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Good morning, friends and enemies. It is Tuesday morning, which means we are coming back to your face holes with the waiver wire for week five. All right, we're going to go through every single player on the trending up tab, every single player on the trending down tab, tell you who is my priority pickups for the week, as well as dudes that I'd be dropping from your fantasy rosters for the time being.
As always, my waiverwire rankings will be live by the time you watch this video. They're up there on bdge.co for the big dog members. That'll tell you exactly how much fab I would spend personally on each of these players and exactly how I would rank them in numerical neatly sorted order for y'all. Let's jump in.
All right, let's start with the running back position here. First name on the list is Kenneth Gainwell. We saw Jaylen Warren as a pretty random surprise inactive. He was like unhealthy most of the week but still practicing and they said they expected him to play. Then all of a sudden, you know, 8 a.m. hits, he's an inactive, which means the game in Dublin runs through Kenny Gainwell. All right, McKenna had a career day overall. Here's how I'm looking at the situation. Big day, obviously, over 120 yards from scrimmage, couple touchdowns here. So, if you had him in your lineup, you if you use him as a spot start, good for you. You probably squeeze most of the juice that you're going to get out of Kenneth Gainwell this year.
So, first thing to note here is Pittsburgh is on a buy in week five. So is Atlanta, Chicago, and Green Bay. So, it's important to know the bi-week stuff. Not only because obviously your players who are on those teams are not going to play in week five and you need to find substitutes for them if they're starters, but secondly, it also makes the impact of picking up these players less valuable because you're not going to be able to use them in week five. And a lot of the reasons that they're probably valuable for your rosters is because somebody got injured, which gives them ample time to get ready. This is the perfect scenario for that. Jaylen Warren out, probably close to playing. Kenneth Gainwell filled in well, but because they have a week five buy, it's expected that Warren's going to be back for week six when they do return to the field.
Now, basically, what I do think is this probably boosts a little bit of the trust for Kenneth Gainwell among the coaching staff and he probably gets a little bit more work. It doesn't make me excited about Kenneth Gainwell for fantasy. What it does is probably hampers the ceiling a little bit of Jaylen Moore. I think he's played great up to this point. He's obviously a tremendous player in that back field, but I do think from a running style standpoint, he's a little bit smaller and he runs he tries to run like Cam Scatball all the time. And I do think they'll probably share the running workload a little bit more going forward. We also saw Caleb Johnson get some work. I'm not trying to pick him up, but he did some positive things for like the first time this year. So, it's possible going forward instead of getting zero snaps, Caleb Johnson now gets, you know, 8 12 15% of the snaps, which makes it even more murkier.
So, overall, this game does not make me like want to go out and spend a lot of money on Kenneth Gainwell. He should be owned because he's clearly a high-end handcuff, but there are a ton of high-end handcuffs that you can kind of play whack-a-ole with in this league. There will be games, I'm sure, where Kenneth Gable maybe gets into the end zone or catches four or five passes and usable, but you're never going to be able to predict those. And Warren's still the guy for me. So, overall, the situation just hampers Warren's ceiling in my opinion over the long run because Kenneth G will probably, you know, built up a little bit more trust with the coaching staff.
Justice Hill, I mean, how long do you have to play fantasy football to know that like Justice Hill is not a good pickup? I I get it. all the the narratives around their defense being terrible, game script, etc., etc. It's just as hill. He has one good game every seven weeks, then you pick him up and then he does nothing for five weeks and then everyone wants to pick him up after his next good game. We're not even talking about him here.
The next player up on this list is Woody Marks, the rookie running back for the Houston Texans. Now, he's someone that we marked on the waiverwire list last week, so I hope that you picked him up and stash him cuz he should have been owned in any serious league up to this point. But if he's not, you're going to have to drop the bag to get him cuz he will be the number one waiverwire pickup for pretty much every fantasy league in week five. He is the golden egg here.
Now, the trajectory of Woody Marks went from barely playing in week one to now being the 1A in this backfield to Nick Chub, right? It's incrementally increased his snap count over the four weeks, 11 to 27 to 48. This week was the first time that we saw him take the lion share of the snaps and he played really well. 17 for 69 on the ground plus a touchdown. Five targets, four catches, 50 yards, plus another touchdown through the air. Looked good, was running smoothly. He's obviously a really good pass catcher. He was a guy that played in Mike Leech's offense back in college for a bit. Caught a ton of passes. So, that's his strong suit.
