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Welcome to the Fantasy Football Waiver Wire for Week 11. The fantasy football playoff push is here, and hopefully all of your teams are still in the hunt.
It took a while, but we’ve finally got a week with little to choose from on the Waiver Wire. But even with slim pickings, free agent pickups can offer needed help as fantasy managers continue to work through the Bye weeks, injuries, and players who, to put it nicely, aren’t living up to expectations. Let’s take a look.
The Process***:*** Each week, I try to identify the top Waiver Wire targets and evaluate the short- and long-term prospects of those players. I also do my best to reveal which players who are coming off a big week are fool’s gold. Finally, I look at streamers who might help you in a pinch.
Note that I’m writing this column BEFORE the Week 10 Monday night game (PHI@GB).
Some players discussed won’t be available in your league. I try to list players who are available in more than 50% of leagues. But what does that even mean? A 10-team league with six bench spots will have a much larger Free Agent pool than a 14-team league with eight. Most leagues fall somewhere in between. This isn’t “one size fits all.” By way of example, I won’t list R.J. Harvey, Troy Franklin, Jerry Jeudy, Jakobi Meyers, Christian Watson, or Colston Loveland, among others who probably aren’t available in any of your leagues.
WEEK 11 BYES: IND, NO
Week 11 Waiver Wire
Quarterback:
Quarterback availability varies widely between 1-QB and Superflex/2-QB leagues.
I’m going to assume that none of Sam Darnold, Joe Flacco, or Jaxson Dart is available on your Waiver Wire, in any format. If they are, they’re the top choices. Note that Dart is in the concussion protocol and in danger of missing at least this week’s game.
Tua Tagovailoa, Jacoby Brissett, Trevor Lawrence, and C.J. Stroud won’t be available in most Superflex leagues, but they’re the obvious places to start if you need long-term help, a streamer, or an injury replacement in a 1-QB league. They’re all decent options if needed. Tua (vs. WAS, Spain) has a particularly attractive Week 11 matchup.
Aaron Rodgers is starting to look like he did for most of last season – old, and afraid of getting hit. Still, he’s an attractive streamer for Week 11, as he’ll be at home facing the Bengals, who he completely lit up a few weeks ago (pretty much every Quarterback lights them up).
In addition to Rodgers, Michael Penix, Jr., J.J. McCarthy, Geno Smith, Justin Fields,and Marcus Mariota are a step below the group above, but capable of a big game here or there when the matchup is right. Mariota and Fields have rushing upside. Fields may not be long for the starting job in New York, although the team has won back-to-back games.
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