Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups List

James Wiseman's Role Uncertain In Golden State

Golden State Warriors center James Wiseman (knee) has been progressing and is slated to play in the G-League soon. Wiseman has not played this season for Golden State, but is expected to rejoin the team in the near future. Although, it's uncertain if Wiseman is going to have much of a role once he does... Read More

Justin Fields (QB, CHI): Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 22% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It hasn't been a pretty season overall for the rookie quarterback class, but comparatively speaking, Justin Fields has been well-situated of late for the non-playoff-bound Chicago Bears. Up until the middle of the year, the former star Buckeye saw little success in the... Read More

John Bates (TE, WAS): Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: 6'6, 259-lb. tight end John Bates had a total of 579 receiving yards and two touchdowns in 23 games over four seasons at Boise State, and despite that limited sample ended up getting drafted in the fourth round of the 2021 NFL Draft... Read More

Jaret Patterson (RB, WAS): Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 25% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Jaret Patterson's rookie season started taking an exciting upturn out of necessity from the Washington Football Team, and with Antonio Gibson's most recent absence, the Buffalo alumnus was presented with his biggest opportunity of the year. Between weeks eight and sixteen, Patterson collected... Read More

Cedrick Wilson (WR, DAL) - Fantasy Football Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 3% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Are we sure Cedrick Wilson is going to be a WR2/WR3 play next weekend? Hard to say. Do we believe in his chances? You bet. The Cowboys are coming off a losing effort against Arizona in which Dallas lost starter WR Michael... Read More

Mac Jones (QB, NE) - Fantasy Football Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 35% of Leagues ANALYSIS: As bouncy as Mac Jones has been, I legit doubt there is a better quarterback available in nearly two of each three Yahoo leagues at this point through the season with just one game to go. Yes, Mac has alternated QB1 and QB3... Read More

Braxton Berrios (WR, NYJ) - Fantasy Football Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 7% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Jets can't improve their draft position that much (they can still get the no. 3 pick, currently sitting at 4th) so it's not that they'll be playing for the L come Sunday's affair with the Bills. The Jets dropped a close... Read More

Dare Ogunbowale (RB, JAX) - Fantasy Football Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 34% of Leagues ANALYSIS: We already recommended targeting Dare Ogunbowale last week as a fantastic WW addition, and that isn't going to change getting into the last week of the season. Of course, this play wouldn't have been possible without James Robinson getting done for the... Read More

Zay Jones (WR, LV) - Fantasy Football Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: If you're one of the 99% fantasy GMs out there opting not to roster Zay Jones before Week 12: congratulations, you dodged a very hurting bullet. If you're one of the 99% fantasy GMs out there opting not to roster Zay Jones... Read More

Boston Scott (RB, PHI) - Fantasy Football Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 31% of Leagues ANALYSIS: For the number of times Boston Scott is out there at the time of the snap--not many--it's rather impressive how productive the tailback has been all season long. That shouldn't change in the last week of the year, and although Scott comes... Read More

Chuba Hubbard (RB, CAR) - Fantasy Football Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 58% of Leagues ANALYSIS: After a few weeks of disappointments for those banking on Chuba Hubbard, the backup tailback finally showed his ceiling for a lowly Panthers squad that went on to lose another one to the Saints this past weekend. Not that the loss or... Read More

Dontrell Hilliard (RB, TEN) - Fantasy Football Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 28% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Titans have already clinched the AFC South division title, and that might mean they rest some bodies to keep them warm entering the postseason in a couple of weeks. That could mean that now-leading back D'Onta Foreman might lose some snaps... Read More

Jimmy Garoppolo (QB, SF) - Fantasy Football Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 31% of Leagues ANALYSIS: A lot of voices have claimed for San Fran to start rookie Trey Lance at the quarterback position all year long, and that happened this past weekend because of Jimmy Garoppolo's thumb injury. Jimmy Garoppolo has not been anything even remotely close to... Read More

Gabriel Davis (WR, BUF) - Fantasy Football Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 25% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Both Gabriel Davis and teammate and fellow receiver Emmanuel Sanders missed Week 16 after hitting the protocols. One week later, Sanders didn't recover in time while Davis was available for the Bills. Davis wasn't the best player out there, I know, but... Read More

Jaret Patterson (RB, WFT) - Fantasy Football Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Patterson’s involvement within Washington’s backfield rotation had already been rising due to multiple health issues that had impacted Antonio Gibson and J.D. McKissic. Now, Gibson’s placement on the reserve/COVID-19 list has cleared the runway for Patterson to vault atop the Football Team’s depth... Read More

Jimmy Garoppolo (QB, SF) - Fantasy Football Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 38% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Update: after this post was written it was reported that Garoppolo got a thumb injury and might not be able to play this upcoming weekend. Keep an eye on the news as there has not been any clear report yet about his potential... Read More

Dare Ogunbowale (RB, JAX) - Fantasy Football Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It took 16 weeks and a very long time, but the moment you all had been waiting for has arrived: we have another RB1-injury to take advantage of... just in time for Championship Weekend! Will you be the brave fantasy GM to roster... Read More