As for the ground game, they played against Tennessee, so I don't want us to get over our skis and expect like a, you know, a crazy top 15, top 12 type of running back for the rest of the season. But I do think Woody Marks looks like he's probably going to be the 1A to the 1B in this backfield that badly needed some juice. Right. Darren Goomba is not playing at all. Damn Pierce is a healthy scratch at this point. So it's just Marks and it's just Nick Chub. And I think you could look at this like it's easy to say, "Oh, he's the next Bucky Irving." And I don't necessarily disagree, but I think the Houston Texans are in much worse shape than the Bucks were. And I also think Rashad White was a much better player or is a much better suited player next to Bucky Irving than Nick Chub is. So, I do think there's positives and negatives for Woody Marks going forward. I think there's going to be a little bit of overhype because they play Tennessee, but ultimately I think the role feels really secure and probably only has up to go from here.
I think Woody Marks is probably going to be ranked as a borderline RB2 almost weekly going forward right now. I don't think Nick Chub is going to disappear from the backfield. I still think they're going to give him a decent amount of base down work, first and second downs. And I don't think Woody Marx's role is going to be complete monopolization on the goal line. I think on any given week, any given series, that's going to be split still between Nick Jub and Woody Marks. And even that, I almost feel like they're probably going to give most of those like carries inside the one, two, or three yard line to Nick Jub. I think Woody Marks can get involved when they're inside the 10 yard line when they need a little bit more of a a spatial back who can make guys miss in space. And I think that's typically what you'll see from a guy like Woody Marks. So Markx, I think we'll just continue to see his workload increase. And I think with Markx, that's a guy that if you need running back help, which like who [ __ ] doesn't in fantasy all the time, he's a dude that I'm blowing the fab on, right? Like if if you could read your your league, right, and you think you only need to spend 40% of fab, great. If you need to go up to 60 70 80%, I have no problem with that.
The one thing I will splash a little water on here is they have a a tough matchup over the next like five or six weeks at Baltimore. Obviously, that run defense has looked at with all the injuries, so I won't, you know, mark them as a tough matchup at this point. Uh they get a by-week in week six at Seattle, San Fran, Denver. So that's a streak of three games that is uh pretty damn difficult. But when you get deeper into the playoffs, Arizona, Las Vegas, the the Chargers, I mean those those games can kind of swing either way. But fantasy playoffs, it's not exactly a brutal schedule. So Woody Marks for sure the number one waverwire pickup this week.
Xavier Scott, I'm not really into him. Pause. But he's just a backup to Jordan Mason. Aaron Jones will be back soon. He had a big weekend. Will probably play a little bit of a a passing down role here, but no way that you actually stash him on your team and start him.
Kendra Miller's interesting from the standpoint that he actually looked great on Sunday. Uh 11 carries, 65 yards, got the touchdown. Alvin Kamar has kind of transformed into like barely an RB2 at this point. He's not really catching passes and I would say Kendra's looked better than Alvin Kamar has. Kendry Miller was a really interesting prospect out of TCU. He was a day two pick for the Saints and he's had like a really weird start to his career where he hasn't played well and then the coaching staff like I remember last year they were saying he was injured and then he would get interviewed and they he'd be like I'm fine. I don't know what's going on here. new coaching staff. Obviously, they're getting him more involved. The snap split 31% to Alvin Kamar's 65 67%. It's still very wide. And Kamar to me is still the guy, but I mean Kendra is really chewing out a legit role. The problem is his role is an early down role. The problem is his his role is just rushing. The problem is his role is carries. And that's just not going to be a game script that the Saints get to enjoy often. Like they kind of kept themselves within this game for the Buffalo Bills, which is, you know, surprising. And it's not like they have a brutal schedule whatsoever. They get the Giants next week. the Patriots the week after that. Chicago, Tampa Bay, the Rams is tough. Obviously, Carolina, but then Atlanta, my they actually have holy [ __ ] their schedule is so soft.
