Gardner Minshew II (QB, JAX) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 31% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I already wrote about Minshew last week, and here I am again introducing you to the Minshewmania once more, just in case you missed it the last time. See, I get the critics dropped on Minshew for his fourth-quarter interception that sealed the […]

Drew Sample (TE, CIN) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: This is the ultimate flier of waiver wire pickups. I wouldn't blame you if you hadn't heard Drew Sample's name prior to this week, but here we are. C.J. Uzomah's, the Bengals TE1, fell down to an Achilles injury in the fourth […]

Tee Higgins (WR, CIN) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 3% of Leagues ANALYSIS: While Higgins fell one pick short of becoming a first-round draftee this past draft, the Bengals spent the 33rd-overall selection on the Clemson product. You don't waste such a high pick on someone you don't trust, so what we saw on Week 1 […]

Baker Mayfield (QB, CLE) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED: 48% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Baker Mayfield barely made it to my weekly waiver wire posts, but his under-50% rostered rate was enough for me to consider writing about him. Mayfield is far from an unknown asset, that's right, but it doesn't make much sense to still find him […]

MMA DFS Value Picks - UFC Vegas 11: Covington vs. Woodley (Premium Content)

We should have been watching Adesanya facing Costa this weekend, but the UFC decided to flip UFC 253 and UFC Vegas 11, and thus we're getting the latter prior to the former this Saturday. Back in the APEX in Vegas, NV, and a week before flying to Abu Dhabi again, the UFC will pit Woodley […]

DraftKings MMA, UFC DFS Lineup Picks - Covington vs. Woodley (UFC Vegas 11)

We should have been watching Adesanya facing Costa this weekend, but the UFC decided to flip UFC 253 and UFC Vegas 11, and thus we're getting the latter prior to the former this Saturday. Back in the APEX in Vegas, NV, and a week before flying to Abu Dhabi again, the UFC will pit Woodley […]

Nyheim Hines (RB, IND) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 16% of Leagues ANALYSIS: First carry from a Colts' rusher this season: Marlon Mack. First touchdown from a Colts' rusher: Nyheim Hines. No Jonathan Taylor at sight to start Week 1's game with the proven Mack taking on the rushing duties and Hines doing so on the […]

Benny Snell Jr. (RB, PIT) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED: 16% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Pittsburgh Steelers welcomed Ben Roethlisberger back until a virtual year off the field... but at the same time they had to say goodbye to RB James Conner just two quarters into the season. Bad for the rushing game, right? Wrong. Enter Benny Snell […]

NextGen Stats - Wide Receiver/Tight End Breakdowns and Takeaways

We made it! We wagered through a long and tedious preseason but real football hit us in the forehead for the first time this season during the past few days and change. But just as soon as it came, it went. The first week of the season is over and we have some tasty numbers […]

Russell Gage (WR, ATL) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I knew Matt Ryan was capable of doing things. What I didn't know was that Ryan, and Atlanta Falcons' receivers, were capable of doing these things. All of Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley, and Russell Gage finished Week 1 with 114+ yards each, helping Ryan's 450-yard (!) […]

Gardner Minshew II (QB, JAX) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 22% of Leagues ANALYSIS: All hail the 'stache! Garden Minshew II took the game just where he left him last season, put on the superhero suit again, and completed a masterpiece to the tune of completing 19 of 20 attempts for 173 yards, 3 TDs, and no […]

Teddy Bridgewater (QB, CAR) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED: 22% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Teddy B finished Week 1 as the QB15 through Sunday's games and top-34 player overall in PPR leagues. More than that, and even although you might not believe what I'm about to say: Bridgewater completed 22 of 34 attempts for 270 yards, the ninth-highest […]

Willie Snead IV (WR, BAL) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: We all know the top-three guys walking around Baltimore these days, one per skill position: TE Mark Andrews, WR Marquise Brown, and RB Mark Ingram. Well, while Andrews was the best Raven in Week 1, it turns out that both Ingram and […]

Kirk Cousins (QB, MIN) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED: 34% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It is hard to trust Kirk Cousins as a weekly QB1 if only because Minnesota should be a run-first team. Last season, the Vikings set some low-volume records on the passing front through the first weeks of the year, and that shouldn't change all […]

Adrian Peterson (RB, DET) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 45% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The talk regarding Detroit's backfield during the offseason was focused on its two prime assets: Kerryon Johnson and rookie D'Andre Swift. Even after adding uber-veteran Adrian Peterson from Washington in time for the start of the season, it never made much sense to […]

