Mecole Hardman (WR, KC) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 29% of Leagues ANALYSIS: After a stint on IR thanks to an abdominal injury, Kansas City designated wide receiver Mecole Hardman for return from injured reserve last week. Despite that positive move, the Chiefs didn't officially activate Hardman from IR prior to their Week 15 game […]

Marlon Mack (RB, DEN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 6% of Leagues ANALYSIS: As Marlon Mack continues to work his way back from a devastating Achilles injury suffered in 2020, he has found a temporary home with the Denver Broncos, a team whose backfield has been a disaster zone this season. Mack has settled in […]

Mack Hollins (WR, LV) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 29% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Mack Hollins logged his fourth receiving TD of the season in Las Vegas' wild Week 15 victory over the New England Patriots. Hollins hauled in half of his eight targets for 40 yards and the score against a tough Pats defense. The […]

Marquise Goodwin (WR, SEA) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 4% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Marquise Goodwin emerged from Seattle's Week 15 loss to the San Francisco 49ers with just two catches for 10 yards. However, bigger things are likely on the horizon for Goodwin. Veteran Seahawks' wide receiver Tyler Lockett suffered a broken finger in last […]

Chuba Hubbard (RB, CAR) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 39% of Leagues ANALYSIS: While he's largely played behind D'Onta Foreman since Christian McCaffrey's midseason departure from Carolina, Chuba Hubbard's role in the Panthers' offense has continued to evolve in recent weeks. Hubbard has toted the rock 35 times across Carolina's last three, accumulating 149 rushing […]

Deon Jackson (RB, IND) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Deon Jackson has spent the majority of 2022 playing behind Jonathan Taylor in the Indianapolis Colts backfield. However, Jackson did get an opportunity for playing time against the Minnesota Vikings in Week 15 when Taylor was forced from the game in the […]

Jordan Mason (RB, SF) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 13% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The addition of Jordan Mason will not immediately provide you with an additional starting option as his expanding role has yet to reach standalone value. However, the undrafted free agent has performed effectively with the opportunities that he has been given while […]

Zack Moss (RB, IND) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 37% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Zack Moss entered Week 15 having accumulated 84 offensive snaps, 24 rushing attempts, 122 rushing yards, and eight targets. Deon Jackson had been limited to 69 snaps, 17 rushing attempts, 35 rushing yards, and eight targets from Weeks 7-14. However, both backs […]

James Cook (RB, BUF) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 54% of Leagues ANALYSIS: James Cook’s workload has decreased since he established career-highs in snap share (43%), rushing attempts (14), targets (six), and receptions (six) in Week 13, as he has attained a 38.5% snap share during Buffalo’s last two matchups while accumulating nine carries/40 rushing […]

Chuba Hubbard (RB, CAR) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 39% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Chuba Hubbard was limited to a 14.4% snap share, 20 rushing attempts (4.0 per game), and 111 rushing yards (22.2 per game) from Weeks 1-10. However, Hubbard’s involvement in Carolina’s offense has expanded since Week 12, as he has accumulated 35 rushing attempts, […]

Jaylen Warren (RB, PIT) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 13% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Jaylen Warren has remained positioned among a select tier of enticing handcuff options throughout most of the regular season after he seized the role of Pittsburgh’s RB2 during training camp. Warren has been an intriguing roster addition due to the potential that […]

Pierre Strong Jr. (RB, NE) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 17% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Pierre Strong Jr. was selected by New England in Round 4 of last April’s NFL Draft (127th overall) and had been limited to just 10 snaps (1.7% share), one rushing attempt, and five rushing yards from Weeks 1-13. However, Rhamondre Stevenson sustained […]

Gus Edwards (RB, BAL) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 52% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Gus Edwards sustained his role within Baltimore’s backfield in Week 15, as the Ravens continued their reliance on the two-man rotation of Edwards and J. K. Dobbins during their matchup at Cleveland. The tandem combined for 20 rushing attempts when Baltimore faced […]

Alexander Mattison (RB, MIN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 33% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Alexander Mattison is only rostered in 33% of all leagues, even though his role as the direct backup to Dalvin Cook automatically positions him to launch into an extensive workload if Cook is sidelined during Minnesota’s remaining matchups. Cook’s season has not […]

