Rest-Of-Season Fantasy Football Rankings Buys & Sells Ahead Of Week 6

We're more than a quarter of the way through the season, contenders are separating, trades are starting to fly, and priors are being adjusted. The rest-of-season fantasy football rankings have a hand in all three of those, and all three are important. Identifying where players project for the rest of the year offers buy-low and sell-high windows to pursue in the trading market, and effectively maximizing those windows is what helps contenders separate.

Let's dive into a pair of players to buy and a pair of players to sell based on their rest-of-season fantasy football rankings.

Buy These Players In Rest-Of-Season Fantasy Football Rankings

Bhayshul Tuten | Jaguars | RB15

Tuten is a popular topic this week, so his perceived value could very well line up with what it actually is, but I want to buy Tuten before his true breakout, even if I can't get him for a discount. Over the last three games, he has snatched just about all of the base-down work (54% rush attempts -> 68% -> 92%) from Chris Rodriguez (19% -> 24% -> 8%) and has seen his route share increase in each of those games on top of it (28% -> 41% -> 48%).

We'd ideally now like to see Tuten take over the goal-line work, as if you watched their Week 5 game, you saw that Rodriguez subbed in on multiple snaps at the goal line. Even so, Tuten's utilization is trending towards a massive breakout. He has a difficult Week 6 matchup (Texans) followed by a bye, but has a juicy post-bye schedule on tap (Colts, Ravens, Giants, Titans x2).

Mike Evans | 49ers | WR23

Rostering Mike Evans this year feels like you're clenching your ass cheeks for 3 hours every Sunday hoping you don't shit yourself, only to realize it was only a gut-relieving fart all along that actually felt pretty damn good once you leaned into it.

The "ifs" with Evans' health and age are LOUD, but he's just been so damn good. He has a 25% target share on the season (0.31 targets per route run) and that number continues to climb as the Niners lose bodies in the pass-catching room.

Operating as the WR12 in half-PPR, Evans should be valued as such (a back-end WR1) so long as he's healthy, as he's set to post elite target share numbers with Deebo Samuel on the shelf and the WR2 being ... Brandin Cooks?

Sells In The Rest-Of-Season Fantasy Rankings Ahead Of Week 6

Jeremiyah Love | Cardinals | RB16

Love's RB16 ranking in the ROS ranks feels right to me as a mid-range RB2. We've seen the week-to-week ceiling (21+ points in Week 3), but the role fragility is hard to ignore. He's played more than 50% of the snaps in only one game this season, has posted his two lowest Utilization Scores (46, 43) now in consecutive weeks, and simply isn't on the field in garbage time.

I set up filters on TruMedia to see which Cardinals players are on the field the most in second-half situations where the Cardinals are trailing by at least 14, and Love simply is not involved in the pass game, averaging only 6 routes per game in garbage time (a scenario where he's still the RB2 in snaps).

Without those high-value opportunities in a pretty common game script for the Cardinals, plus the looming QB change to Carson Beck, it's really difficult to have any confidence in Love as anything more than a boom/bust RB2 despite the talent profile.

Ollie Gordon | Dolphins | RB24

If there was ever a sell high to capitalize on ASAP, Ollie Gordon feels like the one. In three games as the RB1 (including Week 3 when De'Von Achane went down), Gordon has piled up 17, 9, and 18 rush attempts while running 24, 7, and 20 routes, finishing as the RB13 or better in every game. On the surface, that sounds like a massive waiver wire pickup with league-winning upside.

But contextually, that's not the case. The Dolphins claimed rookie RB Kayton Allen off of waivers after he was cut by the Commanders, signaling that there is clearly desire for more in the RB room. On top of that, he plays for arguably the worst offense in football, calling into question how high the ceiling can really be for a backup running back in this situation.

I would expect closer to back-end RB2 production, so capitalizing on his recent high-end RB2, back-end RB1 box-score numbers could net you some decent value in return.