Fantasy Football Week 17 Sleeper Picks

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It’s Championship Week in most leagues and to be honest, I hope you’re playing the hits on Sunday. I hope you have a roster so strong that the players essentially start themselves. I hope you’ve bullied everyone on the waiver wire, maybe pulled off a few winning trades.

But leagues come in all shapes and sizes, and injuries are a weekly reality in the NFL. So it’s possible you might need bench or waiver options to consider for the title game.

Let’s do what we do — offer up plausible options rostered in less than half of Yahoo leagues.

Generally, I trust Carr about as much as I trust a gas station sandwich, but sometimes you’re on a lonely highway and there are no other plausible options. In other words, the Carr recommendation is mostly for deep-leaguers and the Superflex crowd. Carr’s game has perked up of late — he’s been the QB7 and QB3 the last two weeks — and although his earlier game against Tampa Bay was horrendous, it was so long ago (Week 4) that I’m willing to write it off. The Tampa Bay secondary is gettable, giving up 7.6 YPA and 284.4 passing yards per game.

RB Clyde Edwards-Helaire vs. Cincinnati (45% rostered)*

Both of these calls are fairly obvious and tied to contingencies — we need to see if Isiah Pacheco (post-concussion) and Josh Jacobs (quadriceps) are able to play. CEH still might have fantasy juice even if Pacheco starts, given that Jerick McKinnon is out for the year. If Jacobs is active, it probably kills the White angle.

The Chiefs would be wise to employ CEH in the passing game no matter what, as he’s averaging 11.2 yards per catch and 9.0 yards per target over his limited action. The Chiefs obviously have several offensive problems that won’t be solved until the offseason, but Andy Reid still knows how to design a lovely screen game.

The dots are connecting at the right time for Everett. He had a season-high seven catches last week (helped by the absence of healthy-scratch Donald Parham) and he’s been targeted 24 times in three…

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Publish date : 2023-12-28 18:25:26

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