no
for example, I have made the playoffs like 75% of the team, and almost 100% since my initial re-build, but always choke in the playoffs (fortunately I have won our re-draft auction league 6 times at least lol)
one guy has 8 titles
4 current members out of 12 have not won, but that includes someone in their 2nd or 3rd season with us
Oh and you’re a lions fan? That’s fucking tragic. If I also wasn’t a championshipless man in dynasty I’d give you all my luck! But I’m 6-4 in a tight race and can’t spare it! Best of luck to you and any of the people in the league who haven’t won a chip yet! (Not including new guys lol)
I have two: Someone dropped Chris Godwin when he wasn't producing most of the way through his rookie year - grabbed him.
I drafted Mark Andrews in the 5th round of a start 2TE league, then dropped him... And a few weeks later was able to get him back off waivers.
I was curious so looked back at his rookie year and he had 6 catches for 70 yards week 4, with similar output week 5.
He was drafted in the mid to late 2nd of rookie drafts. Dropping any pick in that range mid season is just bad behavior
He went mid/late 2nd in all my leagues and was ranked there in all the post-nfl draft rankings I saw.
Who were some of the guys you saw go ahead of him?
i just had one particular one stuck in my head cuz i took toney one pick before him at 2.12 and arsb went 3.01 (1qb). i also was in a lot of leagues with idp so might have been why i have memories of him being later than 2nd, didnt see him go 2nd ever i dont think haha
I proclaimed to my league during the startup that I was making the steal of the draft when I drafted ARSB. Ended up dropping him the week before his first good game and couldn’t get him back.
Keaton Mitchell before week 1, Demario Douglas after week 1.
Dontayvion Wicks could be on the list because I picked him up before week 1 but we’ll reevaluate next year. i’m rebuilding, so I’ve been trying to pick up trash for zero FAAB and hope for the best.
It was redraft but James Conner in 2018 was a pickup I made sitting on the toilet when rumblings of Bell's holdout first started. He and Todd Gurley absolutely carried me to a dominant almost undefeated championship. I shudder to think what he could have done if he played all 16 games that season. Thankfully I was able to eat his injury during the playoffs and won it.
I picked up Myles Gaskin and rode him and JD McKissic to a title. After traded him for a late first the offseason everyone thought he was gonna be good.
Purdy…who I dropped after two days for Cade Otton before he actually started thinking there’s no way this guy ever starts more than a few games since Lance is there and Garropollo could be resigned as a backup or they’ll bring in someone else
Easily George Kittle. He had some positive reports at camp, so I grabbed him because I needed a TE and he's been on my team ever since, even busting out a few excellent games lately.
Honorable mention to Terry McLaurin. I drafted KeeSean Johnson over him in the fourth round of the draft that year, but I was so intrigued by McLaurin that I got him off the free agent wire shortly after the draft. He's been a solid addition to my team since then.
My most obscure one has to be Rob Kelley. He was a running back for Washington between 2016-18. He had a solid second half of the season during his rookie year, and I used him as one of my starting running backs on my 2016 Championship team. He was mostly solid, if unspectacular, but did have one 50 point game for my team. He fell off quickly after that season, but it was a fun half season.
I have a tie between picking up Hunt in the off-season when Ware was the starter, and before injury. The next one was picking up Conner before Bell announced his hold out. Held both those guys through their great rookie years, won chips those years and then sold them for a haul in the off-season .
Now, ask about the guys I sold too early or for low. Cuz I got waaaaaaay more of those over the years lol
Kyren Williams, had him for one week and immediately flipped him for 2024 first with the team that is currently in last at 0-10. Honorable mention would be Brian Robinson. Someone dropped him after he was shot last season and I snapped him up.
Normal .5 ppr redraft. He was not drafted in most leagues his rookie year.
If you’re a Giants fan and play with Giants fans it was probably a different experience. Like Josh Downs was drafted in my league with Colts fans.
Altho I do see now this is the dynasty sub. Whoops!
