Welcome to the very first Wright On Waivers. I will be taking over this column for the season and look forward to helping you navigate your way around the waiver wire with player suggestions to help both long and short-term needs. Your previous guide was indeed a great sherpa and wanted me to send along his best. If you have read any of my previous articles, you are aware I typically launch into these drawn-out movie tirades full of terrible analogies. I can assure you I will be focusing solely on your fantasy team this year and avoiding the proverbial opening twenty-one minutes and fifteen seconds of my favorite childhood film, Jurassic Park. Are those first twenty-one minutes important to the story? Yes. Yes, they are, but we really just want to see some dinosaurs. So, let us get to the dinosaurs.
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Buy/Sell for 2021 Fantasy Football, Week 2: You’ve Been a Very Najee Buy
September 13, 2021 | Buys & Sells | 77 Commentsby: Donkey Teeth
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I haven’t slept in 72 hours in anticipation of NFL football &*Fihfd—sorry, dozed off for a second there. Just need to make it a few more hours to watch Darren Waller cover the Raven’s defense in hot fudge and eat them for week one dessert. Speaking of dessert, after you treat one of your leaguemates to a week one entree of butt whooping, why not go back for a dessert course of consensual trade intercourse? Rookie Najee Harris had a disappointing NFL debut with only 45 yards on 16 carries with 1 catch for 4 yards in week one. But on the plus side, no other Steeler running back touched the ball. Any way you cut it, that’s a big vote of confidence for a rookie runner. I also expect the Bills run defense will prove to be near the top of the league and the Steeler offense will improve in the coming weeks, in spite of their subpar offensive line. So dangle a couple of buy-low offers out there for Harris and see if you can snag a potential RB1 from an owner over-reacting to one week. Anyway, here’s some more players to buy or sell this week in fantasy football:
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The horror…the horror…
Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz recites these words before his death in Apocalypse Now, which many historians consider to be one of the more accurate depictions of the Vietnam War. Football is a simulacrum of war, of the battlefield and of attrition. For every victory, there’s a loss. Healthy finishes are balanced by tough injuries. For every career started, there’s a career on the fritz. And it all plays out on our TV and is discussed on social media. Were you a bit embarrassed the last time you stubbed your toe, or slipped on some ice and fell, or biffed it at the gym? Now we’ve got the 8K 120 FPS hyper-zoom of injuries to the likes of Jerry Jeudy. We’ve got Aaron Rodgers crashing in real-time, his State Farm commercials reminding us of what could be if Rodgers went and hosted Jeopardy or did insurance commercials full time like Peyton Manning. It’s OK to lose the love of the game. It’s OK to admit your mortality. It’s not OK to look at Jordan Love and blame him for your downfall. For every commander that wins a battle, there’s another commander that loses. And what we’re left with is a story of the winners — but nobody’s perfect.
Let’s get everybody caught up on the stats and slates that made the news for Week 1 of the fantasy football season. As we go through, I’m going to focus more on players that you might want to add — you don’t really need me to recap Patrick Mahomes, do you? (If you do, please tell me)
Please, blog, may I have some more? Fantasy Football Gameday: Week 1
September 12, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 54 Commentsby: Donkey Teeth
Sunday morning has arrived and you spent all weekend on a drinking binge? Or worse (maybe better?), you’ve been up for 48 hours on six different types of drugs? Fear not, Razzball has all of your last-minute fantasy football needs covered. Over the past two days, Bobby has covered the best defensive matchups this week for both AFC and NFC fantasy wide receivers. Yesterday Skorish went through every fantasy-relevant injury to keep an eye on in his weekly Fantasy Football Injury Report. Down below I’ll give you some sneaky start options who might be available in your free agent pool if you’re in a bind, as well as my recently updated week 1 rankings for half PPR leagues. Feel free to ask me questions in the comments if you feel the rankings don’t address your specific circumstances. And please, please, please consider purchasing our 2021 fantasy football tools subscription. As intelligent and handsome as we all agree I am, my rankings are still packed full of bias and human error. Rudy’s computer model minimizes the human inputs and leans heavily on raw, untainted data inputs to provide a very valuable, differing viewpoint. Plus you receive all kinds of other benefits with your subscription including next-day snap count and target rate data. Anyway, here’s a few sneaky starts for week 1 of the 2021 fantasy football season:
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Defense Slot vs. Wide Analysis – NFC Home Games Week 1
September 11, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 2 Commentsby: Bobby LaMarco
If you haven’t read the first article on the AFC Home Games Click Here. That article provides an overview on what we are doing for this article.
