La'Mical Perine (RB, NYJ) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 11% of Leagues ANALYSIS: New York Jets rookie running back La'Mical Perine saw a decent amount of work in Week 16 against the Cleveland Browns. He rushed the ball nine times for 30 yards and caught one of his two targets for 14 yards. Frank Gore was […]

Darrel Williams (RB, KC) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 3% of Leagues ANALYSIS: With Clyde Edwards-Helaire (ankle) sidelined in Week 16, the stage appeared to be set for a big game for Le'Veon Bell against the Atlanta Falcons. That wasn't the case. Instead, Darrel Williams was the busiest running back for the Kansas City Chiefs, both […]

Malcolm Brown (RB, LAR) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 19% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The gate of opportunity appears to have opened as wide as possible for Los Angeles Rams running back Malcolm Brown. The team lost Cam Akers (ankle) to a high-ankle sprain in Week 15. He's out indefinitely. This past week, the team lost Darrell […]

Irv Smith Jr. (TE, MIN) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 15% of Leagues ANALYSIS: We're past most fantasy leagues' championship weeks, and if that wasn't enough to make for a thin waiver wire, we're also entering the last week of regular-season games. No matter what, we're here to get the most of it and squeeze till the […]

Samaje Perine (RB, CIN) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: There was plenty of food at Cincinnati's table this past Sunday for both RBs Gio Bernard and Samaje Perine to fill their bellies. Even though the former out-carried Perine 16 to 13, it was the latter who racked up the most fantasy points […]

AJ Dillon (RB, GB) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 7% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Sixteen weeks. It took Green Bay 16 weeks to keep rookie A.J. Dillon on the field for more than 14 offensive snaps and to hand him a heavy role on the backfield, but it finally happened. Oh, and Dillon showed why the Packers bet on […]

Michael Gallup (WR, DAL) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 44% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Remember when the Cowboys were about to lit the league on fire all the way back in September? Ah, those good old times. With one of the best wide receiver corps--at least on paper--in the NFL, the Cowboys were poised to rack up […]

Sterling Shepard (WR, NYG) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 44% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Sterling Shepard had been able to sustain a fantasy-WR3 profile for the first two-thirds of the season spanning from W1 to W12, but in the three games after that he just couldn't get anything right. The games against Seattle, Arizona, and Cleveland […]

Mitchell Trubisky (QB, CHI) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 17% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The whispers are getting louder each passing day: Chicago will re-sign QB Mitchell Trubisky this next offseason and keep him rostered for 2021 and beyond. That might not be the best-looking future out there for an NFL franchise at the most important position […]

Jimmy Graham (TE, CHI) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 27% of Leagues ANALYSIS: When it all looked like TE Cole Kmet was Chicago's present and future just two weeks ago, we're now back jumping on veteran Jimmy Graham's train. This guy is infinite, folks, but he could very well turn into the winning play for you […]

Derek Carr (QB, LV) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 39% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Another week, another great performance by Derek Carr. At this point, I'm starting to think Carr is the most underrated quarterback in the NFL. I know, I know. Carr might not be the flashiest of passers out there, and the doesn't have that […]

Christian Kirk (WR, ARI) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 55% of Leagues ANALYSIS: While Christian Kirk had a fantastic start to the 2020 season, he had been a little bit on the wrong side of things during the past few weeks. Until last Saturday, that is, when he broke his bad second half of the year […]

Nelson Agholor (WR, LV) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 51% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Nelson Agholor can call home proud of his 2020 season. Sure, the Raiders failed to make the postseason after losing their W16 game against Miami. But Agholor had a monster game that added another line to a great season in which he was […]

Jordan Reed (TE, SF) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 21% of Leagues ANALYSIS: In Week 15 against the Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49ers tight end Jordan Reed caught his fourth touchdown of the year and his second in his past three games. Reed has been utilized almost exclusively as a short-yardage option this year. He's averaging […]

