Rest-of-Season (ROS) Fantasy Football Rankings: Emeka Egbuka Climbs The Rankings Ahead of Week 6

The rest-of-season (ROS) fantasy football rankings are out, and one thing is evident: over the first five weeks of the season, we have been wrong about some players' performances and others have really surprised us.

Now that we are officially a quarter of the way through the season, we can make some legitimate predictions about what could be in store for players over the rest of the season, so we should pay closer attention to this week's rest-of-season fantasy football rankings.

Emeka Egbuka Headlines Rest-of-Season Rankings For Week 6

Egbuka is consensus 29th in the rest-of-season rankings, but when you have outperformed every receiver not named Puka Nacua and Amon-Ra St. Brown, then you deserve to be higher in the rankings. The hesitation by our prognosticators for the rest of the season comes from the looming return of Mike Evans. However, as a 32-year-old, 12-year veteran who has suffered a lot of soft-tissue injuries over his career, this could be the time to reduce him to a supporting actor role in this new play.

Egbuka is younger and fresher. He also runs a much more expansive route tree than Evans, who's been able to out-athlete most and bully his way past others. That type of existence has a shelf life, and normally, the fall off happens quickly. Egbuka becoming more of the passing game's WR1 seems more natural based on how he has handled the responsibility in Godwin's and now Evans' absences.

Egbuka has been able to produce without elite WR1 targets and over the past two weeks, he's added 100-yard performances to his already impressive resume that included touchdowns in four of his five games. At some point soon, we will be too far into the season to say, “When X gets back.” We may as well believe the hype when it keeps happening week after week. Like Thanos, this receiver takeover is inevitable.

More High Risers In The Rest-of-Season Fantasy Football Rankings

Drake Maye, QB, New England

Maye has been playing really well and he has made a meteoric rise up the ROS rankings. His ADP was just under 105, and now he is ranked ninth. In his Sunday Night Football debut, Maye looked a lot like the man playing quarterback across the field from him. Scrambling to his right and firing passed into tight windows and deep down the field to Stefon Diggs. That's how Josh Allen rose to prominence, making things happen with his legs and arm and watching defenders bounce off his big frame when he gets to rumbling down the field. Maye is not as reckless as a runner yet, but he's getting there.

Quinshon Judkins, RB, Cleveland

People were turning their backs on Judkins throughout the summer while he was going through his legal issues. He was fighting to clear his name and to sign his contract. Once he stepped on the field, he noticed that he would be a matchup problem, regardless of the defense he faced. He's really been defense-proof so far in his young career. He ran well against Baltimore before they lost all of their good defenders; he handled Green Bay and Detroit's defensive efforts and put up a career-high 110 yards against Minnesota. A consensus ROS rank of 50 seems low, and he will continue to climb, but rising up 60.3 spots is impressive nonetheless.

Darren Waller, TE, Miami

Yes, Waller has un-retired and reemerged in the league as one of the most effective red zone targets in the league. He has three touchdowns in two games and they have all come inside the 20-yard line. He is not garnering the targets some of the other top tight ends receive, but his production makes fantasy managers stand up and pay attention. He is long, athletic and fits the mold of a new-aged tight end. Last season, Jonnu Smith received 111 targets despite only starting six games. They will keep creating more options for Waller to get the ball. It is crazy to believe that Waller was probably in his home studio making music at this time last year; now he's climbing up fantasy rankings.

Free Fallers In The Rest-of-Season Fantasy Football Rankings

Derrick Henry, RB, Baltimore

Henry has found it tough sledding this year after week one. Without Lamar Jackson, it will not get any better. What also lowers his ceiling for the remainder of the season is the potential game scripts for the remainder of the year. The offensive line is not healthy, and they have struggled blocking in the run game and in pass protection. Henry has not found the lanes that he would normally have. The defense is also struggling, which means the offense will likely need to put the ball in the hands of the quarterback to throw the ball, and Henry is not a natural pass catcher. He's dropped 13 spots from his original ADP.

CeeDee Lamb, WR, Dallas

Lamb has been out with an injury and his ranking has dropped. When he returns from injury, people think that George Pickens and Jake Ferguson's performances in Lamb's absence will cut into what used to be a large target share for Lamb. This perceived drop in value may be a good time to pick up Lamb via trade before he returns from injury. They have him ranked 17 spots below Pickens, even though he has not fallen off; he is just injured and expected to come back. It's a little strange that he's dropped lower than Ricky Pearsall, who has missed time with injury, and Rashee Rice, who has not played at all this year.

T.J. Hockenson, TE, Minnesota

Hockenson has only topped double digits in full PPR formats once this season. He's finished TE18 or worse every other week. For a guy who was supposed to be a major part of an offense that scored regularly in 2024. Fantasy managers have definitely been disappointed in his performances. Guys like Dalton Kincaid, Kyle Pitts, Hunter Henry and even Darren Waller have been ranked ahead of him. For a guy who was being drafted as TE5, the fact that he is ranked TE13 is disappointing. Could his performance improve over the remainder of the season? Yes. However, the team has quarterback health issues and they have other receiving options that need to be targeted.

Players Mentioned in this Article

EmekaEgbuka
WRTB
PPG
13.26
Proj
12.36
DrakeMaye
QBNE
PPG
21.46
Proj
19.54
QuinshonJudkinsQ
RBCLE
PPG
12.94
Proj
12.80
DarrenWallerIR
TEMIA
PPG
10.18
Proj
0.00