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It's time for the fantasy semi-finals which means if you've made it this far then congrats to you, just one more win away from making it to a championship matchup. Even though you've made it this far it's not time to skip out on adding depth to your team off the wire or to consider streaming players with favorable matchups over others on your team with unfavorable matchups. Good Luck!

Note: %owned is based on Yahoo! leagues at the time of publication.

Quarterback

Colin Kaepernick (SF) - 36% owned - Kaepernick should rebound nicely this week with a matchup against a Falcons team allowing the most fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks this season.  Look his way if you need a streamer.

Running Back

Kenneth Farrow (SD) - 4% owned - After Melvin Gordon was injured early in the Chargers matchup against the Panthers, Farrow became the go-to running back rushing 16 times for 55 yards and catching 6 passes for another 23 yards.   It's looking likely that Gordon will miss at least one week which means Farrow should be a volume RB2 play.

Kenneth Dixon (BAL) - 44% owned - It looks as though Dixon has finally broken away as the clear lead back in Baltimore after getting 19 touches compared to Terrence West's 6 against the Patriots. He put up a solid fantasy performance with the touches as well rushing for 39 yards and catching 8 of 11 passes for another 42 yards and a touchdown.

Honorable mentions: Matt Asiata (MIN) - 44% owned, Adrian Peterson (MIN) - 45% owned

Wide Receiver

Dontrelle Inman (NE) - 23% owned - Inman has passed up Travis Benjamin as the number two receiving option behind Tyrell Williams and has played well recently getting 239 yards and 3 touchdowns over his past three games. The Chargers have a great matchup this week against a poor Raiders pass defense where I expect Inman to be an upside WR3.

Adam Thielen (MIN) - 19% owned - Thielen has been putting up consistent WR3 numbers this season and draws a nice matchup this week against a Colts team that the Vikings should need to air the ball out more than usual.

Honorable mention: Ty Montgomery (GB) - 37% owned

Tight End

A bit of a cluster of possibly available tight ends this week so I'll list a few in order of how I like them;

Ladarius Green (PIT) - 56% owned

Jermaine Gresham (ARZ) - 4% owned

Dennis Pitta (BAL) - 37% owned

Defense/Special Teams

Similar to Tight Ends I'll list a few defenses I like to stream this week in order;

Buffalo Bills (BUF) - 61% owned

Miami Dolphins (MIA) - 55% owned

Houston Texans (HOU) - 44% owned