Top 5 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets: Kickers (Week 9)

We will have you covered throughout the 2023 fantasy football season with our bevy of tools, including our Waiver Wire Assistant. Find the top available players and get detailed analysis on how potential waiver wire adds will impact your team. Of course, our team of analysts will also have written advice each week. Check out some of our top waiver wire targets for the week below. And check out all of our fantasy football waiver wire advice for Week 9.

Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets

Blake Grupe (NO): 17% rostered

Next Opponents: CHI, @MIN, BYE
True value: $1
Desperate need: $2
Budget-minded: $0

Analysis: Grupe had attempted at least two field goals in every game this season until Week 8, when his only attempt was a successful 27-yarder against the Colts. Grupe did, however, make all five of his PAT tries on Sunday. He entered Week 8 ranked ninth in fantasy points per game among kickers. Grupe gets good indoor matchups the next two weeks against the Bears and Vikings, two teams that may struggle to move the ball. The Bears have been without QB Justin Fields (thumb), and the Vikings will be without QB Kirk Cousins (Achilles).

Ka’imi Fairbairn (HOU): 15% rostered

Next Opponents: TB, @CIN, ARI
True value: $1
Desperate need: $2
Budget-minded: $0

Analysis: Fairbairn’s only kicking opportunity on Sunday was a measly extra point, as the Texans’ offense sputtered in a 15-13 loss to the Panthers. But Houston has been respectable on offense this season, and Fairbairn went into Week 8 ranked fourth among kickers in fantasy points per game with 10.8. Fairbairn has missed only one field goal in 2023 and is perfect on extra points. He gets a solid Week 9 matchup against the Buccaneers, who went into Week 8 having allowed the eighth-most fantasy points to kickers.

Matt Gay (IND): 20% rostered

Next Opponents: @CAR, @NE, BYE
True value: $1
Desperate need: $2
Budget-minded: $0

Analysis: Gay is 14-of-16 on field goals and 21-of-21 on extra points this season. He and the Colts face the Panthers this week, and while Carolina has actually been one of the stingier teams to opposing kickers so far this season, the 1-6 Panthers should in theory be a decent matchup for opposing kickers. In Week 10, Gay gets a good matchup against the Patriots, who have been hemorrhaging fantasy points to kickers all season.

Cameron Dicker (LAC): 34% rostered

Next Opponents: @NYJ, DET, @GB
True value: $1
Desperate need: $1
Budget-minded: $0

Analysis: Dicker gets a positive Week 9 matchup against the Jets, who entered Week 8 having allowed 10.2 fantasy points per game to kickers, sixth-most in the league. But the usual Dicker caveat applies: He’s a very accurate kicker (29-of-31 on career FGs and 40-of-40 on career PATs going into Week 8), but the fourth-down aggression of Chargers head coach Brandon Staley will occasionally rob Dicker of field goal opportunities.

Nick Folk (TEN): 18% rostered

Next Opponents: @PIT, @TB, @JAX
True value: $1
Desperate need: $1
Budget-minded: $0

Analysis: Do we trust rookie QB Will Levis to keep it rolling after throwing four TD passes in his first NFL start? Folk went into Week 8 tied for fourth in fantasy points per game (10.8) among kickers, and he hasn’t missed a kick all season, having gone 16-of-16 on field goals and 12-of-12 on extra points. But Folk’s fate is tied to his offense, and while Levis was undeniably impressive in his NFL debut, it’s possible he’ll struggle in a road game against the Steelers. Feeling lucky?