Waiver Wire Add of the Year?

[ZeroTolerance 583]

League A: Foles, Moreno

League B: Alex Smith (randomly blasting me to the title game after my original two QBs were lost for the year), Mike Wallace (yes, someone rage quit on him after week 11).

[chroniciguana 13]

I don't own him, but my vote goes to Foles.

[megatron's mom 6]

Stacy, Allen, Foles. No question

[jaxjag 43]

He was cut loose in a lot of leagues with the 2-game suspension, the Browns trading away Trich and handing the reigns over to Hoyer. It all turned out good, but at the time there was a lot of uncertainty.

 

Who cuts a talent like Josh Gordon over two games?

[Sho Nuff 720]

Foles and Moreno for one of my teams.

In the other, Keenan Allen and Moreno (though, I might as well have drafted him...picked him up and dropped my last pick as soon as rosters were loaded)

[Captain Goomy Noomy Roo 50]

My best moves off the wire:

 

My Tops

Josh Gordon

Rashad Jennings

 

Good Adds

Steven Jackson

Joique Bell

 

 

[skinsrule05 30]

Who cuts a talent like Josh Gordon over two games?

Maybe when they drafted him they didn't believe his two game game suspension would last a full two games.

[jeffkomlo 19]

Moreno and Allen, had Foles than dropped him (have Stafford)

[idiotec 31]

Can't believe Gordon and Lacy are showing up in this thread. That's like bragging you banged a fat chick.

 

Jeffery

Allen

Foles

Stacy

 

Those have to be the top I would think. I got none of them :/

[R8RMick 242]

You've got to love all the Lombardi types here, who are acting like anyone on draft day who couldn't see Josh Gordon was going to be a Top 3 WR this year is a f*cking idiot.

 

Ok, so maybe not Top 3... But in a 12 team league carrying four receivers each, that makes 48. In 2012 as a rookie out of Baylor, Gordon was 46th in scoring in my league among WRs, behind the likes of Brian Hartline, Keshawn Martin, and Brandon Lloyd. He didn't score over two fantasy points in any of his last three games. Add to that playing in Cleveland, add to that the QB situation in Cleveland, plus oh yeah a two game suspension? Oh sure, I can see the demand.

 

Of course he showed flashes of brilliance as a rookie, with his physical tools. Some of us may have drafted him very late, and others (like myself) grabbed him off waivers before Week 1. But don't come in here thumping your chest like you're some kind of genius and we're all a bunch of f*cking morons for not seeing something which was far from certain.

 

(Dikembe Motumbo finger wave inserted here.)

[idiotec 31]

You've got to love all the Lombardi types here, who are acting like anyone on draft day who couldn't see Josh Gordon was going to be a Top 3 WR this year is a f*cking idiot.

 

Ok, so maybe not Top 3... But in a 12 team league carrying four receivers each, that makes 48. In 2012 as a rookie out of Baylor, Gordon was 46th in scoring in my league among WRs, behind the likes of Brian Hartline, Keshawn Martin, and Brandon Lloyd. He didn't score over two fantasy points in any of his last three games. Add to that playing in Cleveland, add to that the QB situation in Cleveland, plus oh yeah a two game suspension? Oh sure, I can see the demand.

 

Of course he showed flashes of brilliance as a rookie, with his physical tools. Some of us may have drafted him very late, and others (like myself) grabbed him off waivers before Week 1. But don't come in here thumping your chest like you're some kind of genius and we're all a bunch of f*cking morons for not seeing something which was far from certain.

 

(Dikembe Motumbo finger wave inserted here.)

Hope you had your helmet and ear muffs on for that rant.

[skinsrule05 30]

You've got to love all the Lombardi types here, who are acting like anyone on draft day who couldn't see Josh Gordon was going to be a Top 3 WR this year is a f*cking idiot.

 

Ok, so maybe not Top 3... But in a 12 team league carrying four receivers each, that makes 48. In 2012 as a rookie out of Baylor, Gordon was 46th in scoring in my league among WRs, behind the likes of Brian Hartline, Keshawn Martin, and Brandon Lloyd. He didn't score over two fantasy points in any of his last three games. Add to that playing in Cleveland, add to that the QB situation in Cleveland, plus oh yeah a two game suspension? Oh sure, I can see the demand.

 

Of course he showed flashes of brilliance as a rookie, with his physical tools. Some of us may have drafted him very late, and others (like myself) grabbed him off waivers before Week 1. But don't come in here thumping your chest like you're some kind of genius and we're all a bunch of f*cking morons for not seeing something which was far from certain.

 

(Dikembe Motumbo finger wave inserted here.)

According to this site Gordon's ADP range was 6-9th round (12 teams) & 7-13 (10 teams). So him not being drafted is dumb. But you hit moron levels when he was dropped after wk 1 even though you drafted him expecting a goose egg the first two weeks.

[R8RMick 242]

Hope you had your helmet and ear muffs on for that rant.

