Fantasy Football Week 13 Waiver Wire: Who can help you get to the playoffs?

Week 12 of the NFL season is still in progress. It became the Energizer bunny. The week started on Thanksgiving Day and, starting Monday night, it is scheduled to end Wednesday afternoon at 3:40 p.m. ET. This is the new time slot for Ravens-Steelers, which has been postponed three times due to issues related to COVID-19. We hope this is the last time the game will be postponed.

If the game starts on Wednesday as currently scheduled, the scores of all Ravens and Steelers players will count towards Week 12 towards your Fantasy Leagues on CBS Sports. This is the easy part – we hope so. What should also be easy, but worth explaining, is what Wednesday’s play means for the waiver process in your CBS Sports leagues. Here’s what CBS Sports sent out to all of our league members.

“Based on Wednesday’s game, waivers will not run Tuesday night (Wednesday morning) for the leagues. The first qualifying waiver race will be on Wednesday night (Thursday morning) after the Baltimore-Pittsburgh game. Important note – if you are usually don’t. run waivers on Wednesday night and you wish to do so, your commissioner will need to update your league settings by Wednesday night. “

Here’s a simple, three-step process my colleague Dave Richard tweeted for Fantasy Stewards on CBS Sports. Please show it to your Fantasy Commissioner to make sure he / she is aware.

1. Go to your league’s transaction policy page (http: //**YOURLEAGUEIDHERE**.football.cbssports.com/setup/league-settings/transaction-policies)
2. Make sure “Wed” is clicked
3. Finished

Again, this should be easy and hopefully there will be no problem running waivers this week. We know this is an important week for many of you as it is the last scoring period in most fantasy leagues before the start of the playoffs.

And there are two important stories we’re following as Week 13 approaches. The first is that Texans wide receiver Will Fuller has been suspended for six games for violating NFL performance-enhancing substance policy. Fantasy managers will need to replace PPR receiver # 8, and some options outside of the waiver thread include Deebo Samuel, Tim Patrick and Keke Coutee, among others.

Raiders running back Josh Jacobs also suffers from an ankle injury. As of Monday, he is set to play Week 13 in the Jets, but if he’s out, Devontae Booker would become a potential starting option for Fantasy in all leagues. We’ll talk about Booker and other free agent running backs below.

The only advantage of the waivers going on Wednesday night is that you can see the training reports from Jacobs and others, to determine what moves you are making. And if necessary, I will update this column on Wednesday afternoon to help you with one of your final waiver decisions.

Editor’s Note: For this waiver column, we’re only looking at players enrolled in less than 65% of CBS Sports leagues.

More help from week 13: Panic About Struggling Stars? | QB preview | Winners and losers | Believe it or not

Waivers at week 13

• Injuries to note: Lamar Jackson (disease), Drew Brees (ribs), Daniel Jones (hamstrings), Tua Tagovailoa (thumb), Drew Lock (disease), Nick Foles (leg), Gardner Minsher (thumb), Jimmy Garoppolo (ankle)
• On a goodbye: Tom Brady and Teddy Bridgewater
• Priority list: Ryan Fitzpatrick (37% registered), Mitchell Trubisky (10%), Baker Mayfield (45%) and Philip Rivers (54%)
• Check if available: Ryan Tannehill (84% registered) and Kirk Cousins ​​(71%). Tannehill managed to score at least 21 fantasy points in his last two tough clashes against Baltimore and Indianapolis, and now he gets Cleveland, Jacksonville and Detroit in his next three outings. And Cousins ​​has scored at least 21 Fantasy points in four straight games and faces Jacksonville this week.
• Potential candidates: Jared Goff (90% registered) and Carson Wentz (69%). Goff might play well in Week 13 in Arizona, but he’s been in a game with over 12 fantasy points since Week 7 and is too inconsistent to be trusted at this point in the season. Wentz is potentially set to be benched for Jalen Hurts, and he will face Green Bay, New Orleans and Arizona in his next three outings.

Strategist

Priority list for week 13

WAIVER THREAD

Running Backs

• Injuries to note: Josh Jacobs (ankle), Joe Mixon (foot), D’Andre Swift (concussion), David Johnson (concussion), Todd Gurley (knee), James Conner (disease), Jonathan Taylor (disease), Myles Gaskin (knee ), JK Dobbins (disease), Mark Ingram (disease), Phillip Lindsay (knee), Kalen Ballage (ankle), Salvon Ahmed (shoulder), Lamical Perine (ankle), Devonta Freeman (ankle) and Tevin Coleman (knee)
• On a goodbye: Christian McCaffrey, Mike Davis, Ronald Jones and Leonard Fournette
• Priority list: Devontae Booker (34% enrolled), Benny Snell (48%), Cam Akers (47%), Frank Gore (41%), DeAndre Washington (1%), Jordan Wilkins (30%), Brian Hill (54%), Kerryon Johnson (26%) and Royce Freeman (7%)
• Check if available: JK Dobbins (82% registered), Myles Gaskin (81%), James White (80%), Latavius ​​Murray (77%) and Jamaal Williams (71%). Dobbins and Ingram are eligible to play against the Steelers on Wednesday, so keep an eye out for how they do it, especially Dobbins. Hopefully he will lead the Ravens again like he was in Week 11 against Tennessee when he had 17 total touches and scored 18 PPR points. Gaskin could return this week against the Bengals, and he would be a No.2 fantasy backer in all leagues again if he was in good health, especially if Ahmed stays out. I didn’t like that White had just one take in Week 12 against Arizona, but he can still be a flexible option in PPR. And he’s got at least 13 PPR points in back-to-back games heading into Week 13. Murray has 31 runs in his last two games and can be seen as a potential flexible option, even playing in tandem with Alvin Kamara. Williams is a great hidden candidate in case something happens to Aaron Jones, and Williams has also scored at least eight PPR points in all but two games this year if you need that as a flexible option in the deeper leagues.
• Potential candidates: Leonard Fournette (registered 91%), Darrell Henderson (77%), Jerick McKinnon (75%) and Kalen Ballage (75%). The Buccaneers plan to introduce Ronald Jones, which is bad news for Fournette, who has 10 total touches or fewer in four straight games. Henderson is expected to lose more playing time to Akers, and Henderson is now six games in a row with nine PPR points or less. McKinnon had just five hits total in Week 12 at the Rams with Raheem Mostert and Jeff Wilson returning, and his workload could be at risk going forward. And Ballage isn’t worth hanging on now that he’s injured, with Austin Ekeler back.

