Russell Gage (WR, ATL) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues (PPR) ROSTERED IN: 10% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Gage was merely a shadow in Week 8, not even logging a target despite matching Tajae Sharpe on snaps (36) and routes run (21) without Calvin Ridley. Kyle Pitts remains the leading man while Hayden Hurst mixes in and Atlanta leans on two-RB sets to utilize Cordarrelle Patterson. It […]

Tajae Sharpe (WR, ATL) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues (PPR) ROSTERED IN: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I feel like this should be Russell Gage but he was completely absent in Week 8 while Sharpe led the team in receiving with 58 yards on five receptions. For those who haven't heard, star wideout Calvin Ridley missed another game due to personal reasons […]

Van Jefferson (WR, LAR) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 12% of Leagues ANALYSIS: DeSean Jackson has been waived by the Rams, but he was a non-factor in the offense regardless. He saw just 6% of snaps in Week 7 and didn't play any in Week 8. That has let second-year man Van Jefferson thrive in […]

Jaret Patterson (RB, WAS) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Antonio Gibson keeps grinding through the season despite playing through multiple injuries but his effectiveness continues to wane. Rather than resting him, Washington is opting to lighten his load in-game with fewer touches. Rookie Jaret Patterson outrushed Gibson by carrying 11 times for 46 yards […]

Ty Johnson (RB, NYJ) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 5% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Do the Jets suddenly have an offense? We'll see what version of Mike White we get next week but it's certainly looking better than before. As long as Tevin Coleman remains sidelined with a bum hammy, Johnson will get a fair amount of touches alongside Michael Carter. […]

Alex Collins (RB, SEA) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 59% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Collins has now accumulated 227 rushing yards with his 61 attempts since ascending into lead-back responsibilities for Seattle. That includes his usage and output in Week 8 when the Seahawks hosted Jacksonville. Collins carried 10 times and generated 44 yards against the […]

J.D. McKissic (RB, WAS) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues (PPR) ROSTERED IN: 57% of Leagues ANALYSIS: A collection of fantasy managers removed McKissic from their rosters within the past week, which has dropped his rostership percentage below 60%. Why this occurred is uncertain, as his ongoing involvement as a receiving weapon remains intact. McKissic leads Washington’s backfield […]

Brandon Aiyuk (WR, SF) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 51% of Leagues ANALYSIS: QB Jimmy G got banged up a bit and missed a few games through the past few weeks leading up to San Francisco's Week 6 Bye. He's now been back for two straight games--he already put up a QB2 score in Week […]

DeVante Parker (WR, MIA) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 34% of Leagues ANALYSIS: After missing ample time (out from W5 to W7, both included) DeVante Parker finally came back last Sunday to man the outside of Miami's receiving corps at Buffalo. And he couldn't have looked better than he did against a tough D like […]

Jamison Crowder (WR, NYJ) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 19% of Leagues ANALYSIS: We have yet to see Jamison Crowder put more than three consecutive games together, but we should be getting there as soon as the end of next week's slate of games. That's because JC missed all games through Week 3 to start […]

Carson Wentz (QB, IND) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 56% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Carson Wentz, this season's Indy Colts starting quarterback, is far from an afterthought although most fantasy GMs out there would make you believe that. Thank God we have rostership data to back up reality instead of having to rely on foolish takes. Wentz […]

Randall Cobb (WR, GB) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 36% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Of course, and before we get started, you need to understand why Randall Cobb played his way to a WR17-overall and WR2-realm finish last Thursday: both Allen Lazard and Davante Adams missed TNF and TE Robert Tonyan was injured while at it. […]

Tua Tagovailoa (QB, MIA) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 36% of Leagues ANALYSIS: If that game against Buffalo was the last one we will get to watch from Tua Tagovailoa donning Miami's threads, I don't know yet. The trade deadline is set to be crossed this Tuesday, and as we get there maybe the Fins […]

A.J. Green (WR, ARI) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 56% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I'm breaking the rules with this pick as we're past the 50-percent rostership mark, but I just felt the need to write about veteran wideout and freshest Cardinal A.J. Green getting past the middle point of the season. In 2020 it took […]

