Austin Hooper (TE, ATL) - Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-plus team leagues OWNED IN: 44% of leagues ANALYSIS: Many people may have forgotten about Hooper with Atlanta coming off their Week 5 bye. Here's a refresher: He caught a season-high five passes for 50 yards on seven targets in the Week 4 loss to Buffalo. Those numbers did come with Julio Jones […]

Ricardo Louis (WR, CLE) - Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-plus team PPR leagues OWNED IN: 1% of leagues ANALYSIS: It's really hard to trust anyone on the Browns, but you can't argue with Louis' 17 targets and 10 catches for 135 yards the past two weeks. Meanwhile, Kenny Britt is injured and falling quickly out of favor with the coaching staff, so […]

Brandon Tate (WR, BUF) - Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-plus team PPR leagues OWNED IN: 0% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Bills are in dire straights like the Giants when it comes to their pass-catching options with Jordan Matthews (thumb) out a month and tight end Charles Clay (knee) out at least multiple weeks. Rookie Zay Jones hasn't stepped up at all (two […]

Nelson Agholor (WR, PHI) - Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-plus team PPR leagues OWNED IN: 32% of leagues ANALYSIS: Touted by the coaching staff during training camp and the preseason, Agholor was a popular late-round sleeper pick in many drafts. It payed off immediately after his six-catch, 86-yard, one-TD performance in Week 1, but the luster wore off quickly, as he had […]

Elijah McGuire (RB, NYJ) - Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-plus team PPR leagues OWNED IN: 18% of leagues ANALYSIS: Gang Green's backfield is falling apart. Matt Forte missed his second straight game with turf toe and Bilal Powell strained his calf in the Week 5 win. McGuire didn't do much to set himself apart after Powell left the game (11 carries, 20 […]

Shane Vereen (RB, NYG) - Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-plus team PPR leagues OWNED IN: 14% of leagues ANALYSIS: Somehow, someway, the Giants lost four receivers to injury in Week 5, and two of them -- Odell Beckham Jr. (ankle) and Brandon Marshall (ankle) -- need season-ending surgeries. With Sterling Shepard (ankle) also banged up and questionable for Week 6 against Denver, […]

Adrian Peterson (RB, ARI) - Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 37% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Cardinals worked out a trade with the Saints to bring running back Adrian Peterson in, and hopefully inject some life into their ground game. It's obviously bad news for Chris Johnson, but PPR riser Andre Ellington shouldn't be affected for fantasy owners. Peterson clearly wasn't a fit in […]

Austin Seferian-Jenkins (TE, NYJ) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 28% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Jets tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins followed up his nice Week 4 (four receptions for 46 yards) with an even better Week 5, hauling in six catches for 29 yards and a touchdown. He has now been targeted 12 times in his last two […]

J.D. McKissic (RB, SEA) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 31% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: For the second straight week, J.D. McKissic filled in for the injured C.J. Prosise as the pass-catching back in the Seattle offense. And for the second straight week, McKissic offered more than a healthy Prosise offered across the first few games of the […]

DeShaun Watson (QB, HOU) - Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 32% of Yahoo leagues ANALYSIS: Houston Texans’ quarterback DeShaun Watson is tearing up the National Football League at the moment. After putting up a respectable performance on the road in a loss to the New England Patriots, the 22-year-old tossed for four touchdowns and rushed for another against the […]

Alvin Kamara (RB, NO) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in +12 PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 45% of Yahoo leagues ANALYSIS: The New Orleans Saints signed Adrian Peterson this past offseason in the hopes that he may experience the type of late-career renaissance Jamaal Charles appears headed towards in Denver. Unfortunately for both parties, that hasn’t been the results, as Peterson has seen very […]

Evan Engram (TE, NYG) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ team PPR leagues OWNED IN: 57% of Yahoo leagues ANALYSIS: You might be a little late to the party, but New York Giants tight end Evan Engram has been by far the most impressive rookie tight end in 2017 after the quarter mark, catching 19 passes on 30 targets through four weeks […]

Jerick McKinnon (RB, MIN) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 3% of leagues ANALYSIS: Minnesota Vikings running back Jerick McKinnon will get a rare second chance to prove himself capable of being more than a backup. Dalvin Cook's season-ending ACL injury opens up the backfield to him once again, just as Adrian Peterson's injury did last season. […]

Alex Collins (RB, BAL) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 9% of leagues ANALYSIS: Baltimore Ravens running back Alex Collins picked up 82 yards on nine rushes in Week 3, mostly in the fourth quarter of a blowout loss in London. He was largely ignored in the fantasy community, even after John Harbaugh inserted him into the starting […]

Andre Ellington (RB, ARI) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 22% of leagues ANALYSIS: Arizona Cardinals running back Andre Ellington won't fill the massive void left behind by David Johnson in the running game, but he's certainly trying as a pass-catcher. Ellington was targeted a whopping 14 times in Week 4, catching nine balls for 86 yards. […]