I think with Kendry, the other uh interesting piece could be the fact that like this is a team that's really bad obviously and they're not going to have any playoff aspirations. Does Alvin Kamara get moved, you know, at the trade deadline? Does uh a team that really needs a running back throw, you know, a fifth or sixth round pick for Alvin Kamar? Does Alvin Kamar have like a a non-serious really ankle injury towards the end of the year and they just shut him down for the remainder of the year? Like, couldn't you see Kendrick Miller being the guy when you look back? Like, remember when Kendrick Miller won me my fantasy championship in 2025? I don't think it's out of the realm of possibilities. I do think you're going to have to wait quite a while or something drastic has to change, like a materialistic change in that backfield. Kamar getting hurt, Kamar getting moved for Kendrick Miller to be a guy that you actually want to throw into your lineup just because this team is not going to have a ton of scoring opportunities. And I think that's where Kendrick Miller's upside kind of lies. But ultimately, I do think he's a a pretty sharp pickup right now and should be owned in most leagues.
Rashad White's probably owned everywhere, but there was some news yesterday that Bucky Irving could be a little bit banged up. He did hurt his ankle in this game and uh he ended up finishing it, but you see that with a lot of ankle sprains um where guys twist it and then because the adrenaline is so high, they're able to play through it and then it really swells up the next couple of days. So, there's a possibility that Bucky misses some time and Rashad White would be a great fill in.
Bashard Smith is definitely a guy I want to talk about. Rookie, day three pick out of SMU. He was one of our favorite prospects to highlight throughout the Dynasty Channel off season. He is, you know, a little bit undersized, under 200 lb, but he is really explosive and he was a wide receiver converted running back. So, he brings a piece to this offense that they don't have there. Right. PCO and Hunt are just early down guys that have shown like nothing so far this season and there was a little bit of movement for Bashard Smith, right? It's it's small, but it was a season high in terms of snap counts, 26% season high in rushing attempts. He got four of them and a season high with four targets. He only ran 10 routes, but that was not too far behind Pacheco and Kareem Hunt. And four targets on 10 routes is a really, really high, you know, target per route run rate. And what that tells me is when he is running the routes, they are scheming up touches and scheming up plays for him. Andy Reid also came out and said Matt Nai is going to continue to try to get Bashard Smith more and more involved. So these are the storylines that you want to look out for for rookies, right? Like this is the Woody Mark storyline. This is those types of story lines where of course it doesn't always hit but like the hints and the clues are right in front of our face. Bashard Smith is is he's one of those clues. So pick him up, see how the next 2 3 4 weeks plays out. Be patient and we might have what Jerick McKinnon was in this offense a few years ago. He was really useful in PPR catching a ton of passes, playing all the passing down work. Ended up scoring like eight touchdowns with Mahomes.
I also think again this could be a Woody Mark situation where if Bashard Smith gets to the point where he's playing on 30 40 45% of snaps and they choose to eventually phase either Kareem Hunt or Isaiah Pacheco out of the offense for the favor of a much more explosive rookie high outside running back here with Bashard Smith. Like we saw their offense transform a little bit in week four to a more explosive offense with Xavier Worthy. That's going to compound once Rashi Rice is back and I do think this offense is going to start clicking a little bit more and Bashard Smith could be one of those guys here. So, he's definitely one to stash at the end of your bench. You're not going to be able to play him, unfortunately, so it might get a little bit more difficult as these by-weeks roll around, but I do think he's someone that could end up being like the number one guy on a waiverwire video in the upcoming weeks.
Chris Rodriguez and Washington, I I have no different opinion than I've had pretty much for the last month or so in the back field. Would still prefer Jaka Kroski Morett, but they're all splitting snaps almost identically, 40% across the board. Uh Rodriguez is starting getting a lot of carries. JCM's usually matching him with carries and McNichols is playing basically all the long down and distance and passing down work realistically between Rodriguez and and Jakori Kroski Morett it kind of comes down to like they're splitting serieses right it's like Rodriguez is going to play this entire series and JCM's going to play the next one and uh whoever kind of gets lucky and has a series where they end up inside the 5yd line is going to get those goal line carries so there's just no predictability in that backfield those opportunities will be a little bit more you know fruitful when Jaden Daniels is back on the field so like take that for whatever you But I mean, all of them are just like RB4s right now that you can't play unless you're really desperate. And then outside of that, I mean, you have all of the normal uh high-end handcuff guys. You got the Brian Robinson's, you got Ali Gordon, uh you got DJ Giddens, you have whatever the same names that we've been talking about all year.