Sony Michel (RB, NE) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 19% of Leagues ANALYSIS: New England Patriots running back Sony Michel missed about a month of the season while dealing with a quadriceps injury. While he was gone, Damien Harris (ankle) took over the primary rushing duties for the team. However, this past week, with Harris sidelined […]

Cam Sims (WR, WAS) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Washington Football Team wide receiver Cam Sims saw a season-high eight targets in the team's Week 15 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. He reeled in five catches, a sturdy total for PPR leagues, but only managed to gain 26 yards. With Dwayne Haskins […]

Kendrick Bourne (WR, SF) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 7% of Leagues ANALYSIS: With 30 seconds remaining in this past week's game against the Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Kendrick Bourne reeled in a 49-yard touchdown heave from C.J. Beathard to propel him to his top fantasy performance of the season. Bourne finished this […]

Austin Hooper (TE, CLE) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 48% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Cleveland Browns welcomed Austin Hooper back from injury this past Sunday, and the tight end thanked his "new" organization with his best game for them to date. Hooper put on a 15.1 PPR-point performance while scoring his third touchdown of the season […]

Le'Veon Bell (RB, KC) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 53% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I know I'm breaking my self-imposed 50-percent ownership rule, but this one very well merits the exception. Le'Veon Bell has been far from an otherworld rusher this season even playing for an incredibly great offense in Kansas City. In his eight games with […]

Salvon Ahmed (RB, MIA) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 34% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Although at this point you should have already heard of Dolphins RB Salvon Ahmed, I won't blame you if that's not the case. Prior to Week 9, Ahmed had not played a single snap in the NFL, and by the end of that […]

Tony Pollard (RB, DAL) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 45% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The lone thing keeping Tony Pollard from being your weekly RB1 is Ezekiel Elliott's contract and its implications. Of course, Jerry Jones--and HC Mike McCarthy by extension--won't bench Zeke in favor of a secondary player in Pollard, if only out of stubbornness. But […]

Zach Pascal (WR, IND) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 5% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Zach Pascal has played an average of 75 percent of all offensive snaps by the Colts this season. That might not scream greatness to you, but the truth is that only 45 WRs have been able to keep up such a percentage while […]

Russell Gage (WR, ATL) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 24% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Julio Jones missed Week 10 (Atlanta's bye week) as every other Falcon, but after that, he has also been out of W12, W14, and W15 entirely. Atlanta is playing for nothing these days, and it won't risk Jones' long-term health considering the low […]

Jakobi Meyers (WR, NE) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 31% of Leagues ANALYSIS: New England is out of the postseason for the first time in ages. A certain Tom Brady left the franchise this season, and HC Bill Belichick couldn't keep the streak going all by himself. Even in the worst season the team has had in […]

Lynn Bowden Jr. (WR, MIA) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 27% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It is not that the Dolphins have a bunch of pass-catching beats in their roster, but had I asked you who was going to be Miami's WR1 come Week 15 odds are you wouldn't have thought about Lynn Bowden Jr., let alone […]

Jalen Hurts (QB, PHI) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 38% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Carson Wentz was benched midway through the Week 13 game against Green Bay, finishing that match with 5.0 fantasy points. Before that game, though, Wentz had 11 other chances to reach 30 FP but he failed to accomplish that feat, topping at 29.4 […]

Tua Tagovailoa (QB, MIA) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 21% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Another week, another good game for rookie QB Tua Tagovailoa. And it's been three in a row already in which Tua has reached at least 16 FP and finished as a QB2 at the very least. Miami didn't want to risk it a […]

Marcus Mariota (QB, LV) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Raiders season, if anything, is on the line entering Week 16. Las Vegas is hosting Miami for its second-to-last game of the year and they need to get that W. Last Thursday, against the Chargers, Derek Carr was forced out injured after playing […]

Zack Moss (RB, BUF) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 49% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Bills stomped the Broncos last Saturday and were declared champs of their division for the first time in 25 years. With such a victory in the pocket early, Devin Singletary took advantage of the situation and bagged himself a 51-yard rushing touchdown […]