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Can Jaylen Waddle sustain fantasy football WR1 numbers for the rest of the season?

Can Jaylen Waddle sustain fantasy football WR1 numbers for the rest of the season?

DraftKings Fantasy Advice Season Long DFS Rail

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By: Alex Hunter

With Tyreek Hill (leg/knee) done for the season, Jaylen Waddle has been an awesome fantasy asset. With Hill inactive the last two weeks, Waddle has produced receiving lines of 6/110/1 and 6/95/0. This has resulted in 26 FPTS and 15.8 FPTS for the wideout, making Waddle the No. 5 scoring wide receiver for fantasy football during this time.

Overall, Waddle has played three career games with Hill inactive and Waddle is generating 24.3 FPTS per game in those tilts. In those contests, the Alabama product is leading the Dolphins with a 29.3% target share, a 13.1 aDOT and four targets over 20 yards. Furthermore, Waddle is averaging 4.14 YPPR with Hill inactive, which is truly an elite number for this statistic that always translates into fantasy success for receivers.

For some perspective, Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Puka Nacua are the top-two scoring receivers for fantasy football this season and they lead the NFL in YPPR, at 4.43 and 3.42, respectively.

Waddle needs to be viewed as a WR1 for fantasy football for the rest of the season and he could be the key to winning fantasy championships come playoff time, with great matchups vs. the Bengals in Week 16 and vs. the Buccaneers in Week 17, which are the final two weeks of the fantasy football playoffs for most season-long leagues.

Alex Hunter
Alex Hunter is an avid DFS player and sports handicapper, who has been a proud member of the DraftKings Network team since 2020. He is a data-driven analyst, who earned his bachelor’s degree in communications at Worcester State University and has been in the sports content business for nearly a decade, covering the NBA, NFL and PGA TOUR. Alex is a diehard Boston Celtics fan, who loves to be on the golf course when he isn’t grinding lineups or producing content. For all of Alex’s work or if you need any lineup advice, be sure to follow him @Hunta512 on X.
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