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  Week 12: Gems that are still on the waiver wire  Icon SMI  More Articles from Fantasy Football Freaks Reminder: Site Survey for the 2012 Season iPad Winner Revealed Super Bowl Rankings Conference Championship Rankings Divisional Round Rankings Wild Card Weekend Rankings Fantasy Football Freaks are the Champions of the 2011 All Pro Leagues 32 Team Expert League Week 17: Gems for the Last Weekend The Freaks Projections and Ratings 2011 Week 17 The Freaks Sleepers 2011 Week 17 Many people are looking to fill deep voids that have been left by quarterbacks, running backs or wide receivers this week. There are many injuries and they seem like they have all come in the last couple of weeks. Here are some fill-ins that can help you this Thanksgiving weekend. Matt Leinart will be a solid pick up this week and will be loving Owen Daniels. He will also be getting Andre Johnson back and will have a dump off running back in Arian Foster. Vince Young will be going back to his days at Texas this weekend against the Patriots. This will be a shoot out and Young will be running and throwing like his old days. Make sure to pick him up and start him. C.J. Spiller is going to be starting this weekend at running back with Fred Jackson likely out for the year with a calf injury. Spiller will get his chances to run and catch the ball out of the backfield. He will probably get close to 20 touches this weekend. Ryan Grant is going to get his chance to get his carries this Thanksgiving Day. Detroit will be focusing on stopping Aaron Rodgers and will let Grant run for as many yards as he wants. The Lions will take their chances of letting Grant beat them rather than Rodgers. Jabar Gaffney has been silently putting up decent numbers and last weekend he finally paid off. He will continue that and put together a nice well rounded game. The Seahawks secondary is very young and will end up making a mistake and Gaffney will take advantage of it. Damian Williams had a terrible game last week, but he still racked up 11 targets. He will still get the looks, but this week he will turn those targets into catches. He is going up against a struggling Bucs team. He will be a solid WR3 this weekend. Jacob Tamme will be starting with Dallas Clark out. Tamme will be putting up solid numbers this week with Curtis Painter still under center. He will look for Tamme early and often. Here are some waiver claims that you can put right away into your starting line up. I will be inserting Tamme in right away this weekend because of his big upside. Hopefully you will take advantage of some of these players so they can help you get that needed win. |
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| asalladay | November 28, 2011 |
| Don't see any value in any Colts players. | |
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| grid | November 26, 2011 |
| Players "step in" and produce because the D relaxes when the starter comes out. That won't be the case this week. Tamme was great in '10 but this is Painter not Manning. | |
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| iowaudude | November 25, 2011 |
| Tamme will definitely be a serviceable player this weekend. Last weekend he had over 70 yards and 6 catches. Clark struggled to get that this year. | |
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| grid | November 25, 2011 |
| I don't foresee any of these players coming through this week. Maybe Leinart, but that's a huge maybe. How can you expect Tamme to step in and perform better than a superior player like Clark who wasn't much better than waiver fodder anyway? As a bye week filler maybe, but byes are over. | |
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