Moving to the wide receivers. So, a few names that we definitely need to talk about on this list cuz you got Malik Neighbors going down. So, we're choosing between Darius Sllayton and Wel Robinson in the New York Giants passing core. The first thing I will say is like Jackson Dart is such a runner of the football that the passing volume is probably going to be low, right? He had 10 carries last week, which not all those are designed. Obviously, some of them will be designed because he is an athlete, but like normally it's two, three, maybe four plays that are designed to be runs, which means the other six or seven should be dropbacks, but end up turning into rushing numbers, which I think is going to be the case going forward. So instead of him throwing 30 times, he's really throwing 22 or 23 times a game, which hurts, you know, everybody in the passing offense. With Malik Neighbors out though, like the targets have to go somewhere and it's pretty much going to be Wel Robinson and Darius Slate. You could throw Theo Johnson in there if you want to. I think he's a very, very desperate play. I would prefer Well Robinson to Darius Sllayton, especially in PPR leagues. I think he's going to have a really, really high target floor. I think Darius Sllayton is a fine borderline wide receiver three four play that will have his spike weeks if he catches a long pass or turns into more of a possession receiver. We did see that with Daniel Jones last year in the two games that Malik Neighbors missed. Daryl Sllayton actually performed really really well. Almost 18 fantasy points per game in PPR league. So like very small sample size, completely different quarterback. So I don't want to get out over our skis. Like I think we know what Daryus Sllayton is. He's a cool player, right? He's like uh almost like the guy below him, Romeo Dobs in a sense where he's like a decent downfield threat and a decent possession receiver. The targets obviously open up and he needs to be owned and I do think I would spend if I needed a wide receiver a decent chunk of fab on both Sllayton and Well Robinson. But my preference is Wandell than Sllayton. Might be a little bit of a shift if you're half PPR or standard because I do think Sllayton might have a little bit more like touchdown equity. But again, I think this is going to be an offense that is super runheavy cuz Cam Scatabo just got 25 carries. Deon Singleary got another handful of carries. Jackson Dart's carrying the ball 10 times. So, I think we're going to see a pass rate that's really, really low relative to other teams around the league, which is going to be hard for guys like Wandel or Sllayton to really get home if they're only getting five, six, seven targets. Target share is going to be very, very high though.
Speaking of more injuries, we had Tyreek Hill cracked his whole [ __ ] last night on Monday Night Football. He's going to be out for the year if not, you know, the rest of his career at this point. What I think plays out in Miami, this is how I'm seeing the situation. I think with Darren Waller being back in the fold, they go very, very two tight end heavy set, very 12 personnel heavy in that offense. They'll use a blocking tight end and then Darren Waller is like an inside weapon. Tyreek Hill is such a unique player. You obviously can't replace him, right? There's no one that's in their receiver group that could just run his routes. This obviously mean like the biggest beneficiary is Jaylen Wadd by a bajillion. Anyone who had Jaylen Wadd got very very lucky because he's a bad fantasy player pretty much and now he's probably gonna get somewhere from eight to 10 targets per game. Behind him on the depth chart is Malik Washington here and they probably don't even have the other guy. Nick Westbrook Aini who they signed this off season. Malik Washington is not a well-rounded route runner. He's a slot guy. His a dot on the year is about four yards downfield. So I'm not overly excited about him. I think what this does mean is it's going to be an elevated floor. He'll get a few more targets per game. I think he'll have more design touches to him each game, which of course elevates the floor again, but he's not a ceiling player. I think he'll have a share of six for 60 games or whatever, but going to be very hard to depend on him on a weekly basis. Like he's a bad version of Well Robinson right now in my opinion, and they already have Jaylen Wadd ahead of him.
