Photo By: Kelley L. Cox / USA TODAY Sports With a rookie quarterback and an average at best receiving core, you know it was going to be a tough season for former Pro Bowl kicker Dan Carpenter. However if you're looking for a waiver wire option with top kickers like David Akers, Blair Walsh, Greg Zuerlein and Justin Tucker's production falling off in the second half of the season, give Carpenter a look this ...

Photo By: Christopher Hanewinckel / USA TODAY Sports Outside of Jimmy Graham, Tony Gonzalez, Aaron Hernandez and Jason Witten it's starting to get ugly at the tight end position for fantasy options. Super star names like Vernon Davis and Antonio Gates continue to play way below the expectations we have for them, while other options like Kyle Rudolph and Brandon Myers have good games then disappear for a wee ...

Photo By: Jason Bridge / USA TODAY Sports The Chargers finally picked up a win and did so against a playoff caliber team, on the road. While Danario Alexander started off slow, he eventually had his way with the Steelers secondary picking up seven receptions for 88-yards and two touchdowns. Alexander has done a terrific job in the short passing game, crossing routes and big plays down the field. Those of yo ...

Photo By: Geoff Burke / USA TODAY Sports What an interesting story we have lined up in Baltimore as Joe Flacco's long time offensive coordinator Cam Cameron was fired on Monday. The Ravens will place their bets (Sportsbetting.ag) on former Colts Head Coach Jim Caldwell improving the offense in perhaps the biggest matchup in the NFL next week against the Broncos. Because Ozzie Newsome (well respected around ...

Photo By: Ron Chenoy / USA TODAY Sports After struggling through the first half of the season to pickup the teams new zone blocking scheme, Darren McFadden suffered another injury and for the 5th year in a row McFadden will now have missed at least four games. It just so happens that McFadden has only played five season in the league, so fantasy owners who drafted him this summer should have known the risk ...

Photo By: Kirby Lee / USA TODAY Sports The Raiders are horrible and changes will be coming in Oakland soon after the season is over, once again. For all the problems this team is having there is one man who won't let this team down, nor his fantasy owners and that is Brandon Myers. Part of Myers success is the Raiders playing from behind every week, but give the young tight end credit as he's put together 6 ...

Photo By: Mike Carter / USA TODAY Sports With the playoffs on the line last week fantasy owners with Arian Foster had to be disappointed in the distribution of touches in Houston's backfield. Justin Forsett carried the football 14 times, the same amount as Foster and he actually ran for more yards than the star veteran. Credit this committee approach to the fact that the Titans made it easy (big lead by hal ...

Photo By: Matthew Emmons / USA TODAY Sports It's hard to like Dez Bryant as a person but when it comes to talent, we've known for some time he has the ability to be an elite option at the receiver position. The question was, would Bryant ever figure out what it takes to play at a Pro Bowl level in the NFL? In his third season Bryant was having an up and down campaign, until the last four weeks. In that time ...

Photo By: John Rieger / USA TODAY Sports It's been a tough season for fantasy owners who invested a high pick in Cam Newton. The second-year quarterback has struggled but based on his recent play it appears he's ready to pull out his sophomore slump. Over the past two games Newton has 532-yards passing, five touchdown passes with zero interceptions to go with 130-yards on the ground and two rushing touchdow ...

Photo By: Kirby Lee / USA TODAY Sports What an interesting week for team defenses as some regular options we would look to as possible starters are playing in unfavorable matchups. Unless you want to roll the dice on games like the Patriots against the Texans fantasy owners will be looking to options usually left on the waiver wire this week. One situation we have to keep a close eye on is the Seahawks as t ...