 

Lol.. Holy crap just saw this...Hope the Bronze didn't find a blunt in his ash tray.

 

http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/8282/josh-gordon

[R8RMick 242]

According to this site Gordon's ADP range was 6-9th round (12 teams) & 7-13 (10 teams). So him not being drafted is dumb. But you hit moron levels when he was dropped after wk 1 even though you drafted him expecting a goose egg the first two weeks.

 

 

Yeah Ok fair enough. I don't play re-draft, so don't adhere to ADP values as religiously. We have an auction league with special keeper rules for rookies. This limits our rosters somewhat. He actually went un-drafted in our league and I picked him up for $1 before the season started. Did not throw him out in the draft, as it may have brought attention to him and bids as well. I waited, he went un-drafted, then scooped him up.

[Captain Goomy Noomy Roo 50]

Can't believe Gordon and Lacy are showing up in this thread. That's like bragging you banged a fat chick.

 

Jeffery

Allen

Foles

Stacy

 

Those have to be the top I would think. I got none of them :/

NO! Gordon tops any of those... If you picked up Gordon early, you had one receiver spot covered all season.

He was on most waiver wires week 1 and 2

[Beer22 2]

Nick Foles

[TheUsualSuspect 207]

Foles/KC

[skinsrule05 30]

NO! Gordon tops any of those... If you picked up Gordon early, you had one receiver spot covered all season.

He was on most waiver wires week 1 and 2

This is just not true. CBS shows the ownership of players. In all of the leagues at CBS Gordon was owned by:

 

Wk 1 - 96% of leagues

Wk 2- 93%

Wk 3- 94%

Wk 4 on - 100%

 

So him being on the waiver wire would just be a fluke in some leagues.

[vash1012 19]

Foles for sure. I was that team this year that everyone had their best game against, even the crappy teams. I picked up Foles since Stafford was on bye the week he dropped 7 TDs which was the only reason I won by about 5 points that week. Hes been used in about 4 games for me, but has outproduced my starting QB in all of them. Zac Stacy would be a close second. Rashaad Jennings, Keenan Allen, KC DEF, Andre Brown all were waiver wire picks up this year that could argue for close 3rds, Julius Thomas wasn't ever on the wire for any of my leagues.

[Agamemnon 2]

I play in a fourteen-team league with 15 draft rounds, so many of the guys discussed prominently in this thread never hit the waiver wire at any point this season (Moreno, Jeffrey, Gordon, etc.). The three biggest WW scoops in our league were:

 

Nick Foles (1st Place team carried P. Manning, J. Cutler & Foles - what a waste, but it kept Foles away from others!)

Zac Stacy (Darryl Richardson & Isaiah Pead both drafted)

Keenan Allen (I fell for the preseason Vincent Brown hype)

[TD Ryan2 316]

I play in a fourteen-team league with 15 draft rounds, so many of the guys discussed prominently in this thread never hit the waiver wire

 

Nick Foles

this, to me, is exactly why Foles is the choice.

He wasn't even on the radar... in fact, he was kind of a punch line, another Philly Eagles joke... notsomuchnow.

[Showboat 247]

He was cut loose in a lot of leagues with the 2-game suspension, the Browns trading away Trich and handing the reigns over to Hoyer. It all turned out good, but at the time there was a lot of uncertainty.

 

 

Who cuts a talent like Josh Gordon over two games?

You conveniently ignore the other circumstances surrounding Gordon at the time. There was much speculation that the Browns were throwing away their season when they traded TRich and gave the starting QB job to Hoyer. That coupled with the fact that one more strike against Gordon could end his season made some people less optimistic about his prospects. It's not totally unreasonable that he would end up on the wire in many leagues.

[southcarolina 166]

My vote goes to Ryan Griffin. Hopefully.

[travis_henrys_baby_momma 10]

I play in a fourteen-team league with 15 draft rounds, so many of the guys discussed prominently in this thread never hit the waiver wire at any point this season (Moreno, Jeffrey, Gordon, etc.). The three biggest WW scoops in our league were:

 

Nick Foles (1st Place team carried P. Manning, J. Cutler & Foles - what a waste, but it kept Foles away from others!)

Zac Stacy (Darryl Richardson & Isaiah Pead both drafted)

Keenan Allen (I fell for the preseason Vincent Brown hype)

 

This. Foles, Stacy and Allen were the true waiver gems.

[TimHauck 2,444]

Well this thread makes me feel like a little less of an idiot for dropping Jeffrey if so many others were able to get him off the WW.

 

This is just not true. CBS shows the ownership of players. In all of the leagues at CBS Gordon was owned by:

 

Wk 1 - 96% of leagues

Wk 2- 93%

Wk 3- 94%

Wk 4 on - 100%

 

So him being on the waiver wire would just be a fluke in some leagues.

I'd be curious to see what these numbers look like for Jeffrey, but don't care enough to look them up.

[skinsrule05 30]

Well this thread makes me feel like a little less of an idiot for dropping Jeffrey if so many others were able to get him off the WW.

