2025 IDP Waiver Wire for Week 12

Gary Davenport
2025 IDP Waiver Wire for Week 12

Welcome to the 2025 IDP Waiver Wire For Week 12!

We’re into the last month of the fantasy regular season. The playoffs are getting closer by the week. Quite a few fantasy managers already have their backs against the proverbial wall.

And that can make the waiver wire more important than ever.

It would be awesome if injuries would stop in Week 10 or so. Or that players who have been doing the Letdown Limbo all season long finally got their act together in Week 11. But that’s not how fantasy football works. Edge-rushers keep getting hurt. Linebackers keep throwing up depressing stat lines. Defensive backs keep getting all defensive back-y.

It’s all really quite aggravating—especially when you can’t afford another loss if you want to make the postseason.

It also doesn’t help that at this point in the season, the waiver wire can be pretty picked over—especially in deeper IDP leagues. There are players IDP managers wouldn’t give a second thought to in Week 3 who will earn multiple claims in Week 12. That’s just how the season works.

So, as Thanksgiving nears and we all try to avoid missing the playoffs, flying into a rage, and breaking another remote control, here’s a look at some of the best IDPs available in most leagues in Week 12.

IDP PICKUP OF THE WEEK

S Ronnie Harrison Jr., Atlanta

A third-round pick of the Jacksonville Jaguars back in 2018, Harrison spent the early portion of his career as a safety before converting to linebacker. With injuries and poor play both taking a toll at that spot in Atlanta this year, Harrison has gone from the practice squad to full-time starter, playing a whopping 78 of a possible 80 total snaps in last week’s overtime loss to the Carolina Panthers.

Harrison led the Falcons in total tackles (11) and solos (9) against the Panthers, adding a sack on the way to finishing with the second-most fantasy points among linebackers in The Godfather’s Default IDP Scoring. Potentially even better than that is the fact that Harrison has positional eligibility as a safety with some IDP providers—being able to slot a full-time linebacker on the back end is some tasty loophole action.

WEEK 12 IDP WAIVER WIRE TARGETS

EDGE Nick Herbig, Pittsburgh

With Alex Highsmith sidelined by a pectoral injury against the Cincinnati Bengals, Herbig was back in the starting lineup for the Steelers. And just as he has done so often when pressed into action in the past, Herbig stepped up—the 23-year-old now has a sack in two straight games and a career-best 6.5 for the season.

EDGE Nic Scourton, Carolina

The Panthers have seemingly been searching for help at edge-rusher for years. The team may have something in Scourton—the rookie has 21 total tackles and three sacks over the past five games, a span over which the former Texas A&M standout ranks inside the top-20 edge-rushers.

EDGE Dallas Turner, Minnesota

The Vikings have been dealing with injuries on the edge all season long, and that has meant more snaps for Turner, who was the 17th overall pick in the 2024 draft. Turner has just 2.5 sacks for the season, but in addition to logging a sack last week against the Chicago Bears, Turner also had seven total tackles for the second time this year.

LB Cody Barton, Tennessee

To be clear, Barton’s tackle numbers have been mostly atrocious this year—despite playing all 647 defensive snaps for the Titans in his first year with the team. But Barton has now posted solid fantasy numbers in back-to-back games thanks to a Week 11 sack and a Week 9 pick-six.

LB Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles

After five years in San Francisco, Flannigan-Fowles joined the Giants in free agency. With first Micah McFadden and now Darius Muasau on injured reserve, Flannigan-Fowles has been a three-down linebacker each of the past two weeks. Those aren’t especially easy to find on the waiver wire 11 weeks into the season.

LB Curtis Robinson, San Francisco

Tatum Bethune was one of the most valuable waiver adds of the season this year, but the young linebacker will now be sidelined for several weeks with a high-ankle sprain. With Bethune out, Robinson moved back into the starting lineup, pacing the Niners with 12 total tackles against the Arizona Cardinals.

S Kyle Dugger, Pittsburgh

Dugger hasn’t blown up the tackle stats—just 12 over three games with the Steelers. But since joining the Steelers, Dugger has missed just one defensive snap. The veteran had a pick-six last week against the Cincinnati Bengals and has a history of producing for fantasy managers over his time with the New England Patriots.

S Amani Hooker, Tennessee

Oh, look, it’s another Amani Hooker sighting. The seventh-year veteran bounces back and forth from IDP rosters to waiver wires like a Superball, but it’s time to give the 27-year-old another look after a season-high in stops against the Houston Texans last week and 14 solos over the previous two games.

S Jeremy Reaves, Washington

The 2025 season has been a complete disaster for the Commanders, but Reaves has quietly logged at least seven total tackles in each of the past four games. Reaves hasn’t lit it up, but he has been a top-20 safety over the last month. Fantasy managers with a hole at safety could do worse.

Thanks for checking out my recommendations for your league’s 2025 IDP Waiver Wire for Week 12. You can find all of our IDP Waiver Wire articles for 2025 by clicking here!

Gary Davenport (“The Godfather of IDP”) is a two-time Fantasy Sports Writers Association Football Writer of the Year. Follow him on Twitter (Can’t make him call it X) at @IDPGodfather. 

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