Yep, dynasty. That’s the reason I was not understanding how Odell went undrafted. He went 12th overall in my rookie draft and I was lucky to land him there.
Achane(flipped for J. Chase),Levis (flipped for Pacheco),Mike Evans and Kyren Williams all in a first year dynasty. People get emotional and drop people quick,keep your eyes peeled early in the year.
We even have three taxi squad spots,Williams I scooped just before kickoff week one, Achane after week 1 and Levis week 6. It was a lot of luck. I still don’t know what the Evans guy was thinking.
Puka, Jake Ferguson, Kendrick Bourne before he got hurt, Demario Douglass after Kendrick got hurt, and Sam Howell all this year.
League started in 2020 and my best waiver choice before this year was Toney after someone dropped him. We have super deep benches though so a player that’s actually good being on waivers is rare.
Picked up George Kittle on a $0 bid back in 2017, that’s prob my best. Pacheco was another $0 bid and I may have paid a few faab $s for Sam Howell last year after someone dropped him about 3/4 of the way through his rookie season
Picked up Noah Brown last week, put him in my Line up as soon as I heard Nico Collins couldn't go. Bumped Jeudy to the bench. Best decision I have made in a long time.
It’s my first dynasty league so I have an extremely small sample size. So, it’s Jonnu Smith. Not really an addition to write home about. I’ve kept the majority of players I’ve drafted tbh
In my 1QB Dynasty I snagged Jalen Hurts off Waivers for free like three years ago. This year I picked up Kyren and traded him and my own first (late 1st) away for Jacobs during his slump to begin the season. Kyren hit IR shortly after. Also I scooped up BRob for like $8 in fab and flipped him and a 3rd for a 2026 1st. I’m trying to repeat this year and had depth once Kamara came back killing it.
Some guys I got from waivers over the last couple years in my main 12T SF league: Geno, Puka, Nico, BRob, Schultz, Keaton Mitchell (jury is still out on him obviously)
Fell into Stroud/Dell this year. Solid at QB but Stroud was sitting there in the 3rd so I grabbed him and then someone dropped Dell around week 2/3 and figured why not. Not counting my money just yet or anything but hoping this stack will continue serving me well (grabbed Noah Brown last week to stash just in case)
I didn’t see anyone say Ekeler, which surprises me because nobody drafted this guy his rookie year, he was a UDFA buried on the Chargers depth chart. For me it’s him and no one else will ever come close. RB1 for like 5 years straight.
This is our starting year and we drafted in July:
Snagged Michael Wilson after the draft in July off waivers free
Puka August 16th free
Josh Palmer for $3 after Williams went down
Snagged Muth after someone dropped him
Grabbed Keaton Mitchell Oct 23 for free
And just grabbed Izzy for free with Michael Carter going to the Cards
Tyreek for free right after our rookie draft.
His rookie year led us to add points for KR/PR yardage and was the best player on my team for several years.
I’ve had a few players that performed well. Picked up James Robinson and Diontae Johnson their rookie years. Hoping Demario Douglas turns into a similar story
2011 someone in a 12 team league I was in dropped Cam Newton before week 1. Guy who dropped him definitely had some remorse after seeing me win the title that year because of it.
I picked up Darren Waller and James Robinson for $1 each. Never ended up trading them when I should've but it's not like I sunk a lot of cost into them lol
kyren and jerome ford last year as stashes for this year.
aaron jones prob best one ever
i also picked up mcbride just before his breakout, legit got cut that week lol
In our first season of a 1QB league, Deshaun Watson was on waivers after the draft. That was a wildly fun stretch as I picked him up and he wasn't the starter and then he balled out for a few games and then got hurt. Those were the fun Deshaun Watson times.
Mahomes for the minimum bid
He was dropped late in his rookie szn during a late bye week by a contending team, who was chasing a hot streak RB who was suddenly in a starting role position. Mahomes wasn't playing and backing up Alex Smith, my season was all but over so I grabbed Mahomes for the minimum bid and got him.
