This is one of my favorite columns to write every year. It’s our final review of the CBS Sports Average Draft Position data but since it’s also the start of Week 1, we combine it with our first look at the waiver wire.
The players we’re going to focus on here are the ones you can draft with late-round picks, as the ADP will indicate, and we know many of you still have drafts leading up to Thursday’s season opener. But we’re also going to help you find some players who might be available on the waiver wire now if you’ve already drafted.
As a reminder, every Tuesday morning during the season, you can come right here to find the best waiver wire suggestions for your leagues. While the draft is important, you can win your leagues with the right waiver wire moves. And we have you covered.
Do you play in a deep Fantas Footbally league? I mean really deep? 16-team, 18-team or more with deep benches? We’ve got you covered over at Sporstline with Dave Richard’s top-six super deep sleepers to stash.
I went back to look at this column last year, and here are some of the players I wrote about adding prior to Week 1: Justin Fields, Isiah Pacheco, Rachaad White, Jamaal Williams, Jerick McKinnon, Garrett Wilson, Jahan Dotson, Romeo Doubs and David Njoku. Hopefully, we can find a few more gems like that right now.
Week 1 Waivers
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Week 1 Waiver Priority List
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Running Backs
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Week 1 Waiver Priority List
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Wide Receivers
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Week 1 Waiver Priority List
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Week 1 Waiver Priority List
- Commanders (68 percent rostered) vs. ARI
- Jaguars (58 percent rostered) at IND
- Broncos (40 percent rostered) vs. LV
- Seahawks (32 percent rostered) vs. LAR
- Vikings (15 percent rostered) vs. TB
- Cameron Dicker (60 percent rostered) vs. MIA
- Riley Patterson (49 percent rostered) vs. KC
- Jason Sanders (47 percent rostered) at LAC
- Greg Joseph (42 percent rostered) vs. TB
- Brandon McManus (36 percent rostered) at INd
