Fantasy Football Start’em, Sit’em: Darren Waller, Devaughn Vele, Isaac TeSlaa

Start em or sit em? Fantasy football start or sit decisions can be excruciating. While it feels great to make the right call and cruise to fantasy glory, it hurts just as much when you have someone erupt while on your bench. You can use our Who Should I Start? tool to gauge advice from fantasy football experts as you make your lineup decisions. And you can also sync your fantasy football league for free using our My Playbook tool for custom advice, rankings and analysis.

Let’s dive into our start/sit lineup advice and outlook for a few of the top fantasy football waiver wire pickups of the week. And here are all of our top fantasy football waiver wire pickups for Week 14.

Fantasy Football Start’em, Sit’em Lineup Advice

Devaughn Vele (WR – NO)

Devaughn Vele‘s role in the Saints’ passing attack has been growing. In Week 12, he had a 16.2% target share with an uninspiring 37 scoreless receiving yards. In Week 13, he took another step forward with a standout game. Against the Dolphins’ improved secondary, he had a 21% target share with 93 receiving yards and a score. Vele doesn’t have overwhelmingly bad matchups across the next three weeks. If Vele continues to see a weekly target shave hovering in the 20% range, he’ll be a decent PPR Flex play.

Isaac TeSlaa (WR – DET)

As long as Amon-Ra St. Brown is out (ankle), Isaac TeSlaa will have deep-league Flex appeal. His role should continue to grow as long as St. Brown is on the shelf. St. Brown will be joining Sam LaPorta in the injured Lions’ den. Last week, TeSlaa had an 83.9% route share, a 7.4% target share, 35 receiving yards and a touchdown, per Fantasy Points Data. Detroit could lean heavily on TeSlaa this week against a burnable Dallas secondary. Since Week 8, Dallas has allowed the eighth-most PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers, per Fantasy Points Data.

Darren Waller (TE – MIA)

In his first game back from injury, Darren Waller had a 68.9% route share, a 13% target share and 47 scoreless receiving yards. Waller is a wonderful player to target if you want tight end insurance or a streaming option for Weeks 15-16. The Steelers and Bengals have, respectively, allowed the sixth-most and the most fantasy points per game to tight ends. Waller could help you advance to the title game in the fantasy playoffs.

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