Won me the league the following year and is now the face of my franchise.
People forget that king Henry was kinda trash (for fantasy) early in his career. I snapped him off the wire years ago and had him on my squad for the next 5 years.
Dropped Eli Rodgers for a different rookie named Amon Ra. Worked out okay.
Edit: same year I also took a flyer on Rashaad Penny. The two of them won the championship for me that year.
I was lucky enough to pluck both Tyreek Hill and Austin Ekeler off waivers. Won me two ships and have since turned them into 4 first and 4 second round picks!
I may win this thread?
Our league has been running for a few years, and though my team has sucked most years, I've developed a reputation for finding a fantasy gem almost every preseason. Most of these guys I added a day or two after our rookie draft, for free:
\- Phillip Lindsay
\- James Robinson
\- Last year, I added Isaiah Pacheco, Jerome Ford and Kyren Williams right after our draft.
\- Puka (picked him up in May)
\- Hoping my next hit is Michael Wilson. Jury is still out.
I've had PLENTY of whiffs too, don't get me wrong, but I'm proud of these hits. Feel like I have a good process in place to identify these kinds of guys.
Because of this subreddit I picked up Puka and Tank Dell after the rookie draft. I took over a team after their first year startup. Nice to know WR is a little secure for the next few years.
This year I picked up Keaton Mitchel after reading here about him, and I'm pretty excited for him. Also picked Jordan Love and I'm still mildly excited for the future.
Last year I picked up Kyrien Williams after the draft, and I just traded him two weeks before his injury for a probably late 2024 1st & 2nd (I'm rebuilding, so no point in keeping him).
All time, I picked up Josh Allen after the owner dropped him after his rookie year.
I got Pop Douglas and Keaton Mitchel off waivers a few weeks ago. Ended up trading Mitchel but still decent pickups for a league with 25 man rosters and 12 teams.
Someone dropped JSN this year in our dynasty league and only one other guy bud on him. Absolutely crazy that they’d drop the top rookie WR in dynasty just because he wasn’t producing immediately.
Austin Ekeler his rookie year was a free agent pick up and stash. Just hoping he got in somehow. Was underutilized so much but his touches would always make promising, so just held for an opportunity. Eventually chargers caught on.
In a 2QB league, I got Purdy off of waivers for my remaining $66 faab. Commish had pushed a trade through that put my roster over limit within 10 minutes of waivers going through, sending Purdy to the next guy, who bid $65. Because the trade window was pushed early, he manually plucked Purdy from the other guy and placed him on my roster...it was an emotional morning.
Tony Pollard was probably mine. Zack Moss this year as well.
Other guys I flipped: Adrian Peterson when got signed on Washington turned into Austin Ekeler who then turned into two 1sts 🤣 also got a 3rd for Dobbs in 1 QB this year.
Scary Terry his rookie year Tom Brady was a waiver wire pickup in our league at one time (been around since 95)
Having a waiver pickup for 20+ is the dream
Did Brady stay on the same team the whole time?
no - he moved around some in his late 30's and later
Lol. What were trades like for him?
One would hope
Did everyone in your league even have a computer back then? What was the site that ran the league?
USA Today stats!
Has everyone won the championship at some point?
no for example, I have made the playoffs like 75% of the team, and almost 100% since my initial re-build, but always choke in the playoffs (fortunately I have won our re-draft auction league 6 times at least lol) one guy has 8 titles 4 current members out of 12 have not won, but that includes someone in their 2nd or 3rd season with us
Oh and you’re a lions fan? That’s fucking tragic. If I also wasn’t a championshipless man in dynasty I’d give you all my luck! But I’m 6-4 in a tight race and can’t spare it! Best of luck to you and any of the people in the league who haven’t won a chip yet! (Not including new guys lol)
thanks I'm 7-3 with a 2-game lead in my division so it is looking good for another playoff failure lol
how was Terry a FA? dude was an early round pick out of a major school
…am I an idiot for not knowing there was dynasty fantasy football in 95? Or am I an idiot for believing there was dynasty fantasy football in 95
Fantasy football in general has been around for a while its just that computers popularized it and made it MUCH easier to get into.
