Tua Tagovailoa (QB, MIA) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED: 29% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It's Tua Time, folks. We made it. It took us--or rather, Miami--seven weeks after a full offseason to make the decision, but here we are. You gotta feel bad for mighty Ryan Fitzpatrick after his great start to the season, but this is the […]

Derek Carr (QB, LV) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 29% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I'm just a guy writing from his mom's basement, so I'm no one to tell you what to do... unless it has to do with Derek Carr. It doesn't take a genius to see what's going on, but somehow and for some reason, […]

Wayne Gallman (RB, NYG) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: We had zero doubts about how the Giants would proceed once they lost Saquon Barkley for the year: sign someone from the street, as the replacements in tow were rather poor. Now that that free agent (Devonta Freeman) is injured (ankle), New York […]

Greg Ward (WR, PHI) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 7% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Up to nine receivers have dressed already this season for the Eagles. Injuries have killed half of the squad, and it's been a "next-man-up" approach for weeks now in Philly. Barring the absolutely unexpected explosion from Travis Fulgham, Greg Ward has been the […]

Jalen Guyton (WR, LAC) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 0% of Leagues ANALYSIS: How much can you trust a guy that has scored 30.6 PPR total points in the last three games while being targeted all of four times combined in those games? I'm not sure about that, but I know for sure that Jalen Guyton is the […]

Albert Okwuegbunam (TE, DEN) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Broncos saw TE1 Noah Fant get down injured back in Week 4, went on a forced bye in Week 5, and came back in Week 6 with Fant returning this past Sunday, missing just one full game. The main beneficiary for Fant's […]

Harrison Bryant (TE, CLE) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Whether you live stuck to your phone's notifications (as I do) or not (as every sane person does), you must have heard it by now: Odell Beckham Jr. is done for the year--and most importantly for the purposes of this post, TE1 Austin […]

Darnell Mooney (WR, CHI) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: As ridiculous as it might sound, Darnell Mooney is Chicago's WR2 these days, and even more stupid, he's only rostered in 2 percent of Yahoo! leagues. Now, you tell me where can you find yourself such a heavy-role receiver already seven weeks into […]

Malcolm Brown (RB, LAR) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 21% of Leagues ANALYSIS: There is something in Los Angeles' air. Both the Chargers and Rams have very confounding backfields, and although both squads seem to have a clear RB1 (Austin Ekeler and Darrell Henderson Jr. respectively) they are either injured or working under a rather high […]

Carlos Hyde (RB, SEA) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 10% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Seahawks RB1 Chris Carson has played every game this season for Seattle, a first in his career, and something he even said was one of his targets entering the year (completing the season without injury). Too bad he won't be able to do […]

Joshua Kelley (RB, LAC) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 43% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Almost eight weeks into the season it is still hard to paint a clear picture of the Chargers backfield. Austin Ekeler was the (expected) go-to rusher through Week 3 until he fell down injured in Week 4. After that, Joshua Kelly has seen […]

Zack Moss (RB, BUF) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 46% of Leagues ANALYSIS: While Zack Moss definitely looks more like a "next-man-up" option rather than a true RB2 with a heavy role, fantasy GMs are banking hard on him. Moss' rostership of 46% is incredibly high for some on just supplementary duties, but with Singletary […]

Marvin Jones Jr. (WR, DET) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 50% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Marvin Jones Jr. barely made the cut (50% rostership) to be written about in this week's WW blog, and he's actually barely making the cut to being fantasy relevant this season too (7.9 PPR per game). Even though Jones has been widely disappointing […]

Marquez Callaway (WR, NO) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Are you looking to add a super-flier to your roster? Look no further than Marquez Callaway! Callaway saw playing time this past Sunday only because of Michael Thomas' (ankle) and Emmanuel Sanders' (COVID-19) absences. That was already the case in Week 5, with […]

Rashard Higgins (WR, CLE) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: This Higgins is not Tee, but this Higgins isn't rostered on 70% of Yahoo! leagues either. So you know what to do. Rashard Higgins has been flying under the radar for a while now, which is reasonable considering the Browns feature a […]

