Mike Boone (RB, DEN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 37% of Leagues ANALYSIS: You know what happened. And if you don't, then you definitely don't understand why 1) we're talking about Mike Boone and 2) why Mike Boone has a rostership as high as 37% ahead of Week 6 matchups. What happened, of course, was Javonte […]

Darius Slayton (WR, NYG) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 0% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Unrostered. Literally unrostered. That was Darius Slayton for you entering the last one, but most probably not entering any of the next games played by the New York Giants this season unless he got injured. Keyword: injured. See, that's the problem with Slayton […]

Carson Wentz (QB, WAS) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 46% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I guess Carson Wentz is playing with the feelings of fantasy GMs this season. After two marvelous outings to kick the year off in which he finished as QB3 and QB5 respectively, Wentz proceeded to drop a couple of duds to the […]

Marvin Jones Jr (WR, JAX) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 5% of Leagues ANALYSIS: One very bad thing happened on Week 4 for Marvin Jones Jr.: while he should have been elevated with Zay Jones (ankle) inactive, horrid weather and Trevor Lawrence's turnovers entirely killed his already diminished (just played 14 of 47 team snaps) upside. […]

Josh Reynolds (WR, DET) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 31% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Are we sure Josh Reynolds is not a legitimate (at least) fantasy player now? I mean, I know I am, but I'm just asking you all GMs managing out there. Reynolds and QB Jared Goff already shared the field in the Rams, […]

Evan Engram (TE, JAX) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 24% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I don't think we can really count Week 4 as something meaningful in any of the Jacksonville Jaguars skill-position players' track record this season. I mean, QB Trevor Lawrence was sacked a gazillion times, fumbled the ball four times, and only completed 11 […]

Randall Cobb (WR, GB) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 3% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I guess this is the closest we'll get to targeting a backup rusher once some leading RB1 gets banged up and is expected to miss time, only at the wide receiver position. Enter Randal Cobb (the "backup") and Christian Watson (the […]

Kenny Pickett (QB, PIT) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 17% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Considering Kenny Pickett is just a rookie – albeit a first-round pick – who just got his first start this past weekend, things have not been that bad for him. Pickett got the field replacing Mitch Trubisky midway through Week 4 against the […]

Fantasy Basketball Risers, Rookies and Draft Sleepers (Southwest Division) - Luka Doncic, Ja Morant, Zion Williamson, Jabari Smith

The regular season is inching closer by the day, and most offseason moves have already been completed – barring a surprising Russell Westbrook trade, or the pending Jae Crowder deal when/if Phoenix finds a proper partner before tip-off day. Each team's depth chart is mostly complete, so it makes sense to start analyzing how it […]

Fantasy Basketball Risers, Rookies and Draft Sleepers (Pacific Division) - Devin Booker, John Wall, LeBron James, Steph Curry, Keegan Murray

The regular season is inching closer by the day, and most offseason moves have already been completed – barring a surprising Simmons/Beal/Dame trade before tipoff. Each team's depth chart is mostly complete, so it makes sense to start analyzing how it could work come October. Before diving into the fantasy season, RotoBaller has you covered […]

Fantasy Basketball Risers, Rookies and Draft Sleepers (Atlantic Division) - RJ Barrett, Ben Simmons, Joel Embiid, Jayson Tatum, Scottie Barnes

The regular season is inching closer by the day, and most offseason moves have already been completed – barring a surprising Simmons/Beal/Dame trade before tipoff. Each team's depth chart is mostly complete, so it makes sense to start analyzing how it could work come October. Before diving into the fantasy season, RotoBaller has you covered […]

Fantasy Basketball Risers, Rookies and Draft Sleepers (Central Division) - Khris Middleton, Myles Turner, DeMar DeRozan, Donovan Mitchell, Jaden Ivey

The regular season is inching closer by the day, and most offseason moves have already been completed – barring a surprising Russell Westbrook trade, or the pending Jae Crowder deal when/if Phoenix finds a proper partner before tip-off day. Each team's depth chart is mostly complete, so it makes sense to start analyzing how it […]

NextGen Stats - Week 4: WR/TE Breakdowns and Takeaways

I can't believe it. Months of waiting, painful empty weekends, and now a quarter of the NFL season is suddenly gone! But I'm not going to lie, I love the moment when the whistle blows to end the week on Monday nights. It is just the confirmation that we have another full round of data […]

Fantasy Basketball Risers, Rookies and Draft Sleepers (Northwest Division) - Collin Sexton, Josh Giddey, Anfernee Simons, Mike Muscala

