Week 13 IDP Waiver Wire: Sack Help From Unexpected Sources

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This list of IDP waiver wire pickups is sorted by position, and then by priorty.

Of course, IDP leagues vary widely by depth, scoring rules, and lineup settings. So to get the best measure of who to pick up in your league, check your Free Agent Finder.

Laiatu Latu, Edge, Indianapolis Colts

Laiatu Latu

DL21 on Sun 1:00 PM vs HOU

Bye11

3D PPR ROS71.8

3D Value-4.5

Latu’s low tackle floor has produced heavy volatility in his production. But that has also helped keep his rostered rate down. 

The Colts edge remains available in 89% of Sleeper IDP leagues as of Tuesday afternoon, which is bound to change after he delivered a sack and an INT and matched his season high at 6 tackles in Sunday’s loss to the Chiefs. 

Week 13 brings a home date with the Texans, who have allowed 4 sacks twice among their past four games. There’s also enticing upside to a Week 14 visit to the Jaguars. Trevor Lawrence has taken 3+ sacks in five of his past seven games.

Osa Odighizuwa, DL, Dallas Cowboys

Osa Odighizuwa

DL29 on Thu 4:30 PM vs KC

Bye10

3D PPR ROS62.3

3D Value-7

Quinnen Williams is the new big name on the Dallas D-line, but Odighizuwa has been the guy terrorizing opponent backfields lately.

The 27-year-old has racked up 11 QB hits over just the past three weeks, including 3+ in each of those games. He notched sacks the past two games, against the Raiders and Eagles. And now comes a Chiefs matchup that has softened for sack seekers. (Not the Tre’von Moehrig type.)

Patrick Mahomes has taken 3+ sacks in four consecutive games, including a season-high four in Sunday’s OT win over the Colts. And things got worse on that front when G Trey Smith suffered high- and low-ankle sprains in that game.

Quinnen Williams, DT, Dallas Cowboys

Quinnen Williams

DL22 on Thu 4:30 PM vs KC

Bye10

3D PPR ROS70

3D Value-4.5

Williams benefits from the same O-line details I just mentioned in the Odighizuwa entry.

The former Jet hasn’t been as productive as his new teammate lately, but he has tallied 1.5 sacks, 2 tackles for loss and 6 QB hits across his first two Cowboys games. That’s a nice turn for a player who hadn’t registered a hit (or sack) since the season opener.

Kansas City hasn’t presented a positive scoring matchup for D-linemen overall this season. But three different Colts linemen notched 6 total sacks apiece last week.

Mike Green, Edge, Baltimore Ravens

Mike Green

DL50 on Thu 8:20 PM vs CIN

Bye7

3D PPR ROS70

3D Value-5.7

The rookie has just 2.5 sacks for the season and just 1 sack among the past three weeks -- against the eminently sackable Jets -- but he has increased the hidden pressure.

After totaling 6 pressures through the first six games (according to Pro Football Focus), Green has tallied 13 over five contests since the Week 7 bye. That span has included 7 QB hits, vs. 2 over the first six weeks.

Green carries upside into a Thursday matchup with Cincinnati, which ranks just 29th in ESPN’s pass-block win rate. QB Joe Burrow’s set to return for the first time since a Week 2 toe injury that required surgery.

I’ll go ahead and assume the Bengals wouldn’t put him back out there if he can’t take care of himself. But I’d also guess Burrow will prove to be somewhere short of peak mobility.

The Ravens get another shot at the Bengals two weeks later, and the sack-friendly Patriots in Week 16.

Alex Singleton, LB, Denver Broncos

Alex Singleton

LB20 on Sun 8:20 PM @ WAS

Bye12

3D PPR ROS127.6

3D Value0.2

Denver’s lead LB hopes to return for Sunday night’s game at Washington after missing the Broncos’ last game for a tumor removal. 

If he’s ready to play, he’ll take the field against a Commanders offense that has supplied the eighth-most fantasy points per game to LBs. After that comes an even better matchup against the Raiders: second-friendliest to LB scoring.

Singleton tallied 9+ tackles in three straight games before missing Week 11. He sits available in 71% of Sleeper IDP leagues as of this writing.

Quincy Williams, LB, New York Jets

Quincy Williams

LB28 on Sun 1:00 PM vs ATL

Bye9

3D PPR ROS89

3D Value-5.2

We’ll roll with one more mention of Williams in this space after he followed 95.5% playing time in Week 11 with 100% in Sunday’s loss to Baltimore.

Williams did nothing special stat wise in that game, but the Jets also collected just 24 solo tackles as a team in that contest. This week pits them against a Falcons offense that has supplied the ninth-most LB points per game over the past five weeks and fourth-most over the past three. That included four 10+ tackle lines and 3 passes defensed for LBs over just the past three games.

That kicks off a remaining schedule that’s fifth-best for LB scoring, according to our adjusted fantasy points allowed.

Shaq Thompson, LB, Buffalo Bills

Shaq Thompson

LB36 on Sun 4:25 PM @ PIT

Bye7

3D PPR ROS75.6

3D Value-13.9

Terrel Bernard injured his right elbow in last Thursday night’s loss to the Texans. HC Sean McDermott called IR “a possibility” afterward. That sure seems to make missing Week 13 (and probably at least one more beyond that) a certainty.

Thompson played every snap after Bernard left that game (57.6% of the total). He has been a limited tackle producer in vacillating playing time. But Thompson did start two games before sustaining his own injury, one of which included 10 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, and a pass defense at Atlanta.

He’ll face a Steelers offense this week that’s been a negative scoring matchup for LBs overall. Last week’s version, however, supplied 15 and 14 total tackles to Chicago fill-in LBs D’Marco Jackson and Amen Ogbongbemiga.

There’s at least upside from LB3 range to Thompson this week, plus a more favorable spot against the Bengals the following week (10th-most LB points allowed per game).

Nick Emmanwori, S, Seattle Seahawks

The rookie has appeared in this space before amid changes in both his role and who’s healthy around him. Consider this a confirmation that he’s in weekly IDP starting consideration going forward.

Emmanwori tied for second among Seahawks with 8 total tackles and tied for the team lead with 6 solos in Sunday’s win over the Titans. That marked his second game of 8+ tackles among the past three and his third game of 5+ solos among the past four. That lays a nice base for a guy who has also racked up 7 passes defensed over his past five outings.

Week 13 brings a matchup with the erratic J.J. McCarthy and a Vikings offense that has proved average to slightly above-average in supporting fantasy scores for both DBs and LBs. (Emmanwori gets a fair number of “box” snaps.)

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Matt Schauf, Editor

Matt has earned two Fantasy Pros accuracy awards for IDP rankings and won thousands of dollars as a player across best ball, dynasty, and high-stakes fantasy formats. He has been creating fantasy football content for more than 20 years, with work featured by Sporting News, Rotoworld, Athlon, Sirius XM, and others. He's been with Draft Sharks since 2011.