Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 16 Waivers & QB Streamers, Bad Beats

I, he's been fantastic. I like, he's always the guy you don't want. Yeah, exactly. And the reason you don't want him right now is simply because the touchdowns aren't coming. But here's the past three weeks against Detroit, five for 116 against Pittsburgh, three for 72, last week against the Browns, six for 89. You aren't hearing Mike Wallace's name enough because he hasn't scored since week 11 against the Green Bay Packers. But now he gets to take on.

The Indianapolis Colts, who are their secondary is pretty banged up. And on top of that, they're bad. Mike Wallace, I think, is a, is a great option this week to go along with these other guys. Jeremy Macklin is not expected to play. So more targets for Mike Wallace. Joe Flacco is one of those really low level streaming options. But Mike Wallace will be the benefactor of Joe Flacko who.

Like Blake Borrell's, Joe Flacco has been playing a lot better for people who have been paying attention to that. So I like Mike Wallace a lot. I like Colin Westbrook and Martavis Bryant. You have fully convinced me on the Mike Wallace argument because I have been watching these games and constantly trying to remind myself that Mike Wallace is a legitimate thing. And I just keep forgetting because he's Mike Wallace. But, you know, look.

Antonio Brown, Mike Wallace, ex-teammates. Right. He's not replacing Antonio Brown, but you can be a plug and play guy that gets you double digits here this week. And I would say this, Indianapolis's run defense has been much improved over the second half of the season, which helps Mike Wallace need to be involved if they're not able to just run at will with Alex Collins.

Maybe one of the hardest things you can try to do in fantasy football is fine to start worthy running back in the final week of the season for a championship matchup. But if you had to take a shot, the main waiver wire guys right now, it would be Peyton Barber, who got the majority of the work if they want to check him out. It would be taking a shot in a New England running back. James White or Mike Gillisie, where would you lean in that dark throw? Because if Burkhead's going to be out, you're going to get D.L. Lewis.

He's going to be on the field a ton. I guess you know James White's going to be on the field. I guess I lean James White by pretty wide margin. Just because for floor? Yeah, and because, look, we know that Dionne Lewis isn't going to be out there for the entirety of this game. They don't want to give him that kind of a workload. And like you said, the floor for James White, the targets that maybe would have gone Burkhead's way, they're not going Gillisley's way, but they can go White's way. Yeah, it's very fair. So I think that he would be the guy who even,

in spite of being number three on the ladder, on the third rung. He's caught a touchdown here, there. So that's Riley. And Mike Gillisley. Oh, the glory play. I mean, you got to have a heart of stone to play Mike Gillisly, but it's not a bad option. Rex Burkhead has been getting a ton of goal line carries. And I honestly do expect the Patriot. The Patriot way is,

Okay, plug and play. Yeah. It's not say, okay, Dionne Lewis, you're shifting over now you're the full-time goal line back. It's we'll put Mike Gillisie right back in there. Yeah. If Mike Gillisley had multiple touchdowns this game. Would not surprise me. No. Elijah Penny, Carlin Williams running backs for the Cardinals. They play the Giants. This is a health check on Kerwin Williams. If he's good to go, Kerwin is the play. If he's.

Out Elijah Penny is, I mean, you're digging deep, but the Giants is a fantastic matchup, and they're at home. Throwing some probably owned guys out there, Bilal Powell, Duke Johnson, Theo Riddick. Those are to be other guys that you can take a peek on. Belal Powell is very interesting against the Chargers. He is, though every time I match people up with this terrible Chargers rushing defense, it never pans out the way I want. Also, it's worth saying, Amir Abdul is really frustrated with the fact that Riddick, he came out with the...

the injury briefly, and he was still behind Tion Green. So if he, you know, play better. There's a chance that Abdullah, like, that frustration could lead to just inactive in this game. So Tion Green and Theoretic could both be, like, viable streaming. Yeah, miracles. It's a situation to monitor, because if Abdullah is out, then Theoretic becomes a great play. Also, Chris Ivory. Don't forget Chris Ivory. If for some reason, Fournette does miss another game.

Ivory is going to be 17 carries last week. Right. He'll get voting. And he's 27% owned, so you need to pay attention to him there. And T.J. Eldon didn't really have that bad of a game either, six, seven, eight points in most leagues. At the tight-in position, we talked about it earlier. Hunter Henry's going to miss the next game. Antonio Gates. Likely. That's not a confirmation yet, but prepare for him to miss the game. Antonio Gates is an option. Who else do you guys like at tight-in? Mike?

Well, if this is, of course, he's probably owned, but check for Greg Olson. Maybe someone rage dropped him after the past two weeks because he's back, nine for 16 and a touchdown. But here, this is where it's, this is where your championships will be made. Yeah. On the backs of these streaming tight ends. Eric Ebron has been very involved lately, even scoring a touchdown last week coming off. So this is two very strong performances.

Mr. Playoffs, aka Mr. Necessary, Charles Clay 5 for 68 on nine targets. Tyrod comes in. Nine targets for Charles Clay. Now, he's on the road against New England, so the matchups not my favorite. Yeah, that stinks. It's been, they have not, the Patriots have not given up a touchdown to the tight end since week six. And I am deciding for my championship, I have both of these guys on my roster, Charles Clay.

guy who I hopped on his back last year and got the championship in the listener league. He is who I have been expecting to play after having lost Hunter Henry or Cameron Brate, who things are lining up for him. If O.J. Howard is out and Thomas Davis is out. Yeah, you might have. Deshaun Jackson is out. I lean Brate, but it just seems less magical to me. Look, Charles Clay, I'm a spoiler alert.