Nick Westbrook Cakeini on the other hand is ex wide receiver. He's an outside guy. And what I think will end up happening is this. they're going to run a ton of 12 personnel and then depending on where Wadd kind of lines up or if they use Darren Waller in like a bunch formation if Wadd is a guy who in that particular play is running from the slot or he's running inside routes um which is again kind of difficult for 12 personnel because you got two tight ends but I think Waller is going to operate more as a wide receiver then it will dictate a rotation of snaps between Malik and Nick Westerini like if Wadd's more of an inside receiver on this on that play NWI is probably going to be playing if he's more on the outside and running you know vertical routes or something like then we'll probably see a little bit more of Malik Washington, but it's going to be a nightmare to try to predict on a week-to-eek basis which of those guys you want to be rostering. And to me, it's just not a passing offense that I want to be investing into. If you got Jaylen Waddle, congrats, you got a a huge dub last night with the injury.
And then there's Darren Waller, who I'll kind of just dump jump over to Darren Waller just because we're in the middle of that conversation. Darren Waller, I'm very, very intrigued by, right, we saw his first game last night since 2023. And actually, at the end of our uh game by-game recap live stream yesterday, if you don't already subscribe and have notifications on, every Monday, we go through every single game and talk about everything fantasy relevant. There was a question at the end of the live stream was like, "What are your thoughts on Darren Waller? Should I pick him up?" And my response was, "Yeah, if you got room, I kind of like Waller." like this is, you know, almost verbatim, quote unquote. I like Waller tonight if you have room to add him because if he ends up going for 30 yards and a touchdown, he's going to be a waiverwire pickup. I am skeptical that he plays more than like 30% of the snaps in this one. And you know, you guys all watch the game, he played around 30% of the snaps. It's not here, but he played 36% of the snaps, went three for 27, caught two touchdowns. So, almost verbatim, you know, the way I explained it is what actually happened. Does that always happen? Almost literally never. But this one happened. Now, you're probably hyped that you got Darren Waller on your bench and it's like he played well, right? And the way I look at this Miami team now with the Tyreek Hill injury, Darren Waller is going to have to play a huge role. And even prior to the Tyreek Hill injury, they don't really have red zone weapons. Like they don't have guys that you can consistently target in the end zone and go up and and make a play. Like Tyreek Hill gets open because he's small and he's really shifty and fast obviously, but outside of that, they don't have like Tua doesn't have a guy that he can trust and Darren Waller just became that overnight for them. So, I wouldn't be surprised if going forward down Waller gets legitimately like 40 to 50% of all of the end zone targets when they're down there. Again, though, it's important to take everything with a grain of salt when you're playing against defenses like the New York Jets. So, the Miami Dolphins are not going to live down there when they don't have Tyreek Hill anymore. It's going to be a much worse offense. But, I think Darren Wallers, he acclimates more and more back to being in game speed, gets more conditioned. Like, he might become an every down player and and be a top 10 fantasy tight end going forward. He is someone that if I don't have a real fantasy tight end right now in my lineup, I would splurge to get him. I really would. So, that's kind of my take on on Miami right now. If I'm ranking them, it's Wadd was a huge winner. Waller's the guy I want on the waiverwire and then it's like probably Malik and then NWI all the way down here.
Luke McAffrey. Yeah, I mean, he strung together a couple usable weeks because of touchdowns, but he's still only playing about 30% of the snaps and that is with Terry McLaren out. So, Terry McLaren is expected to be back, I think, relatively soon. So, he's not a guy I'm using a roster spot on.
