Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Rankings & Pickups (Week 13)

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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

Keon Coleman (BUF): 43% rostered

• Next Opponents: SF, @LAR, @DET
• True value: $4
• Desperate Need: $7
• Budget-minded: $1

Analysis: A wrist injury kept Coleman out of action in the two games before the Bills’ Week 11 bye. But in Weeks 7-8, Coleman had 9-195-1 on 14 targets and looked like a rising star. The 6-foot-4 Coleman is a dangerous big-play threat who’s averaging 19.0 yards per catch and 11.6 yards per target. Coleman has to share targets with Khalil Shakir, Amari Cooper and Dalton Kincaid, but star QB Josh Allen is the high tide that lifts all ships in the Buffalo offense. Coleman’s Week 13 matchup against the 49ers isn’t very enticing, but then he gets matchup against the Rams, Lions and Patriots. The Rams had allowed the 10th-most fantasy points to wide receivers going into Week 13, the Lions the eighth-most, and the Patriots the 11th-most. It’s possible Coleman takes another step forward late in his rookie season, and if that happens, you’ll want to be along for the ride.

Nick Westbrook-Ikhine (TEN): 12% rostered

• Next Opponents: @WSH, JAX, CIN
• True value: $1
• Desperate Need: $2
• Budget-minded: $0

Analysis: With his 38-yard TD catch in the Titans’ Week 12 upset of the Texans, Westbrook-Ikhine has scored a touchdown in six of his last seven games. He’s done it despite drawing no more than six targets in any game this season. In fact, Westbrook-Ikhine has only 30 targets and 17 receptions all year. He’s scored a touchdown on 35.3% of his catches and 20.0% of his targets. We can’t encourage you to chase this kind of production, because that would be irresponsible. But nor can we tell you that this type of production is unsustainable, because … well, because Westbrook-Ikhine has sustained it for nearly two months. You probably won’t be interested in starting Westbrook-Ikhine this week with all 32 teams in action and no one on bye. But when we get a six-team bye week in Week 14, Westbrook-Ikhine will conveniently be facing the flammable Jacksonville defense. That seems like a reasonable spot to use an enigmatic receiver with a nose for the end zone.

Devaughn Vele (DEN): 5% rostered

• Next Opponents: CLE, BYE, IND
• True value: $1
• Desperate Need: $2
• Budget-minded: $0

Analysis: The Broncos’ WR corps has been an unpredictable mishmash beyond No. 1 receiver Courtland Sutton for most of the season. But seventh-round rookie Devaughn Vele seems to be staking a claim on the No. 2 role. Sunday against the Raiders, Vele played 44 snaps, ran 31 routes and had nine targets. (Hat tip to PFF’s Nate Jahnke for the snap and route data.) Sutton was the only Denver receiver who surpassed Vele in those categories. Vele finished with six catches for a season-high 80 yards. Although Vele has scored only one touchdown this season, his 6-foot-5 frame suggests that he could become a formidable red-zone threat.

Zach Ertz (WSH): 48% rostered

• Next Opponents: TEN, BYE, @NO
• True value: $3
• Desperate Need: $5
• Budget-minded: $1

Analysis: Zach Ertz turned 34 earlier this month, and now that he’s in the twilight of his career, Ertz has become a textbook example of a catch-and-fall-down tight end. Once a playmaker who had a 1,163-yard season in 2018, Ertz now offers little big-play potential. The thing is, Ertz is catching and falling down a lot these days. He has 49 catches for 466 yards and three touchdowns. Ertz has had six receptions and a touchdown in each of his last two games. And with Commanders RB Austin Ekeler likely to be sidelined with a concussion in Week 13, Ertz will have little competition for Jayden Daniels‘ short-range targets. Ertz looks like a low-end TE1 for Week 13, which makes him worthy of a bid if you’re hurting at the TE position.

Noah Gray (KC): 4% rostered

• Next Opponents: LV, LAC, CLE
• True value: $1
• Desperate Need: $2
• Budget-minded: $0

Analysis: A week ago, we had Gray listed in the Fool’s Gold section of this article. We’re buying in now, although the buy-in is at least partly schedule-related. Gray has scored four touchdowns over the last two weeks, with two against the Bills in Week 11 and two against the Panthers in Week 12. Gray dwells in Travis Kelce‘s shadow and hasn’t seen more than five targets in a game this season, but Gray’s receptions are becoming increasingly impactful. After taking advantage of a Carolina defense that has given up the most fantasy points to tight ends, Gray now gets a Week 13 date with a Las Vegas defense that has allowed the second-most fantasy points to tight ends. Gray is a viable streaming option this week.