Devaughn Vele

Vele is a waiver-wire success story who's earned his role: he's run 88-92% of Saints routes over the last two weeks, pulling a 17-19% target share as Tyler Shough's clear secondary option in a fast-paced Kellen Moore offense. He's backed it up with production, not just opportunity, notching two straight strong PPR weeks that have every show treating him as a rosterable WR2/3-flex rather than a speculative stash.

The story started with an injury-driven opportunity — Chris Olave and Jordan Tyson banged up — that had nearly every podcast (Ringer, Yahoo, Fantasy Football Today, RotoWire) naming Vele the top waiver add in Week 1 off his 7-69-1 line, though Fantasy Footballers and Dynasty Nerds flagged some skepticism that the role was game-script-dependent or 'expiring' once Tyson returns. Two weeks later that skepticism has mostly evaporated: RotoWire, Yahoo's Matt Harmon, Late-Round, FantasyPros, and Fantasy Life all point to sustained 88%+ route shares and back-to-back strong PPR weeks as evidence this is a real role, not a fluke. The lone lingering disagreement, from a FantasyPros ranking debate, is whether his current price reflects a repeatable target share or an inflated one from an extreme early comeback script.

The line: Roster and start him as a low-end WR3/flex now — the volume is real and durable until Tyson returns. · updated Sep 27