Herb Jones (SF, NOP): Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

Herb Jones is worth considering as a fantasy basketball waiver wire pickup heading into Week 8 of the NBA season.

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 10% of leagues

ANALYSIS:  The Pelicans stink. There is no way to sugarcoat that reality. Zion Williams remains out and all the Pels have to make up for that absence is a middling Brandon Ingram and some explosions from Jonas Valanciunas here and there. Oh, and a certain rookie going by the name of Herb, that is.

I know, I know. Herb Jones has not been that good this season, but it's not that you can ask a lot more from a rookie who got picked 35th overall just a bunch of months ago, folks. The best thing about Herb's season to date is the fact that NOLA trusted him as much as to start him in seven straight games in October, then sent him to the bench for a while, and has now shuffled the lineup in desperation mode putting Jones back in the starting unit. Herb is playing 31 MPG (!) as a starter since Nov. 24 included (six games and going) and while his role and production are limited, he's a good WW target for those in deeper formats at least until Zion is back and Jones inevitably hits the pine again.

Herb is logging low usage rates at around 12% as a starter, but the large playing time is affording him the chance to put up numbers in very scarce categories. He's averaging 2.5 SPG and almost a block per too. He's going to finish with single-digit points more often than not (he's scored 10+ in 6 of his 22 matches, mind you) but that's definitely not what you're getting from him. The rebounds aren't bad for a wing (3.2 RPG on the year, 3.8 in the past two weeks) and he doesn't turn the ball over that much either.

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