The regular season is inching closer by the day, and most offseason moves have already been completed – barring a surprising Russell Westbrook trade, or the pending Jae Crowder deal when/if Phoenix finds a proper partner before tip-off day. Each team's depth chart is mostly complete, so it makes sense to start analyzing how it […]

Fantasy Basketball Risers, Rookies and Draft Sleepers (Southeast Division) - LaMelo Ball, Dejounte Murray, Paolo Banchero, Kristaps Porzingis, Bam Adebayo

The regular season is inching closer by the day, and most offseason moves have already been completed – barring a surprising Russell Westbrook trade, or the pending Jae Crowder deal when/if Phoenix finds a proper partner before tip-off day. Each team's depth chart is mostly complete, so it makes sense to start analyzing how it […]

Jared Goff (QB, DET) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 52% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Top-4 quarterback of the 2022 season through Week 4. Flex on your haters, Jared Goff. You definitely didn't expect this to happen at any point through this season, let alone this early and considering Detroit has had to endure games without some […]

Josh Reynolds (WR, DET) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 12% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Last season Amon-Ra St. Brown grabbed all headlines with a ridiculous second half of the year playing for the Lions. That has been short-circuited this season as he's missed time, but that has only meant one thing: Josh Reynolds is now […]

Kenny Pickett (QB, PIT) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 5% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Steelers kicked the season off with a victory over the Cincinnati Bengals and everyone from Pitt bought into that what-if. Only, nobody truly believed that was the real outcome to expect going forward. Nobody except HC Tomlin, who doubled down on starting […]

Mike Boone (RB, DEN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Javonte Williams had rushed for 28 yards with his 10 carries in Week 4 before he sustained a torn ACL. That elevated Mike Boone into a rotation with Melvin Gordon for the remainder of Denver’s matchup with Las Vegas, as the fifth-year back […]

Ryan Tannehill (QB, TEN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 17% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Ryan Tannehill has continued to provide a steady hand at the quarterback position despite the loss of A.J. Brown in the passing attack this offseason. Tannehill has three games with at least 14.0 fantasy points and one brutal showing against arguably the […]

Corey Davis (WR, NYJ) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 25% of Leagues ANALYSIS: While it is true that Corey Davis' 2020 season might have been a little bit of an outlier (he scored 2.08 FP per opportunity compared to 1.67 or fewer before), he wasn't that bad last season already playing for the Jets. Davis […]

Teddy Bridgewater (QB, MIA) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: First things first, here's hoping Tua recovers nicely from his injuries. He entered last Thursday's game having sustained a neck injury the weekend before and the sack-and-slam on TNF that forced him out of the game was the cherry on top of […]

George Pickens (WR, PIT) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 39% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I have written about George Pickens as a WW target in prior weeks because he very well merited a mention back then. I mean, of course, that he merited highlighting his name all by himself and his lone efforts on a football […]

Jahan Dotson (WR, WAS) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 51% of Leagues ANALYSIS: If you think I shouldn't have written this post because Jahan Dotson got injured late on Sunday's game and didn't return, that's reasonable. I, personally, see this as a window of opportunity and perhaps the last chance you will have to add […]

Zach Wilson (QB, NYJ) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 10% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I guess the New York Jets will never change. The Jets are the mediocre team you would have always guessed (2-2 record with four games in the books, the two victories by a combined five-point margin) but they finally got to start someone […]

Geno Smith (QB, SEA) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 12% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Although he started the season with a reasonably good QB13 performance but struggled after that, Russell Wilson put up a top-3 outing last Sunday for his new team this season. Of course, you would expect that because you had to pony up […]

Nyheim Hines (RB, IND) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 62% of Leagues ANALYSIS: This is, obviously, not the usual WW post you'll find weekly under my byline. Nyheim Hines is, first of all, a secondary rusher in his team behind a clear go-to running back in extraordinary Jonathan Taylor. Hines is also one of the most-rostered […]

Raheem Mostert (RB, MIA) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 50% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Whenever some sort of committee pops up in an NFL backfield, fantasy managers lose sleep over it. It happens to the best of us. And it is happening in Miami with the duo of Raheem Mostert and Chase Edmonds sharing duties over […]

Hayden Hurst (TE, CIN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 21% of Leagues ANALYSIS: While it is true that Hayden Hurst needed the full game to reach his final fantasy core, at least he eventually got there. In other words, Hurst scored his touchdown in the final two minutes of the game and that reception amounted […]

Fantasy Basketball Forgotten Players Worth Tracking for 2022-23 (Part 1)

Whether it is because of injuries, because of a perceived lack of talent, or because of any other reason you can think of, some professional athletes find themselves on the outside looking in at some point in their careers. They get forgotten, they become part of their sport's past, and they have to make a […]