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2017 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Adds by NFL Position
ALL - RB - WR - TE - QB - DEF
Giovani Bernard (RB, CIN) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 45% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Is Giovani Bernard is still available in your fantasy league? Bernard had been a popular add while Joe Mixon was missing time with a concussion, but Mixon's returncontinue reading...
Eric Ebron (TE, DET) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-plus team leagues OWNED IN: 57% of Yahoo Leagues ANALYSIS: The Lions were eliminated from postseason contention with their upset loss to Cincinnati in Week 16, but head coach Jim Caldwell doesn't seem keen on resting his starters in the season finale against the Packers. Thatcontinue reading...
Mike Gillislee (RB, NE) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-plus team leagues OWNED IN: 31% of Yahoo Leagues ANALYSIS: While the Patriots already have a first-round bye locked up for the AFC playoffs, they must still beat the Jets in Week 17 to secure home-field advantage throughout. Rex Burkhead (knee) will remaincontinue reading...
Branden Oliver (RB, LAC) - Week 17 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 0% of Yahoo Leagues ANALYSIS: The Chargers are one of only a handful of teams facing a must-win situation in Week 17, which is what fantasy owners still playing for something want to see. The Bolts won't have the luxury of restingcontinue reading...
Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups and Adds
Ho, ho, ho and a Merry Christmas to you all. This piece is for the select few of you who are either in two-week championships or somehow got talked into doing a league where Week 17 is the sole week for determining titles.continue reading...
Running Backs Waiver Wire - Week 17 Pickups and Adds
It's the final week of the NFL season and you're still fighting for something, even if it's just pride. Good for you. While many dedicated fantasy managers deride leagues where Week 17 counts for anything at all, there's something to be said for for seeingcontinue reading...
Tight Ends Waiver Wire - Week 17 Pickups and Adds
While there were plenty of movers and shakers on the fantasy scene, the tight end position didn't see as much volatility. Injuries have been the biggest story in the tight end world, but the tight ends remained healthy, at least during this past week. So here wecontinue reading...
Week 17 Quarterback Pickups and Streamers: Standard and Two-QB Leagues
Happy Holidays Rotoballers! With Week 16 almost in the books, it's already time to turn an eye toward the waiver wire in Week 17. As always, this column will aim to highlight Week 17 waiver wire adds and streamers for quarterbacks, players that you should consider targeting oncontinue reading...
Waiver Wire Express - Week 17 Lightning Round
While many of you only have the Monday "Night" Football doubleheader left in your fantasy season, we here at RotoBaller still have those of you who play to the last minute of the regular season covered. In the interest of getting you thecontinue reading...
Week 16 Defense (DEF) Streamers and Starts: 2017 Fantasy Tiers, Rankings
Time to go for the whole enchilada! Below are RotoBaller's Week 16 defense tiers and rankings, or which defenses to stream and start for Week 16 of the NFL and fantasy football season. Our tiered defense rankings are your guide to drafting defenses, making waiver wire pickups/adds tocontinue reading...
Week 16 Kicker Streamers and Rankings: 2017 Fantasy Tiers & Rankings
It's Week 16 RotoBallers and we're obsessing over kickers again! Yes, that’s right – kickers. After all, points are points, and even though kickers are very difficult to project for fantasy points week to week, having the right one in your Week 16 lineup could be acontinue reading...
Giovani Bernard (RB, CIN) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 48% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Giovani Bernard took advantage of Joe Mixon's absence last week, rushing 14 times for 30 yards and a score. The 30 yards obviously is not ideal, but Bernard also had threecontinue reading...
Mike Davis (RB, SEA) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 49% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Anyone who watched Sunday's 42-7 beatdown that the Seahawks took from the Rams may be unwilling to play anyone from Seattle's offense (save Russell Wilson) for the rest of the season. Indeed continue reading...
Brandon Lafell (WR, CIN) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 7% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: In a season where he was expected to be the fourth, maybe fifth wide receiver on the depth chart, Brandon Lafell has consistently been the No. 2 man for the Bengals behindcontinue reading...
Dede Westbrook (WR, JAX) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 29% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: The Jacksonville Jaguars offense is on a bit of a hot streak over the past few games, with quarterback Blake Bortles starting to look like a serviceable NFL quarterback. Bortles, according tocontinue reading...
Paul Richardson (WR, SEA) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 54% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Paul Richardson has remained a red zone favorite of quarterback Russell Wilson's, hauling in his sixth touchdown of the season in Week 14 against the Jaguars. With the run gamecontinue reading...
