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FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

Jake Ciely’s Top Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets For Week 18 (Ep. 1919)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.810.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Join Joe Pisapia and Jake Ciely for their top fantasy football waiver wire pickups ahead of NFL Week 18!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.9

Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros.

0:06.8

This is the Fantasy Football podcast.

0:08.7

It's me, Joey P.

0:09.4

Joe P. Zapia.

0:10.7

And if you're still playing fantasy football in Week 18, you've made some bad life choices.

0:15.3

Because like every single Week 18, you have players who aren't playing because of injuries.

0:24.4

You have teams that are taking guys out because they're moving on to the playoffs.

0:25.8

They don't want people to get hurt.

0:28.8

So really, week 18 is full of landmines.

0:32.8

But thank goodness we have Jake Seeley from the athletic to help us step over them and hopefully not explode chances for those who are playing week 18 championships.

0:37.4

So Jake Sealy, let's start here at the top with Audric Estime, fantastic performance. Everybody was curious to see if Taysomahill was going to carry over week to week. He did not. So the swan song of Taysam Hill, the Big Fat Zero in week 17, I know heard a lot of people streaming him, but I guess the good news, if you're still

0:55.1

playing in Andra Gestimais on the waiver wire, that's somebody you could look at for week 18. Yeah, maybe some people just play for fun in week 18. I can see that. So let's not hate on everybody. And maybe they're just here to watch us, Joe, because they love watching us go back and forth in the way. I can understand that.

1:09.5

Exactly.

1:10.5

Here's the good news.

1:11.4

We're not talking an estimate here real quickly, but at least understand that. Exactly. Here's the good news.

1:11.4

I weren't up talking estimate here real quickly, but at least Tason Hill, he's a tight end. So like how many times you get a zero or one from your tight end anyway? So it's not like a killed, killed you. I mean, it definitely hurt. But hey, you know what? That's what you were doing. You're chasing the ceiling. Estimate, I don't know if you were watching my face for everybody. if everybody's just only listening and not watching the video,

1:29.1

it's still estimate.

1:30.4

It's just only listening and not watching the video, it's still Estime. The only reason is like, if you can see the list before we're about to talk through the list, it's not like you're going to be, oh my God, I can't believe I can get this player in week 18, let's go. No, this is a blank list. Let's put it that way, Joe. And Estimay, he's an above average-ish. I was like, like, if you're doing a scale of 10 and five was actually average, I'd put estimate like 5.5 out of running backs. He was just that. And he's in a position where volume's going to help similar to Kamani Vidal either, you know, the thing is with Vidal and Estimate is that we just got the good game. And if you chase it, you might get that, remember, Vidal was every other week. Estimate just came off a really bad game and then showed up last week with a big run and a touchdown. I'm not taking that away from him. But head to Atlanta, who have nothing to play for. But I just want to expect another top 15 performance from Estimate because he's still just barely an above average running back. But we're in week 18. As you think your response right there. Like you have to go for him because he's in a RB2 potentially with when we get to the end of this list, Joe, potentially a lot of running backs that aren't even going to be playing in week 18. Yeah. We will have some bonus guys as well. But look, Tyler Shuck, 300 yard game. That was fun. I was going to say it's more about Shuck than anything. Yeah. Like, you know what, hot take? I don't want to see the Panthers. I don't want to see the Buccaneers. I don't care. Both those teams can go. Who put the Saints in the playoffs? I'll see the New Orleans Saints in the playoffs.

2:51.8

That's what I want.

2:52.9

That's what I want.

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