They do a little secret Santa around the Buffalo Bill's locker room. Your secret Santa's Tyrod Taylor. When he's in the lineup, the targets come, the production comes, and the likelihood of you being down in this game and having to move the ball through the air a little bit, it's there.

Anybody else do you want to touch on at the tight end position before you get into streaming quarterback? You know, Vernon Davis is okay. Denver has been susceptible to the tight end. He's been a hard guy to trust, but you still have the boom potential from Vernon Davis, where if I'm digging deep and I'm looking at would I rather have a Ricky Seals Jones or a Jesse James, I would rather have Vernon Davis. By the way, for Ricky Seals Jones's disappointing performance,

Troy Nicholas out snapped him. Yeah. So that's worth noting. We thought Jermaine Gresham being out of there meant, you know, the fact of the matter is he can't block. Right. So I think Nicholas is in there for more snaps. Seals Jones has his niche role. Back to the ocean. You're going to, oh, oh, or, you know, he's going to get in there for 30, 35 snaps and run.

10 routes and get 5 or 6 targets. Don't underestimate the power of a good defense in week 16. Certainly. Hopefully you already picked a couple up. But if you didn't, these are the defenses that we love in this upcoming week. The Bears. The Bears. Against Deshaun Kaiser and the Cleveland Browns. And this is at home. And this is Deshaun Kaiser. And Kaiser loves to throw the ball to the opponent. The Bears have been a top 10 fantasy defense. Almost as much as he loves to get sacked.

Yeah. It's tough. It's up in the air for him. Which one? Well, ask Kaiser. Would you rather get sacked or throw a pick or do both at the same time? That's his choice. That's his choice. Is that sack where the ball goes in the air? Oh, that's Winston's favorite. We call that the James. The James. But yeah, I like the Bears a lot. They're a top 10 fantasy defense on the season, very underrated, not just in real life, but for fantasy. They've been okay. And now.

At home in a cold weather game, what I see from the Bears is not necessarily like, okay, they're going to be this high scoring win you the week. But they are, to me, safe. Safe. The Chargers. 67% own, but against Bryce Petty's jets, let Bryce Petty get a taste of Melvin Ingram and Joey Bosa. And he won't like, he won't like it very much. The Patriots. This doesn't taste good. It's very bitter.

Yes, it's nice. It tastes like turf. The Patriots, they have a home game against the Buffalo. I heard turd at first. Turf makes a lot more sense. Yeah, yeah. The paths played the Buffalo Bills. The Cardinals, take on the Giants. The Cardinals, I like the Bears a lot. Hopefully you have those Ravens that was talking about a month ago. But the Cardinals at home against the Giants, I know the Giants.

took off. They took flights, so to speak, against the Eagles. Divisional game, weird things happen. I feel very confident despite that performance by the Giants to play the Cardinals at home. I also think the Pittsburgh Steelers could be an option. I know that their defense has gotten worse with the loss of Ryan Shazir, but they're going to figure it out and they're going up against T.J. Gates. I think that's the key there. They have something to play for here.

maintaining, you know, home field. And at this point, you've got to trust in any defense against T.J. Yates. Full stream ahead. All right. If you have to stream in week 16, where are you going, Mike? You know where I'm going. Back to the Bort? Yes. Never abort championships with Blake Bortles.

My rising star, my stream, my start, my everything. Mike, I notice you forego the warning this time. Because the warning is not needed. If you still need the warning, you're not paying attention to what Blake Bortles is doing. He is balling out. Multi touchdowns the last three weeks. No interceptions. Going deep. The yards per attempt. Look, Blake Bortles.

is a great option this week on the road against San Francisco. He is absolutely on fire. Keel and Cole is on fire. Look, I talked about I have James Winston in my championship week against Andy. It's a dynasty, so I can't grab Blake Bortals. If I had the option to go Blake Bortles over James Winston, I would do it. Yeah, I would too. So as San Francisco, they're playing for the potential to.

You know, get into that number two seed mix. I think it's a great start. Yes, it's not bad. Last week, last week, all three streamers worked out well. Jimmy G. Blake Borels, Case Keenum. That's right. Yeah. That's nice. I think Case Keenum at home, you can stay with him. He's not really a streamer option anymore. But if you had picked him up, roll with him. Yeah, I just, man, come on, Rogers. Play. Make Case Keenum have to keep throwing the ball.

For me this week, how many touchdowns did Blake Bortle's throw last week? Three. That's pretty good, but it's not as good as my guy. Oh, Nick Foles, four touchdowns, no interceptions. It looked like that magical year he had.

where he threw, what was it, like 28 touchdowns and four interceptions. He was an eagle. He's a good Eagles quarter. All the pieces for success are around him. He's protected in the pocket. The defense gives him short fields. He's got Aguilar and he's got Alshan Jeffrey and Ertz. I mean, the weapons are all there. And it's the Monday night game. Against Oakland. You get to win your title on Monday night with Nick Foles. Isn't that the thing you want to hang in your?

On your record? Yeah. Now, I will say this. The Oakland Raiders, they are a terrible defense. But the last three weeks, they have been much better. They have not even given up, they haven't even given up 15 points to a quarterback in the last three weeks. Part of that, you know, is. Give me those quarterbacks. So the quarterbacks was Week 13, New York. I don't think that, was that the week Eli was out? Yes. Okay, so that doesn't count. Then you had Kansas City, Alex Smith.

They shut him down pretty good. That's legit. And then last week, Dak Prescott took himself out by throwing bad passes everywhere. Yeah. So I don't give the credit there to Oakland. So a mixed bag. I don't think you're going to see another four touchdown zero interception game. But Nick Foles, he's got enough weapons around him. And he is capable enough to where you can roll him out for the second week. Foles and Bortles getting championships won just like everyone thought.