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
DYLAN RAIOLA (Neb): Raiola looked great in Week 2 but that was against lowly Akron. What is nice to see is that his workload of pass/run plays just hits 40 plays/game. He will likely be just a spot-starter for your fantasy squad, and this week he has an FCS foe on the schedule if you need line-up help immediately.
BISHOP DAVENPORT (SoAl): There are things I like about Davenport but I feel like he hasn’t fully been unleashed in the passing game. Only averaging 19 pass attempts through two games isn’t good. But he’s been very productive with his limited workload so far. You’ll probably need to wait until his match-ups in Weeks 4, 6, and 8 to finally utilize him as a fantasy asset.
MALACHI NELSON (UTEP): I’m placing Nelson on here as a name to monitor. He only put up 178 passing yards and 1 TD in Week 1 against Utah State. Last week against an FCS school he 278 passing yards and 4 TDs on fewer pass attempts than in Week 1. We don’t have a good enough picture yet to know his fantasy value but he has a great receiver to throw.
RUNNING BACKS
KENDRICK RAPHAEL (Cal): Raphael is a tricky one to figure out right now. In Week 1 he had 9 carries, then doubled that in Week 2 with 18. On the season he is getting 41% of all rushing attempts & 55.4% of all rushing yards. The main thing holding him back right now is lack of TD production.
WIDE RECEIVERS
PARKER LIVINGSTON (Tex): Livingstone has been extremely productive as a freshman. He appears to be the best playmaker in the receiver core and has a nose for the end zone. What’s holding him back in my eyes is a very low workload volume (15.8% of team receptions), and I can see that increasing as the year goes on. Just by how much is the main question?
CAMDEN BROWN (GaSo): While Brown’s 7 targets/game average looks nice, he is only getting 17.11% of all team receptions. On the flip side he is putting up 33.1% of all receiving yards and 60% of all receiving TDs. I would like to see the Georgia Southern passing game more out of the middle of the pack placing they have right now.
KESHAUN SINGLETON (SoFL): The South Florida passing game is right around the middle for the country as well. Singleton’s 4.5 targets/game average is not what I want to see but he is able to make things happen in these limited opportunities. He has turned this small workload in 32.44% of all receiving yards and 100% of all receiving TDs.
DUCE ROBINSON (FlaSt): We’ve seen two very different performances out of Robinson. Week1 against Alabama he only scored 2.8 fantasy points on 4 targets. Last week against an FCS school he scored 31.8 fantasy points on 6 targets. Its hard to invest in a fantasy wide receiver from a predominantly run based offense. But Robinson is getting a good workload with 28% of all team receptions and 36.7% of all receiving yards.
JEFF CALDWELL (Cin): The Cincinnati passing game was really bad against Nebraska in Week 1, but bounced back to life against Bowling Green in Week 2. Caldwell looked the part of the WR1 for this offense that many CFF analyst expected him to be this summer. I don’t think we have a real solid feel for the target distribution yet because the Nebraska game is messing with the numbers. That’s what dragging Caldwell’s targets/game number down to 4.5 right now.
COOPER BARKATE (Duke): I want to see a little more from Barkate before I would be willing to pick him up on the Waiver Wire but I feel he is a name worth monitoring. His 7.5 targets/game is nice but that’s only for 17.3% of the teams receptions. His total of the team’s receiving yards is below 30% and he has failed to score a TD this season. This offense is throwing the ball everywhere and my gut thinks there has to be at least one fantasy relevant receiver that will come out of this offensive system.
TIGHT ENDS
LANCE MASON (Wisc): I’m not a big fan of investing in the Wisconsin passing game right now, but this is a very thin week for tight end Waiver Wire targets. Mason did nothing in Week 1 but last week he had 8 targets for 7 receptions, 102 yards and 1 TD against Middle Tennessee. His schedule isn’t great either, with just one decent match-up over the next eight weeks.
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