Who To Pickup for Fantasy Football In Week 14
Caleb Williams, QB | CHI
Rostered: 52%
Every appearance Caleb Williams may make on the waiver wire column for the remainder of the year will have to be purely about his performance and ability as a young quarterback. The schedule does him no favors without a single bottom-half pass defense remaining.
Over the past two weeks, Williams has thrown for 596 yards and five touchdowns while adding 72 yards on the ground. He's scored 26 fantasy points in both games. Those are elite QB1 numbers.
We often see teams play inspired football the week after firing their head coach. We saw the Chicago Bears improve considerably after they got rid of OC Shane Waldron. Now, with Matt Eberflus shown the door and an underwhelming San Francisco 49ers team on tap, we could see the Bears continue to make strides.
Has Williams turned a corner? I don't know. But the fantasy numbers are there.
Sincere McCormick, RB | LV
Rostered: 0%
Here's a fun exercise I just thought of: Before the season, go through the list of players in the NFL and pick out the most random ones you think could potentially be fantasy-relevant at some point. If we did this exercise in August, I guarantee you not one person would have even looked at Sincere McCormick.
The Raiders entered the season with Zamir White and Alexander Mattison as their top two RBs. They also drafted Dylan Laube on Day 3. Yet, with White and Mattison hurt, it was 2022 UDFA McCormick who operated as the RB2 behind Ameer Abdullah.
McCormick hadn't so much as gotten himself active for a single game until Week 5 of this year and didn't play an offensive snap until two weeks ago. Yet, against the Kansas City Chiefs on Black Friday, McCormick not only led the Raiders in carries, he led the entire game in rushing, carrying the ball 12 times for 84 yards against the best run defense in the NFL.
We could see one of Mattison or White return soon. However, neither has any sort of pedigree or heavy investment warranting his job back. Antonio Pierce spoke highly of McCormick, meaning we could see him maintain his 1B role. With one of the most favorable rest-of-season schedules for RBs, McCormick is worth a look in deeper leagues.
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How Does the NFL Fantasy Waiver Wire Work?
Once a fantasy football draft is completed, the waiver wire is the primary way to add talent to your team. The waiver wire is the list of players who were not drafted and are essentially “free agents.” They can be added to your roster at various times during the week. The first run traditionally clears on Wednesday and then daily after that until Sunday’s games.
That said, it’s vital to see if your league’s waivers are on a first-come, first-serve basis with no set time and date. In those leagues, you can add a player anytime you want, rewarding those who are on top of the news.
In most leagues, teams operate with a set waiver priority order. The team with the highest waiver priority (waiver position #1) will get any player they claim. The team in waiver position #2 will get any player they claim unless the team in position #1 claims him first, and so on. When a team gets a successful waiver claim, they move to the bottom of the order, and the teams below them move up one spot each.