Week 9 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire

WAIVER WIRE WEEK 9

This is our waiver wire pick-ups column. Dave B scours the free agent pools in fantasy land for the best available talent every week. Availability, of course, depends on the league. We’re using 12 team, 15 roster spot leagues as the median, but we’ll look for roster candidates for leagues of all shapes and sizes.

After all of the weekly games are finished be sure to check our cheatsheets, a who’s hot, and who’s not report plus more in our fantasy football guide.

Week 8 is over and some new players have emerged as potentially dangerous weapons for Week 9.

Below is Dave B’s week 9 Waiver Wire – I hope that some weapons can be found!

QBs

Matthew Stafford – Detroit Lions – Stafford may have been dropped. In case he has, now is time to pick him up. Stafford played his first game since Week 1 and showed absolutely no rust at all, passing for 212 yards and four touchdowns. He has the easiest schedule in the league remaining and could easily finish the year as an every week play.

Jon Kitna – Dallas Cowboys – Kitna threw for 379 yards in his first start but tossed four interceptions (3 of which were not his fault). He has shown that he knows how to use the talented receivers and as long as the Cowboys keep falling behind, he’ll keep throwing.

Josh Freeman – Tampa Bay Buccaneers – He is a consistent performer – nothing great but not too bad either. 200 yards and 1-2 touchdowns in guaranteed but Freeman has enormous upside.

Others to Monitor: Derek Anderson – Arizona Cardinals, Troy Smith – San Francisco 49ers, Tavaris Jackson – Minnesota Vikings

RBs

Benjarvus Green-Ellis – New England Patriots – I was a bit down on this guy, thinking that Danny Woodhead was about to pass him on the depth charts but I was wrong. He had 17 rushes, 112 yards and two touchdowns in Week 8. He is the red zone guy and the starter on a 6-1 team.

LaGarrette Blount – Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Blount also emerged in Week 8 and had two touchdowns with his 120 yards receiving. He is by far the most dangerous man out of the Buccaneers backfield and looks like the only real RB threat in an emerging offense.

Keland Williams – Washington Redskins – Ryan Torain left Sunday’s game with a bad hamstring leaving the door wide open for Williams. We all know that Mike Shanahan likes his running back projects – Williams may be that guy. 9 touches, 53 combined yards and a touchdown on Sunday is proof.

WRs

Steve Breaston – Arizona Cardinals – He probably went undrafted in your league but in his first game back from knee surgery, he gained 147 yards on eight catches. Derek Anderson will be the quarterback in Arizona and he appears to look Breaston’s way first.

Nate Washington – Tennessee Titans – Kenny Britt injured his hamstring in Week 8 – shame because of the amazing Week 7 that he had. Washington is a proven talent and with the Titans opening up the offense a little bit, Washington could be in line for some more work going forward.

Nate Burleson – Detroit Lions – Burleson missed a few games because of injury but came back and appears to be a favourite target for Matthew Stafford. He had 9 targets on Sunday and has Buffalo, Dallas and New England on the schedule.

Others to Monitor – Lavelle Hawkins – Tennessee Titans, Darius Heyward-Bey – Oakland Raiders, Laurent Robinson – St. Louis Rams, Brandon LaFell – Carolina Panthers

TEs

Sorry – there is no really interesting Tight Ends to pickups this week. Greg Olsen of the Chicago Bears is an intriguing outlet for Mr. Cutler and Jermaine Gresham of Cincinnati may be available, but both are less than exciting.

Defense

Arizona Cardinals –The Cardinals have been superb in the last four games or so. Over the last four games, they are generating sacks (almost 3 per games); getting 1 interception and just over 1 fumble recovery. The Cards have also averaged one defensive touchdown per game over the last four.

Detroit Lions – The Lions generated 7 sacks and 2 turnovers last week and evens scored a defensive touchdown. Buffalo and Dallas are on tap for this emerging defense.

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Dave B has been a Fantasy Football Junkie and writer for CappersPicks.com for 10 years. A couch potato wannabe, Dave’s insights have been read by 10’s of people for years. He hope’s for world peace + global relaxation. Enjoy folks – and remember only smoke things that are completely natural.