{"id":81990,"date":"2025-12-27T02:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81990\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T02:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:13:09","slug":"fantasy-football-the-2025-seasons-best-waiver-wire-saviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81990\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy football: The 2025 season&#8217;s best waiver wire saviors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tGambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our links. Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/betting-editorial-standards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">editorial standards<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Did you go out and buy a lotto ticket this past week in the hopes of winning more than a billion dollars? Yeah, you and everyone else. It isn\u2019t any fun to lose, is it?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t it be great to win just once? It doesn\u2019t even have to be a billion. We would settle for a few hundred mill. Too much? Can we get just a million or two? No? Fine, how about a season-changing fantasy waiver claim? That\u2019s doable? Great.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some seasons have a blockbuster waiver claim who turns into a title-maker. In some recent years, those types of pickups have included Puka Nacua, Kyren Williams, Chuba Hubbard, Cooper Kupp \u2026 and why are so many of these guys Rams?<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t happen every year, but it happens often enough that it is a realistic hope, unlike, say, a billion-dollar lottery ticket.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6112,8230,9,11,10,22,319,6115,431,428],"class_list":["post-81990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-betting","tag-fantasy-football","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-betting","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}