Week 7 waiver wire: how the pickups scored

What these results measure—and when they were recorded

The results measure half-PPR points scored in the target week by recommended adds with complete outcomes. Recommendation counts are not necessarily the number contributing to an average. Jamey Eisenberg’s CBS Sports Fantasy article recommended 34 adds, with 25 complete results; Nick Mariano’s RotoBaller article recommended 85, with 68 complete results. Those coverage differences matter when interpreting the averages: the figures describe the measured portion of each article, not necessarily every recommendation it contained. ^[3][6]

The articles were recorded after their waiver deadlines. This is therefore a retrospective account of how the advice played out, not a head-to-head race captured in advance. The comparison also needs to preserve the purpose of the advice. A target-week score addresses immediate-use streaming advice more directly than a bench stash or handcuff proposition. The supplied results use the same points measure, but they do not provide a separate longer-term assessment of those forward-looking recommendations. ^{[10][11][12][13]}

Where Boone’s receiver results stood apart

Among the broad waiver articles, Boone’s receiver group led with 10.9 points from a list containing six receiver recommendations. Maggie Thraen of The Fantasy Footballers followed at 8.3, with three recommended, while Jason Katz of Pro Football Network recorded 8.0, with 11 recommended. This is a useful comparison because it holds the position and broad article format together. It supports a specific finding about Boone’s measured receiver outcomes, rather than treating Yahoo’s entire waiver offering as superior. ^[1][2][9]

The broader receiver lists did not match that average. Eisenberg’s group averaged 7.1 points, with 13 recommended, and Mariano’s averaged 6.7, with 28 recommended. Kevin English of Draft Sharks recorded 6.9, with six recommended. Mariano thus had the lowest receiver average among these broad articles, despite the widest recommendation list. The evidence establishes that contrast, but not its cause: it does not show that list breadth itself improved or reduced the quality of the advice. ^[3][6][4][1]

Running back and tight end produced different leaders

Running back results shifted the lead to English among the broad waiver articles. His group averaged 8.4 points, with four backs recommended, compared with Mariano’s 6.5 and Eisenberg’s 6.0. At the lower end, Pat Fitzmaurice’s FantasyPros group averaged 3.9, with 10 recommended, and Thraen’s averaged 2.7, with three recommended. These are immediate scoring outcomes, not measures of risk. They show where the measured running back production landed without establishing how dependable any source would be next week. ^{[4][6][3][8][2][10]}

Thraen’s tight end results told a different story: her group averaged 11.1 points, matching Andrew Cooper’s broad Fantasy Alarm waiver article, with each recommending three tight ends. Michael Fabiano’s Sports Illustrated Fantasy group averaged 8.9, also with three recommended, while English’s averaged 4.7 from three recommended. Thraen’s contrasting outcomes at running back and tight end make an article-wide verdict particularly unhelpful. A reader assessing advice for a specific roster opening would lose that distinction by looking only at an overall average. ^[2][7][5][4]

Streaming advice split even within the same article

For quarterback streaming, Michael Florio’s RotoBaller article averaged 16.0 points across five recommended quarterbacks, compared with 13.5 across Mike Fanelli’s four FantasyPros recommendations. Both articles had complete results for all their adds. Florio also supplied the week’s highest-scoring individual measured add: Malik Willis scored 26.0 half-PPR points. That is an attributable result from this report, not a recommendation to claim him or evidence that Florio will lead subsequent streaming comparisons. ^[14][11][10]

The tight end streaming comparison reversed Florio’s position. Ryan Kirksey’s FantasyPros article averaged 6.2 points, with three complete results from four recommendations; Florio’s four tight ends averaged 3.2. Keeping these comparisons separate matters: a strong quarterback outcome did not translate into a strong tight end outcome within Florio’s article. Jacob Herlin’s FantasyPros defense-streaming article, meanwhile, averaged 2.5 across six complete results. That belongs in its own positional category, not below the quarterback streamers in a common leaderboard. ^[15][14][16]

What the stash and handcuff scores can tell us

Andy Smith’s RotoBaller bench-stash article had four complete results from seven recommendations, averaging 6.4 points. Its running back group averaged 5.6 and its receiver group 9.0. Those are same-week returns from a stash article, not a complete assessment of whether holding the recommended players proved worthwhile later. Without a comparable stash-only source and longer-term outcomes in the supplied evidence, these results should remain a description of Smith’s measured week rather than a ranking against immediate-use pickup advice. ^[12][10]

Joe Gallina’s Fantasy Alarm handcuff report had complete results for all four recommendations and averaged 9.3 points. Braelon Allen scored 16.4, the highest measured total among tracked adds explicitly labeled speculative or handcuff by their author. That label distinguishes the recommendation’s purpose; it does not measure risk. The result documents a productive week for a labeled handcuff selection, without establishing the longer-term value of the handcuff approach or turning Allen’s performance into a general player recommendation. ^[13]

How much trust should this week earn?

The smallest groups deserve the most restrained reading. Thraen’s broad-article quarterback group contained two recommendations; Boone’s contained one. Kirksey’s streaming average covered three complete results, while Smith’s entire stash article had four. The positional recommendation counts supplied elsewhere do not establish complete-result counts for every subgroup. That limits how precisely the samples can be compared, even when the averages are directly reported. A source’s weekly average can swing on a single player, as the scope note explicitly cautions. ^{[2][1][15][12][10]}

Before the next waiver claims, the defensible takeaway is category-specific: Boone led broad-article receiver outcomes, English led running backs in that format, and Florio outscored Fanelli on quarterback streaming. Those findings identify where this week’s advice produced, not whose advice is generally most accurate. Fan50’s waiver-wire hub carries season results by advice type, providing the longer record to consult. What remains unsettled here is whether any weekly lead persists beyond this small, retrospectively recorded sample. ^{[1][4][14][11][10]}

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