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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Week 1 Waiver Wire

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ratcliffe gets the 2022 fantasy football season started with the Week 1 waiver wire. Jeff begins with some thoughts on adding players before the season starts. He then breaks down the top players available at running back, wide receiver, and tight end. He wraps things up with five defenses to stream for Week 1.

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0:00.0

What is up? It's the rant. It's the rant. My name is Jeff Rackleff, and it is Tuesday, September 6th.

0:21.3

Week 1 is officially on, baby.

0:24.0

Week 1 is here.

0:25.0

I'm not talking fantasy draft anymore until we get to February.

0:28.9

And yes, well, maybe December, I guess, because I'll release.

0:32.9

I'm going to release initial rankings in December.

0:35.1

So I guess we'll talk about it then.

0:37.0

But no, it's on. In-season

0:39.9

fantasy football. And today, you can see from the title, I'm going to do some waivers.

0:45.9

It's a weird week for waiver wire because we haven't had any games. So we'll talk a little

0:51.9

bit about the strategy for this week and moves that you could make if you need to make a move, but, you know, there's going to be more that we'll flesh out there.

1:00.3

I'm not going to talk about quarterbacks because chances are either in one quarterback leagues, there's a bunch of quarterbacks on waivers or in two quarterback super flex leagues.

1:08.1

There's pretty much nobody on waivers. And I'll give you a few

1:12.1

defenses to stream if you happen to have just simply drafted off of rankings and drafted the

1:16.9

bills, because I don't think you want to play them this week. Just saying, they're facing the

1:21.4

Rams. So just saying. And before we get started, just a reminder, FtnFantasy.com, now's the time, man, in-season

1:29.2

content, rankings, tools, projections, galore, all of that and more at FtnFantasy.com,

1:36.2

using that promo code ratpack. That works at FtndDaily.com and FtNBets. I actually just put a

1:41.5

few props in, a few player prop recommendations for Thursday night

1:45.7

football at FtnBets.com. You can get the whole shebang too. We have in all access. Promocode

1:51.2

Rappack gets you a nice savings on that one, 20% off with that promo code. All right, so just a few

1:56.5

general thoughts before I actually get into the specifics of the players who are widely available

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