Krumpin: Nine for Keon, five for a kicker, and seven doors
Week 8 waiver bids and seven H2H previews. Yahoo projections are lineup snapshots.
SKIP KRUMPIN / WEDNESDAY WIRE — Week 8 has a new smell: a nine-dollar receiver, a five-dollar kicker, and a team with a zero in the win column facing a lineup built out of Mahomes, Bijan and Burrow. Waivers cleared October 28. Nobody has played a Week 8 snap yet.
The auction room
Dat's It spent $7 on Jakobi Meyers while DGAD offered $2. That is a five-dollar cushion, not a bidding war. EzMoney paid $5 for Cam Little against two $0 offers; the kicker position apparently came with express shipping. The defense auctions were tighter: EzMoney won New England for $3 on waiver priority over GolfNut's matching $3, while GolfNut took Cincinnati for $5 on priority over EzMoney's $5. Losing offers in these cards are the ones Yahoo actually displays; the separate transactions feed lists other pickups without a visible bid breakdown.
The largest transaction was not one of those seven multi-bid cards: DGAD paid $9 for Keon Coleman, with no competing offer shown on the visible FAB Offers page. DGAD also spent $2 on Makai Lemon and $3 on Antonio Williams, replacing Godwin and Noel in a receiver-room renovation. Dat's It added Ja'Kobi Lane for $3 as well as Meyers for $7. Ghost of Twomp took Chig Okonkwo for $2; GolfNut paid $5 for Cincinnati; My Team Sucks! added Elijah Mitchell for $0; and 4th and INCHES, King James and Haters Gonna Hate made $0 defense/kicker swaps. These are separate awarded transactions, not imaginary losing bids.
Other Wednesday claims
Not every award came with a bidding war. These six transactions had no multiple-bid card in Yahoo FAB Offers; the amounts below come from the awarded transactions feed, not invented runner-up offers.
Week 8, seven doors
Each score below is the highest Week 8 projection achievable using players already on that team's roster: one player per legal starting slot, with bye/inactive players excluded. A missing playable starter remains zero. This is an optimal-lineup estimate, not the current Yahoo team projection or a prediction of the lineup the owner will actually submit.
King James (5-2) vs Dat's It (3-4). King James can fill the defense slot with the newly claimed Commanders, but the best legal combination still favors the 5–2 side. Dat's It gets a real lift from Jakobi Meyers and Ladd McConkey, not a free pass for leaving them benched. Yahoo matchup.
4th and INCHES (4-3) vs EzMoney (4-3). EzMoney has Cam Little and the Patriots defense on the bench after buying both. Putting them in, plus Trevor Lawrence and James Cook, cuts the ugliness; George Kittle is unavailable and the team still has no playable tight end from this roster. Yahoo matchup.
Ball Don't Lie (3-4) vs GolfNut (6-1). Ball Don't Lie flips the raw-lineup forecast by moving Tyler Higbee, Omarion Hampton and Rachaad White into the optimal mix. GolfNut is still within striking distance; a bench optimization is not a Sunday result. Yahoo matchup.
BNF (0-7) vs Dan's Deepball (2-5). BNF can improve with Downs, Johnston and Rashee Rice, but has no playable Week 8 QB on this roster. Dan's Deepball does not need a miracle from Mahomes, Bijan and Burrow to protect this margin. Yahoo matchup.
DGAD (3-4) vs Haters Gonna Hate (7-0). The undefeated Haters get a narrow modeled edge after moving Tuten, Jonah Coleman and the new kicker Tyler Bass into the best slots. Brock Purdy is on bye; Fernando Mendoza contributes only 0.09 projected points in the optimized QB chair. DGAD's Love/Warren swaps keep it close. Yahoo matchup.
Ghost of Twomp (3-4) vs Kittle Corn (3-4). Kittle Corn can deploy its current group without a mathematical improvement. Ghost of Twomp squeezes a little more from Chig Okonkwo, but the Darnold–Jefferson trade has made the other side the stronger projected roster. Yahoo matchup.
My Team Sucks! (4-3) vs Tony's Terrific Team (2-5). My Team Sucks! uses the Egbuka and Seahawks bench options to widen the gap. Tony can improve slightly with Keenan Allen but has no playable kicker on this roster. Maye and Herbert remain the centerpiece of the favorite. Yahoo matchup.
The room has time to choose actual lineups before kickoff. These are ceilings for the players already rostered, not a claim that every owner will submit the best one.
