Kirk Cousins (QB, MIN) - Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 40% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Vikings entered Sunday knowing top-wideout Adam Thielen was going to be out. The Panthers already knew, too, so it was pretty clear that most of the offense would be geared toward running with Cook and passing the ball to rookie Justin Jefferson. […]

Adrian Peterson (RB, DET) - Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 49% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Thanksgiving surely did wonders to AP. All Day finished last Thursday's game against Houston with 17.5 PPR points--all of them on rushing plays--making that game his season-best and also the first one since W15 of 2019 in which he scored more than 16 […]

Michael Gallup (WR, DAL) - Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 43% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It is sad, but it is also true: Michael Gallup has been an afterthought this season after having an incredible second-year breakout in 2019. Playing under backup quarterbacks doesn't help, but even with Dak Prescott manning the helm Gallup could only reach 10+ […]

NextGen Stats - Running Back Breakdowns and Takeaways

Folks, it's time to put on your battle armor and get ready for war. We've completed 11 weeks and I can see the playoffs on the horizon already. And let me tell you something: nobody is pushing me out of them. If you too have a chance at making the playoffs at this point in […]

MMA DFS Value Picks - UFC Vegas 15: Blaydes vs. Lewis (Premium Content)

It is going to be hard to reach the levels of UFC 255, but Vegas 15 at least will share the same venue as last weekend's card, am I right? We witnessed two title fights this past Saturday, and two reigning champs keeping the gold wrapped around their bellies. The main card featured two early […]

DraftKings MMA, UFC DFS Lineup Picks - Blaydes vs. Lewis (UFC Vegas 15)

It is going to be hard to reach the levels of UFC 255, but Vegas 15 at least will share the same venue as last weekend's card, am I right? We witnessed two title fights this past Saturday, and two reigning champs keeping the gold wrapped around their bellies. The main card featured two early […]

Nelson Agholor (WR, LV) - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 9% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Turns out high-volume Nelson Agholor is as good--if not more--than low-volume Nelson Agholor. And that's quite a relief, folks. That's because during the first five weeks of the season Agholor was one of the most ridiculously efficient receivers of the NFL racking up […]

Taysom Hill (QB, NO) - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 42% of Leagues ANALYSIS: If you happen to be part of an ESPN fantasy league, congratulations on lining Taysom Hill up at the TE spot and reaping the mega-rewards. Also, I'm sorry to tell you that your exploits and cheats are over, as ESPN is bringing him […]

James White (RB, NE) - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 40% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I remember this TV show "Everybody Hates Chris". I guess our fantasy football version should be something like "Everybody Hates New England's Backfield". Starting next week, though, that might not be the case. Not at least if you have James White in […]

Michael Pittman Jr. (WR, IND) - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 43% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It took a bunch of injuries for Pittman to found a viable usage in Indy, but since Week 9 (included) he has been targeted a combined 18 times, and he's found his way into this offense for good. Or not. Because Pittman has […]

Gus Edwards (RB, BAL) - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED: 28% of Leagues ANALYSIS: We only knew the news barely a few hours ago, but they're quite impactful and could potentially win you the weekend if you are fast and lucky enough to score you some Gus Edwards' shares and have in your lineup for Thanksgiving. Edwards' Week 10 […]

Tim Patrick (WR, DEN) - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 21% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Tim Patrick is rostered in one of each five Yahoo! leagues for a reason: he's got a good floor, but his ceiling isn't anything out of this world and at the end of the day he's playing under fluky-QB Drew Lock. That […]

Frank Gore (RB, NYJ) - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 10% of Leagues ANALYSIS: In this the year 2020 of our Lord, Frank Gore keeps being a viable WW target. That's insane, and I never thought I'd still be writing about Gore 43 years ago when he made his NFL debut. But here we are, folks. The Jets […]

Daniel Jones (QB, NYG) - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 28% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Daniel Jones is coming off New York's bye week. More important, though, is the fact that Jones is coming off his best fantasy game of the season. The last time we saw Jones two weeks ago facing the Eagles, he put on a […]

Sterling Shepard (WR, NYG) - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 45% of Leagues ANALYSIS: As is always the case, players coming off a bye week are always forgotten by fantasy GMs. Sigh... Enter Sterling Shepard, great New York Giant. Well, maybe not that great, but good enough as to have him rostered in more than half of […]

