11 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Stashes Ahead of Week 12 (2025)

We are on the cusp of the fantasy football playoffs, and whether you’re playing for positioning or just pride, these games still matter a whole lot, and every roster transaction and fantasy football waiver wire move you make is vitally important.

While your leaguemates concentrate on the immediate fixtures, you can gain an edge by looking to next week and seeing which fantasy football players might be worth picking up off the waiver wire ahead of time to gain an advantage. Instead of fighting things out on the waiver wire, these players could join your roster for free, now.

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We use rostership data from Yahoo, which provides a large sample size and tends to be fairly reliable. We understand you’ll be dying to say ‘he’s not available in my league’ to every suggestion, even regarding players available in fewer than 10% of leagues. However, by selecting players typically rostered in 50% or fewer of leagues, we should have a good range of players available in many leagues.

We’ve hit a really difficult part of the schedule for waivers and stashes, with the bye weeks coming thick and fast; it’s pretty bleak out there. This week, the column will aim to give you a few streamers for Week 12, but also some valuable stashes going forward.

Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Stashes Ahead of Week 11

Week 12 Bye Weeks

• Denver Broncos
• Los Angeles Chargers
• Miami Dolphins
• Washington Commanders

Aaron Rodgers (QB – PIT) | 42% Rostered

Week 10’s miserable performance against the Chargers was one of the worst of Aaron Rodgers’ long and prominent career, but that doesn’t mean we should cast him aside going forward. This week, Rodgers faces a Bengals side ranked dead last in expected points added (EPA) allowed per dropback and gives up the most fantasy points to the position. Then, next week, he takes on the Bears, who aren’t much better.

Rodgers has long tortured the Bears when he was a resident of the NFC North, winning 25 games to just five losses. The Bears’ defense is starting to get healthier, but they do rank 21st against the pass and have given up the fourth-most quarterback fantasy points. We probably can’t start Rodgers every week, but against weaker defenses, he’s shown he’s still got enough juice for the occasional stream.

Jacoby Brissett (QB – ARI) | 29% Rostered

Since the Cardinals turned to Jacoby Brissett, he hasn’t been perfect, but for fantasy, he’s been solid as a rock, scoring over 20 points in every single game. Over that period, he’s the QB8 ahead of the likes of Bo Nix, Jalen Hurts and Caleb Williams. Without Marvin Harrison Jr., perhaps we see a dip in production, but as long as Trey McBride is available, we have a connection to hang onto.

Next week, Brissett plays the Jaguars, who rank 19th against the pass and have allowed the third-most schedule-adjusted fantasy points to the quarterback position. In each of the last two games, the Jaguars have given up over 280 passing yards, and they’ve also allowed six passing touchdowns in those two games.

Tyler Allgeier (RB – ATL) | 42% Rostered

Long-term readers of this column know we’re Tyler Allgeier fan club members, for better or for worse, and lately, it’s been mainly better. Allgeier has four double-digit fantasy performances this year and has earned a bigger role with the Falcons, despite Bijan Robinson playing great.

On the season, Allgeier now has five top-32 weekly finishes, in part because of the work Allgeier gets within the 10-yard line, where he has 75% of the snaps. As long as that keeps up, he’ll continue to be one of the best players available on the waiver wire.

Brian Robinson Jr. (RB – SF) | 26% Rostered

The 49ers have an elite talent in Christian McCaffrey, but he no longer looks elite rushing the ball; his elite levels shine in the receiving game. At a certain point, the Niners have to realize Brian Robinson Jr. is offering more in the ground game, boasting a 4.86 yards per carry (YPC) average to McCaffrey’s 3.48 YPC, as well as having a 6.1% explosive run rate, compared to McCaffrey’s 2.2% rate.

Robinson is also outplaying McCaffrey in both yards before contact and yards after contact. Sometimes rushing stats melt into offensive line play efficiency, but when a backup is delivering like this, it’s hard to argue that the team might be better off adding a little more to his workload.

Blake Corum (RB – LAR) | 15% Rostered

The Rams have quite clearly told us by now that this backfield will be a committee moving forward, and despite Kyren Williams being the lead back, we still need to pay attention to Blake Corum. Over the last three games, Corum has 38 carries, averaging over 4.3 yards per carry in three of his last four games and earning a 43% backfield share.

