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Outsmart Your Leaguemates on the Week 2 Waiver Wire

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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0:00 - its rude to skip intros

1:25 - running back

1:42 - kenneth gainwell, RB, PIT

2:19 - dylan sampson, RB, CLE

5:33 - bhayshul tuten, RB, JAC

6:34 - kyle monangai, RB, CHI

7:00 - dj giddens, RB, IND

7:27 - wide receiver

8:12 - quentin johnston, WR, LAC

8:33 - keenan allen, WR, LAC

10:20 - hollywood brown, WR, KC

12:49 - kayshon boutte, WR, NE

15:21 - cedric tillman, WR, CLE

16:52 - elic ayomanor, WR, TEN

17:54 - tight end

17:57 - harold fannin, TE, CLE

20:48 - juwan johnson, TE, NO

21:23 - brenton strange, TE, JAC

21:51 - michael mayer, TE, LV

22:16 - mason taylor, TE, NYJ

22:31 - chig okonkwo, TE, TEN

22:47 - trending down players


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0:00.0

Good morning, friends and enemies. It is a big day to want to drop some fab dollars on the Cleveland Browns. Never thought I'd say that, but thus, this is fantasy football. We are heading into week two, and this is the WaverWire show, which will be going live every single Tuesday. So if you want to hear me yap about the WaverWire, make sure you subscribe to the channel. Here's how we break down these videos. We jump into the trending tab, right? And I kind of slowly talk through all the players

0:24.4

that have been widely picked up and adopted throughout most leagues. And then we look at the trending down tab of the players. And we'll talk about guys that I think you should continue to hold on to, guys that you should drop in order to make room for the top pickups. As the video progresses,

0:38.8

I will be giving you some fab suggestions, some light fab here, some light fab there, telling you

0:44.4

around how much I would drop on these specific players that I talk about. And it depends on your

0:48.7

league. It depends on your situation. It depends on how many fab dollars you have, all those

0:52.3

types of things. As always, every single season, we do have a full waiver wire rankings tool up on our website on BDGE.c.o. If you are a big dog member, you get access to the waiver wire rankings, which have more concise writeups on all these players. It has the full rankings list of them in order of which guys I would prioritize. The fab suggestion for them. And in that membership, of course, you get my normal weekly rankings, which go live every Wednesday. You get access to a private Q&A where you could ask my sit starts on Sunday morning going forward, all that good stuff. Right. So BDGE.co, you could sign up to be a big dog member. Let's get into the waiver wire. We'll start at the running back position and we'll

1:27.5

just work our way down the list here. And I'm obviously going to exclude anyone that's like,

1:31.7

you know, I don't have to talk about Javanta Williams owned an 81% of leagues. Like literally,

1:36.4

what is this sleeper? Ashen, Jantan, Jemir Gibbs are on this list. Cool. You should pick up

1:41.0

J.mere Gibbs if he's available. Kenneth Gainwell, Pittsburgh running back,

1:45.0

led the team in Snapshare in week one over Jalen Warren, but produced in typical Kenneth Gainwell fashion. Overall, I'm not going to waste our time here. Gainwell is a dude that's going to continue to play and maybe get a few targets per week, but we know the Kenneth Gainwell experience. He's a dude who's been in the league now for five years and has never had a season over, I think, 350

2:02.5

rushing yards and like 250 receiving yards or maybe flip that vice versa. Regardless, he's never going to be a guy that you want to throw into your fantasy lineup. And I think Caleb Johnson is going to continue to see increased opportunity and eventually get a role in this offense. But yeah, we're not spending any serious dollars on Kenneth Gainwell. But we do have to talk about Dylan Sampson, who came away as a huge winner from week one, really overtook Jerome Ford for the starting role there. You know, over the second half of the game, he was completely the back in that backfield, right? Ended up with eight targets, ended up with a 43% snap share, but that was only because they were kind of forcing the ball to Jerome Ford early on. But he became Joe Flacco's checkdown guy. And this was something that I was excited about going into the year was that Flacco is a dude that just continuously targets his running backs over and over and over again. He passed the ball 45 times in this game, Joe Flacco. They're going to be one of the most pass-heavy offenses in the NFL. They probably want to run the ball, but their team is not set up for running back success. Maybe that changes a little bit when Judkins is back. But as it relates to Flacco, like every offense that he's in over the last three, four years has been extremely pass-heavy. 45 past attempts. And I'm going to be honest, like there probably should have been more. He probably should have been north of 50, given two drives just came to a halt because the receivers had balls bounce off their hands and were picked off by Cincinnati. So I think you can look at these numbers, and most of them are going to be inflated for the Browns in week one in terms of raw totals, eight catches eight targets not sustainable but i do think

3:24.9

dylan now has carved out a role where he's probably the guy that sees 55 to 60 percent of the

3:30.4

snaps i don't think drone forward kind of vanishes to nothing but when judkins is back he likely will

3:35.6

so samson i mean for sure the rb one on the week in terms of waiver wire if you follow videos, he was probably someone that you ended up drafting in your league, so I feel good about that. But if not, if he's sitting there on the waiver wire, I mean, here's a thing. Judkins, we don't know what his return timetable is. He's signed with the team. He'll likely have a disciplinary hearing this week by the NFL. I don't know what that looks like. Do they just allow him to go back and play right away? Do they give him a two-week suspension?

4:00.6

Do they give him a two-week suspension? Do they give him a six-week suspension? I don't really know, right? Like anytime people start to speculate about this in the fantasy industry, they're usually wrong. So we're just going to have to sit and wait on that. With Judkins, though, he's missed so much time, man. He's not been out there. He's not been running with the team. He's not been training and he's not up to

4:14.7

speed. He's probably not conditioned well. So like best case scenario he's playing in week two, I still think Samson is going to have a large role in his backfield. I still think Cleveland really, really likes this kid. And he's going to be at minimum the third down back here, splitting carries. And again, if you're in on clear passing situations in a Joe Flacko offense, you're probably going to see four to five targets a game.

4:32.8

So I think Samson, even when Jenkins is back, which. And again, if you're in on clear passing situations in a Joe Flacko offense, you're probably

4:31.2

going to see four to five targets a game.

4:32.6

So I think Samson, even when Junkins is back, which we don't know when that's going to be, is a relatively nice floor player. He's kind of like an arbitrage travion Henderson, right? Like, he's very explosive. He's a good pass catcher. I don't know when we're going to see him take like the lion's share of carries,

4:47.8

even though he did out carry drone for 12 to 6 in this one.

4:50.5

So he got way more work. pass catcher. I don't know when we're going to see him take like the lion's share of carries,

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