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Fantasy football rankings, waiver-wire targets, start/sit calls, and pick’em strategy — fresh analysis every week from the DaqsPickEm crew.
Week 10 Pick'em
NFL Week 10 Pick'em Preview: One Lock, One Road Dog, and a Short-Week Trap
Who's hot, who's cold, where the experts agree, and the two games our AI is pounding the table on before Thursday night.
🔥 HOT Previews
Gilmer vs. North Lamar: The 35-Point Gap, the 56-Point Swing, and the One Way It Gets Weird
Bi-district Friday at Hanby Stadium in Mesquite. The series is 6-0 since 2020, Sunnyvale was a 56-point swing, and Jayce Smith is the one way this gets weird.
ITFFL
The ITFFL FAAB Endgame: What a Dollar Buys in Week 12
Half of ITFFL's waiver money is gone by week 4 and weeks 8 through 12 are the cheapest of the year. How to play the back half of the season once the panic money has left the building.
🔥 HOT Team Recaps
Emporia State 19, Washburn 20: Three Missed Field Goals Walked a Win Out of Welch
The 122nd Turnpike Tussle came down to a last-second Washburn field goal, and a 1-for-4 kicking night that would have won the game two, three or four different times.
Team Recaps
Gilmer 55, Spring Hill 28: Z. Taylor Missed One Pass All Night. District Is Over.
The Buckeyes closed the regular season on the road with a quarterback who was 8-of-9 and ran for 135, a 4-1 district finish, a District 8 title, and a bi-district date with North Lamar two hours away in Mesquite.
Previews
Gilmer at Spring Hill: One Friday to Clean It Up Before November
The last regular-season stop before the bracket, and the one week Gilmer gets to fix the defensive stuff Carthage exposed without the whole season on the line.
🔥 HOT Week 9 Start/Sit
Week 9 Start/Sit 2026: The Five Calls That Decide Your Lineup
Christian McCaffrey is cleared, Bucky Irving is cleared, and three Thursday did-not-practice reports are quietly deciding the week. Here are the Week 9 start/sit calls that actually move your season.
Week 9 Pick'em
NFL Week 9 Pick'em Preview: The Lock, the Road Dog, and the Survivor Trap
Who's hot, who's hurt, what the CBS and ESPN experts are picking, and the two Week 9 games our AI model is pounding hardest.
Week 9 Waiver Wire
Week 9 Waiver Wire 2026: 8 Pickups While Your League Is Napping
Zero byes this week flips the whole waiver calculus. Here are the eight Week 9 pickups built around the actual Thursday-Friday injury board, with FAAB bands by league size.
Team Recaps
Oklahoma Falls to South Carolina 42-25: Sellers Hangs 5 TDs, Defense Gives Up 521
LaNorris Sellers accounted for five touchdowns and the Gamecocks hit for 521 total yards. Oklahoma forced three turnovers, won the first-down count, and never got closer than 10 after halftime.
Team Recaps
Emporia State 14, Northwest Missouri 59: Hornets Drop First Game as Three Turnovers Go for Scores
Four Hornet turnovers, three returned the other way for touchdowns, and a 7.28 yards-per-play night from Northwest Missouri. Emporia State's unbeaten run ended on Halloween.
Team Recaps
Gilmer 49, Carthage 42: The Streak Is Dead. We Graded Every Carthage Excuse.
Gilmer ran it down No. 1 Carthage's throat, with seven passes all night and 242 yards from Kipton Neighbors, and ended a 38-game streak 49-42. Then Bulldog fans spent all night explaining why it didn't count. We broke down the game and graded every excuse.
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