Rex Burkhead (RB, HOU) - Fantasy Football Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 13% of Leagues ANALYSIS: If something is clear in Houston, that is Rex Burkhead's role becoming more prominent each of the few past weeks: the rusher has gone from playing 24 snaps to log 35, 38, and lastly 42 in consecutive weeks from W13 through last Sunday.... Read More

Josh Palmer (WR, LAC) - Fantasy Football Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 5% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Rookie WR Josh Palmer, truth be told, wasn't much more than an afterthought prior to his Week 14 explosion. The Charged picked Palmer with a third-round selection, but only used in 197 snaps prior to that aforementioned W14 game. That means he... Read More

K.J. Osborn (WR, MIN) - Fantasy Football Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 34% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Vikings are a three-man offense built around the very talented Dalvin Cook, Adam Thielen, and Justin Jefferson. Too bad for Minny, the first two couldn't feature (entirely in the case of Cook, partially in Thielen's case) as they would have... Read More

Isaiah McKenzie (WR, BUF) - Fantasy Football Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Buffalo Bills faced New England this weekend without any of their WR2 and WR3 guys available. That meant that Isaiah McKenzie was going to feature heavily for an Emmanuel Sanders/Cole Beasley-less Bills... and then some. Not only did McKenzie play a... Read More

Allen Lazard (WR, GB) - Fantasy Football Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 25% of Leagues ANALYSIS: If you're still alive in the playoffs, and need a boost entering the final game day of the fantasy season, I don't think you can find a tastier player than Allen Lazard at the wide receiver position still available in three of... Read More

Davis Mills (QB, HOU) - Fantasy Football Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 3% of Leagues ANALYSIS: One thing has been made clear throughout the season: no quarterback from the 2021 class has played to any substantially good levels in their freshman campaign. It looked like the Patriots might have stolen the best passer of them all, but at the... Read More

Carson Wentz (QB, IND) - Fantasy Football Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 48% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Can't argue about Wentz's downtick in production during the second half of the season. It is what it is, but it is also what has him available in more than half of Yahoo leagues and as a viable option sitting on the WW... Read More

Donovan Peoples-Jones (WR, CLE) - Fantasy Football Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 13% of Leagues ANALYSIS: We're entering the once-last week of the season this upcoming slate, but the championship fantasy week in most leagues these days. It's not that with 16 weeks already on the books you can expect to find glossy, flashy players sitting in the... Read More

Ronald Jones II (RB, TB) - Fantasy Football Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 38% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Well, it looks like Ronald Jones II is going to get his chance... again. Leonard Fournette has had an incredible season, but unfortunately is dealing with an injury that will likely keep him out for several weeks. After leaving last week's game with... Read More

Craig Reynolds (RB, DET) - Fantasy Football Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 13% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The NFL is an unpredictable sport, and fantasy football is an unpredictable game. Exhibit A is Craig Reynolds, who has pretty much come out of nowhere to become a relevant running back for the Lions and fantasy managers. For the 2nd week... Read More

Justin Jackson (RB, LAC) - Fantasy Football Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Last week Austin Ekeler was dealing with an injury, so Justin Jackson received more touches than usual in the Thursday Night game against the Chiefs, racking up 13 carries for 86 yards. Firmly established as the number two running back on the Chargers,... Read More

Duke Johnson (RB, MIA) - Fantasy Football Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Before this week-long slate of games, we had only saw Duke Johnson once playing for Miami--or anyone, actually. He did so back on Week 11 when he logged a ridiculously laughable six snaps for 1.8 PPR points against the Jets... and that's it... Read More

Jared Goff (QB, DET) - Fantasy Football Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB/SuperFlex Leagues ROSTERED IN: 7% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I know you want to hate me for telling you about Jared Goff. About Jared Goff as a potential WW target entering the fantasy-postseason semifinal, even! But the truth is, if you're part of a slightly deep league or happen to be part... Read More

Tua Tagovailoa (QB, MIA) - Fantasy Football Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 47% of Leagues ANALYSIS: While the Dolphins definitely don't have the best receiving corps of the NFL, the truth is that Tua Tagovailo is making the most of what he can work with on a weekly basis. Even then, though, the second-year quarterback is rostered in... Read More

Marquez Valdes-Scantling (WR, GB) - Fantasy Football Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 41% of Leagues ANALYSIS: At this point through the season, with just two fantasy weeks to cross the finish line, you know how it goes with Marquez Valdes-Scantling and his upside. MVS is part of an offense in which he's been getting as many as a... Read More

Gabriel Davis (WR, BUF) - Fantasy Football Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 18% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It wasn't until recently that Gabriel Davis was recently used--and it took WR Emmanuel Sanders getting injured--but we're now looking at someone with bona fide WR3/Flex appeal weekly for the remainder of the season playing for a strong team and powerful offense.... Read More

