Matt Ryan (QB, ATL) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 55% of Leagues ANALYSIS: A Week 6 bye may cause people to forget the strong play of Matt Ryan the last few weeks. From Weeks 3 to 6, Ryan completed 85 of 123 pass attempts (69%) for 868 yards and eight touchdowns with zero interceptions. Ryan […]

Zach Ertz (TE, ARI) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 60% of Leagues ANALYSIS: All fantasy experts and football pundits knew Ertz would eventually get traded, but most did not predict it would happen mid-season. The longtime veteran and fantasy stud had the perfect swan song of an ending in his last game as a Philadelphia […]

Rhamondre Stevenson (RB, NE) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 11% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Rhamondre Stevenson flashed some excellent big-play capability and versatility in his short college career with the Oklahoma Sooners, and he is starting to show similar flashes in the fast-developing New England Patriots offense. Before week five he had only been active for one […]

Chris Evans (RB, CIN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 4% of Leagues ANALYSIS: We're not talking Captain America when I mention how impressive Chris Evans looked on Sunday. The 2021 sixth-round pick out of Michigan didn't get huge chances to display his skillset in college, but his role in the burgeoning Bengals' offense has taken […]

Mac Jones (QB, NE) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED: 17% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Following such a decorated final season of college football, it seems crazy to contemplate Mac Jones transitioning right from Alabama and Nick Saban to New England and Bill Belichick, but it's a transition he's appearing more and more comfortable with. While the rookie started […]

K.J. Osborn (WR, MIN) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of Leagues ANALYSIS: There aren't many wide receivers out there putting up K.J. Osborn's playing-time/usage numbers this season, let alone if we add the context of the Vikings. Osborn has appeared in "only" 277 offensive snaps (47th most) and logged a 62% snap share; […]

Darnell Mooney (WR, CHI) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 44% of Leagues ANALYSIS: There is very simple reasoning you might be using to think I'm crazy recommending Darnell Mooney here: if most fantasy GMs are starting to fade and drop the very own Allen Robinson II, how come Mooney should be rostered at all? Well, A-Rob got into […]

Gerald Everett (TE, SEA) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 31% of Leagues ANALYSIS: We hadn't been able to watch Gerald Everett play football since Week 3 before he got canned from the squad due to COVID-19 protocols for two of the past three weeks. He finally came back last Sunday, and although he found himself […]

Amon-Ra St. Brown (WR, DET) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It takes a madman to roster a Lion these days, but here we are. Detroit stinks. It's as simple as that, so I'm not going to sugarcoat it. But among all of the bad things going on around Motown, the truth […]

Ricky Seals-Jones (TE, WAS) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 29% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Did it took a few weeks for Ricky Seals-Jones to take off the rust? Sure. Has he already warmed the fantasy stove? You bet. Seals-Jones played 25 snaps combined from W1 to W3... only to log 62 (!) in Week 4 alone. […]

Tua Tagovailoa (QB, MIA) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 16% of Leagues ANALYSIS: After missing three games entirely--virtually four, as he could only throw four passes back in Week 2--Tua Tagovailoa was back on the field on early Sunday playing in London. And oh, boy, did he look great coming back to face the Jaguars […]

J.D. McKissic (RB, WAS) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 42% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I know. Antonio Gibson is Washington's RB1 and that won't change any time soon. I mean, the production is higher than that of J.D. McKissic, he's edging J.D. by 2.3 PPR points per game, has 14.1 more total PPR points over six […]

Donovan Peoples-Jones (WR, CLE) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Do I believe Donovan Peoples-Jones is a bonafide WR1 as he showed this past Sunday when he put up a magnificent 26.1 PPR score? No. Not at all. But I don't need to tell you that because you just can look […]

Justin Fields (QB, CHI) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 32% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Was Week 6 the Week of the Rookie Quarterback? I don't know about that, but writing about Fields today makes it probable as I've already penned an entry about Trevor Lawrence for this Tuesday's WW Targets blog even though he's going on a […]

