{"id":883410,"date":"2026-09-07T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/883410\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:00:11","slug":"top-week-1-waiver-wire-pickups-from-2026-nfl-preseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/883410\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Week 1 Waiver Wire Pickups from 2026 NFL Preseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Even when Arizona was operating at full-strength, it was giving goal-line work to Allgeier. Which should surprise no one. The 5&#8217;10&#8221;, 225-pounder is such a short-yardage asset that he managed to 15 rushing scores over the past three seasons despite sharing a backfield with Bijan Robinson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">After moving to Arizona, Allgeier&#8217;s competition for carries are now rookie Jeremiyah Love, who is working his way back from a high ankle sprain, and veteran James Conner, who landed on injured reserve with a foot ailment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Given Allgeier&#8217;s handcuff appeal, he probably should&#8217;ve been more rostered already, especially once the Cardinals tipped their goal-line plans for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">But with question marks about Love&#8217;s availability, Allgeier feels like a must-roster in all but the shallowest leagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even when Arizona was operating at full-strength, it was giving goal-line work to Allgeier. Which should surprise no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-883410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}