That's a fair point and one of the reasons I did not list him in my respond in this thread earlier, was more focused on players you can grab off the waiver wire and he was not available in any of my leagues.Yeah but is he really out of nowhere?Thielen
But he was giving up for dead just a few short weeks ago, when he was available on some of my leagues waivers. I posted him in a WDIS question I think just two weeks ago, before the Tampa game in week 13, and the response was pretty much you can't start Thielen. So I can get behind the notion to some he's "out of nowhere" despite his past accomplishments.
In particular with him, provided he can stay healthy, he has an outstanding match-up in what is most leagues championship week 17 against Tampa. That's a great match-up in general, maybe the most ideal match-up with their leaky pass defense and injuries. But another thing is if wintery weather is an issue that week in the midwest/east coast we have games that week in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cincy, New England, Jersey, DC, Buffalo, Philly and Cleveland. Easy to see Thielen playing in Tampa in a great matchup that week while up to 18 teams in the league might be dealing with winter weather literally being a league winner.