Waiver Wire

This is the Waiver Wire Week 2! Which players should you prioritize adding after a tumultuous Week 1 in the NFL?

It is Championship Week! What running back streaming options should fantasy gamers be targeting in Week 17? What players can take your fantasy team to a fantasy football championship?!

It’s Championship Week! What players should fantasy gamers be prioritizing on the waiver wire this week?! What tactics can help players win their Fantasy Football Championships?!

Welcome to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to RB: Week 16! Hopefully, your teams are still alive in the playoffs. This article focuses solely on the running back position. Which running backs are going to help YOU get to Championship Week?!

Now’s the time to win your fantasy leagues! To do so, fantasy gamers are going to need to make crucial waiver wire decisions. Which players should be prioritized this week?

With the playoffs now in store, you will see a much briefer form of this column. In this version of the column, we will only use our streaming selections to help you lift that trophy. However, if you preferred the introspective, long-form version, not to worry. At the conclusion of the Regular Season, I will be back to offer a review of the best and worst takes from the column and lessons learned moving forward.

The teams you play every week now will have stronger rosters. The decisions you make are more important in a single-elimination format. Every point counts. Your bench is also less important. If you are rostering a player you would never start, like a Mack Hollins type, you are better off cutting them for a defense with a strong weekly matchup or even a handcuff RB, preferably behind a banged-up starter. We also want to roster our own handcuff RB whenever possible. We only want to roster one defense during the season, but it is perfectly acceptable to roster multiple defenses during the playoffs. 

This will be the last week I take a league-wide view of NFL backfields in this column. With the playoffs approaching and trade deadlines largely passed, the utility of analyzing players not already on your team, and not available on the waiver wire reduces significantly. That’s why, instead of focusing on usage shifts in backfields generally, I want to instead focus on the best opportunities for playoff running back stashes.

I have begged everyone to add James Cook for weeks now, and Cook SZN could finally be here. Well, maybe not SZN level, but Flex-worthy James Cook is here, which is still very exciting. This past week, Cook rushed for 64 yards but, more importantly, added six receptions for 41 yards.

This is the Hitchhiker’s Guide to RB: Week 13! If you are new to the column, this is the place we talk all things running back streaming. Each week we discuss running back usage, matchups, and waiver opportunities to convert the least amount of capital into a playable running back position on your fantasy teams.