Jamaal Charles (RB, DEN) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add +12 Team Leagues OWNED IN: 46% of Yahoo leagues ANALYSIS: following a disappointing 2016 strife with injuries and the inability to remain on the field, the Kansas City Chiefs parted ways with longtime offensive superstar Jamaal Charles. At 30 years old and past his prime, the move appeared to signal the end of the […]

Cooper Kupp (WR, LAR) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add +12 Team Leagues OWNED IN: 43% of Yahoo leagues ANALYSIS: The Los Angeles Rams might be the most impressive team thus far this season. Following a disastrous 2016 campaign that saw them go 4-12, coach Jeff Fisher was fired and Sean McVay was brought in. The results thus far have been terrific, as the team […]

Tyler Kroft (TE, CIN) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 1% of leagues ANALYSIS: Tyler Eifert (back) has missed the last two games and is out for the foreseeable future. In his absence, Kroft has recorded nine catches on 11 targets, including two touchdowns in Week 4 against the lowly Browns. While his two-touchdown performance is probably […]

Jaron Brown (WR, ARI) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 9% of leagues ANALYSIS: Not to be confused with the injury-prone John Brown, Jaron has been Arizona's workhorse receiver alongside the veteran Larry Fitzgerald. After seeing zero targets in Week 1, Jaron has tallied 29 targets over his last three games for 14 catches, 205 yards and a […]

Eddie Lacy / Thomas Rawls (RB, SEA) - Week 5 Waiver Wire

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deeper Leagues OWNED IN: 17% / 29% of leagues ANALYSIS: Dynamic rookie Chris Carson fractured his leg Sunday night and will likely miss most, if not all, of the year. Seattle's backfield has turned from bad to worse. Rawls and Lacy figure to share early-down work now, with CJ Prosise and JD McKissic battling for scraps in the passing […]

Aaron Jones (RB, GB) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add / Stream in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 11% of leagues ANALYSIS: In a cruel twist of fate, Green Bay lost both their starting running back Ty Montgomery (ribs) and his backup, Jamaal Williams (ankle), to injury Thursday night. While Montgomery and Williams don't have long-term injuries, they could both sit out a week or two. Jones […]

Tyler Lockett (WR, SEA) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 42% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Few receivers have more big play potential than the explosive third-year receiver for Seattle, Tyler Lockett. Unfortunately, receivers like Lockett often fall into the boom-or-bust category, as games without a touchdown often yield poor results. Indeed Lockett has had two good weeks and two bad […]

Paul Richardson (WR, SEA) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 8% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Paul Richardson caught a lot of attention toward the end of last season after filling in for an injured Tyler Lockett as the Seahawks No. 2 receiver. Richardson was able to haul in 15 catches for 213 yards and two touchdowns across the last […]

Chris Carson (RB, SEA) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 38% of Yahoo leagues ANALYSIS: Entering the 2017 season, the Seattle Seahawks didn’t have a clear number one option in the backfield for starting running back. While Thomas Rawls was envisioned as the leader of the running game, CJ Prosise, veteran Eddie Lacy and rookie Chris Carson were […]

Javorius Allen (RB, BAL) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 55% of Yahoo Leagues ANALYSIS: Early on in this 2017 NFL season, it appears the Baltimore Ravens are going with a two-man running game system. There’s Terrance West and Javorius “Buck” Allen, the 26-year-old USC product. Last week, Allen led the way with 21 carries to West’s 19, […]

Allen Hurns (WR, JAX) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 9% of Yahoo leagues ANALYSIS: The other “Allen” in the Jacksonville Jaguars’ passing game, Allen Hurns is poised to become his team’s new number one option. With Allen Robinson gone for the year with a torn ACL, the Jags find themselves in need of a new number one […]

Trevor Siemian (QB, DEN) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 12% of Yahoo leagues ANALYSIS: All credit for Trevor Siemian’s continued improvement lies with the Denver Broncos for their belief and patience with him. The 25-year-old surprised everyone by winning the starting job last year, but once again managed to emerge as the starter this season. After an average […]

Tarik Cohen (RB, CHI) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 11% of leagues ANALYSIS: Could the rookie from tiny North Carolina A&T become this year's RB version of Tyreek Hill? Cohen was initially thought to be just a return man, but he's shown great elusiveness as a runner and put his 4.42 speed on display throughout the preseason. He did […]

Kenny Golladay (WR, DET) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 19% of leagues ANALYSIS: The 23-year-old rookie out of Northern Illinois lived up to the hype of being a popular draft sleeper in Sunday’s Lions victory over the Arizona Cardinals. Golladay was targeted seven times by Matthew Stafford, catching four passes for 69 yards and a pair of […]