Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Rankings & Pickups (Week 8)

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Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Rankings

Note: Players chosen based upon having early-week consensus roster percent below 50%.

Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups to Target: Week 8

Jauan Jennings (SF): 29% rostered

• Next Opponents: DAL, BYE, @TB
• True value: $14
• Desperate Need: $25
• Budget-minded: $8

Analysis: Jennings is dealing with a hip injury and didn’t practice at all last week, but he should walk into a big role once he returns to the lineup now that Brandon Aiyuk is most likely out for the season with what is believed to be a torn ACL. Jennings has three games this season with more than 60 receiving yards and two top-36 weekly WR finishes. Jennings has drawn an 18.9% target share and a 23.1% first-read share, with 2.91 yards per route run and five end-zone targets (per Fantasy Points Data). Jennings could be a weekly WR3/flex play moving forward.

Keon Coleman (BUF): 32% rostered

• Next Opponents: @SEA, MIA, @IND
• True value: $4
• Desperate Need: $6
• Budget-minded: $2

Analysis: Coleman tied for the team lead in target share in Week 7 (21.2%) while leading the way with four receptions and 125 receiving yards. We’ll see if Amari Cooper‘s arrival continues to help or eventually hurts Coleman’s numbers for the rest of the season, but this was an encouraging first step. Coleman has wonderful matchups in two of his next three games against Seattle and Indy. Seattle has allowed the eighth-most PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers (per Fantasy Points Data). Indy has given up the seventh-most receiving yards per game to outside wide receivers.

Ricky Pearsall (SF): 13% rostered

• Next Opponents: DAL, BYE, @TB
• True value: $3
• Desperate Need: $5
• Budget-minded: $2

Analysis: In his first NFL regular-season action, Pearsall was pressed into action. Deebo Samuel was dealing with an unannounced illness and left the game after the first quarter. Brandon Aiyuk was lost for the season with a horrific knee injury. Pearsall led the San Francisco wide receivers in snaps while drawing a 16.1% target share and finishing with 21 receiving yards. Brighter days are ahead for Pearsall. The team will need him and Jauan Jennings to step up for the rest of the season without Aiyuk. Investing in a first-round NFL Draft pick tied to one of the league’s best playcallers, who now has a need for pass game weapons? OK, sign me up.

Cedric Tillman (CLE): 0% rostered

• Next Opponents: BAL, LAC, BYE
• True value: $3
• Desperate Need: $5
• Budget-minded: $2

Analysis: Tillman exploded onto the fantasy scene this past week with a 23% target share, eight receptions and a team-leading 81 receiving yards. Someone has to step up consistently opposite David Njoku in this passing attack moving forward, right? That’s the hope with adding Tillman. The Cleveland passing game has been putrid for most of the season, with Jerry Jeudy and Amari Cooper leading the way. With a changing of the guard under center with Deshaun Watson out with an Achilles injury, Tillman could lead the charge if Cleveland also decides to flip the hierarchy of targets behind TE David Njoku. Tillman could build upon his Week 7 success with a Week 8 matchup against a Baltimore secondary that has allowed the 12th-most PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers (per Fantasy Points Data).