Jordan Akins (TE, HOU) - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Even though Jordan Akins has just 55.5 PPR total points through Week 11, he is the TE28 of the NFL right now. That's insane. A borderline TE2 with that point total just shows how slim the position is. Akins' 7.9 PPR per game […]

Robert Tonyan (TE, GB) - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 46% of Leagues ANALYSIS: No freaking tight end is winning you the league, nor your weekly fantasy contests, nor whatever you want to say/write/put in here--unless you have Travis Kelce, obviously. The tight end position is a dessert, and a post-apocalyptic thing bringing only bad things with […]

Marquez Valdes-Scantling (WR, GB) - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 31% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Even after two monster games in Weeks 9 and 10 that helped Marquez Valdes-Scantling finish as a WR2 (19.3 PPR) and a WR1 (24.9) respectively, he still didn't seem to earn the benefit of the doubt from fantasy GMs as he entered W11 […]

Kirk Cousins (QB, MIN) - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 42% of Leagues ANALYSIS: For someone who has dropped below 14 FP just twice this season, and below 10 just once, finding Cousins available in more than half of Yahoo! leagues is a little incredible. Oh, and it is not that Kirk Cousins is averaging just those […]

Derek Carr (QB, LV) - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 36% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It wouldn't be smart trying to sell Carr for what he's not: a weekly fantasy winner. Although Carr's start to the season was impressive, with five straight 15+ FP performances in the span going from Week 2 to Week 7, he later proceeded […]

Larry Fitzgerald (WR, ARI) - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 10% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Larry Fitzgerald is at a point in his infinite career where I don't think nobody would mistake him for what he is not, at least no more. Fitz was a league winner back in the day, but he's just a role player (and […]

Digging Deeper Into Shadow Coverage Impact on Wide Receivers

If you only play redraft fantasy football, you know that no matter what you have to play your studs week in and week out. That is non-negotiable, and your lineup decisions mostly come down to who to play at lower-level spots such as WR3 or FLEX. If you play DFS contests, though, you know that […]

DraftKings MMA, UFC DFS Lineup Picks - Figueiredo vs. Perez (UFC 255)

We're back in the APEX for another one this weekend, and will be once more in two weeks time. After that, entering December, the UFC still has to confirm avenues starting with UFC on ESPN 19 next Dec. 5. Fear nothing, though, as this event is set in stone and will happen for real in […]

MMA DFS Value Picks - UFC 255: Figueiredo vs. Perez (Premium Content)

We're back in the APEX for another one this weekend, and will be once more in two weeks time. After that, entering December, the UFC still has to confirm avenues starting with UFC on ESPN 19 next Dec. 5. Fear nothing, though, as this event is set in stone and will happen for real in […]

NextGen Stats - Wide Receiver/Tight End Breakdowns and Takeaways

We've consumed our first "double-digit week" set of games. That means we've entered the final part of the season and, in fact, the fantasy football playoffs are closer than you may realize. There are just three more weeks to go until we hit Week 14 and celebrate our presence in the run for the chip, […]

Cole Beasley (WR, BUF) - Week 11 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 50% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I'm glad Cole Beasley's rostership is just 50% at the time of this writing, as just one more percentage point would have kept him out of my WW-target list. I'm already sad, though, because there is no way he remains available one in […]

Marquez Valdes-Scantling (WR, GB) - Week 11 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 17% of Leagues ANALYSIS: There is no reason for Green Bay to, all of a sudden, start giving Marquez Valdes-Scantling some heavy dose of targets. Not with Davante Adams reaching 18+ fantasy points weekly in the last four games (30+ in three of them), Aaron Jones playing […]

Nyheim Hines (RB, IND) - Week 11 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 40% of Leagues ANALYSIS: You can't put it in other terms: the Colts backfield is a goddam mess. And as incredible as it sounds, Nyheim Hines is the tailback eating the most lately. I'm glad it's going that way, though, as I've been a Hines stan […]

Michael Pittman Jr. (WR, IND) - Week 11 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 9% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Although Week 2 was very encouraging for Michael Pittman Jr. and the fantasy GMs rostering him, the rookie didn't really have a great game until Week 9 when he was put in a prime position in Indy's offense. Back in Week 2 Pittman […]

Tua Tagovailoa (QB, MIA) - Week 11 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Team Leagues ROSTERED: 45% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I don't know a lot about football but I do know this: Tua Tagovailoa can't lose. He just can't. Tua has started three games while playing in four, and all of those matches ended in a win for the Fins. And I don't […]