JaMycal Hasty (RB, SF) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED: 20% of Leagues ANALYSIS: For a player that has logged 6, 2, 15, and 14 snaps in the four games he's played, it is rather incredible that virtually all fantasy GMs are running after him these days. That's JaMycal Hasty for you, folks, or should I say that's San […]

Brandon Aiyuk (WR, SF) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 48% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Take the time you need to read this post and enjoy it, because we will probably not be writing about Brandon Aiyuk for the rest of the season as a potential WW target. With a rostership nearing the 50%+ and given his last […]

Nelson Agholor (WR, LV) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 3% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Slowly but surely, Nelson Agholor is finding his place and making Philly fans miss him this season. Prior to Week 4, Agholor had not been more than a glorified über-efficient player barely used in Las Vegas with completely unsustainable outcomes. He had 4 […]

Scotty Miller (WR, TB) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 9% of Leagues ANALYSIS: You can be forgiven for not drafting Scotty Miller this summer. You can be forgiven for not picking him from waivers after the first couple of weeks of this season. But at this point, if you are one of the nine fantasy GMs […]

Sterling Shepard (WR, NYG) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 29% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Sterling Shepard got injured 15 snaps into his Week 2 game, and we have had to wait more than a month to see him on a football field again. He did so facing the Eagles in Week 6... and exploiting their defense with […]

John Hightower (WR, PHI) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 0% of Leagues ANALYSIS: John Hightower made it to the weekly WW pickups column only because of the absolutely insane streak of injuries Philadelphia has no idea how to stop. After losing Zach Ertz in Week 6, WR DeSean Jackson became the last victim this past Thursday, […]

Richard Rodgers (TE, PHI) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 8% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The writing was on the wall for the Eagles when it comes to the tight end position practically since the start of the season. The first problem came when Dallas Goedert had to left the third game of the year midway through it, […]

MMA DFS Value Picks - UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje (Premium Content)

Well, folks, we did it. The next big-time UFC event is already here. UFC 254, once more held in Abu Dhabi (UAE) this next Saturday will mark the last time we visit Fight Island at least in the short-term future. We'll be back at Las Vegas' UFC APEX center starting Oct. 31 and going all […]

DraftKings MMA, UFC DFS Lineup Picks - Khabib vs. Gaethje (UFC 254)

Well, folks, we did it. The next big-time UFC event is already here. UFC 254, once more held in Abu Dhabi (UAE) this next Saturday will mark the last time we visit Fight Island at least in the short-term future. We'll be back at Las Vegas' UFC APEX center starting Oct. 31 and going all […]

NextGen Stats - Quarterback Breakdowns and Takeaways

It's been a month since the last time we took a look at our beloved quarterbacks. Numbers are numbers, and numbers don't lie. You can twist them, but looking at them objectively, numbers say that no matter what, rushing the ball is almost always a worse option than passing it in today's game. That's why […]

Dallas Goedert (TE, PHI) - Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED: 41% of Leagues ANALYSIS: If you consider yourself a good fantasy GM, this post won't surprise you. It made some sense to drop Goedert back in September's end when he fell down injured and was put in IR, but you'd be not very intelligent if you're not targeting […]

Boston Scott (RB, PHI) - Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 13% of Leagues ANALYSIS: As if the Eagles hadn't enough injury woes to deal with already, mostly related to their receiving corps, it's now time for their rushers to start falling down. Enter Miles Sanders, who got injured yesterday and had to leave the field after playing […]

Sterling Shepard (WR, NYG) - Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 29% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Sterling Shepard got injured 15 snaps into his Week 2 game. Following that, the Giants dropped him into the Injured Reserve and after missing four straight games he's eligible to return and everything points toward a TNF comeback, facing the Eagles. The minute […]

Gus Edwards (RB, BAL) - Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 4% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Injury alert! Injury alert! Nobody loves Baltimore's backfield, but that monster of a unit lost one of its three heads yesterday with Mark Ingram II falling down injured. With Ingram out, Gus Edwards was the most benefited rusher of the Ravens leading the […]

Darren Fells (TE, HOU) - Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 5% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Jordan Akins suffered a concussion back in Week 4, and he's been out the past two games. That has put veteran Darren Fells in the spotlight during those two matches, which he absolutely took advantage of. Although he was only targeted 2 times […]