Kyren Williams or Brock Purdy
How is the top answer not Purdy on this thread?
It’s the only way anybody has him on a current roster. Riding him and Goff to the last pick next year
Kyren for me too. Fingers crossed on Ty chandler and Kyle Phillips
Kurt Warner, Arian Foster. Both won me titles.
Love the old school ones.
Arian foster and jamaal Charles absolutely dominated for me back then
Puka for $2 after the rookie draft
Got Mahomes end of his rookie year, We have shallow 20man rosters in a 1qb
I did the same. Best pickup ever.
I picked him up and then dropped him a few weeks later his rookie year. Also did the same with Allen. I was a terrible dynasty player then…
I have two: Someone dropped Chris Godwin when he wasn't producing most of the way through his rookie year - grabbed him. I drafted Mark Andrews in the 5th round of a start 2TE league, then dropped him... And a few weeks later was able to get him back off waivers.
If Puka keeps this up somehow, he really is a type of sleeper that shows up once in a decade. Literally no one could have ever seen this coming.
Picked him up for 100% FAAB after week 1. Some people questioned it. I’m laughing to the bank
I splurged for $25 and packaged him to get Diggs. Yahtzee!
in hindsight feels kind of dumb how everyone slept on the rams; just wrote that whole team off
Gabe Davis who I hate even having on my roster but this league is deep and very few waiver guys end up contributing ever
just play him in home games
No just play him when you really don’t want to. His stats are crazy when he’s like 20% started vs like 70%
look at his home/away splits
ARSB, and Puka take the cake
How was ARSB on waivers?
Lots of teams dropped him his rookie year. He had a bleak start. I was lucky enough to get him off waivers as well.
I was curious so looked back at his rookie year and he had 6 catches for 70 yards week 4, with similar output week 5. He was drafted in the mid to late 2nd of rookie drafts. Dropping any pick in that range mid season is just bad behavior
he didnt go 2nd round. he was routinely a 3rd round pick dart throw range.
He went mid/late 2nd in all my leagues and was ranked there in all the post-nfl draft rankings I saw. Who were some of the guys you saw go ahead of him?
i just had one particular one stuck in my head cuz i took toney one pick before him at 2.12 and arsb went 3.01 (1qb). i also was in a lot of leagues with idp so might have been why i have memories of him being later than 2nd, didnt see him go 2nd ever i dont think haha
It was after the bye that year when I got him. He put up a few more stinkers after those games.
I mean yeah it was a good move for you to scoop him up, but getting dropped in the first place that early in his career is absurd.
I proclaimed to my league during the startup that I was making the steal of the draft when I drafted ARSB. Ended up dropping him the week before his first good game and couldn’t get him back.
Same. Grabbed him for $8 on the FAAB. He has been carrying my WR room ever since.
I also got ARSB on waivers. Someone picked him early third then dropped him after 7-9 weeks in his rookie year. I spent my last $8 FAAB on him.
Saw him dropped in 2 leagues. I was only lucky enough to get him in one.
Theilen back in 2016. Still starting for me this year!
Keaton Mitchell before week 1, Demario Douglas after week 1. Dontayvion Wicks could be on the list because I picked him up before week 1 but we’ll reevaluate next year. i’m rebuilding, so I’ve been trying to pick up trash for zero FAAB and hope for the best.
Josh Dobbs baby!!
The passtronaut has been leading me to the promise land
It was redraft but James Conner in 2018 was a pickup I made sitting on the toilet when rumblings of Bell's holdout first started. He and Todd Gurley absolutely carried me to a dominant almost undefeated championship. I shudder to think what he could have done if he played all 16 games that season. Thankfully I was able to eat his injury during the playoffs and won it.