Peyton Barber (RB, TB) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 36% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: With Doug Martin healthy and starting, it looked like the Peyton Barber hype train was pulling back into the station, especially after Martin found the end zonecontinue reading...
Tarik Cohen (RB, CHI) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 44% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Chicago Bears rookie running back Tarik Cohen has had an up-and-down year. The Bears opened the season with Cohen heavily involved in the run game and passing game as starting runningcontinue reading...
Mike Davis (RB, SEA) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 39% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Seattle running backs have been unreliable to say the least this fantasy season. A cavalcade of running backs ranging from Eddie Lacy, Thomas Rawls, Chris Carson, continue reading...
Mike Wallace (WR, BAL) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 10-12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 3% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: In case anyone missed the boat the last time around, Wallace has now seen a combined 19 targets for 10 catches and 164 yards over the last two weeks and 48 targets, 30 catches, 457 yardscontinue reading...
Kerwynn Williams (RB, ARI) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 3% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Adrian Peterson's (neck) surprise inactivity in Week 13 opened the door for Williams, who ran 16 times for 97 yards. He wasn't involved in the passing game. Williams' fantasy ceiling remains limited, though,continue reading...
Aaron Jones (RB, GB) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 10-12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 35% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Jones would touch the ball just once in his return to action after missing two weeks with an MCL sprain, but he made it count. The fifth-round rookie had just celebrated his 23rd birthday on Saturdaycontinue reading...
Cameron Brate (TE, TB) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 10-12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 54% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: You would have been forgiven if you'd dropped Cameron Brate after he went four weeks without recording more than one catch in a game. Brate got off to a hot start incontinue reading...
Marquise Goodwin (WR, SF) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 10-12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 32% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo made his first start as a 49er on Sunday and Marquise Goodwin benefited from that, finishing with a season-high eight catches in San Francisco's wincontinue reading...
Stephen Anderson (TE, HOU) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-14+ Team PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 0% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: In addition to losing starting tight end C.J. Fiedorowicz to a concussion (his third of the season and fourth in the past twelve months) in Week 13, the Houston Texans'scontinue reading...
Ricky Seals-Jones (TE, ARI) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 28% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: After a pair of huge games that seemingly came out of nowhere, Arizona Cardinals tight end Ricky Seals-Jones came back down to earth in the Cardinals Week 13 loss to the Loscontinue reading...
Brett Hundley (QB, GB) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team / 2 QB Leagues OWNED IN: 12% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: It's been an up and down season for Brett Hundley since taking over for the injured Aaron Rodgers. Two weeks ago, Hundley threw for 245continue reading...
TJ Yeldon (RB, JAC) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 13% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: T.J. Yeldon is a running back who rarely carries the ball. In fact, in Week 13 against the Colts Yeldon did not have any carries. He did, however, see two targets which hecontinue reading...
Danny Amendola (NE, WR) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 55% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: With Chris Hogan missing the last four weeks, many expected that slot receiver Danny Amendola would take on a much bigger role in the Patriots offense. That was true incontinue reading...
J.D. McKissic (RB, SEA) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 24% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Seattle's has had the most unpredictable backfield in the NFL, and fantasy owners would be wise to stay away in shallower formats. Mike Davis seems to have taken over every down duties forcontinue reading...
Marlon Mack (RB, IND) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 23% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Indianapolis Colts running back Marlon Mack has had an up-and-down year in terms of consistency, but he's trending upwards right now after accounting for 54 yards on just seven touches against acontinue reading...
Tyrod Taylor (QB, BUF) - Week 13 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team/Two-QB Leagues OWNED IN: 49% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: After a one-week absence from the starting lineup as the Bills turned to rookie Nathan Peterman (who threw five interceptions before being benched), Tyrod Taylor returned for Weekcontinue reading...
Cordarelle Patterson (WR, OAK) - Week 13 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 4% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Cordarelle Patterson finds himself thrust into a key role in Oakland's passing attack after Amari Cooper left Week 12's game with both a concussion and sprained ankle while continue reading...
Kenny Golladay (WR, DET) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 11% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Kenny Golladay has posted extremely consistent numbers in his last three games. Since returning from his hamstring injury, Golladay has caught two passes in each contest, posting yard totals of 52, 64 andcontinue reading...