Christian Kirk (WR, ARI) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 44% of Leagues ANALYSIS: With six weeks already in the books... I guess it's time to start believing in Christian Kirk as a bonafide WR2 this season? I mean, Kirk is a 10-FPPG career scorer, which means he's a top-36 WR at best, but he's ramped […]

Carson Wentz (QB, IND) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 35% of Leagues ANALYSIS: As bad as the narrative about Carson Wentz was last year, and even throughout the first few weeks of this season, the truth is that the new Colts QB hasn't bed bad by any stretch of the imagination. See, Wentz has five top-24 games […]

O.J. Howard (TE, TB) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Leagues OWNED IN: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It's already been three weeks for Rob Gronkowski sitting on the shelf. On the other hand, it's been five games for an O.J. Howard whose importance and value (in both the real and fantasy football worlds) have grown by the week, though not […]

Trevor Lawrence (QB, JAX) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 51% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The only thing that will keep Trevor Lawrence off half of Yahoo's league rosters is the fact that the Jaguars are going on a Bye week and they'll be out of the schedule for half a month until they get back to the […]

Sterling Shepard (WR, NYG) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 51% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Nightmarish season for the Giants. It feels like every time Big Blue gets a player back, another one goes down injured. This past weekend it was Sterling Shepard's time to come back... only for Kadarious Toney to get banged up and out. […]

Alex Collins (RB, SEA) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 53% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I'm breaking the golden rule of the 50-percent-or-fewer rostership with this writeup, but you know when it's needed we just have to go for it. I woke up last Sunday to news coming from Seattle regarding Chris Carson: placed on Injured Reserve. Uh, oh, […]

A.J. Green (WR, ARI) - Fantasy Football Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 44% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It's funny. By the end of last season, we would all have projected Green to finish 2021 as a WR4 at the very best, with the odd 15+ PPR week making it to his season-long game log but otherwise putrid averages on […]

Rashod Bateman (WR, BAL) - Fantasy Football Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 25% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The 27th pick in the 2021 draft had core muscle surgery in the preseason but has worked his way back and will make his debut against the Chargers in Week 6. Bateman, the former Minnesota Gopher, was turning heads and drawing rave […]

D'Ernest Johnson (RB, CLE) - Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 0% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Johnson's role should be elevated in Week 6 with primary back Nick Chubb ruled out, which puts him in the mix as a deep-league desperation streaming option at running back this week. Johnson, an undrafted third-year player out of South Florida, hasn't […]

Demetric Felton (RB, CLE) - Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues (PPR) ROSTERED IN: 5% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The rookie sixth-round pick out of UCLA could be due for an expanded role in Week 6 with Nick Chubb ruled out. He has been operating as a lightly-used third-string receiving back to this point, hauling in 6-of-7 targets for 76 […]

Khalil Herbert (RB, CHI) - Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 19% of Leagues UPDATE: (Thursday October 14th) Damien Williams was placed on the COVID-19 list on Thursday, and is likely to be unavailable for this week's game against the Packers. Khalil Herbert is now in a position to start and would be a viable RB2 with upside. He […]

Devontae Booker (RB, NYG) - Fantasy Football Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 5% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Devontae Booker through Week 4: 6.6 PPR points. Devontae Booker in Week 5: 20.8 PPR points. That's it. That's the post. Nah, not really, but if you paid the tiniest bit of attention to the developments taking place in the Giants game at […]

Kadarius Toney (WR, NYG) - Fantasy Football Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 16% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Call me crazy, but I truly was this close to label Toney a lost cause and a bust after getting drafted 20th overall by the New York Giants... and putting up two back-to-back duds of 1.8 and 3.6 PPR points in his first couple of […]

Hunter Henry (TE, NE) - Fantasy Football Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 46% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Let's start in reverse order. Jonnu Smith has played more than 50% of the Patriots' offensive snaps in just two games this season, including last Sunday's, though he only got 5+ targets in one of those and this last weekend those dropped […]

Alex Collins (RB, SEA) - Fantasy Football Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 39% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I'm writing after reading about Seahawks' HC Pete Carroll telling media that Chris Carson missed Week 5 entirely because of a neck issue popping up and the tailback not feeling comfortable enough to play. Now, to that, you have two add two things: […]