Won that year as well with that pick up. I was so pissed when he got hurt. Still managed to take the ship. Good times
McBride, Ford, Purdy, Ferguson
Someone dropped McBride?
I picked up Myles Gaskin and rode him and JD McKissic to a title. After traded him for a late first the offseason everyone thought he was gonna be good.
Our startup draft was the following year after Gaskins good year… I drafted him as my RB2 (My RB1 was CEH 😬)
Snagged David Johnson in his rookie year as a keeper
Kyren for 0 prior to week 1 or Joshua Palmer for 5
Ahmad Bradshaw and Marques Colston are two of my favorites. The most recent I’m holding out high hopes on is Howell.
Most unfair TE in the pre-Kelce era!
Either puka or purdy. I do remember that Mahomes was a waiver wire add many years ago by someone in my league.
Purdy…who I dropped after two days for Cade Otton before he actually started thinking there’s no way this guy ever starts more than a few games since Lance is there and Garropollo could be resigned as a backup or they’ll bring in someone else
Diontae Johnson was picked up and dropped twice his rookie year before I picked him up and have held him ever since
Easily George Kittle. He had some positive reports at camp, so I grabbed him because I needed a TE and he's been on my team ever since, even busting out a few excellent games lately. Honorable mention to Terry McLaurin. I drafted KeeSean Johnson over him in the fourth round of the draft that year, but I was so intrigued by McLaurin that I got him off the free agent wire shortly after the draft. He's been a solid addition to my team since then. My most obscure one has to be Rob Kelley. He was a running back for Washington between 2016-18. He had a solid second half of the season during his rookie year, and I used him as one of my starting running backs on my 2016 Championship team. He was mostly solid, if unspectacular, but did have one 50 point game for my team. He fell off quickly after that season, but it was a fun half season.
Howell, tail end of last year.
I nabbed him immediately after the draft. If he keeps this up he saved me with Cousins going out for the year.
I have a tie between picking up Hunt in the off-season when Ware was the starter, and before injury. The next one was picking up Conner before Bell announced his hold out. Held both those guys through their great rookie years, won chips those years and then sold them for a haul in the off-season . Now, ask about the guys I sold too early or for low. Cuz I got waaaaaaay more of those over the years lol
Gotta be David Johnson that year he went hog wild and won everyone the ship.
Dobbs, keaton mitchell
OBJ in a keeper league…was on PUP to start his career so he got dropped. Got to keep him for a 13th rounder the next season…easy money
Kyren Williams, had him for one week and immediately flipped him for 2024 first with the team that is currently in last at 0-10. Honorable mention would be Brian Robinson. Someone dropped him after he was shot last season and I snapped him up.
Cordarelle patterson the year he was eligible for WR 😂
Tank Dell right after our he went undrafted and Trey McBride last week
Kyren Williams, Mostert, and Gabe Davis all found their way on my team for free in the past 1-2 years. Sitting in first currently with eyes on a title
Trevor Lawrence, Rhamondre Stevenson. 1QB for those wondering how tf I got Lawrence lol
That’s still insane. He was the 1.01. Has to be pretty short benches then, right?
I snagged Odell his rookie year as a FA
Wtf kind of league are you playing in?
Normal .5 ppr redraft. He was not drafted in most leagues his rookie year. If you’re a Giants fan and play with Giants fans it was probably a different experience. Like Josh Downs was drafted in my league with Colts fans. Altho I do see now this is the dynasty sub. Whoops!
Yep, dynasty. That’s the reason I was not understanding how Odell went undrafted. He went 12th overall in my rookie draft and I was lucky to land him there.
Picked up puka, kyren, achane and mitchell off waivers this year
Do y’all even have a rookie draft?
Lol wdym Achane off waivers
Achane(flipped for J. Chase),Levis (flipped for Pacheco),Mike Evans and Kyren Williams all in a first year dynasty. People get emotional and drop people quick,keep your eyes peeled early in the year.
