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# NorCal-Aussie: Ninja spends $21; Wheat Hill buys a quarterback mirage
- URL: https://krumpin.jbhobby.com/norcal-aussie-week-8-waivers-preview-2026/
- Published: 2026-10-28T14:28:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-28T14:28:38.000Z
- Description: Ninja wins a four-bid Coleman auction; Wheat Hill spends $18 on a bench QB. Six matchups await the family table.
- Author: Joe
- Tags: NFL NorCal Aussie Family FF

**SKIP KRUMP / WEDNESDAY WIRE** — The family table spent $21 on one running back, $18 on a quarterback projected for approximately one tenth of a point, and $3 on a kicker. There are six Week 8 matchups to settle whether anybody bought the right groceries. The Yahoo claims cleared October 28; these are Wednesday lineup snapshots, not final scores.

## The $21 chair

Ninja Turtles won Jonah Coleman for **$21**. Wheat Hill Weasels offered $18, RedPanda $10, and Shough Me the Money $3\. That is a real auction, not a ceremonial overbid. Ninja also won Chig Okonkwo at $0 over Shough's matching $0 offer by waiver priority, then dropped Michael Mayer. A team with Josh Allen and two unfilled flex slots on the current board has found a running back; now it needs to actually move its new players into those slots.

![Jonah Coleman Yahoo FAB winner and all three visible losing offers](https://krumpin.jbhobby.com/content/images/2026/10/norcal-w8-bids-jonah-coleman.png)

Four bids, one Coleman. Ninja's $21 beat Wheat Hill's $18.

The stranger receipt is Wheat Hill's **$18 for Fernando Mendoza**, with no competing offer displayed in Yahoo's FAB Offers tab. Mendoza is currently on Wheat Hill's bench and has a 0.09-point Week 8 Yahoo projection; that is not a guaranteed starting quarterback. The Weasels are 4–3 and already project ahead of True QB. Paying $18 for an uncertain future QB can be a bet. Calling it a Week 8 solution would be a fairy tale.

Bryce Young… made three pickups: Kendrick Bourne for $4 (Baldy offered $2; Shough offered $0), Spencer Shrader for $2, and the injured Jacory Croskey-Merritt for $0\. Byrobowl || took Cam Little for $3 over Bryce Young… at $2 and dropped Tyjae Spears. Baldy won Cincinnati's defense for $2 over two $0 offers. Lathrop Raptors added Pittsburgh's defense for $0\. Shough picked up Chase McLaughlin and Jacksonville's defense for $0\. The cards below show every *visible* competing offer for each multi-bid player; a transaction without an offer card is not proof nobody tried.

![Chig Okonkwo winning and losing zero-dollar offers](https://krumpin.jbhobby.com/content/images/2026/10/norcal-w8-bids-chig-okonkwo.png)

Chig Okonkwo: two zero-dollar bids, waiver priority decided it.

![Bengals defense winning bid and both zero-dollar offers](https://krumpin.jbhobby.com/content/images/2026/10/norcal-w8-bids-bengals.png)

Bengals D/ST: Baldy's $2 beat two $0 bids.

![Cam Little winning bid and one losing offer](https://krumpin.jbhobby.com/content/images/2026/10/norcal-w8-bids-cam-little.png)

Cam Little: Byrobowl's $3 edged Bryce Young… at $2.

![Kendrick Bourne winning bid and all visible competing offers](https://krumpin.jbhobby.com/content/images/2026/10/norcal-w8-bids-kendrick-bourne.png)

Kendrick Bourne: three bids, Bryce Young… won for $4.

## 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.

![All six awarded Week 8 waiver transactions without multiple bids visible on Yahoo FAB Offers](https://krumpin.jbhobby.com/content/images/2026/10/norcal-w8-no-multiple-bids.png)

Other awarded claims: add, bid and drop. These claims had no multi-bid offer card; that does not prove no other manager wanted the player.

## Six plates for Week 8

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.

![Ninja Turtles 138.77 vs RedPanda 138.21. Maximum legal roster projections, not current submitted-lineup totals.](https://krumpin.jbhobby.com/content/images/2026/10/norcal-w8-optimal-matchup-01.png)

Ninja Turtles 138.77 vs RedPanda 138.21\. Maximum legal roster projections, not current submitted-lineup totals.