Come back

Priority list for week 13

WAIVER THREAD

Wide receivers

• Injuries to note: Julio Jones (hamstrings), Adam Thielen (disease), Kenny Golladay (hip), DJ Chark (ribs), Brandon Aiyuk (disease), John Brown (ankle), Julian Edelman (knee), Preston Williams (foot), Randall Cobb (toe) and Larry Fitzgerald (disease)
• On a goodbye: DJ Moore, Robby Anderson, Curtis Samuel, Mike Evans, Chris Godwin and Antonio Brown
• Priority list: Deebo Samuel (59% registered), Tim Patrick (55%), Keke Coutee (1%), Breshad Perriman (47%), Sterling Shepard (62%), Sammy Watkins (63%), Darnell Mooney (15%), Hunter Renfrow (37%), Collin Johnson (0%) and Gabriel Davis (3%)
• Check if available: Brandon Aiyuk (80% registered), Corey Davis (79%), Cole Beasley (75%), Nelson Agholor (75%), Michael Pittman (73%) and Allen Lazard (68%). Hopefully Aiyuk returns in Week 13 after being out for the last two games, and he has scored at least 17 PPR points in his last three outings. I am delighted to see how he will work with Samuel. Davis did well as the Titans’ No. 2 receiver, and he has a great game in Week 13 against the Browns before facing Jacksonville in Week 14 and Detroit in Week 15. Beasley should be considered. as a Fantasy No. 3 wide receiver as long as John Brown is away, and Brown will miss the next two games against the 49ers and Steelers. Agholor has a great game in Week 13 against the Jets, and he has 15 targets in his last two games against the Chiefs and Falcons. Pittman has at least seven targets in three of his last four games, and he has a big game in Week 13 at the Texans, who just lost Roby. And Lazard scored in Week 12 against Chicago and has a favorable game in Week 13 against the Eagles.
• Potential candidates: Will Fuller (100% registered), Darius Slayton (82%), Travis Fulgham (78%) and Emmanuel Sanders (73%). Fuller’s season is over, and there’s no reason to keep him on your fantasy roster in the overhaul leagues. Fulgham has been a disaster since Alshon Jeffery returned to the Eagles in Week 10, and Fulgham has racked up five PPR points in his last three games. Sanders has 12 PPR points and seven combined targets in his last three games.

Wide receiver

Priority list for week 13

• Injuries to note: Mark Andrews (illness), George Kittle (foot), Zach Ertz (ankle), Irv Smith (groin) and Greg Olsen (foot)
• On a goodbye: Rob gronkowski
• Priority list: Kyle Rudolph (22% enrolled), Austin Hooper (62%), Logan Thomas (45%), Trey Burton (38%) and Jordan Akins (17%)
• Check if available: Dallas Goedert (80% registered), Mike Gesicki (73%), Zach Ertz (72%) and Robert Tonyan (72%). We’ll see what happens when Ertz returns, but Goedert has been brilliant in the last two games against Cleveland and Seattle with at least 18 PPR points in every outing. Hopefully this continues if Ertz plays Week 13 at Green Bay, but Philadelphia’s two tight ends should line up. Gesicki is a starting option in Week 13 against the Bengals if Fitzpatrick remains the starter in Miami. And Tonyan has come to life the past two weeks with at least 15 PPR points in each of his last two games against the Colts and Bears, but he only has 10 targets in that span.
• Potential candidate downward: Noah Fant (77% registered), Jared Cook (71%) and Tyler Higbee (55%). Fant gets Lock back, but I still don’t trust Fant against the Chiefs in Week 13. He hasn’t scored since Week 2 and has nine PPR points or less in seven of his last eight games. Cook has five targets in his last three games with a 6-yard strike. You can’t trust him now, Taysom Hill starting for the Saints. Higbee hasn’t scored since Week 2 and has nine or fewer PPR points in eight straight games.

Tight end

Priority list for week 13

• Bear (52%) vs DET
• Raiders (14%) in NYJ
• Vikings (58%) against JAC

• Nick Folk (7%) at LAC
• Matt Gay (3%) at ARI
• Greg Zuerlein (30%) at BAL