10 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets Heading Into Week 8

Stefon Diggs

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Stefon Diggs is without question the number one wide receiver you need to be adding to your roster heading into Week 8. Diggs put up another beyond stellar performance against the Lions this weekend, going for over 100 yards on 6 catches. He also added a diving touchdown in the end zone after figuratively breaking the ankles of Rashean Mathis on a beautifully executed route.

I know we're only three games in, and the hype train for rookie receivers can get to a fever pitch sometimes, but Diggs looks really good. And the numbers bear it out. Using numberFire’s signature performance-above-expectation metric, Net Expected Points (NEP), we can quantify how good he's been by determining the number of points he's contributed to the Vikings' point tally above what they'd have been expected to score based on down-and-distance scenarios and other football variables.

Thus far, through three games, Diggs has already contributed more points to the Vikings' expected point total than any receiver on the team with a 28.80 Reception NEP. For reference, Mike Wallace, through six games, has racked up a 23.92 Reception NEP. Moreover, Diggs' 0.97 Reception NEP per target through Week 6 ranked eighth in the league among all receivers who'd been targeted at least 15 times, so he's doing a lot with each opportunity too.

Diggs is the truth, and after recording three straight games of receiving nine or more targets, leaving him on waivers after this week in any league would be incredibly foolish. Jump on the opportunity to get him if you still can.