Waiver Wire Pickups Week 5
If you employed a zero running back draft strategy, you’re probably feeling brilliant today. Through the first four weeks, we’ve already had missed games from Austin Ekeler, Christian McCaffrey, Josh Jacobs, Dalvin Cook, and now we can look forward to missing David Montgomery for several weeks and possibly Joe Mixon as well. Meanwhile, Cordarrelle Patterson (off of a three-touchdown week) is the RB2, Kareem Hunt is the RB5, and James Conner is your RB16 in points per game. Two of those three players were available in over 50% of leagues as of two weeks ago, which shows you why it’s important to continue working your waiver wire every week. Fantasy football is a game of attrition, not just at the running back position, and it’s up to you to keep refilling your ranks.
Shane Manila
Shane Manila is currently a writer for Dynasty League Football, co-host of the Dynasty Trades HQ podcast, Manic and Chill (DLF YouTube), and Dynasty Intervention. Don't let all the dynasty talk fool you though, Shane loves redraft (almost) as much as he does dynasty football. An FSWA member, Shane formerly contributed his redraft insights via FantasyPros.com. At its core fantasy football is a weekly game, regardless of what format you are playing, and helping you make the correct decisions every week is Shane's only goal. Well, and to entertain you. No reason you can't be informed and entertained at the same time.