**Ninja Turtles (3-4) vs RedPanda (2-5).** Ninja can finally use the $21 Coleman claim alongside benched Breece Hall and Jaylen Waddle. RedPanda can counter with Love and McConkey. This is a half-point-scale knife edge, not the double-digit gap on the untouched Yahoo lineup. [Yahoo matchup](https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/560946/matchup?week=8&mid1=1&mid2=7&ref=krumpin.jbhobby.com).

![Baldy 134.63 vs Tuten My Own Horn 149.29. Maximum legal roster projections, not current submitted-lineup totals.](https://krumpin.jbhobby.com/content/images/2026/10/norcal-w8-optimal-matchup-02.png)

Baldy 134.63 vs Tuten My Own Horn 149.29\. Maximum legal roster projections, not current submitted-lineup totals.

**Baldy (2-5) vs Tuten My Own Horn (5-2).** Baldy can use the newly bought Bengals defense and Jake Ferguson. Tuten My Own Horn still carries the stronger projected legal lineup, even after finding a better place for Stefon Diggs. [Yahoo matchup](https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/560946/matchup?week=8&mid1=2&mid2=9&ref=krumpin.jbhobby.com).

![Byrobowl || 138.95 vs Lathrop Raptors 146.35. Maximum legal roster projections, not current submitted-lineup totals.](https://krumpin.jbhobby.com/content/images/2026/10/norcal-w8-optimal-matchup-03.png)

Byrobowl || 138.95 vs Lathrop Raptors 146.35\. Maximum legal roster projections, not current submitted-lineup totals.

**Byrobowl || (6-1) vs Lathrop Raptors (2-5).** The 6–1 Byrobowl adds Cam Little to its best arrangement. Lathrop answers with its $0 Steelers defense claim and retains the edge; the empty square on the submitted lineup was not the real matchup. [Yahoo matchup](https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/560946/matchup?week=8&mid1=3&mid2=6&ref=krumpin.jbhobby.com).

![Shough Me the Money 128.19 vs Block Party Ray 122.31. Maximum legal roster projections, not current submitted-lineup totals.](https://krumpin.jbhobby.com/content/images/2026/10/norcal-w8-optimal-matchup-04.png)

Shough Me the Money 128.19 vs Block Party Ray 122.31\. Maximum legal roster projections, not current submitted-lineup totals.

**Shough Me the Money (6-1) vs Block Party Ray (2-5).** Shough can put the new kicker and Jaguars defense to work and rotate Smith, Rice and Charbonnet into the strongest legal slots. The projection flips toward Shough, but there is no playable tight end on this roster for Week 8\. [Yahoo matchup](https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/560946/matchup?week=8&mid1=4&mid2=8&ref=krumpin.jbhobby.com).

![True QB 126.94 vs Wheat Hill Weasels 145.32. Maximum legal roster projections, not current submitted-lineup totals.](https://krumpin.jbhobby.com/content/images/2026/10/norcal-w8-optimal-matchup-05.png)

True QB 126.94 vs Wheat Hill Weasels 145.32\. Maximum legal roster projections, not current submitted-lineup totals.

**True QB (2-5) vs Wheat Hill Weasels (4-3).** Wheat Hill already has its best projected legal group. The $18 Mendoza is on the bench with almost no Week 8 points projected; the claim is a future bet, not the source of this margin. [Yahoo matchup](https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/560946/matchup?week=8&mid1=5&mid2=10&ref=krumpin.jbhobby.com).

![Sunday Best Phong 127.47 vs Bryce Young… 159.45. Maximum legal roster projections, not current submitted-lineup totals.](https://krumpin.jbhobby.com/content/images/2026/10/norcal-w8-optimal-matchup-06.png)

Sunday Best Phong 127.47 vs Bryce Young… 159.45\. Maximum legal roster projections, not current submitted-lineup totals.

**Sunday Best Phong (4-3) vs Bryce Young… (4-3).** Bryce Young… can fill the kicker slot with Spencer Shrader. Phong has no playable running back among its available Week 8 players, so the best legal arrangement still leaves that position empty. [Yahoo matchup](https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/560946/matchup?week=8&mid1=11&mid2=12&ref=krumpin.jbhobby.com).

**Skip's call:** Ninja edges RedPanda only if it submits the stronger arrangement. There is almost nothing between the roster ceilings; one late lineup change can erase the prediction. — 30 —