Week 9 Waiver Wire: The Jets' Next Receiver Up, Jacksonville's New Back, and a 154-Yard Tight End Nobody Owns

Pittsburgh and Tennessee go on bye, the trade deadline hits Monday, and four teams just changed quarterbacks, which makes this the week the wire rewards people who read the injury column first. Here is where the money goes, plus the receipts on last week's calls.

The opportunity add: Adonai Mitchell, WR, Jets

Garrett Wilson is in the concussion protocol, and Mitchell just posted 7 catches for 142 and a touchdown in a 71-point game where Geno Smith threw for 290. New York's passing offense is quietly functional, the Week 9 draw is a Kansas City team that has dropped two straight, and Mitchell is the clear next man up. 10 to 12 percent of budget while the protocol clouds Wilson's week.

The volume rookie: Bhayshul Tuten, RB, Jaguars

Eighteen touches, 159 yards, and two touchdowns, one rushing and one receiving, in the 42-7 demolition of Indianapolis, and the role looked like a coronation, not a cameo. One real caution before you spend: ESPN's buzz column has him game-time-decision territory for Thursday, and a short week compresses recovery. Bid 10 to 15 percent, start him only once Thursday's actives confirm it.

The tight end: Harold Fannin Jr., TE, Browns

Ten catches, 154 yards on a day Cleveland threw it 39 times. Tight ends with double-digit targets are unicorns, and Fannin just out-produced every receiver on the field. The flag: Deshaun Watson entered the protocol afterward, so the Week 9 quarterback in New Orleans is unsettled. The volume survives backup quarterbacks, checkdowns usually grow. 8 to 10 percent.

The graduation: Jonah Coleman, RB, Broncos

Listed here last week as a single-digit stash off Karabell's column; this week he scored the winning-margin touchdown against Kansas City, led Denver on the ground with 41, and led it through the air with 63. A back who finishes first in both columns of a win over the Chiefs is done being a stash. 12 to 15 percent before the rest of your league reads the box score.

The rest of the aisle

Tyler Allgeier ran for 147 and a score in the Dallas upset and gets Seattle next; with Gardner Minshew dealing and Arizona's offense suddenly watchable, he is a 6 to 8 percent add. Emmett Johnson's 128 receiving yards in Kansas City's loss is one game, but a receiver-starved contender just found a live body, worth a few dollars. Greg Dulcich is ESPN's streaming tight end call for Week 9 if Fannin is gone. The fade: Braelon Allen ran for 147, and Breece Hall is trending toward return in the same report that put Wilson in the protocol, do not pay deadline-week prices for a role that expires. And in superflex only, Joe Milton was named the Eagles' starter; a dollar on a rocket arm is a dollar, not a plan.

Grading last week's calls

The honest scorecard. Jonah Coleman hit, see above. Malik Willis kept earning it, 211 and two scores while covering against New England. Ollie Gordon held the volume at 19 carries. The misses: Omar Cooper went quiet the week we raised his price (Mitchell ate instead, the lesson writes itself), Emanuel Wilson lost Seattle's backfield lead to Jadarian Price in a blowout, Rico Dowdle stayed behind a 143-yard Jaylen Warren day, and Mason Taylor was invisible in a 71-point game. Makai Lemon led Philadelphia in receiving for the second straight week and remains free in almost every league. Roles stay real longer than hot hands, except when a healthy starter comes back, which is the Cooper and Allen warning in one sentence.

How to spend

Same rules as the budget plan. Mitchell 10 to 12. Tuten 10 to 15 with the Thursday flag. Fannin 8 to 10. Coleman 12 to 15. Allgeier 6 to 8. Johnson, Dulcich, and Milton are single digits. And hold Tank Dell through the Houston bye week return, the stash logic has not changed.

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