Players To Drop In Week 6 Fantasy Football: Time To Cut Jerry Jeudy
Geoff Ulrich breaks down the players you should consider cutting ties with ahead of the Week 6 fantasy football waiver wire run.
Cutting bait on those investments you’re already underwater on sucks, but just like Warren Buffett always says, “throwing good money after bad is for non-ball knowers… avoid it like Emari Demercado and Adonai Mitchell avoid TDs”.
That’s why I’m here to give you some of the best names you need to consider dropping NOW, before they drag your team down under the burden of another wasted roster spot, or worse, another week with a big, fat, single-digit fantasy score.
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Week 5 brought about some more important injury scenarios to keep an eye on. Bucky Irving looks very doubtful to return in Week 6 after missing Week 5, and Omarion Hampton has officially landed on IR..
Brock Bowers went from likely playing on Sunday to inactive, and his near status/future is up in the air.
Week 6’s most pertinent drop candidates are below.
Let’s drop it like it’s hot.
RELATED: The Best Week 6 Waiver Wire Targets via Kendall Valenzuela
Week 6 Fantasy Football Drops
Jerry Jeudy | WR
It hurts to give up on a guy who was so clearly his team’s number one WR heading into the season, but at this point, it’s hard to see a big turnaround for Jeudy happening anytime soon. The Browns WR hasn’t topped 60 yards since Week 1 and has gone for under 50 yards and four receptions in three straight games. Further, while he remained a near every-down player in Week 5 vs the Vikings, Jeudy dropped to a season low 11% target share in his first game with QB Dillon Gabriel, who looked towards Isaiah Bond and David Njoku far more often.
The Browns also look like they’ll be keeping things very simple with Gabriel, who averaged just 5.8 yards per attempt in his first start, which will likely mean plenty of dump-offs to TEs and RBs in upcoming games. Not good for a guy like Jeudy, who needs those big plays downfield to make his mark for you in fantasy. His best shot at becoming relevant this year may be via trade, and while you could hold out to see what transpires in that regard, you’re also within your rights to drop him for someone, nay, anyone with a better shot of getting a couple of deep targets next week.
Potential replacements: Kendrick Bourne, Troy Franklin, Tez Johnson
Marvin Mims | WR
We’re not even halfway through the season yet, so it’s frustrating to have to put Mims on this list. That said, continuing to start Mims will likely only lead to even more frustrating results. The Broncos' WR just isn’t getting enough snaps or usage to become an every-week thing for fantasy and has been bypassed on the depth chart by Troy Franklin, who is now in a near every-down role.
It’s not that Mims isn’t a part of the Broncos offense, but he’s maxing out at four to six targets a game. And those deep shots with Bo Nix we saw near the end of last season? They’ve been going elsewhere, leaving Mims as the line of scrimmage God who is averaging just 8.5 yards per reception this season. Unless there is an injury to Franklin or Sutton, Mims is a boom-or-bust flex option and completely droppable if there is someone out there with better near-term prospects.
Potential replacements: Kendrick Bourne, Troy Franklin, Tez Johnson
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Ollie Gordon | RB
Gordon looks the part of a prospect who can make it big in the NFL one day. He’s massive and moves great for someone his size. The problem is that A.) He’s playing behind the most versatile back in the NFL in De'Von Achane. And B.) The Dolphins' defense is so bad that Miami will rarely be in front to give Gordon the sort of early down carries and usage he needs to become a thing for fantasy this season.
Miami is so bad that even if Achane goes down, Gordon will likely lose out to a back like Jaylen Wright (or some other veteran name) who has better receiving skills and fits better in a hurry-up offense. Lots of people grabbed him as an early-season lotto ticket, but given what we’ve seen from the Dolphins to date, I’d be looking elsewhere for upside the rest of the season.
Potential replacements: Kendre Miller, Kimani Vidal, Sean Tucker
Elic Ayomanor | WR
Ayomanor looked like he may be on the verge of bypassing Calvin Ridley on the depth chart a few weeks ago, but that just hasn’t transpired. His seven targets in Week 4 were promising, but he only converted two of those into catches and then had to watch last week as Ridley saw a team-high 10 targets and exploded for 131 yards. As of now, you have to figure he’s more set to play a tertiary role going forward.
Ayomanor being a No. 2 WR would be all well and good if he were on a decent team, but the Titans' offense is so bad, and has produced so few scoring plays to date, that there just isn’t room for multiple WRs to produce for fantasy. He may get more chances later in the season, but at this point, you’d rather have someone with more upside on a weekly basis.
Potential replacements: Kendrick Bourne, Troy Franklin, Tez Johnson
Juwan Johnson | TE
Johnson was an early-season Cinderella story, someone you likely either picked up late in a draft or got off waivers after his big Week 1. If he carried you to a few big wins, feel free to revel in those past triumphs, because it’s doubtful we’ll see anything the same Johnson the rest of the way.
On top of picking up an ankle injury last week, which may have hampered his performance vs the Giants (two rec, 17 yards), he’s also dealing with major competition for targets down the road after the Saints activated Foster Moreau and Taysom Hill from IR last week. Hill may be limited to gadget plays, but Moreau has been a useful red zone producer while in New Orleans, so don’t put it past him to steal three or four targets a game. Either way, I’d want off this ride sooner rather than later and would be fine dropping the early-season wonder for a better name if there was one out there.
Potential replacements: Mason Taylor, Theo Johnson
On Watch: (Not Dropping Yet, But The Finger Is On The Trigger)
Tee Higgins | WR
It has not looked good for Higgins without Joe Burrow. 2.3 receptions and 23 yards per game (since Week 3) is not what you ordered from your second-round WR. It’s also not great that Jake Browning seems to be getting frustrated with Higgins, as he looked towards Mike Gesicki five times last week and Andrei Iosivas seven times, who vastly outproduced Higgins with five receptions and 82 yards.
It’s possible the Bengals and Higgins are headed to a breakup soon, given how bad the team is, and a trade could lift his value significantly. He’s on watch but is worth waiting on for a week or two.
Chris Godwin | WR
Godwin hasn’t looked 100% yet in either of his first two games back from IR. He saw 10 targets in Week 4 but only managed three receptions, and then was outproduced by almost everyone in the shootout win vs the Seahawks. The veteran has already been surpassed by Emeka Egbuka for primary targets with Evans out, but the rise of the very talented Tez Johnson (four receptions, 59 yards vs Seattle), who took away some work from Godwin in the slot last week, is also concerning.
The Tampa offense is so explosive that you need to give Godwin time to get up to speed, but the situation needs to be heavily monitored going forward.
Keon Coleman | WR
Gamecrsipt was finally in Coleman’s favor in Week 5, which is why it was disappointing that he could barely manage a heartbeat for fantasy purposes. Coleman’s TD vs the Patriots kept him off the drop list, but the fact that he managed just 23 yards and four catches on seven targets is concerning.
Droplets (quick ideas for rosters that need improvement)
You’re 1-4 (or 0-5) and need a wild roster shakeup? Drop your handcuff RB (Gordon, Corum, etc.) for Kimani Vidal.
There aren’t a ton of great upside options out there ahead of Week 6 at RB, but one name you could realistically snag on waivers in almost every league is Chargers RB Kimani Vidal. Omarion Hampton has officially been placed on IR. Vidal certainly profiles as a great PPR back who could thrive in the Chargers’ pass-heavy scheme and return high-end RB2 value for multiple games.
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