College Fantasy Football championships are won and lost on the waiver wire. Purple Reign has identified the players you need to target on this week’s waiver wire that will help give your fantasy team a champion’s edge.
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In the free preview below I will review players I feel are honorable mention waiver wire targets that did not make any of the specified target lists that are featured for premium subscribers.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
QUARTERBACKS
Dewayne Coleman (Army): Coleman was injured in the team’s season opener but made his return in Week 4. He did not start the game but came in and light a fire in the offense. He scored 30.75 fantasy points with 101 yards and 2 TDs passing, and 23 carries for 117 yards and 1 TD on the ground. He doesn’t have a good fantasy match-up until Week 6 so you’ll need a fantasy roster than is only looking for spot starters for later this season.
Tayven Jackson (UCF): In his first two games Jackson scored 22.6 & 21.55 fantasy points against an FCS school and Jacksonville State. He took on North Carolina and surprisingly put up 27.75 fantasy points on 223 yards and 1 TD passing, and 66 yards and 1 TD rushing. His rushing load is a bit lower than I would like (6.7 carries/game) and he’s only averaging 3.6 yards/carry.
RUNNING BACKS
Evan Dickens (Lib): Dickens had a difficult match-up against James Madison. In the two games before that he scored 17.8 & 18.7 fantasy points in competitive match-ups with Bowling Green and Jacksonville State. He’s averaging 34.8% of all rushing attempts, 5.7 yards/carry, 44.2% of all rushing yards, and all 50% of all rushing TDs.
Qua Ashley (Ball): Ashley has put together two good fantasy games in a row now. Last week against UConn he scored 17.5 fantasy points, and 37.7 fantasy points against an FCS school the week before. In that span he has had 30 carries for 240 yards and 3 TDs rushing, and 7 targets for 5 receptions, 47 yards and 1 TD receiving. Ashley has potential to become a good fantasy asset when MACtion rolls around next month.
Dontae McMillan (E Mi): McMillan is another potential MACtion breakout player waiting to happen. He was averaging 8.5 carries/game in the first two weeks, but since then has received 13 & 19 carries. I like that he is getting 39.5% of all rushing attempts and 59.6% of all rushing yards. What I don’t like here is that I have Eastern Michigan ranked #79 in fantasy rush offense, and McMillan has only scored 1 rushing TD.
Hayden Reed (Army): Reed’s stats are misleading because of an injury he suffered against Kansas State. In his other two games he’s scored 12.8 & 18.5 fantasy points and averaging 19 carries/game. Army has the #18 fantasy rushing offense and Reed who plays fullback is the first portion of the option that makes it work.
WIDE RECEIVERS
Jordan Napier (SDSU): The San Diego State passing game has taken a little time to get going and it shows in Napier’s fantasy production. From the start of the season Napier has scored 3.3, 10.8, and 26.5 fantasy points. He’s averaging 11 targets/game over the last two weeks, and for the season is responsible for 41.3% of all receptions and 43.2% of all receiving yards. He needs to increase is TD production but he got that started last week.
Chas Nimrod (SoFL): I’m a little torn on Nimrod’s fantasy potential. In Week 3 against Miami he had 10 targets for 4 receptions and 128 yards. In the other three games this year he has consistently gotten 5 targets (3, 3, 4 receptions). He has gotten 95+ receiving yards in two of those three games. Over the last three weeks he’s scored 25.9 & 14.8 fantasy points. His small workload and high yardage production scares me since that could be had to maintain over the rest of the season.
Isaiah Sategna (Okla): Sategna’s role in the offense has been expanding each week this season. His target total in each game has risen from 3 to 6 to 9 to 11. His yardage totals in each game have increased from 16 to 44 to 97 to 127 and he finally scored his first TD last week. This trend is pretty impressive and I want to believe he will maintain this role.
Dash Luke (MoSt): I see Luke as a name to monitor right now. In the last two weeks he’s scored 16.5 and 21.5 fantasy points. Those came against SMU and a FCS team. He had 6 targets against SMU (highest until last week), then it shot up to 11 targets last week. I worry that his performance last week could be a flash in the pan and want to see what he does against Western Kentucky this week before being willing to place him on my fantasy squads.
TIGHT ENDS
Chamon Metayer (AzSt): Metayer’s stats are skewed from not registering any stats against Mississippi State. He was playing hurt at the start of the year but now looks healthy. In the last two weeks he’s had 12 targets for 12 receptions, 115 yards and 1 TD. This week’s match-up against TCU looks like it will be a great game to throw him in your fantasy line-up.
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