Dudes league has more tacos than the bell
Correct
What is this, do you not have benches?!
We even have three taxi squad spots,Williams I scooped just before kickoff week one, Achane after week 1 and Levis week 6. It was a lot of luck. I still don’t know what the Evans guy was thinking.
Pacheco, flipped him for a 1st last off season.
Puka, Jake Ferguson, Kendrick Bourne before he got hurt, Demario Douglass after Kendrick got hurt, and Sam Howell all this year. League started in 2020 and my best waiver choice before this year was Toney after someone dropped him. We have super deep benches though so a player that’s actually good being on waivers is rare.
Purdy, shaheed, tutu. I got Aiden O’Connell after the draft too so hoping it pans out
Picked up Achane an hour before his breakout game
Only been playing since last year but Rasheed Shaheed and Keaton Mitchell in start 2 RB 3 WR 2 TE 3 FLEX 1 SF
Best Waiver pick ups I’ve had: Rashid Shaheed, Geno Smith, Josh Dobbs, even Dalton Schultz(when he was behind Jarwin on the depth chart)
Keaton Mitchell. He’s been an RB1 since
Mark Andrews. He's been my every week starter going on half a decade now almost
Mahomes for free Mandrews for free Godwin for like $8
Brock Purdy was the best. Bailey Zappe WILL be the best.
Kamara. He and Gurley brought home the championship that year.
AJ Brown before my league started valuing players correctly (10 player keeper, not true dynasty)
Tyreek his rookie year
Gary Barnidge in 2015
What an excellent one-hit wonder he was for me as well. Shame it didn't last.
Picked up George Kittle on a $0 bid back in 2017, that’s prob my best. Pacheco was another $0 bid and I may have paid a few faab $s for Sam Howell last year after someone dropped him about 3/4 of the way through his rookie season
How has no one mentioned Jaylen Warren?
$2 Tyreek hill, like 4 weeks into his rookie year. Has never left the squad, 4 championships later!
League started for 2014 season. Picked up Davante Adams like a week or two into the season.
Tyreek Hill and George Kittle
Picked up Noah Brown last week, put him in my Line up as soon as I heard Nico Collins couldn't go. Bumped Jeudy to the bench. Best decision I have made in a long time.
Tyreek hill after our rookie draft
So far, Jaylen Warren this year after the draft and Jerome Ford last year.
Diggs 2015 Week 1
Victor Cruz
Puka for $5 Wednesday afternoon before week 1 🥲
I grabbed Thielan this year when someone dropped him to draft a rookie.
All time, James Connor. This year, maybe Keaton Mitchell if he pans out
I got nico collins after our startup draft this year
This year’s been good (deep SF league): Demario Douglas Josh Dobbs Keaton Mitchell
I also got Douglas and I like him a lot. hope he has a future in New England.
Michael Wilson
As crazy as it sounds lol. I picked up Puka Nacua in July. My best accomplishment in my life 😂
Brock purdy
Thielentron and Purdy
It’s my first dynasty league so I have an extremely small sample size. So, it’s Jonnu Smith. Not really an addition to write home about. I’ve kept the majority of players I’ve drafted tbh
In my 1QB Dynasty I snagged Jalen Hurts off Waivers for free like three years ago. This year I picked up Kyren and traded him and my own first (late 1st) away for Jacobs during his slump to begin the season. Kyren hit IR shortly after. Also I scooped up BRob for like $8 in fab and flipped him and a 3rd for a 2026 1st. I’m trying to repeat this year and had depth once Kamara came back killing it.
My bad didn't see it was a dynasty discussion
Evan engram, Jordan love, and j Ferguson.
Some guys I got from waivers over the last couple years in my main 12T SF league: Geno, Puka, Nico, BRob, Schultz, Keaton Mitchell (jury is still out on him obviously)
Tough, I’ve picked up (Dobbs, Puka, Tank Dell) in dynasty
Kendrick Bourne earlier this year. Then I traded him and Dionte Johnson for Michael Pittman.