Elijah Moore (WR, NYJ) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 16% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I know. Trusting a rookie wide receiver might be hard to do. Trusting a rookie wide receiver playing for a rookie quarterback might be even harder. Trusting a rookie wide receiver playing for a rookie quarterback that is the backup of another […]

Quez Watkins (WR, PHI) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: What if Quez Watkins was playing 85% of the Eagles offensive snaps weekly? What if Quez Watkins was getting some 5+ targets per week? What if Quez Watkins was a ball-hog instead of a secondary/tertiary option in Philadelphia? Well, those are a […]

Darnel Mooney (WR, CHI) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 42% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I don't think the Chicago Bears offense is salvageable at this point, but for what it is, and with rookie QB Justin Fields finally shaking off some of the growing pains, are we looking at a relatively nice play in the likes […]

Justin Fields (QB, CHI) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 22% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It's overreaction time! Yay! Justin Fields, he of the Mighty Bears, just put together a fantastic piece of football facing San Francisco this past Sunday... only it also was the first time he scored more than 15 FP and that's all we […]

Taysom Hill (QB, NO) - Fantasy Football Week 9 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues, 2QB/SuperFlex Leagues ROSTERED IN: 3% of Leagues ANALYSIS: With Jameis Winston out for the season, Hill may swoop in as a savior for the Saints and fantasy teams alike in Week 9 against a vulnerable Falcons defense. Hill has been out since suffering a serious concussion in Week 5 and […]

Marlon Mack (RB, IND) - Fantasy Football Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 17% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Mack makes for an interesting stash off the waiver wire, if you have the room to afford it during these injured-riddled, bye-heavy weeks. He's still working well behind both Jonathan Taylor and Nyheim Hines in the Colts' offense, topping out at a […]

Jeff Wilson Jr. (RB, SF) - Fantasy Football Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Leagues ROSTERED IN: 16% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Wilson is still recovering from having surgery for the torn meniscus he suffered back in May. Coach Kyle Shanahan recently noted that he expects Wilson to return this season, saying "It's not in the next couple weeks, but kind of beyond that. He's […]

Kenneth Gainwell (RB, PHI) - Fantasy Football Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 21% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Following the Week 7 injury to Philadelphia Eagles running back Miles Sanders (ankle), Kenneth Gainwell is set up to be one of the top waiver wire priorities for Week 8. Sanders was carted off the field this past week after suffering an ankle […]

Khalil Herbert (RB, CHI) - Fantasy Football Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 59% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Herbert is currently rostered in under 60% of all leagues, just two weeks after he was only contained on 19% of all rosters. However, another surge in rostership is imminent, after Herbert flourished in a workhorse role for Chicago. He accumulated 18 […]

Boston Scott (RB, PHI) - Fantasy Football Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Boston Scott will be part of a one-two punch with Kenneth Gainwell as long as Miles Sanders is out. He played 34 percent of the snaps in Week 7 against the Raiders, tallying seven carries and two targets. He went for 29 total yards and scored a […]

C.J. Uzomah (TE, CIN) - Fantasy Football Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 19% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Back in Week 4, everything pointed toward C.J. Uzomah's 26.5 PPR-point game as an outlier by nature. Three games after that and entering the mid-point of the season next weekend, though, are we sure this man can't turn into the WW steal […]

Brandon Bolden (RB, NE) - Fantasy Football Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 6% of Leagues ANALYSIS: New England Patriots running back Brandon Bolden did his best James White (hip) impression in Week 7 against the New York Jets. Bolden caught six of his season-high seven targets for 79 yards and his first touchdown of the year. Since […]

Russell Gage (WR, ATL) - Fantasy Football Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 10% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Ah, feels good to have Russell Gage back on the gridiron after missing three games, folks. An ankle injury kept the wideout out of the Falcons rotation for three games, though Gage was able to benefit from an early bye week in […]

Trevor Lawrence (QB, JAX) - Fantasy Football Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 40% of Leagues ANALYSIS: As I was expecting last week and told you about, the bye week put Trevor Lawrence's rostership at 40% today down from his prior 51% mark. I said back then that you should only make Lawrence a WW target for your squad if you […]

Robert Tonyan (TE, GB) - Fantasy Football Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 51% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Guess who’s back and found his way to the end zone for the first time since Week 2? Tonyan shocked the fantasy world with 11 touchdowns in 2020, and he was shocking it again by posting Ryan Griffin-like numbers until he put up […]