Top 4 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets: Quarterbacks (Week 15)

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 here’s our fantasy football waiver wire advice for Week 15.

Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets

QUARTERBACKS

Written by Bo McBrayer

Joe Flacco (CLE): 7% rostered

Next Opponents: CHI, @HOU, NYJ
True value: $4
Desperate need: $7
Budget-minded: $2

Analysis: It only took the Super Bowl XLVII MVP two weeks to cement himself as the best QB the Browns have had all season. Flacco passed for 311 yards and three touchdowns on Sunday, turning in 22.34 fantasy points. He also lines up as a premium QB streaming option over the next two weeks for fantasy playoffs quarterfinals and semifinals. Cleveland is a real contender this year, especially as good the Browns’ offense has looked with the wily vet at the helm.

Jake Browning (CIN): 27% rostered

Next Opponents: MIN, @PIT, @KC
True value: $4
Desperate need: $7
Budget-minded: $2

Analysis: What more do you need to see? The most decorated high school quarterback and winningest QB in Pac-12 history is also highly successful in the NFL. Browning was sharp again in Week 14 and has now scored 52.36 fantasy points in his last two starts. For at least one more week – a date with the Vikings – he remains a viable streamer with both a stable floor and QB1 ceiling.

Gardner Minshew (IND): 28% rostered

Next Opponents: PIT, @ATL, LV
True value: $2
Desperate need: $3
Budget-minded: $1

Analysis: By now, everyone understands the level of desperation for fantasy managers who have somehow made the playoffs despite so many QB injuries. Minshew is far from a sexy pick, but he’s certainly better than Bailey Zappe. The Patriots’ signal caller just cracked the Steelers open for 20 fantasy points last Thursday night, offering hope that the previously stout defense has exploitable weaknesses for Minshew in Week 15. He’s also a solid option against Atlanta in the fantasy semifinals.

Zach Wilson (NYJ): 4% rostered

Next Opponents: @MIA, WAS, @CLE
True value: $1
Desperate need: $2
Budget-minded: $0

Analysis: I noticed something different on Sunday. Zach Wilson was given the keys to the offense, the whole offense, for the first time of his career. He was stellar. The BYU standout gashed Houston for 300 yards and two touchdowns in the rain and thoroughly outperformed the presumptive offensive rookie of the year, C.J. Stroud. I don’t mind swinging for the fences with Wilson again this week. Miami has a middling defense, and the game script is likely to favor a lot of volume for Wilson and the Jets passing game. Any repeat of the rhythm and chemistry with Garrett Wilson that we witnessed on Sunday and the script writers will have outdone themselves. Imagine the bragging rights that would result from riding a presumed draft bust to a fantasy championship.