Your NFL Fantasy Draft is over. Hopefully, you got some of your top targets, and didn’t take a team defense or a kicker before the 13th round.
Your gearing up for your Week 1 match ups (already geared up if you had players going in last night’s game) and making all your last second tweaks.
You may be good to go. You might try to swing a big trade. But if your in neither of those categories, you’re probably scouring the waiver wires like a seagull hoping to spot a bag of Doritos.
If that’s you, we’ve got you covered.
Here are the Top 5 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pick Ups:
#5 – Cody Latimer (WR) Denver Broncos
When it was announced earlier this week that Wes Welker woul be suspended for four games for substance abuse, Latimer instantly shot up in the WR depth chart to #3, respectively (behind Demaryius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders).
He plays with Peyton Manning. He’s got big play potential. Maybe you won’t get much out of him.
But if you’re shallow at WR, he’s worth acquiring, letting him sit for Week 1, and playing it by ear.
#4 – Marqise Lee (WR) Jacksonville Jaguars
This is far from a lock. The Jags’ QB situation is far from concrete. Most expect Chad Henne to be unseated by Blake Bortles at some point during the season.
That said, they’ve got to throw it to somebody, right?
Jacksonville is without its top two receivers, Ace Sanders and Justin Blackmon, for part if not all of the season because, well, they’re dummies who can’t stay out of trouble.
Cecil Shorts becomes the default WR1, but let’s face it, Shorts is unlikely to stay healthy.
So, the speedy USC product may see his fair share of targets. He didn’t have a great preseason, but he’s a rookie. He’ll figure it out.
In deeper 10 to 12 team leagues, Lee is a nice “grab and stash” option.
#3 – Andre Williams (RB) New York Giants
This one is a little iffy. Not because I have any reservations about you taking Williams, but more because of the fact he straight up just might not be available in your league.
Williams is 46.1-percent owned in ESPN leagues and 36-percent owned in Yahoo leagues.
So, if you’re playing with guys/girls who really did their research, he’s unavailable.
That said, if you can snatch him up, you need to do it. With David Wilson done for the season (and maybe forever), and Peyton Hillis looking shaky, at best, in the offseason, Williams will be a solid third down option for the Giants, and he will likely vulture some TDs away from starter Rashad Jennings.
#2 – Devonta Freeman (RB) Atlanta Falcons
Like Andre Williams, Freeman is not going to be available in some leagues.
Also like Williams, if Freeman is available in your league, you need to claim him before one of your buddies reads this.
Seriously.
Do it now.
If Stephen Jackson finishes the season healthy, it’ll be the first time in years. Moreover, even if he’s healthy, will he be the same?
Freeman will see a lot of snaps this year, even if Jackson is able to stay off the injured reserve. He’s a great option out of the backfield, so if you’re in a PPR league, you especially want to pick him up.
#1 – Travis Kelce (TE) Kansas City Chiefs
I’ve been on the Kelce bandwagon since Week 1 of the NFL Preseason.
If he’s not the second coming of Tony Gonzalez, then I’ll eat my hat.
(Good thing I’m not wearing a hat.)
The reason Kelce is a sleeper and not a lock is because he’s second on the depth chart behind Anthony Fasano — the same Anthony Fasano who only played nine games last year because of a “variety of injuries.”
Look, I’m not saying a guy can’t have a bounceback year, but you never want to hear that a guy misses almost half a season, and you can’t really pinpoint what was wrong.
And, the thing is, it doesn’t really matter what Fasano does. It isn’t about Fasano.
Stop bringing up Fasano.
It’s about Kelce. He’s a stud. He had more receiving yards than any other TE in the preseason, and 111 were after the catch.
Everything he does is exciting, and he’s nearly impossible to tackle in the open field.
(Full disclosure: Kelce missed most of last season with a microfracture injury. Do with that what you will. I just don’t want you to think I’m keeping secrets. K?)
Who are your top waiver wire sleeper pick ups?
