Fantasy Football Week 9 waiver wire pickups: Top 6 TE’s
No position in fantasy football has gotten thinned out as quickly as tight end this season. With inconsistent performances and a host of injuries, there are many fantasy owners looking for answers on the waiver wire. Unfortunately, there aren’t a log of great options on the wire since the position is so thin. However, if you’re forced to make a move by injury, ineffectiveness, or bye weeks, check out the top six widely available TE Pickups for week 9.
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As with all our positional waiver wire posts, all players listed are owned in less than 50% of ESPN leagues as of Tuesday morning. If you have a specific question about a TE on your waiver wire or whether or not you should make a move, you can ask us at @FansidedFantasy on twitter.
All of these options are risky but they do have potential and should be considered as possible pickups. Here is my quick take on the top six widely available options heading into the second half of the season:
41.7% owned. Week 9 @ Giants. Dwayne Allen. 1. player. 46. Allen is extremely touchdown dependent and has yet to catch more than four passes in any game this season. However, he has found the end zone six times this season including in five touchdowns of his last six games. In week 8, he caught only one pass, but he did find the end zone on a 21-yard strike from Andre Luck. He’s definitely on Luck’s radar in the red zone, but it’s a roll of the dice that he’ll get into the end zone if you decide to start him this week against the Giants. In his favor, the G-men have allowed two touchdowns to opposing tight ends in each of their last two games.
Rookie TE “ASJ” is definitely talented and playing a growing role in the Bucs offense, but he is still a raw talent and doesn’t have much of a track record yet in the NFL. He caught three of his four targets on Sunday with his first NFL touchdown, but his performance was marred by a fumble that the Vikings returned for a game-ending touchdown in overtime. The Bucs head to Cleveland where the Browns defense is struggling and has struggled specifically with opposing TE, so Sefarian-Jenkins has upside based on his targets from Mike Glennon. . 0.6% owned. Week 9 @ Browns. Austin Sefarian-Jenkins. 2. player. 48
Heath Miller. 3. player. 55. Miller has much more of a track record than Sefarian-Jenkins, but his track record is one on inconsistency. He’s coming off a huge game against the Colts last week when he scored his second touchdown of the season and had a season-high 112 yards on his seven catches. He had a huge game at the end of September too with 10 catches for 85 yards and a touchdown, but in between he hasn’t produced anything. In the three games between his monster performances, he had a total of six catches for 78 yards and no touchdowns. Miller is an extreme boom-or-bust option as the Steelers take on the Ravens on Sunday Night Football who have allowed the fourth-fewest fantasy points to opposing TE this season.. 19.0% owned. Week 9 vs Ravens
Wright has three touchdowns and 182 yards this season with the Pats and had a season-high seven catches for 61 yards on Sunday. He has a touchdown in three of his last four games, but he did put up a bagel with no catches in the other game during that stretch. Wright comes into Sunday’s matchup with the Broncos as a touchdown-dependent TE who is not on the field most of the time. He’s high-risk but is involved especially as a red zone target for New England. . 3.3% owned. Week 9 vs Broncos. Tim Wright. 4. player. 47
Week 9 vs Raiders. Luke Willson. 5. player. 36. If you’re digging deep for a solution this week, you could roll the dice on Wilson who caught the game-winning touchdown for Seattle last week in Carolina. It was Willson’s first touchdown of the season and his only catch of the game, but he should see more work this week against the Raiders since the Seahawks main TE Zach Miller is injured and will be sidelined for this one.. 0.9% owned
player. 56. If you’re looking for a more long-term solution at the position and can afford to wait a few weeks, the best plan may be to go with Tyler Eifert who is working his way back from an elbow injury he suffered in week one. The Bengals are looking for receiving weapons, and Eifert has shown true TE1 potential when healthy in the past. The obvious downside to Eifert is that his timetable for return is still very unclear, and most don’t expect him back until week 11 which doesn’t help in the short-term. As a long-term stash, though, he has more upside than any of the other names on this list. . 0.7% owned. Week 9 vs Jaguars. Tyler Eifert. 6