Mac Jones (QB, NE) - Fantasy Football Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 33% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The weather was so ridiculous in Buffalo two weeks ago (W13) that all Mac Jones did was attempt three passes (!), complete two of them (!!) for 19 yards (!!!), and finish with a total of minus-0.5 FP as he fumbled the rock... Read More

Jared Cook (TE, LAC) - Fantasy Football Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 55% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The presence of Donald Parham Jr. in Los Angeles' roster has impacted Jared Cook's production all season long. That, also, affected the fantasy GMs' views of Cook's upside and his rostership, which is still bordering the 50% at the end of the... Read More

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

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB/SuperFlex Leagues ROSTERED IN: 3% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Shout out Davis Mills because he is definitively the second-best quarterback of the 2021 draft class only behind the Patriots' Mac Jones. Cold world, folks, but it is what it is. Mills got his starting gig because of a large cumulus of circumstances, but... Read More

Amon-Ra St. Brown (WR, DET) - Fantasy Football Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 29% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Three weeks in a row, folks. Three weeks of WR2 play (at the very least) coming from a guy that is not even rostered in a third of Yahoo leagues with three weeks (most probably just two in your fantasy league) of play... Read More

Brandon Bolden (RB, NE) - Fantasy Football Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 16% of Leagues ANALYSIS: If you're still alive in whatever fantasy league you play at, and if you're still fighting for the championship, and most of all if you're looking into adding someone from the waiver wire, you better know it's slim picks these days around these... Read More

Jalen Guyton (WR, LAC) - Fantasy Football Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 15% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I'm not going to convince you of what Jalen Guyton is not: a bona fide oft-used WR. But let me at least build a case for Guyton's addition ROS, even more in deeper leagues out there with needy GMs trying to make... Read More

Allen Lazard (WR, GB) - Fantasy Football Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 4% of Leagues ANALYSIS: After missing Week 13 injured, Allen Lazard came back this past Sunday to take the field for the Packers against division-rival Chicago... and he couldn't have had a better return. Lazard had never dropped from playing at least 59% of the team's... Read More

Amon-Ra St. Brown (WR, DET) - Fantasy Football Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 12% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I'm glad I rooted for Amon-Ra St. Brown from day one. I feel vindicated. QB Jared Goff has been as bad as ever, yes, but somehow Amon-Ra has stayed above water more often than not. ASB is putting up numbers weekly... Read More

Rashaad Penny (RB, SEA) - Fantasy Football Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 22% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Seahawks added living legend Adrian Peterson to the fold in time for Week 13, but the veteran could only feature on a low 16 snaps and then proceeded to miss Week 14 entirely while recovering from injury. Penny, who played 29... Read More

Justin Fields (QB, CHI) - Fantasy Football Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 19% of Leagues ANALYSIS: After missing two consecutive games in the W11-W13 span, Fields came back to man the Bears pocket this past Sunday at Green Bay, and hey, he did more than enough to get back to most fantasy GMs (in deeper formats, that is)... Read More

Gabriel Davis (WR, BUF) - Fantasy Football Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 3% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Emmanuel Sanders was forced out of Sunday's affair with Tampa Bay just 25 snaps into the game, and Gabriel Davis was the next man-up boy in the Bills offense. And oh, boy, did he deliver the goodies taking on that WR2 role... Read More

Robby Anderson (WR, CAR) - Fantasy Football Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 35% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Odds are you either love or hate Robby Anderson with no middle ground to those feelings. Makes sense, all things considered, given his swings in usage, level of play, and fantasy upside while being part of a nonsensical team in Carolina. But... Read More

Rashod Bateman (WR, BAL) - Fantasy Football Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 36% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Before we get started, let me tell you what happened last Sunday in a few words around the Ravens squad: Lamar Jackson got banged up and forced out of the W14 game. That, obviously, is supposed to impact Baltimore's wideouts if only... Read More

Davis Mills (QB, HOU) - Fantasy Football Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB/Superflex Leagues ROSTERED IN: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Don't even bother looking at past performance in comparison to defensive rank against fantasy QBs when it comes to assessing Davis Mills' value. He's just been all over the place, this guy. That said, though, he has been named the Texans starter ROS... Read More

James Washington (WR, PIT) - Fantasy Football Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I'd be lying if I said that James Washington has been a top-tier performer in the 2021 NFL season. Far from it, actually. But hey, that's why this man is barely rostered (if at all) in most fantasy leagues! But Washington is... Read More

K.J. Osborn (WR, MIN) - Fantasy Football Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 38% of Leagues ANALYSIS: K.J. Osborn's rostership before W14: 3%; after W14: 38%. The impact of injuries, folks, as Adam Thielen got banged up and missed last TNF entirely, opening the door to Justin Jefferson and prior-afterthought Osborn to excel. The truth is, Osborn already thrived... Read More

Ben Roethlisberger (QB, PIT) - Fantasy Football Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 22% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It is hard to get enamored of Ben Roethlisberger these days, even more, if you only pay attention to hot-take Twitter. But Big Ben has been more than a capable quarterback for the 2021 fantasy season, and in fact, he's coming off... Read More