6 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups to Add BEFORE Week 1 (Ep. 2178)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Why should I add Ja'Kobi Lane to my waiver wire before Week 1?
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Is Tyler Shough a viable fantasy starter for Week 1?
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Can Terrance Ferguson emerge as a breakout tight end for the Rams?
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What upside does Chig Okonkwo offer in Washington’s offense?
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Why is Dontayvion Wicks one of the most overlooked WRs on waivers?
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How can Dylan Sampson become a valuable PPR option for Cleveland?
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What are the best strategies for using the Fantasy Pros Waiver Wire Assistant?
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Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast. I'm Alfredo Brown. And today we're talking about six fantasy football waiver wire pickups ahead of week one. I'm joined by Derek Brown and Tom Strachan. And gentlemen, today, we're gonna go quickly with this one. We got six players. They may not all be available in your leagues, but we did something here for everybody. Those of you who are in the shallower leagues, that there's some good players still out there on the waiver wire. And those of you that are in the deep leagues, all of you love to say, yeah, guys not available in my league. Well, we got a couple of those here too. All right. But you know what? Hit us with the comments. Let us know that these players aren't available in your league because it helps the algorithm.
You know what I'm saying? That's just, that's just helpful for us. Guys, what we're going to do here is just to give a little brief outline. OK, we're looking at those early week one waiver wire stashes players that could pay off here either in week one or down the line. And all these players are going to be available in at least 50 percent of leagues. And we're going to start out with some of the more highly rostered players. And then we're going to go and head down to those deeper league players. So if you're looking for those ninety nine percent, you know, available players, just just stick around. Stick around for that one, all right? So, D-Bro, why don't you kick us off with the first guy here that you are looking to add before week one?
Yeah. So for you talked about the keyboard heroes at the top of the show here for everybody that says, oh, that guy's already rostered in my league. I tell you to hold my beer and I say Jacoby Lane is rostered in less than 20 percent of leagues. So if he's in your league, kudos to you. And if you have him already, kudos to you as well. And I'm kind of playing to the crowd here. I feel like this is probably a name Tom was going to bring up, but I
stole it
from him. So he couldn't get to a Raven to the sheet before I did. But Jacoby Lane, if all of the training camp hype and hope and promise and the preseason stuff does cross over to the regular season, and he is the clear third option, second option on some weeks in the Baltimore passing attack, I think he's going to pay dividends and people need to be rostering him because the opening schedule, I'm not telling you like the Indianapolis Colts, the Saints aren't matchups that I really want to attack. But then after that, boys, he gets the Dallas Cowboys, the Tennessee Titans, and the Falcons. Why do all those matchups matter? Oh, no big deal. Just, you know, to close last season, they were all top five and fantasy points per target allowed to perimeter wide receivers.
Pretty good matchups. A guy you could be looking at in the early part of the season, depending on how these games and if injuries do happen in them. As somebody is like, hey, it's going to be pretty good. Black spot. Yeah, I think so.
It all sounds like Zay Flowers is probably a pretty good pick in my home draft leagues. Is that what we're saying? Yeah, would have been a good one. Yeah, yeah, would have been. There is really a path here, Tom, for someone like Jacoby Lane to be very relevant early in the season. You got Mark Andrews, who's not a spring chicken anymore. You've got Rashad Bateman, who I'm not trying to put anything out there, but... Missed games have followed him throughout his career. So if there was an opportunity. Off field stuff too. And if there was an opportunity, especially with a new offensive coordinator here, we could see a heavier passing game, a better, a more interesting passing game with Jacoby Lane here.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:12
2
Why should I add Ja'Kobi Lane to my waiver wire before Week 1?
0:12–0:21
3
Is Tyler Shough a viable fantasy starter for Week 1?
0:21–0:23
4
Can Terrance Ferguson emerge as a breakout tight end for the Rams?
0:23–0:25
5
What upside does Chig Okonkwo offer in Washington’s offense?
0:25–0:27
6
Why is Dontayvion Wicks one of the most overlooked WRs on waivers?
0:27–0:29
7
How can Dylan Sampson become a valuable PPR option for Cleveland?
0:29–0:32
8
What are the best strategies for using the Fantasy Pros Waiver Wire Assistant?
0:32–25:46
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