Week 1 Waiver Wire Breakdown: The Best Waiver Week Ever?
Establish The Run Fantasy Football
Fantasy Football
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🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Sam Sherman talk through the best waiver-wire adds of the week. They discuss usage and roles for fantasy-relevant players, injuries that shook up the fantasy landscape, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to Waiver Wire Week 2. |
| 0:15.0 | My name is Adam Levitton. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm one of the co-founders here at Establish the Run joined by our Waiver Wire Specialist, |
| 0:21.3 | Sam Sherman, to break down honestly, Sam. |
| 0:23.7 | What I think may be the best Waiver Week I can remember in years. |
| 0:29.9 | Sam, I can't remember a stronger week off the Waiver. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm sure I'm misremembering somehow, but this is a really strong one right out of date. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm going to everybody. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:39.9 | Yeah, I agree with you. |
| 0:40.9 | I mean, it feels like week one last year, at least the past couple of years, |
| 0:44.9 | there haven't been any sort of surprising takeovers of backfields. |
| 0:48.9 | I mean, like, for instance, you know, this week one, Taijai Spears, |
| 0:52.9 | out snap Derek Henry, and he's like 10th on my list of best Waiver ads. |
| 0:56.9 | Like, there's so many guys, it's a pretty deep week. |
| 0:59.9 | So it's definitely an interesting one to talk through. |
| 1:02.9 | I think even in shallow home leagues, sorry, even in deeper leagues, |
| 1:06.9 | you'll have plenty of options available on the wire this week. |
| 1:09.9 | So it should be fun to talk through. |
| 1:10.9 | Yeah, and I want to be clear that the hard part of doing Waiver Wire content |
| 1:14.9 | is that everybody has different league sizes, everybody has different league settings, |
| 1:17.9 | everybody has different size benches, everybody has different team needs. |
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