Waiver Wire Watch

Waiver Wire Watch

Taylor: Fred Jackson for Christine Michael

Brandon Jacobs for Robert Woods

Taylor decided to drop his female running back and picked up a RB splitting time with CJ Spiller.  Turns out his players got 17 points for his bench.  Mainly depth pickups, but let’s face it.  Taylor has room to tinker with his team after the dominant performance in Week 2.

Brady: Eddie Royal for Jacquizz Rodgers

Easily the best early season pickup.  Eddie Royal has turned into a TD machine in San Diego.  5 TD’s through two games equals his TD numbers for the past three seasons combined.  Will he be able to keep up this hot streak?  Or just fade back into oblivion.  Time will tell.  But as for now, it’s a great pickup.

Mike: Julius Thomas for Cordarelle Patterson

Another good production day from a waiver wire pickup on the bench.  Julius Thomas had a good day with 10 points, but he was stuck on the bench.  Not sure what the reasoning for the pickup here was.  Mike already has Tony Gonzales and the TE position is a flex spot anyways.  With so many options in Denver it will be interesting to see if Julius Thomas can keep up this early production.  Patterson also scored 7 points in week two, and his role only stands to increase as he becomes more comfortable in the offense.

Jared: Jerome Simpson for Malcom Floyd

With Jared’s wealth of receivers any waiver wire pickups were purely depth based.  And this is still too early to call, both of them scored a few points, but Jerome Simpson did have a drop off in production as Malcom Floyd’s increased. 

Spike: Jared Cook for Ronnie Hillman

Spike continues his desire to start an entire team based on Rams players with the pickup of Jared Cook.  If this did nothing more than get Ronnie Hillman off his team this was a lgood pickup.  Ronnie Hillman looked confused and inept in Denver’s offense.

Austin: Lions D for Colts D

Not sure Austin’s reasoning here.  He already had two defenses so there seems to be no real reason to pick up another defense.  If the two you already have aren’t good enough you probably are doing something wrong.  But, you can’t argue with results.  With Spike’s Rams getting him 0 points and Austin getting 9 points from his new pickup he was able to pick up the victory and move to 2-0.

Jake: Joique Bell for Isaac Redman

Not sure what Jake was thinking here.  Redman was part of his team name!  For this the fantasy football gods cursed him while allowing him to score 93 points and still losing.  Joique Bell has had a good first two weeks, and Reggie Bush may get hurt at any minute with all the touches he’s getting.  But cutting part of your name will not be smiled upon.

The only good thing about this is that Redman has scored 0 points both weeks.

Dane: Robert Woods for Andre Brown

Dane seemed attracted to Robert Woods TD percentage.  Much like the author of this posting, in week one Robert Woods had 1 catch and 1 TD.  As good as that sounds to have a 100% catch-to-TD ratio, it’s not much to build on.  But dropping an injured player to pick up someone putting up points is always a good idea.