What is streaming in fantasy football?
Streaming is the strategy of rotating a position — usually quarterback, defense, or kicker — week to week to play the best available matchup instead of holding one fixed starter.
Instead of committing a roster spot to one quarterback, defense, or kicker, you stream by picking up whoever has the softest matchup that week and dropping them after.
A streaming defense manager might add a unit facing a turnover-prone backup quarterback this week, then drop it and grab a different defense with a great matchup next week. Streaming works best at positions where matchup matters more than talent — defense and kicker especially — and frees up bench spots for upside stashes elsewhere.
Effective streaming depends on a healthy waiver wire and good matchup research. It's a way to punt on locking up a position early in the draft and instead win it with weekly roster work.