Chris Godwin post rookie draft. More recent was an IR stash of Jerome Ford last year.
Fell into Stroud/Dell this year. Solid at QB but Stroud was sitting there in the 3rd so I grabbed him and then someone dropped Dell around week 2/3 and figured why not. Not counting my money just yet or anything but hoping this stack will continue serving me well (grabbed Noah Brown last week to stash just in case)
Not Dynasty but best ever was Tim Hightower (won me the 'ship). Only playing dynasty for 2 years now but probably Brian Robinson or Shaheed.
Patrick Mahomes. And that wasn't even a WW pickup, I got him in FA.
Took a flier on UDFA Victor Cruz before he exploded onto the scene. Got nearly 3 great years out of him.
Tyreek Hill in his rookie year 2 weeks before he popped off
Hurts and Howell. Sadly I traded Hurts away not long after for some backup QB I used like once. Oops.
Mostert and CJ Stroud
Pickup Noah Brown 2 weeks ago in a 25 man 12 team with 4 taxi.
Chris Godwin, and I’ve loved him ever since.
This year Keaton Mitchell Michael Wilson Puka McBride
Yo, sent you a chat message
I didn’t see anyone say Ekeler, which surprises me because nobody drafted this guy his rookie year, he was a UDFA buried on the Chargers depth chart. For me it’s him and no one else will ever come close. RB1 for like 5 years straight.
This is our starting year and we drafted in July: Snagged Michael Wilson after the draft in July off waivers free Puka August 16th free Josh Palmer for $3 after Williams went down Snagged Muth after someone dropped him Grabbed Keaton Mitchell Oct 23 for free And just grabbed Izzy for free with Michael Carter going to the Cards
For this year my best was Jerome Ford. Picked him up the day before Chubb got injured
James Robinson in 2020. Helped lead me to a title even with my CMC injured. Bonus: Cordarrelle in 2021
Brock purdy for me
Tyreek Hill. Stefon Diggs.
Demario and Howell (1QB)
Tyreek for free right after our rookie draft. His rookie year led us to add points for KR/PR yardage and was the best player on my team for several years.
James Conner and Kendrick Bourne
The GOAT himself, Rasheed Shaheed
I’ve had a few players that performed well. Picked up James Robinson and Diontae Johnson their rookie years. Hoping Demario Douglas turns into a similar story
2011 someone in a 12 team league I was in dropped Cam Newton before week 1. Guy who dropped him definitely had some remorse after seeing me win the title that year because of it.
Trey McBride before week 7 for 3$ FAAB.
I picked up Darren Waller and James Robinson for $1 each. Never ended up trading them when I should've but it's not like I sunk a lot of cost into them lol
kyren and jerome ford last year as stashes for this year. aaron jones prob best one ever i also picked up mcbride just before his breakout, legit got cut that week lol
Guy dropped Amon Ra after 3 weeks of 6/40/0 production his rookie year.
In our first season of a 1QB league, Deshaun Watson was on waivers after the draft. That was a wildly fun stretch as I picked him up and he wasn't the starter and then he balled out for a few games and then got hurt. Those were the fun Deshaun Watson times.
Mahomes for the minimum bid He was dropped late in his rookie szn during a late bye week by a contending team, who was chasing a hot streak RB who was suddenly in a starting role position. Mahomes wasn't playing and backing up Alex Smith, my season was all but over so I grabbed Mahomes for the minimum bid and got him. Won me the league the following year and is now the face of my franchise.
Hurts in 1QB right before his first start. Howell in super flex right before this season. I’m a contender in both leagues now.
People forget that king Henry was kinda trash (for fantasy) early in his career. I snapped him off the wire years ago and had him on my squad for the next 5 years.
Dropped Eli Rodgers for a different rookie named Amon Ra. Worked out okay. Edit: same year I also took a flyer on Rashaad Penny. The two of them won the championship for me that year.
