Week 9 fantasy football waiver wire pickups: Adrian Peterson, Jeremy McNichols, Derrick Gore and more - The Athletic

We’re passing the season’s halfway point of sorts, and two of the biggest fantasy football shakeups happened in Week 8. Derrick Henry could be out for the season, and Calvin Ridley is taking time away to focus on his life. Even though we’re into Week 9 waivers, the importance of the fantasy football pickups are as high as ever.

🚨 HEADS UP 🚨

Players must be under 60% rostered on Yahoo.

Listed in order of preference

Yes, I purposefully don’t include FAB amounts or percentages… WHY?

It’s always relative, as if you lost your RB1 to injury and there is a clear backup, you’re going to be more aggressive

Aggressiveness also varies by league, and additionally, if I said 60% or $40, that’s relative too because the percent might be way off depending on how much FAB budget you have left, and the dollars might be too much of your budget to leave enough wiggle room the rest of the way.

Streaming QB and TE are grouped together— their ranking might change slightly once projections/ranks run.

“I Tried to Tell Ya” are players mentioned several times, with not much more to add, and ranked ahead of everyone else, unless specified (injury-related, etc)

WORRY REPORT

More DUCKS (1-5) = More Concern (woo-hoo!)

Egg = 1/2… or about to birth a new concern duck

QUARTERBACK

Justin Herbert, LAC 🦆🥚 — Struggled against the

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Week 9 fantasy football waiver wire pickups: Adrian Peterson, Jeremy McNichols, Derrick Gore and more - The Athletic
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