Tyler Allgeier (RB, ATL) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 37% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Even though Tyler Allgeier has shared touches in a rotation with Cordarrelle Patterson throughout much of the regular season, his weekly workloads have provided fantasy managers with an opportunity to utilize him as a flex. Allgeier has also benefitted from operating in […]

Chigoziem Okonkwo (TE, TEN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 29% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Don't look now, but Chigoziem Okonkwo might be the best-positioned tight end to under-the-radar win you the league if you act quickly enough and can grab some shares of the Tennessee main man. Okonkwo has now caught 3+ passes in four consecutive […]

Russell Gage (WR, TB) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 13% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Bucs couldn't count on Julio Jones last Sunday but even having the veteran wouldn't have helped them defeat a much superior Bengals team. Russell Gage was the man tasked with stepping up, and truth be told, he couldn't have done more […]

Juwan Johnson (TE, NO) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 22% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It took Juwan Johnson six weeks to finally hit lightspeed but he arrived for good back in Week 7 and barring a couple of bumps in the road, he's been the absolute-best tight end of the second and third parts of the […]

Daniel Jones (QB, NYG) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 59% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Daniel Jones gets to be the beneficiary of Week 16’s offensive game against the Minnesota Vikings secondary. Minnesota had allowed over 300 passing yards in five straight games before Week 15’s wild victory over the Indianapolis Colts. If Indianapolis hadn’t scored multiple […]

Zay Jones (WR, JAX) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 55% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The game between the Jaguars and the Cowboys went to OT and that helped, only that much. What I'm saying is that some numbers got a bit boosted, of course, but that doesn't take from the great outcomes put together in regulation […]

Sam Darnold (QB, CAR) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 6% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Sam Darnold is performing admirably since being named the team’s starting quarterback again in Week 12. The Panthers are utilizing a run-first offense with the veteran quarterback at the helm, but despite that, Darnold has thrown for 284 yards, two touchdowns, and zero […]

Demarcus Robinson (WR, BAL) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The case for adding Demarcus Robinson is predicated on volume and opportunities, not production. I know that is not what you might want to hear this late in the season and with the fantasy stakes higher than ever as we get […]

Rashid Shaheed (WR, NO) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Trusting Rashid Shaheed's fantasy results takes a bit of an effort, but at this point through the season with the fantasy playoffs already here and speaking of WW targets for those managing in deeper leagues... you can definitely do much worse than […]

Davis Mills (QB, HOU) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 20% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Davis Mills hasn’t been able to build upon the promise he showed throughout his rookie season both as an NFL quarterback and a fantasy asset. Mills has just 11 touchdowns to 12 interceptions on the year and was benched for a stretch in […]

K.J. Osborn (WR, MIN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 4% of Leagues ANALYSIS: We're at a point in the season in which we can change our perception of a player just because he had a single great game. That was K.J. Osborn's case last Saturday when he finished the matchup against Indy with a gaudy […]

Donovan Peoples-Jones (WR, CLE) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 64% of Leagues ANALYSIS: This is one of the biggest exceptions I have ever made when writing WW columns. Just look at Donovan Peoples-Jones' rostership in Yahoo and you'll understand. Yes, DPJ is available in fewer than 40% of leagues, but with the playoffs already here and […]

Noah Fant (TE, SEA) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 22% of Leagues ANALYSIS: With the Seattle Seahawks using multiple tight ends this season, it is always going to be hard to expect Noah Fant to hit TE1 and even TE2 levels of fantasy play on a weekly basis. You just saw it a week ago […]

Brock Purdy (QB, SF) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 20% of Leagues ANALYSIS: In an unexpected turn of events, Jimmy Garoppolo was called up to action no later than in Week 2 with Trey Lance getting injured and done for the 49ers season. Garoppolo was his usual great quarterback until he went down too in Week […]

Rex Burkhead (RB, HOU) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 15

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 4% of Leagues ANALYSIS: With Houston's rookie RB Dameon Pierce likely sidelined for multiple games with a high-ankle sprain, the Texans will turn to a backfield that consists of Rex Burkhead and Dare Ogunbowale. Houston waived backup RB Eno Benjamin after their Week 14 loss […]