The below chart outlines all the teams that are featured in the NFC home games in week 1 and listed by how many total fantasy points they allowed to the wide receiver position last season.
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Injury Report for 2021 Fantasy Football: Week 1
September 11, 2021 | Injury Report | 4 Commentsby: Skorish
Well, my precious goblins and ghouls, the football season is finally upon us. And naturally, with that, I have the grave responsibility to inform you fine specimens of the injuries that can and will impact your Week 1 fantasy rosters.
Such is life.
Let’s jump in and see who might be available on your waiver or can receive a bump in production from the gaps left by these poor, hurt souls.
Shall we?
The first injury to look at is… *checks notes* Oh the entire Ravens backfield. That’s not good! In just a few days the Ravens have lost their breakout star J.K. Dobbins, Justice Hill, and the most recently Gus Edwards to terrible season-ending injuries. In response, the team has signed Latavius Murray along with Le’Veon Bell and Devonta Freeman to their practice squad presumably to try to keep Lamar from having to rush approximately 10,000,000 yards per game. As of now, it looks like the Ravens are going to start the last running back left standing before the leg injury bloodbath, Ty’Son Williams, who might just have an opportunity against an uncertain Raiders pass rush under new defensive coordinator Gus Bradley and a reshaped defense. Look for Latavius Murray and Ty’Son Williams as a possible pick-up in leagues you might have had one of the injured fellows in and if you are feeling very adventurous maybe take a look at Le’Veon Bell or Devonta Freeman for a possible bounce-back campaign. I’m still not betting on that though, sorry Blair.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Defense Slot vs. Wide Analysis – AFC Home Games Week 1
September 10, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 1 Commentby: Bobby LaMarco
In this article we will break down how many fantasy points a defense allows to wide receivers from the slot vs. out wide. The analysis will hopefully help us better identify which types of wide receivers to target each week based on where they see the most targets.
For week 1 we will review how the teams in the AFC home games faired vs. slot and outside wide receivers in 2020. We will then look at what has potentially changed from last season and what information could repeat in 2021. The below chart outlines all the teams that are featured in the AFC home games in week 1 and listed by how many total fantasy points they allowed to the wide receiver position last season.
| AFC HOME GAMES | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Slot PPG | Wide PPG | Total PPG | % Slot |
| TEN | 12.3 | 24.6 | 36.9 | 33% |
| SEA | 13.1 | 21.3 | 34.4 | 38% |
| MIN | 10.5 | 23.7 | 34.2 | 31% |
| HOU | 13.2 | 19.7 | 32.9 | 40% |
| CLE | 13.3 | 19.3 | 32.6 | 41% |
| MIA | 11.3 | 20.8 | 32.1 | 35% |
| JAX | 10.4 | 21.3 | 31.7 | 33% |
| LV | 13.4 | 18.2 | 31.6 | 42% |
| IND | 11.9 | 18.9 | 30.8 | 39% |
| CIN | 9 | 21.1 | 30.1 | 30% |
| ARI | 11.5 | 17.5 | 28.9 | 40% |
| PIT | 11.4 | 17 | 28.4 | 40% |
| NE | 10.6 | 17.6 | 28.2 | 38% |
| BUF | 8.8 | 17.6 | 26.4 | 33% |
| BAL | 9.9 | 16.3 | 26.2 | 38% |
| KC | 8.9 | 16.8 | 25.7 | 35% |
