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We interrupt your regularly scheduled fantasy chit-chat to honor one of MSF’s longest tenured featured writers.
You know him as Kurt Fraschetti, Senior Fantasy Football writer for MSF as well as the Managing Editor of Pro Football Insight…but now you can also call him Joe, as in Fantasy Joe.
If you’re familiar with me, welcome back. If you’re new to the article, welcome!
Week 12 means you have two weeks to crap or get off the pot. The playoff push is here, and you need players. I have a few great pickups this week that WILL produce.
Let’s look at how I did last week on my Week 11 Sleepers and Waiver Wire Steals, then start naming names for Week 12.
Pro Football Insight is back again with our Week 3 waiver wire steals and sleepers.
If you caught last week’s waiver wire steals column, you benefitted from picking up Todd Heap and from a quality performance off the waiver wire in the Atlanta Falcons Defense.
Here is a quick teaser of this week’s predictions, and then a link to this week’s complete set of waiver wire steals.
I will start by saying that if anyone is calling Steve Smith or Mario Manningham a sleeper or waiver wire pick up, they are definitely not going out on a limb. These two are no-brainers to get on your roster if available, and are worthy of starts if you do not have a quality #1 receiver.
I was going to call Manningham a waiver wire steal last week, but as a Wolverines fan, I avoid picking from my heart. With that in mind, I did pick him up for last week in every league I’m…I just did not start him. Enough small talk, onto this week’s injury and/or poor draft pick fillers:
1. Tashard Choice – RB – Dallas Cowboys
If you own Marion Barber and did not draft Felix Jones, Choice will get carries in Barber’s absence. As Jerod updated earlier today here on MSF, reports out of Dallas are saying that Barber will most likely miss Monday’s game against Carolina. You still want to check the injury reports heading into Sunday, but that’s the latest as of right now.
As for Choice, no he will not put up Barber numbers, but he will produce points in a tandem with Felix Jones. Tashard Choice is a solid substitute for Barber and is a solid flex-level play who could produce RB#2-like numbers.
Update: Definitely keep your eye on Marion Barber’s status. The latest update, at least according to ESPN, is that Barber received treatment yesterday and hopes to play Monday night. Looks like this will be a Sunday morning decision and you’ll just have to base your thoughts on Barber’s status for Monday night — which will obviously influence Choice’s value — on as much info as you have.
There are still four more solid gold Week 3 waiver wire steals awaiting you at ProFootballInsight.net. Follow the link for the rest the Week 3 waiver wire steals.
And, as always, feel free to use the comment section here or at PFI to ask your fantasy football lineup question.
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* – Tashard Choice photo credit: Tom Fox / DMN Photo Staff via Denton Record-Chronicle