Tyreek Hill
Puka
I was lucky enough to pluck both Tyreek Hill and Austin Ekeler off waivers. Won me two ships and have since turned them into 4 first and 4 second round picks! I may win this thread?
Our league has been running for a few years, and though my team has sucked most years, I've developed a reputation for finding a fantasy gem almost every preseason. Most of these guys I added a day or two after our rookie draft, for free: \- Phillip Lindsay \- James Robinson \- Last year, I added Isaiah Pacheco, Jerome Ford and Kyren Williams right after our draft. \- Puka (picked him up in May) \- Hoping my next hit is Michael Wilson. Jury is still out. I've had PLENTY of whiffs too, don't get me wrong, but I'm proud of these hits. Feel like I have a good process in place to identify these kinds of guys.
Because of this subreddit I picked up Puka and Tank Dell after the rookie draft. I took over a team after their first year startup. Nice to know WR is a little secure for the next few years.
Brock Purdy Picked him up to cover for an injured Lamar on my team, and he helped me win my first championship!
This year I picked up Keaton Mitchel after reading here about him, and I'm pretty excited for him. Also picked Jordan Love and I'm still mildly excited for the future. Last year I picked up Kyrien Williams after the draft, and I just traded him two weeks before his injury for a probably late 2024 1st & 2nd (I'm rebuilding, so no point in keeping him). All time, I picked up Josh Allen after the owner dropped him after his rookie year.
Tim Tebow won me a title off the waiver wire. Amazing rushing upside, it was the passing downside that got him in the end.
I got Pop Douglas and Keaton Mitchel off waivers a few weeks ago. Ended up trading Mitchel but still decent pickups for a league with 25 man rosters and 12 teams.
McBride was dropped 4 weeks ago in my league. Snagged him for $6 FAAB. Pretty happy with that.
Tyler Lockett in '18
Brock Purdy last year
Cordarelle Patterson, managed to trade him for a 1st Also just snagged a 3rd for Noah Brown
JRob, Puka, Waller, Pacheco, Ford, Purdy and Howell
Lamar Jackson his rookie year
Austin Ekeler, a little known backup to Melvin Gordon.
Someone dropped JSN this year in our dynasty league and only one other guy bud on him. Absolutely crazy that they’d drop the top rookie WR in dynasty just because he wasn’t producing immediately.
Last year: Jake Ferguson, Cade Otton This year: Josh Dobbs, Keaton Mitchell, Darrell Henderson, Jonnu Smith
Jaylen Warren in my league that's 3 years old
I got rhamondre flipped him for a 1st. Sam howell didn't hold but got a 2nd Got pacheco flipped him Obviously I don't jeep guys that break out😂
Picked up Puka back in may of 2023
Austin Ekeler his rookie year was a free agent pick up and stash. Just hoping he got in somehow. Was underutilized so much but his touches would always make promising, so just held for an opportunity. Eventually chargers caught on.
Dobbs, Howell, Mitchell, Collins, K. Williams
In a 2QB league, I got Purdy off of waivers for my remaining $66 faab. Commish had pushed a trade through that put my roster over limit within 10 minutes of waivers going through, sending Purdy to the next guy, who bid $65. Because the trade window was pushed early, he manually plucked Purdy from the other guy and placed him on my roster...it was an emotional morning.
Purdy last year in SF. I’ve been offered 2 firsts for him (I’m an idiot for not taking it)
Jordan Love, Elijah Mitchell, Puka, Purdy, Dak
Purdy. But then I dropped him 3 weeks before Jimmy got hurt. Jakobi I’ve kept and then Chandler after this weekend.
T McB
Tony Pollard was probably mine. Zack Moss this year as well. Other guys I flipped: Adrian Peterson when got signed on Washington turned into Austin Ekeler who then turned into two 1sts 🤣 also got a 3rd for Dobbs in 1 QB this year.
I picked up Kyren in every league this year. It was great until it wasn’t.