Last-Minute Upside Pickups: Weekend Waiver Wire Includes Dare Ogunbowale, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, T.Y. Hilton, Gabriel Davis

If you're still contending for a fantasy championship, congratulations! Prepare yourself for the final championship push by adding one or two of these high-upside players to your fantasy roster, and starting them if you're in a bind. If your league has your championship next week, in Week 18, then consider some of these players as […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Weekend Waiver Wire Includes Craig Reynolds, Latavius Murray, Allen Lazard, David Njoku, Tim Patrick

The final three weeks of the 2021 NFL season have arrived! It's the best time of the year to be a football fan and even sweeter if you're still competing for a fantasy championship. The playoff race will intensify since this is the first year with Week 18 on the schedule. Adding the seventh seed […]

Is Tony Pollard Playing This Week? Dallas Cowboys RB Injury Update vs. Giants

The Dallas Cowboys were limited in their running back room against Washington last week, but their defense ultimately bailed them out in a gritty divisional win. Ezekiel Elliot has been battling a knee injury for a few weeks now and is notably a shell of himself, which is why his production has slipped across the […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Weekend Waiver Wire Includes Ameer Abdullah, Royce Freeman, Donovan Peoples-Jones

The fantasy football playoffs are here! Congratulations if you earned a berth in your leagues. COVID-19 and injuries continue to ramp up, creating continuous depth chart adjustments. Keeping your roster equipped with high-upside players is the key to winning fantasy football leagues, especially with the amount of change happening throughout the league every day. A […]

Is Damien Harris Playing Tonight? Should I Start Rhamondre Stevenson?

The New England Patriots have one of the deepest running back rooms in the National Football League, and that may be needed more than ever in Week 14. Starting running back Damien Harris suffered a hamstring injury during the team's 14-10 win over the Buffalo Bills back in Week 13, but had a bye week […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Weekend Waiver Wire for Week 14

The final Bye Week has arrived for the 2021 NFL season. Week 14 has a quality slate, but the absence of four potential playoff teams renders quite a bit of talent inaccessible in the biggest week of the fantasy season. If your league re-scheduled the fantasy playoffs to begin in Week 15 due to Week […]

Is J.D. McKissic Playing This Week? Washington Football Team RB Injury Update vs. Cowboys

The Washington Football Team has relied on a split backfield to produce their offense this season. Sixth-year running back J.D. McKissic is in his second year with Washington and has retained a role as the team's passing-down back, much to the dismay of Antonio Gibson fantasy managers. McKissic missed Week 13 due to a concussion […]

Is Darren Waller Playing This Week? Is The Raiders TE Out For The Season?

One of the most captivating tight ends in the NFL, Darren Waller, is on the verge of missing his second consecutive game. This has left fantasy managers confused and fearful of Waller's knee injury sustained against the Dallas Cowboys during their 36-33 Week 12 win on Thanksgiving. Let's assess the current situation with the Las […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Weekend Waiver Wire for Week 13

By now, you're three months into adjusting your rosters as the 2021 NFL season has been one of the most entertaining and surprising in recent memory. Fantasy assets have ascended and plummeted quickly, making it difficult to gauge which players deserve to be in lineups. For example, Week 12 saw Boston Scott, Tony Pollard, and […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Weekend Waiver Wire for Week 12

Week 12 turns up the heat on all fantasy managers battling for playoff seeding during the final three weeks of the regular season. Roster maintenance is critical this time of year, and knowing which waiver wire players improve your team separates winners and losers. We've seen many teams continue to dig into their depth chart […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Weekend Waiver Wire for Week 11

Now is the time to strengthen roster depth in the final four weeks of the regular fantasy season. Week 11 will see nearly every team, except for Denver and the Los Angeles Rams, compete and attempt to establish winning momentum entering the final half of the 18-game season. There are still plenty of high-upside players […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Weekend Waiver Wire for Week 10

By this point in the fantasy season, rostering and starting players who fell outside of drafts is not done out of desperation. It's necessary. Injuries to star players have been a continuous theme throughout the NFL this year, forcing fringe players into massive roles at a moment's notice. This isn't the only explanation for why […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Week 9

The halfway point of the 2021 fantasy football season came and went, leaving us with the final five weeks to bolster rosters for a run at making the playoffs. A wild week on and off the field has created many opportunities for role players to step up and deliver week-winning production, as Ty Johnson finished […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Week 8

With the trade deadline looming, front offices across the league have already begun to make moves to their 53-man rosters, creating potential new opportunities for players buried on the depth chart. We've already seen Mark Ingram II return to New Orleans, while players like Marlon Mack and DeVante Parker are also rumored to be on […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Week 7

Injuries and the onset of bye weeks have stripped quite a few talented teams and their top players from lineup viability, making roster depth a necessity and no longer just a luxury. Five of the six teams with a Week 7 bye have at least a .500 record or better, meaning role players on less […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Week 6

As the injuries keep piling up amidst the arrival of bye weeks, building and maintaining quality roster depth is critical to staying competitive in fantasy leagues. Week 6 has Atlanta, New Orleans, San Francisco, and the New York Jets on bye, while star players like Christian McCaffery and Nick Chubb have already been ruled out […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Week 5

Four weeks into the NFL season and injuries have piled up for key players on seemingly all 32 teams. As if these injuries weren't difficult enough to overcome, fantasy managers will now face an additional obstacle when bye weeks begin in Week 6. Roster depth is increasingly essential as players sitting on fantasy benches or […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Week 4

The arrival of Week 4 in the NFL has teams beginning to reveal their play calling tendencies. While the data continues to pile up, putting too much stock into a coaching scheme and ignoring opponent matchups and the potential for injuries often results in talented players available on league waiver wires. Understanding which of these […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Week 3

There are numerous high-upside bench stashes to prioritize on league waiver wires entering Week 3. Injuries are ramping up already, and players we expected would sit and develop are instead nearing roles that include opportunities to contribute within their respective offense. Whether a rookie or a veteran in a reasonable situation, please take advantage of […]

High-Upside Bench Stashes: Week 2

Fantasy football often requires thinking ahead of the competition. This article introduces high-upside bench stashes to target on league waiver wires ahead of Week 2, as most leagues use either a free-agent auction-based (FAAB) waiver system or a standard worst-to-first order for top waiver priority. Either way, taking advantage of players ahead of plus-matchups in […]

Teddy Bridgewater Starting in Denver: Who Benefits?

Denver was the site of one of the more unique quarterback training camp battles this offseason. Incumbent quarterback Drew Lock looked promising in a small sample size during his rookie season in 2019, where he went 4-1 as the Broncos starter. Lock tossed seven touchdowns and over 1,000 yards in those five starts and earned […]