levels of 2020 were better than his current ADP would make you […]

Andrew Wiggins (SG/SF, GSW) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 53 Overall CURRENT ADP: 75 ANALYSIS: Wiggins split time between cold Minny and sunny San Francisco last season, and although he could only play 12 games for the Warriors while put on a completely new system for him, his numbers didn't drop a lot. That bodes well for him entering 2021, a […]

NextGen Stats - Wide Receiver/Tight End Breakdowns and Takeaways

You won't believe it, but you weren't dreaming: the fantasy football regular season is over (in most leagues and for our purposes at least), and it's time to gear up for that deep playoff run toward the championship. It's just three more weeks and fantasy contests for most GMs out there, so if you're still […]

Jonas Valanciunas (C, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 54 Overall CURRENT ADP: 69 ANALYSIS: After playing just 49 games in 2019, Jonas Valanciunas was on the court 70 times last year as a full-time Grizzlie for the first time since Toronto traded him two years ago. And oh boy, did he delivered. JoVa, while averaging a lo 26.4 mpg […]

Evan Fournier (SG/SF, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 90 Overall CURRENT ADP: 107 ANALYSIS: Evan Fournier was a little fantasy-bouncy last season and the truth is that nobody knows where these Magic are going. Will Fournier still be in Orlando come trade-deadline day? Hard to know. But for now, Fournier looks like one of the best players in the […]

Andre Drummond (C, CLE) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 25 Overall CURRENT ADP: 40 ANALYSIS: Andre Drummond was traded from Detroit to Cleveland last season, and all of the time he had to adapt to a new system came down to eight games. Not the best of situations, that's for sure. Good for fantasy GMs, though, Drummond had already shown […]

Dennis Schroder (PG, LAL) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 100 Overall CURRENT ADP: 120 ANALYSIS: Dennis Schroder might have thought of Chris Paul as a threat to his playing time and outcomes when CP3 came to OKC last season, but the reality was far from that. Playing off the pine, Schroder thrived leading a second Thunder unit he was tasked […]