Tyler Kroft (TE, CIN) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 42% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Tyler Kroft's fantasy relevance hinges exclusively on his touchdown totals. Fortunately for him, he is becoming a favorite red zone target of QB Andy Dalton. Kroft is rarely going tocontinue reading...
Jacquizz Rodgers (RB, TB) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 7% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Jacquizz Rodgers was a must-start the first few weeks of the season while Doug Martin served his three-game suspension. Quizz only found the end zone once in those first fewcontinue reading...
Tyler Lockett (WR, SEA) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 43% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: The Seattle Russell Wilson's earned another win last week over the 49ers. The offense has been entirely one-dimensional, with Wilson accounting for over 80% of the teams yards. He is their leading rushercontinue reading...
Austin Ekeler (RB, LAC) - Week 13 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in All PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 34% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Austin Ekeler had his worst game of the month on Thanksgiving against the Cowboys. His stat-line? Six carries for 15 yards, and three catches for 55. Ekeler has carved out a rolecontinue reading...
Brandon Lafell (WR, CIN) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 5% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: All pre-season it looked like one of Tyler Boyd or rookie John Ross would take over as the No. 2 receiver in Cincinnati behind superstar A.J.continue reading...
Kenny Golladay (WR, DET) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 11% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Kenny Golladay is back and reminding us all that he has some serious big play potential. In an offense where big play potential is needed, and with a quarterback capable of really airingcontinue reading...
Tyler Kroft (TE, CIN) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 45% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Tyler Kroft has filled in admirably for the Bengals in the absence of regular tight end Tyler Eifert. With Eifert still on the IR, Kroft will continue to get opportunitiescontinue reading...
Andy Dalton (QB, CIN) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team/2 QB Leagues OWNED IN: 51% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Andy Dalton has been able to shake off the turnover bug that plagued him earlier in the season. He has thrown five touchdowns against zero interceptions in his last two games.continue reading...
Latavius Murray (RB, MIN) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 60% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Latavius Murray has taken over control of the Minnesota backfield, scoring four touchdowns in his last four games. He punched his way into the end zone twice last week, rushing 15 timescontinue reading...
C.J. Fiedorowicz (TE, HOU) - Week 11 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ team PPR leagues OWNED IN: 13% of Yahoo leagues ANALYSIS: Fiedorowicz returned for the first time in Week 11 since suffering a concussion in the season opener against the Jaguars. While the 6-foot-5, 265-pound tight end caught all four of his targets for 46 yardscontinue reading...
Dede Westbrook (WR, JAC) - Week 11 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ team leagues OWNED IN: 20% of Yahoo leagues ANALYSIS: The promising rookie has yet to make his NFL debut after undergoing core muscle surgery just after the preseason and being placed on Injured Reserve. His activation this week couldn't come at a better time, ascontinue reading...
Ryan Fitzpatrick (QB, TB) - Week 11 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ team / 2QB leagues OWNED IN: 12% of Yahoo leagues ANALYSIS: The Amish Rifle put up a dud in his first start of the season in place of the injured Jameis Winston (shoulder) against his old Jets team in Week 10, completingcontinue reading...
Case Keenum (QB, MIN) - Week 11 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ team / 2QB leagues OWNED IN: 18% of Yahoo leagues ANALYSIS: Who would have thought that Keenum would be leading Minnesota to a 7-2 record entering Week 11? While he hasn't been great, he's been serviceable filling in for Sam Bradford (knee)continue reading...
Dontrelle Inman (WR, CHI) - Week 11 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ team PPR leagues OWNED IN: 2% of Yahoo Leagues ANALYSIS: In his first game with Chicago in Week 11 after being traded over from the Chargers, Inman more than doubled his reception total on the season with a team-high six catches for 88 yards incontinue reading...
Charles Clay (TE, BUF) - Week 11 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ team leagues OWNED IN: 43% of Yahoo Leagues ANALYSIS: Clay returned to Buffalo in Week 10 for the first time since suffering a knee injury Oct. 8 against the Bengals and caught only two passes on three targets for 13 yards. It was his worstcontinue reading...
Corey Coleman (WR, CLE) - Week 11 Waiver Wire Adds
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ team leagues OWNED IN: 23% of Yahoo Leagues ANALYSIS: Coleman is "all systems go" to come off Injured Reserve and play in Week 11 against the Jaguars after breaking his hand Sept. 17 against the Ravens. The former first-rounder hasn't been able to stay healthycontinue reading...
