We have officially hit double-digit weeks. The stretch run is here, and the fantasy playoffs are four, maybe five Sundays away. Every win now is a playoff ticket. Every loss is a seat on the couch. So here's the playbook: Open the trade market. Open the waiver wire. Open your group chat at 2 a.m. if necessary. Love the prices? Great, buy. Hate them? Better, sell high before the crowd wakes up.
The market isn't your enemy; indecision is. React fast, react smart, or someone else will. Enough pontificating. Clock's ticking. Let's win a championship. Ring the bell!
Fortune 5
LB Payton Wilson, Pittsburgh
Payton Wilson just authored the IDP performance of Week 10. Fourteen tackles, one pick, and a swaggering statement against the Colts, arguably the finest night of the second-year Steelers' career. Drafted in the third round out of NC State, Wilson spent his rookie year in Patrick Queen's considerable shadow. Most dynasty managers slotted him as LB3 with upside. Wrong. He's already averaging 9.8 tackles per game, flashing sideline-to-sideline range and a nose for the football. The snap share is climbing (78% last week), the production is spiking, and the runway is clear. Queen is the veteran headliner, but Wilson is the ascending co-star.
DT Zach Allen, Denver
Zach Allen is rewriting the IDL rulebook, and Week 10 was his latest manifesto: one sack, two passes defended, five tackles, and a five-game sack streak that now stares down the Raiders. I usually preach caution on interior linemen. Snap counts dip, double-teams devour, upside evaporates. Not this year. Allen has at least half a sack in six of nine games, a 67% pressure-to-sack conversion that's elite even among edge rushers. Denver's scheme is feeding him one-on-one looks, and he's feasting. In true-position leagues, that weekly floor-plus-spike combo is fantasy gold. Stream him, stash him, start him, because the big-play train isn't slowing down.
LB Christian Rozeboom, Carolina
Christian Rozeboom just unleashed back-to-back LB1 bonfires: 27 tackles, one forced fumble, one PD, and a Carolina-green dot that's glued to his helmet. I admit, I slept. His old lines swung wild, 11 one week, 4 the next. Volatility tax paid in full. Then Ejiro Evero stripped the depth chart bare, handed Rozeboom 95% of snaps, and flipped the switch. Fifteen stops at Lambeau. A strip that screams Kuechly vibes. This isn't a streak; it's a hostile takeover of the MIKE chair. Still owned in just 7% of Yahoo IDP leagues, he's the every-down cheat code hiding in plain sight. Lock him as your LB2, ride the 10-tackle floor, and cash the ceiling all playoff long.
S Xavier McKinney, Green Bay
Xavier McKinney doesn't chase headlines; he erases them. At 26, the Packers' All-Pro safety is on a 105-tackle pace with 100% snaps locked, two picks already banked, and QBs still treating his third of the field like a no-fly zone. Last year's eight-interception eruption wasn't luck; it was proof he's the rare DB who marries volume (9.2 tackles/g in big-play leagues) with weekly boom. Green Bay's defense is young and fast. That stability turns volatile DB scoring into a stone-cold floor. Dynasty? He's a top-5 asset entering his prime. Redraft? Start him every snap and dare the box score to disappoint. McKinney isn't loud. He's lethal.
LB Devin White, Las Vegas
Devin White just phoenix'd his career in the desert. Eighty tackles through eight starts, every single snap, and back-to-back 16-tackle explosions, Vegas' MIKE is feasting on a defense that finally cut him loose. At 27, the 4.42 speed that made him the fifth overall pick is back on full blast: sideline-to-sideline missiles, strip-sacks, and picks that scream Super Bowl LV vibes. Patrick Graham's unit was starving for a three-down general; White walked in and stole the green dot. Top-6 in the league in stops, on pace for 160+, and the schedule serves up run-funnels all December. Start him as your LB1 and dare the box score to dip below double-digits. The burnout story is dead. Devin White is elite again.
Falling 4
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