Let's talk about Isaiah Bond, which we did in the live stream recap yesterday. But Isaiah Bond's a really interesting ad to me, mainly because Cedric Tilman is now out and week to week with his hamstring strain. Similar to again Woody Marks, Isaiah Bond, his snap count, well, the snap count didn't go up last week, but the routes run actually did. And I think I pulled up the tweet that I posted yesterday. His routes run, you know, per snapback each week has gone up and up and up and up. And now with Cesar Tilman out, I do expect him to be the second receiver behind Jerry Judy. And Joe Flac right now is second in the NFL in pass attempts. Isaiah Bond was widely looked at as a day two pick for the NFL draft this year. Rookie out of University of Texas, absolute speedster. In Sunday's game, he was averaging over 19 yards per reception. And I think as Judy plays like the intermediate routes, I think Bond will probably get some shots deep where Hal Fannon and David and Jooku and those types of receivers are more possession, you know, in between five and 15 yards down the field. Bond's going to be the guy who spreads the defense and I think does get some shots down the field in one of the most pass heavy offenses so far. So widely looked at as a day two prospect uh before all the off the- field issues which obviously left him undrafted and then ended up getting picked up by the Cleveland Browns and now he's basically the wide receiver too on their roster. So again, where all the clues and the hints are pointing towards a rookie starting to get more involved in their offense, these are the types of guys you want to stash. Like you don't want to waste roster spots on Nick Westbrook. You don't want to waste roster spots on like handcuffs if you already have one or two of them on your bench. Like you want to use roster spots on guys who have a zero floor but have a high ceiling. You like you want to go get the Isaiah Bonds. You want to stash the Woody Marks. You want to stash these guys who we don't actually know who they are yet. And that leaves the room for them having huge impacts down the stretch on your roster. So Bond didn't have like a massive day. It was 3458 on six targets which was uh I think second on the team. So I don't think you're going to have to spend a lot to get them. And it's not like I I think he's going to be a huge target volume guy going forward, but in 12 team leagues or 14 team leagues, he's definitely a guy that I think is worth stashing on your bench.
With the Dallas uh group right now, we've got CD Lamb still dealing with the ankle injury, but it's clear that it's mainly Pickins and Ferguson. I don't really look at Dallas again much different than uh this is actually a great comp to Miami where Tolbert's like Nick Westbrook Aini and Kavonte Turpin is like Malik Washington where it's like CD Lamb's out like sure there's going to be more design targets to Cavante Turpin each week but it's like one to two that probably turn into 12 yards and it does nothing useful for you. Jaylen Tolbert, he's going to run all the routes. He had 61 yards in this one thanks mostly to that overtime catch that was like more than half of his yard. So, not predictable. They do have some good matchups coming up. The Jets, Carolina, Washington. I do expect CD Lamb to be back probably by week seven. So, not another guy that I really want to stash on my bench to be honest.
I think that's really it for running backs and wide receivers. Obviously, if Dobs is available, I still think Troy Franklin's a really strong hold right now. He's running all the routes out there. It's kind of been disappointing obviously since the big like week two breakout, but you can do much worse than the guy who's running 90% of the routes in that offense.
For tight ends, I mean, Darren Waller's without a doubt the the number one pickup this week. I think Tommy Tremble's a little bit interesting because Javian Sanders still dealing with a high ankle sprain. Xavier Legette is still out with the hamstring strain. Jaylen Coker eligible to return this week, but Dave Canals came out yesterday and said that he's still weak to weak. So, I'm going to have to wait a little bit longer for Jaylen Coker. In the meantime, Tommy Treble's probably going to get some targets because Bryce Young does like throwing to the tight end position. Theo Johnson, I mean, you can make the case for because Malik Neighbors is out. Jake Thomas is the other one that I think is a little bit interesting. They play on Thursday Night Football, the San Francisco 49ers. KD's still out. They might be without Jawan Jennings. They might be uh without Ricky Pierce. They're definitely without Brandon Iuk right now. So, they have like no pass catching targets outside of Christian McCaffrey if all those guys miss. And Jake Thomas, I think, has filled in admirably so far for George KD. So, I think there's a world where if you're really desperate, you need to stream tight end Jay Tongis against the Rams on Thursday Night Football. Could be worse. I'd like to throw Cole KT on this list because uh he had a big game on Sunday and Coulson Lovelin missed with a hip injury, but they do have their week five by. So, I do expect by week six coming around. Lovelin probably will be healthy and then that puts Cole KT back into like a 6035 60/40 split rather than like the 80 to 90% route runner that he was on Sunday. So, a lot less appealing. Plus, you also need to uh, you know, hold a roster spot the entire time for him.
