Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups to Avoid: Tyler Higbee, Samaje Perine, Justin Watson (Week 13)

Here are a few players to avoid when making your fantasy football waiver wire pickups. And check out all of our Week 13 fantasy football waiver wire advice.

Waiver Wire Pickups to Avoid

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After not scoring a touchdown in the first 11 weeks of the season, Tyler Higbee rang the bell twice on Sunday. But Higbee had only 29 receiving yards on five receptions, and since Week 5, he’s averaged just 19.4 receiving yards per game. With WRs Cooper Kupp and Puka Nacua hogging targets for the Rams, Higbee will disappear from the offense all too frequently.

Samaje Perine had 7-55-1 rushing and 1-11-0 receiving against the browns on Sunday, and he had 7-60-0 receiving against the Vikings in Week 11. Perine seems to have recaptured the No. 2 spot on Denver’s RB depth chart, leapfrogging rookie Jaleel McLaughlin. But Perine had a puny 26.9% snap share in Week 12, as Javonte Williams continues to dominate snaps and touches for the Broncos. Perine isn’t a great handcuff either, because if Javonte were to go down, Broncos head coach Sean McVay would probably use a mixture of Perine and McLaughlin.

Justin Watson has scored a touchdown in each of his last two games for the Chiefs. His 3-yard touchdown against the Raiders in Week 12 was his only catch of the day, however. Watson had 5-53-1 on 11 targets against the Eagles the previous week, but Watson hasn’t seen more than five targets in any other game this season, and his weekly snap shares routinely hover between 40% and 65%.