Fantasy Football 2008

Fantasy Football Mailbag - Week 2

September 14th, 2008

This week’s mailbag question features a waiver wire no brainer.

Ok, so heres my team:

D Anderson, P Rivers, M Cassel
J Addai, M Forte, L Johnson, C Taylor
R Wayne, Chad 85, Roddy White, J Galloway
K Winslow
A Vinatieri
SD Chargers Def

Another guy in the league just dropped Santonio Holmes for E Royal! Should I pounce on Holmes …. or is there a reason he was dropped that i don’t know about. Is it the tough matchups that PIT has this season… or could it be just a first game disappointment. Just not exactly sure why he could’ve been dropped the 1st week, any ideas on what i should do? He might not be on the waiver wire for too long! (KB)

Add Santonio Holmes immediately. Talk about an overreaction drop. Once Brandon Marshall comes back Royal won’t get the same number of looks. But as for Holmes he is the Steelers main deep threat. I doubt whoever dropped him was looking at the Steelers extremely tough schedule but regardless he is still going to get plenty of looks. Sure he’ll have a few more games like last week but mostly because the Steelers will be dominating the game. Roethlisberger only threw the ball 14 times and completed 13 of them. They controlled the game with Willie Parker and looked mostly over the middle for Heath Miller and Hines Ward. It was just one of those weeks. There is no need to worry about Santonio Holmes going forward.

Not sure how your waiver wire works but you should look to add Santonio Holmes for his nice matchup against the Browns this week. If you were offered Santonio Holmes for Joey Galloway or even Roddy White you would accept that in about a nanosecond. So make this pickup as soon as possible.

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