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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Week 8 Waiver Wire

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ratcliffe breaks down his Week 8 fantasy football waiver wire rankings. He kicks things off his rankings and a suggested percentage of your FAAB budget to bid on each player. He then gives you the players he isn't adding, his hold list and cut list, and wraps things up with his team defensive streamers of the week.

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0:00.0

What is up? It's the rant. My name is Jeff Rackliff, and it is Tuesday, October 25th.

0:24.2

Week 8 waiver wire coming at us. We have officially crossed the halfway point of the fantasy football regular season. Still a lot of work to be done.

0:30.1

And man, what a week for waivers. We've had some crazy stuff. Devastating injury to

0:35.8

Brees Hall. We had the trade, the corresponding trade for

0:39.6

James Robinson. We had Matt Ryan getting benched. Our pets' heads are falling off. We got so much

0:45.5

to get to. So I'm going to dive right into it. And honestly, I was sitting here last night,

0:50.1

Monday night, as I normally do, writing my waiver wire article for FtNFantasy.com.

0:55.9

promo code rap hack for 20% off.

0:58.1

And I was set to have Michael Carter as the top ad.

1:02.5

Well, he's not the top ad anymore.

1:04.3

It's Gus Edwards.

1:05.3

And I am willing to go 50 to 100% on Gus Edwards.

1:09.9

Now, it should be noted, they did use plenty of Justice Hill and

1:14.9

Kenyon Drake in terms of snaps. In fact, Edwards only had seven more snaps than Kenyon Drake.

1:20.4

However, he was extremely effective. They could have also been easing him in as well.

1:24.6

16 carries 66 yards. We know the two touchdowns.

1:28.8

It just looks like it's going to be Gus's backfield here going forward. So I'm willing to

1:33.6

spend on this dude because this type of running back, an RB2-ish guy, doesn't grow on trees.

1:39.1

And by the way, I'm not very optimistic about J.K. Dobbins being himself this year.

1:43.8

He's going to be out four to six

1:45.1

weeks, had the surgery. If it's six weeks, we have seven weeks left in the fantasy football

1:51.9

regular season. We could be out of it by that point. So I'm, and I'll talk about Dobbins and

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