We did it. We had Bye-Mageddon 1.0 and lived to tell. Well, unless you had to face Joe Mixon or Justin Fields with multiple studs sitting out on your bench. Lo siento mucho, familia.

Now you’re looking at the waiver wire and it’s looking like a Vegas buffet 15 minutes to closing. There’s no more crab legs. The shrimp cocktail is picked pretty clean. The Mexican food area has cheese enchiladas just mashed up in a pile. 

But you may need a player, especially after so many of us got the numbing news that Josh Allen may have an injured UCL in his throwing arm. In this, the year of the injury and regression, we just take it in stride and see if there’s something we can do to salvage the season if Allen does indeed miss time. My SFB12 team certainly hopes that doesn’t happen. 

So let’s talk some waivers. Not a very robust list. In fact, I almost didn’t put a QB, but relented because of the Allen injury. So no more delaying, time to rock Los Peekups before we rock the vote. Or if you already voted, muchas gracias for exercising your civic duty. As always, these are player rostered in less than 50% of Yahoo leagues. One guy who’s just above the threshold at 53% is Jeff Wilson Jr. If he’s available in your league, gotta grab him. No analysis needed other than to say that he won the touch battle with Raheem Mostert, 12-9. It’s a timeshare, but Wilson can make the most of his touches. OK, time Salud!

QUARTERBACK
KENNY PICKETT (8%) vs NO
This is only for super flex leagues, but coming off the bye Pickett has a nice run of defenses coming up. The Saints are still without ace CB Marshawn Lattimore, and this game is in Pittsburgh – dome teams on the road in weather always a plus for the home team. After that game, the Steelers play the Bengals (injured secondary), Colts (interim HC) and Falcons (338 pass YPG). I can see Pickett having at least one blowup game in there. 

RUNNING BACK
KYREN WILLIAMS (42%) vs AZ
Watching the mostly futile attempts by the Rams to run the ball, I can see that Williams is going to get a shot. Cam Akers is also rostered on just 42% of teams, but I’m not sure he helped himself with his 5-3-0 line against the Buccaneers. Williams is reputed to excel at pass blocking and catching passes out of the backfield. With injuries piling up all over, Williams could be good insurance.

KENNETH GAINWELL (14%) vs WAS
Yes, this was one of my preseason sleepers that hasn’t panned out. He trailed Miles Sanders 42-18 in snaps, and touches, 17-7. Yet the Eagles gave him a goal-line carry that he converted into a TD. Gainwell now has 3 TDs in 8 games. The Eagles are winning big, and are favored by Vegas in every game the rest of the way. Gainwell could get some garbage-time work and fall into the end zone. With byes still happening, having a runner in a great offense and behind a O-line is good insurance. 

WIDE RECEIVER
WAN’DALE ROBINSON (25%) vs HOU
If you had to drop him for Bye-Mageddon, he’s someone to consider re-adding. The Giants have the Texans and Lions the next two weeks. Daniel Jones still needs a weapon on the outside to show up. Robinson is a great lottery ticket who has decent matchups in the fantasy playoffs (Weeks 15-17): @ Washington, @ Minnesota and Indianapolis.  

ODELL BECKHAM JR. (24%) FREE AGENT
OBJ is reportedly getting close to being ready to join a team. It’s almost 9 months since he was injured in the Super Bowl, which is the minimum timeframe that Dr. Edwin Porras and other medical professionals recommend before returning to game action. That doesn’t mean he’s going to sign and be on the field next Sunday. He could sign and still take some time to ramp up, even after beginning to play. If you have the bench spot to stash him, do so with the idea that he might not be ready until the fantasy playoffs. And even that might be overly optimistic. But that’s a dart throw worth taking.

TERRACE MARSHALL (6%) vs ATL
Marshall ran the same number of routes as D.J. Moore against Cincinnati, 31 each. While the Panthers looked like a mid-major traveling to play Alabama this past week, the previous week Marshall caught 4 balls for 87 yards against the Falcons. It’s a short week with a Thursday Night Football game coming up, and P.J. Walker has already been announced as the starter. Marshall is a flex option with a potentially friendly fantasy playoff schedule: Pittsburgh, Detroit and @ Tampa Bay.

TIGHT END
COLE KMET (23%) vs DET
I’m not just picking Kmet up because his TD celebration is him swinging an invisible bat. It’s that he did that TD celebration twice against the Dolphins, a week after scoring his first TD in almost 2 full years. With the Bears’ offense on the uptick as the arrow points upward for Justin Fields, Kmet’s prospects are pointing up as well. Kmet ran 31 routes against Miami, just behind Darnell Mooney. He had a season-high 6 targets, turning them into a 5-41-2 line. Detroit is #28 against the TE, and a game in Atlanta follows. The Falcons are allowing 338 passing YPG since Week 5. 

GREG DULCICH (35%) @ TEN
Dulcich ran 32 routes in the Broncos’ Week 8 game before the bye. Jerry Jeudy and Courtland Sutton ran just two more. Dulcich is a solid part of this passing game, and the Titans just got trampled by Travis Kelce for 10 catches and 106 yards. I’d take 60% of that production this week. 

STREAMING DEFENSE OF THE WEEK
SEATTLE (29%) vs TB in GERMANY
The Seahawks have 19 sacks in the last four weeks, and now face the crumbling interior line of the Buccaneers. For the first NFL game played on German soil, the locals will see the GOAT Tom Brady under siege much of the afternoon.  

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