10 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets Heading Into Week 2

Tevin Coleman, RB, Atlanta Falcons

ESPN Ownership: 51.8%
Yahoo Ownership: 42%

Tevin Coleman had a rough go of it in 2015. After being selected as the heir apparent to the Falcons' running game in the 2015 draft, he went down to injury after Week 2 and never grabbed the starting job again after Devonta Freeman when bonkers on the ground and through the air. Coleman didn't help his case to get back into the mix by committing three fumbles in his rookie year either.

But during the offseason there were murmurs about how the Falcons' coaching staff wanted a more balanced distribution of carries between Freeman and Coleman. And on Sunday, those rumors were confirmed, with Coleman getting 8 carries and Freeman getting 11. Perhaps more worrisome to Freeman owners, however, was the work Coleman got in the check-down game too.

Coleman saw 6 targets (and turned them into 95 yards), and Freeman saw 4 targets for 20 yards

That looks like an even split of the workload to me, and while it's hard to draw conclusions based on one game alone, it's worth monitoring to see whether or Coleman keeps outproducing Freeman.

If I'm a Freeman owner, I want to get Coleman on my roster yesterday. But even if I don't own Freeman, I'm targeting Coleman for trade bait or roster upside. It wouldn't be totally surprising for the guy who was actually hand-picked by the current coaching staff in the draft to eventually get more of the work than the guy who exploded from out of nowhere last season, but faded considerably in the latter half of the season.

Roster Coleman for his current standalone value but recognize the immense upside he possesses if his opportunity level grows.