Jimmy Graham (TE, CHI) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 5% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Last season, playing for Green Bay, Jimmy Graham's fantasy outcomes were all over the table. He had days of multiple targets and putrid scores, and others in which just a few passes allowed him to rack up goodies in bunches. For any […]

O.J. Howard (TE, TB) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 17% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I don't think there is any need to introduce O.J. Howard to you by talking about his past seasons here. That is already a well-known story and one we don't want to remember, but rather forget as soon as possible. Just to put […]

N'Keal Harry (WR, NE) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ PPR Team Leagues ROSTERED: 32% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I must admit that I was really high on N'Keal Harry last season, in his rookie year and the last with QB Tom Brady playing for the Patriots. And what did Harry do? Let me know, that is. Over his seven played […]

Preston Williams (WR, MIA) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 38% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Some fantasy GMs will check the Week 1 fantasy-point leaderboard and deem Williams as a bust and not worth waiver wire addition. And they will be super wrong with that approach. Don't be that guy, please. First of all, Miami faced New England […]

Larry Fitzgerald (WR, ARI) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 23% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Cardinals kicked off the 2020 season finishing their Week 1 game this close to putting two players (with Monday's games still to be played) in the top-10 of PPR leaderboards. QB Kyler Murray racked up 29.3 and WR DeAndre Hopkins reached 29.1 […]

Danny Amendola (WR, DET) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Danny Amendola has me excited. Actually, the Lions as a whole have me excited. Matthew Stafford is back healthy and although he only completed 24 of his 42 pass attempts he still threw for 297 yards, of which 81 came from Amendola's […]

Allen Lazard (WR, GB) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 42% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Only one week into the season, sure, but I am already celebrating Aaron Rodgers getting back to his 2011 vibes! Yay! This is not about Green Bay's quarterback, though. It is about who seems to have solidified himself as the Packers no. 2 […]

Sammy Watkins (WR, KC) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED: 41% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It might sound ridiculous, and it probably is, but it wouldn't be too crazy to say Watkins may be already past his peak this year after having a great Week 1 performance. If you remember what happened last season, you'd understand what I'm talking […]

Jordan Akins (TE, HOU) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I know what you're thinking. Akins only reached 11.9 PPR points once in all of last season while playing the full 16-game schedule. I know about that. Other than a 22.3-point performance all the way back in Week 3 when he caught three passes […]

MMA DFS Value Picks - UFC Vegas 10: Waterson vs. Hill (Premium Content)

All other MMA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Believe it or not, and although this is "only" UFC Vegas 10, we're about to enter the APEX for the 12th time already! Quite a few months those last ones with all of the pandemic issues going on, and we still have this weekend […]

DraftKings MMA, UFC DFS Lineup Picks - Waterson vs. Hill (UFC Vegas 10)

Believe it or not, and although this is "only" UFC Vegas 10, we're about to enter the APEX for the 12th time already! Quite a few months those last ones with all of the pandemic issues going on, and we still have this weekend and next one to enjoy Vegas before we get back to […]

Chris Herndon (TE, NYJ) - Week 1 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 55% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Herndon has been catching on lately as a sleeper in the fantasy community, partly due to the injuries across the Jets' WR corps. Also, he's a great athlete at tight end and could finally fulfill the promise of a year ago before suspension and […]

Ian Thomas (TE, CAR) - Week 1 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 15% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Greg Olsen ruled the tight end roost in Carolina for almost a decade, but now it is Thomas’ time to shine since Olsen took his talents to the Seattle Seahawks during the offseason. Fantasy general managers have avoided Thomas during their drafts this month […]

Randall Cobb (WR, HOU) - Week 1 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues OWNED IN: 10% of Leagues ANALYSIS: While Will Fuller and Brandin Cooks will get all the shine in this receiving corps early on, I really, really like Randall Cobb. He'll be the primary slot option for the Texans, serving as the underneath safety valve for Deshaun Watson while the […]

Cole Beasley (WR, BUF) - Week 1 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues OWNED IN: 9% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Cole Beasley can be reliable in fantasy depending on the matchup. His first year with Buffalo last season wasn't all that bad as he compiled 67 receptions on 106 targets for 778 yards and six touchdowns. Adding to that, his Week 1 matchup against […]