 

I'd be curious to see what these numbers look like for Jeffrey, but don't care enough to look them up.

Wk 1- 80%

Wk 2- 75%

Wk 3- 61%

Wk 4- 57%

Wk 5- 81%

Wk 6+ - 100%

[R8RMick 242]

I think McCown deserves an honorable mention here too.

[IGotWorms 4,024]

Wk 1- 80%

Wk 2- 75%

Wk 3- 61%

Wk 4- 57%

Wk 5- 81%

Wk 6+ - 100%

Yep. Jeffrey was a hot "sleeper" pick but he didn't do sh!t the first couple weeks. So a ton of people dropped him for the waiver wire flavor du jour before he started getting hot.

[Showboat 247]

This is just not true. CBS shows the ownership of players. In all of the leagues at CBS Gordon was owned by:

 

Wk 1 - 96% of leagues

Wk 2- 93%

Wk 3- 94%

Wk 4 on - 100%

 

So him being on the waiver wire would just be a fluke in some leagues.

I'm not sure that these numbers tell the whole story. Gordon could have been on Team A's roster for week 1, then dropped and picked up off the wire by team B before week 2. These numbers would indicate that he was rostered for both weeks, but in between he could have been sitting on the wire.

[davidaja 3]

N.Foles Waiver wire pick up.

P.Rivers. Waiver wire pick up.

K.Moreno. Waiver wire pick up right before week 1.

Z.Stacy. Waiver wire pick up.

J.Gordon. Waiver wire pick up.

Keenan Allen. Waiver wire pick up.

J.Cameron..Waiver wire pick up. Not starting him this week Concussion.

J.Reed Waiver wire pick up. Not starting him either. (Hurt)

D.Pitta..Picked him up last night. I hope he will be a great Fantasy Bowl addition.

Andre Brown. Waiver wire pick up.

D.Bailey. Waiver wire pick up.

 

Total record including playoffs. 13-2.

I hope that I can win, but if I don't, I had a great year and I will still finish with the best record in the league

even with a loss.

 

And this is a good example of how you can succeed even if you had a disasterous draft.

[ZeroTolerance 583]

I will have no choice but to laugh hard if I go from 8 seed to title while shuffling these wire QBs:

Week 14 - McCown

Week 15 - Smith

Week 16 - Cousins

[Cretins 22]

 

And this is a good example of how you can succeed even if you had a disasterous draft.

Or if you're hurt by injuries. Stacy's breakout was perfect timing following the loss of Foster to IR, Jeffery made up for Amendola (who I expected to do much better this year), and Foles came along when I was struggling to make up for Matt Ryan's loss of Julio. I have little sympathy for people whining about being hurt by injuries. Thanks to the three I just listed, I'm playing for the championship this weekend despite a bunch of injuries. There are always options to compensate if you pay attention.

[Challenger 72]

Or if you're hurt by injuries. Stacy's breakout was perfect timing following the loss of Foster to IR, Jeffery made up for Amendola (who I expected to do much better this year), and Foles came along when I was struggling to make up for Matt Ryan's loss of Julio. I have little sympathy for people whining about being hurt by injuries. Thanks to the three I just listed, I'm playing for the championship this weekend despite a bunch of injuries. There are always options to compensate if you pay attention.

 

Agreed, here are my first 7 picks, and I am in the championship. None of them are in my roster anymore for a while.

 

1. (11) Trent Richardson (Ind - RB) 2. (14) Stevan Ridley (NE - RB) 3. (35) Darren Sproles (NO - RB) 4. (38) Lamar Miller (Mia - RB) 5. (59) Steve Smith (Car - WR) 6. (62) Rob Gronkowski (NE - TE) 7. (83) T.Y. Hilton (Ind - WR)

[Redstone 0]

Personally? Foles

I would consider Moreno but he got drafted late in most leagues

[smashmouths@blf 33]

Orange Julius

 

Keenan Allen

 

Nick Foles

 

Chiefs D/ST

 

IAMNEWPOSTERGUY!!11!1111!1

Hit the nail on the head!

[skii25 0]

Stacy, Allen, Foles easy top 3 waiver wire players this year. Next year all 3 will be top 50 guys going into the draft.

[Candygram4Mongo 8]

 

In most 12+ teamers Josh was drafted (or all of my leagues at least). I got him in the 8th round, which was likely my PICK of the year

Took him in the 12th in a 12 teamer.

After Jamaal, my MVP.

[coachchavez 0]

I am in the finals and i added this year:

 

Foles

Stacy

Andre Brown

Gordon

Patterson

 

id say for me its been gordon or foles, although stacy solidified my backfield which was bust with both rice and spiller. helps to have Charles though

[ampheels 3]

foles and andre ellington were the best adds i would imagine, as neither were being selected in either format (stepfan taylor was higher on the food chain in pre-season)...julius thomas and zac stacy were being drafted late in re-draft leagues, keenan allen as likely selected in all keeper leagues

[The Frontrunner 1]

Zac Stacey