For streaming defenses, as always, we're looking for teams that are at home that are favored to win their games and are, you know, just heavy favorites. The more heavy they are, the better the opposing offenses. The more banged up they are, the quarterbacks, whatever. Those are the teams you want to target. Uh, I like the Arizona Cardinals at home versus Tennessee Titans for obvious reasons. Uh, the Rams at home versus the Niners if they're somehow available. Obviously, extremely banged up on the Niners offensive side of the ball. I like the Colts versus the Las Vegas Raiders as well and then the Detroit Lions which are the only team away. But against Cincinnati, we like that defense as a streamer, too.
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Moving over quickly to the drop list. Yep, you can drop Malik Neighbors. Unfortunately, Tyreek Hill, unfortunately, Calvin Austin, uh, I think hurt his shoulder. Like, he's he's another one where it's like if you've played fantasy for more than a year or two, Calvin Austin, Justice Hill, all these guys are the same. Like I don't I I don't know why we're spending fab on him. I don't know why we continue to just do this over and over again. Taekquin Thornton, he's been too good, man. I I kind of think they're gonna continue using him. Like I kind of think when Rashi Rice is back, it's going to be Rice and Hollywood underneath and Taekwon still going to be a deep threat. Like it's really hard to start him obviously just cuz the nature of who he is as a player and his skill set comes with a very low floor. But honestly, I'm I I think I'm going to hold on to him.
Darnell Mooney suffered a hamstring strain which is probably going to sideline him for he's probably going to be week to week right now. So, not a player I want to drop by any means, but I get it. You know, tough times, bye-weeks, all that kind of stuff. Like, if you have to, you can. Trey Tucker is definitely a guy I would hold on to. We've seen the spike weeks already. He's still running every route. Would not drop. Bashaw Tutin, Dylan Samson, uh, definitely droppable. Sterling Shepard, I mean, you know, there's no surprise here. He was, we were very skeptical about picking him up in the first place at Seattle now. Like, Evan's going to be back soon. Chris Godwin ran almost every single route. So, Sterling Shepard's definitely not a guy you need to keep on your roster.
Raandre definitely do not drop. Johnny Smith is definitely droppable. Um they're on a buy and I don't think he's top 30 receiving yards yet this year. Zack Z definitely hold on to Evan Ingram's been droppable. Harold Fannon definitely do not drop. I think he's going to be a big beneficiary of Cedric Tilman getting hurt. Chris Rodriguez, you already know how I feel about him. I don't care if you hold on to him. You can. You can't. I don't care. Ali Gordon uh would hold if you have a spot for a high-end handcuff. Luther Burden would probably hold too, but it is by weeks. Uh, I think he's probably one of the first guys to get dropped off of your team. If you need a spot, Calvin Ridley, I mean, the the runout is brutal right now. I'd like to say I think the Titans are going to get better eventually, but I don't know that I could say that confidently, but at the end of the day, if Calvin really's on my team, I'm not dropping him. But like, I get it. Cororum high in handcuff. Tilman probably droppable if you need the spot. And Jooku I'm not going to drop. Really hard to play and I would rather own Fannon than than Jooku. And I think that's kind of been the case since week one. But again, I think everybody kind of benefits from Cedric Tilman's hamstring injury.
Breelan Allen tweaked his knee last night and it could be something that's weak to weak, so he might very well end up being droppable. Brian Robinson definitely hold on to with the workle that CMAC is getting. Parker Washington, yeah, I mean, you're kind of a [ __ ] idiot if you played him last week. Dami Brown should be back in just the Jaguars offense right now. Ke Coleman, do not drop. Common guy's a handcuff. Son Haskins, you could drop. Tory Horton's another guy that I still want to stash. Rico D's just a handcuff. Tank Bsby definitely droppable. Kamante Turpin again, he's just Malik Washington. You're never going to be able to start him. Josh DS, man, I I hate where he's at right now. He's still just playing on 50 to 60% of the snaps. Not seeing any real targets here. I I want to say better days are ahead, but again, I cannot say that confidently. Unfortunately, if I have Josh DS, again, I'm I'm probably not dropping him. him and Cooper Cup and Troy Franklin are all kind of in the same tier where listen when by-weeks hit I do think they're fine plays to throw into your lineup and just hope they have nice floor games. But I get it. I do. I do. Isaac Tesla for show droppable.
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