Corum isn’t returning great fantasy performances because he sees no receiving work and hasn’t found the end zone often, but his role has expanded as the season has gone on. Getting the clear No. 2 RB in a Sean McVay offense in 85% of leagues is a solid move.

Keaton Mitchell (RB – BAL) | 2% Rostered

If you want to look for someone who is potentially going to be a waiver wire add come Tuesday, Keaton Mitchell stands out this week. Justice Hill is set to miss this game, a week after seeing only one rushing attempt (albeit for a touchdown) against the Vikings. Hill has now been held to a single rushing attempt in each of his last three games and turned those three carries into five yards.

Mitchell, meanwhile, has 12 carries for 85 yards in that span. John Harbaugh talked coming out of the bye week about how the coaching staff knows they have to get Mitchell more involved. With games coming up against the Browns, Jets and two against the Bengals, Mitchell has the potential to have some very fantasy-worthy days.

Alec Pierce (WR – IND) | 47% Rostered

This one is admittedly very close to the 50% line we try to stay under, but it cannot be said enough that if Alec Pierce is available on waivers, you should remedy that. Pierce is currently on a bye week, having spent an enjoyable few days in Germany with an overtime win over the Falcons. He had his second top-15 wide receiver performance in the span of two weeks.

Pierce has gone over 65 receiving yards in each of his last four games and has 35 targets in that span. Since the start of Week 6, Pierce is averaging a 29% first-read target share — 7% higher than anyone else on the team. Despite his average depth of target (aDOT) being 19.8 yards, Pierce continues to make the hard look easy. Go and check he’s not available right now.

Chris Godwin (WR – TB) | 46% Rostered

There aren’t any recent stats to draw on to wow you about Chris Godwin, as he’s missed all but two of the last 20 games the Buccaneers have played, and his ‘ahead-of-schedule’ return in Week 4 lasted just two games before he went back to the treatment room. Godwin is set to miss Week 11 as well, but has a chance to play in Week 12 against the Rams.

The Buccaneers’ lead at the top of the NFC South is looking tenuous with their six wins only one more than the Panthers, and they find themselves in tough matchups with the Bills and Rams over the next two weeks. When Godwin finally does return, Baker Mayfield will no doubt be happy to have one of his top outlets back.

Luther Burden III (WR – CHI) | 8% Rostered

Time for our weekly Bears segment… Over the last few weeks, Luther Burden has started to finally come into his own with three games over 50 receiving yards. Last week, DJ Moore didn’t catch a single reception and Olamide Zaccheaus managed one reception on four targets for five yards.

Zaccheaus has been a coaching staff favorite this year, and Burden made that easier for them by missing so much time in the offseason, but Burden has 90% of Zaccheaus’ receiving yards on 40% of the routes, per Fantasy Points Data, and clearly has more upside. With a game coming up against a weak Steelers defense, Burden is well worth adding now.

Colston Loveland (TE – CHI) | 47% Rostered

Speaking of that poor Steelers defense that is starting to spiral, Colston Loveland remains in play as a low-end TE1 option. With Cole Kmet back in Week 10, we did see a drop-off in work for Loveland, but he still had 23 routes to Kmet’s 20, and more often when Loveland was on the field, it was a passing play, while Kmet was typically being used on running plays.

The Steelers rank 17th against the pass in EPA allowed per dropback and they have given up the fourth-most fantasy points to the tight end position, making this an excellent streaming spot for Loveland.

Brenton Strange (TE – JAX) |12% Rostered

Diving a bit deeper, Brenton Strange is set to come off injured reserve (IR) in the near future, and this Jaguars offense could use all the help it can get. With Travis Hunter out for the season and the near-term future of Brian Thomas Jr. murky, at best, Trevor Lawrence needs pass-catchers he can rely on — and quickly.

Before Strange was injured in Week 5, he had 23 targets in four games and caught all but two of them with three games over 45 yards. Since then, the Jaguars have improved their play slightly, and Strange could help them be a more well-rounded offense. We’ve seen Lawrence latch onto certain targets before, and he clearly likes throwing to Strange.