Top 5 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets: Running Backs (Week 15)

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RUNNING BACKS

Written by Bo McBrayer

Ty Chandler (MIN): 22% rostered

• Next Opponents: @CIN, DET, GB
• True value: $16
• Desperate need: $26
• Budget-minded: $8

Analysis: I’ve been preaching the Chandler gospel all season, but there’s finally an opening in the clouds for the second-year running back from North Carolina. Alexander Mattison left Sunday’s game with an ankle injury that could knock him out for multiple weeks. Chandler has been the better of the two anyway, even after a modest performance in Sunday’s 3-0 snoozer in Vegas. Chandler gets a favorable Week 15 matchup against a Cincinnati run defense that ranks 29th in DVOA. Here’s your chance to roster a potential league-winning flex play.

D’Onta Foreman (CHI): 38% rostered

• Next Opponents: @CLE, ARI, ATL
• True value: $13
• Desperate need: $20
• Budget-minded: $6

Analysis: Among the three healthy RBs the Bears now have, the elder statesman Foreman was the clear workhorse in the team’s Week 14 win over Detroit. He garnered 13 touches on the day to Khalil Herbert‘s three and rookie Roschon Johnson‘s one. This split was both a surprise and an affront to those of us who guessed Chicago would give Johnson more chances down the stretch, especially in Foreman’s first game back from injury. The Bears love to run the ball and are quite good at it. The former 2,000-yard rusher at the University of Texas is worth an add where available.

Jerick McKinnon (KC): 41% rostered

• Next Opponents: @NE, LV, CIN
• True value: $9
• Desperate need: $14
• Budget-minded: $4

Analysis: While many fantasy managers flocked to the waiver wire to add Clyde Edwards-Helaire, the Isiah Pacheco injury news meant only one Chiefs RB would be on my radar. McKinnon found the end zone on Sunday against Buffalo, giving him 12.70 PPR points. That was nearly four more points than CEH, even though McKinnon earned only seven touches to the younger back’s 13. Pacheco is iffy for next week in New England, so fight that RB attrition with a trusted figure playing alongside Patrick Mahomes.

Tyjae Spears (TEN): 44% rostered

• Next Opponents: HOU, SEA, @HOU
• True value: $5
• Desperate need: $9
• Budget-minded: $2

Analysis: Derrick Henry must be an alien incapable of being concussed. Henry did not return to the game after taking a hellacious hit in Week 13, paving the way for Spears to flash his incredible skills in the open field. December is normally when King Henry becomes an unrelenting nightmare for defenders with cold bones, but the rookie from Tulane has earned an opportunity to seize a bigger role. The Titans have this generation’s Tiki Barber and Brandon Jacobs if they choose to run a “thunder and lightning” tandem.

Chase Brown (CIN): 6% rostered

• Next Opponents: MIN, @PIT, @KC
• True value: $3
• Desperate need: $5
• Budget-minded: $1

Analysis: Color me shocked. After weeks of being mired behind Trayveon Williams on the Bengals depth chart, Brown, a rookie from Illinois, has exploded onto the scene as an exciting rotational complement to Joe Mixon. Brown was a fundamentally sound player through the draft process, but his athleticism was called into question. He reminds me a lot of Kyren Williams in that his football intelligence has staying power in the league. Brown scored 19.30 PPR points in Cincinnati’s Week 14 win over Indianapolis. A good chunk of that came from a middle screen where he navigated his blocking perfectly and broke away for a 54-yard house call. It’s encouraging that he got 12 touches on Sunday after getting nine the previous week.