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.
Premium subscribers will have access to hand chosen waiver wire targets from Joe Arpasi’s top selections. In the free preview below I will review players I feel are honorable mention waiver wire targets that did not make Joe’s top selections lists that are featured for premium subscribers.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
QUARTERBACKS
BEAR BACHMEIER (BYU) 26% Rostered
Volume Workload Target
Bachmeier has scored 24.7+ fantasy points in his last 5 games. He has managed to hit 30+ fantasy points once in a tough match up with Arizona. He has been pretty consistent in his fantasy scoring despite the quality of opponent. He is the safest floor play of all these honorable mention QBs.
CALE HELLUMS (Army) 5% Rostered
Hellums took control of the starting job at the start of October has has played fairly well. He’s put in three straight 28+ fantasy point performances. Its surprising that he isn’t getting a high volume workload like most option offense QBs get. Its unfortunate that he has two bye weeks coming up but all his match ups shown (rushing match up grades) are very good.
JC FRENCH (GaSo) 13% Rostered
Current Week Match-Up Target
Volume Workload Target
I’m not totally convinced on French’s fantasy value despite the fact he has scored 29.45 and 37 fantasy points in his last two games. In the two games before that he failed to score 20 fantasy points in either game. He only has one unfavorable match up remaining on the schedule so he’ll have he opportunity to try and keep this hot streak going.
JJ KOHL (App) 6% Rostered
Current Week Match-Up Target
After filling in for an injured AJ Swann it appears that Swann is healthy again but Kohl isn’t giving up the starting job. In his three games as a starter Kohl has scored 20.5, 31.65, & 22.8 fantasy points. His floor isn’t as high as you’d like to see from a player that could crack your starting line up at this point in the season though.
TUCKER KILCREASE (Troy) 6% Rostered
Volume Workload Target
After a hot streak of scoring 30.35 and 42.35 fantasy points, Kilcrease was brought back down to Earth last week with a 14.85 fantasy point performance. He’s only thrown the ball for 30+ attempts in one game which means he needs to rely on rushing stats for fantasy value. In his last five games he has rushed for negative yards three times which means he may not be reliable enough for your starting line up.
RUNNING BACKS
KADARIUS CALLOWAY (NMS) 3% Rostered
After being banged up Calloway has returned to form. In his last two games he has carried the ball 15 and 18 times, score a TD in each game, and scored 19.5 and 15 fantasy points. He hasn’t broke 100 yards in those games which means he may have a lower fantasy ceiling. But he is just 0.5 carries/targets pr game away from being a workload volume target.
EVAN DICKENS (Lib) 10% Rostered
Dickens was playing hurt at the end of September. Last week he had a 17 fantasy point performance off of a 13 carry for 50 yards and 2 TD performance. In Weeks 2-3 he scored 18.7 and 17.8 fantasy points. While his workload volume is low, he is the only honorable mention RB that has any favorable fantasy match ups left on the schedule.
COLE TABB (Stan) 1% Rostered
Volume Workload Target
Tabb is more of a name to monitor at this point. Last week against Florida State he got 28 carries when he was averaging 7-12 carries/game before that. I want to see how the RB carries get divided up this week against Miami before I’m willing to say he is a bonified waiver wire target. He will need a HEAVY workload to be one since his remaining schedule looks pretty bleak.
WIDE RECEIVERS
PARKER KINGSTON (BYU) 4% Rostered
Volume Workload Target
Last week Kingston had a modest 14.6 fantasy point performance but that was expected with the match up. In the two weeks before he scored 25.1 and 20.2 fantasy points. His final five games have only two good fantasy match ups remaining, even though I think he will do better than what my fantasy match up grade shows for this week.
BRADEN PEGAN (UtSt) 17% Rostered
Current Week Match-Up Target
Volume Workload Target
Playoff Match-Up Target
Pegan has been pretty up and down with his fantasy performances over the last five games. Here are the fantasy scores he’s posted during that time starting with last week: 18.8, 9.9, 16.1, 11, and 30.2. I love his upcoming schedule and the fact he is a volume workload target.
WILL PAULING (ND) 15% Rostered
Playoff Match-Up Target
Starting in Week 5 Pauling started making himself a safe and reliable floor fantasy player. He scored 12.8, 13.3, & 18.5 fantasy points before getting knocked down to 8.6 fantasy points last week. I still like him to be a good safe floor play as the remaining schedule is very favorable moving forward.
JACOB DE JESUS (Cal) 11% Rostered
Current Week Match-Up Target
Volume Workload Target
One thing I like about De Jesus is his workload over the last five games with 10, 8, 11, 9, & 19 targets during that time. What I don’t like is his inconsistency with fantasy value as he scored 14.9, 5, 15.2, 8.6, & 22.7 fantasy points during that time. I’d also like to see something better than his 8.6 yards/reception this season.
GABRIEL BENYARD (KennSt) 22% Rostered
Current Week Match-Up Target
Volume Workload Target
I’ve been a fan of Benyard all season as he has proven himself to be safe floor play at WR or Flex. Through six games this season he has scored less than 13 fantasy points in a game once. His remaining schedule has enough good fantasy match ups where he can continue to be a reliable fantasy asset.
AMARE THOMAS (Hou) 20% Rostered
Volume Workload Target
Over the past four games Thomas has scored at least 13 fantasy points in each game, but he’s really turned things up the last two weeks scoring 19.2 and 20.9 fantasy points. His TD production is very spotty and he seems to either get less than 100 yards and no TDs, or over 100 yards and no TDs. His schedule is average for the rest of the year which is what has held him toward the bottom of this list.
CAM’RON LACY (MidTn) 3% Rostered
Current Week Match-Up Target
Volume Workload Target
This week’s game with Delaware will help me make up my mind on Lacy. Over the last two weeks he has gotten 8 targets and 95+ yards in each game. But he scored 2 TDs in one game and non in the other. I think his scoring potential is what the major issue is with me.
TIGHT ENDS
MIKE KIRCH (FlAtl) 0% Rostered
Current Week Match-Up Target
Playoff Match-Up Target
With the inconsistent nature of the Florida Atlantic offense this season, I’m not sure if Kirch can continue his current production. If you ignore the UAB game (he didn’t have one target) his last two games have produced 22.2 and 11.1 fantasy points. Before these games he had scored just 2.8, 1.3, & 1.2 fantasy points. You can’t ignore how juicy his remaining schedule is though.
GAVIN HARRIS (NMS) 8% Rostered
Current Week Match-Up Target
Harris has been up and down this season. In his last five games he has scored 8.2, 1.2, 12.7, 6.7, & 10.9 fantasy points. He’s had down performances in games where my fantasy match up grade has been favorable. This makes me believe that you could follow the numbers and play him in games where he should be successful but he can still put up stinker performances.
NOAH MEYERS (W Ky) 4% Rostered
Current Week Match-Up Target
Playoff Match-Up Target
If you remove a game against Delaware where Meyer had just 1 target, in his last three games he has scored 11.1, 14.3, & 7.8 fantasy points. He’s had between 5-6 targets and 50+ yards in each of those games. His remaining schedule looks amazing but Western Kentucky hasn’t been living up to expectations in my mind.
LUKE LINDENMEYER (Neb) 5% Rostered
I’m going to keep listing Lindenmeyer as a low ceiling stable play. If you ignore the Maryland game (only had 1 target) you’ll see that he scored 9.5, 10, & 7.2 fantasy points. There’s a mix and good and average fantasy match ups remaining on the schedule, but that can still work with a player like Lindenmeyer where you’re expectation should be to get 7-8 fantasy points/game from him.
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