Heading into NFL Week 10 is an important time for fantasy football managers. Those sitting at 6-3 or higher wish to set their teams up for the fantasy playoffs, while those at 5-4 or worse are scratching and clawing to remain within the hunt.
With talk swirling across the return of players comparable to Odell Beckham Jr. and Deshaun Watson, stashing players like this grows in importance, and you want to prepare your roster for those who wish to add them.
Nine games into the regular season, we’ve got a fairly good idea as to who’s going to do what for our teams, and it’s time to start out cutting that dead weight. Sorry for those who wasted that third-round pick on Kyle Pitts, but within the immortal words of Regina George to Gretchen Wieners, “Stop attempting to make fetch occur. It’s not going to occur.”
Just change “fetch” to Pitts and also you’ve got it. In actual fact, you may probably include Drake London within the conversation because the run-first ways of the Falcons have quarterback Marcus Mariota throwing a mean of twenty-two times per game. Even for those who’re taking a look at a 30 percent goal share, there just isn’t enough passing productivity on this team to warrant using in fantasy. Not frequently, not less than.
But it surely doesn’t stop with the Falcons. The rookie receivers on Green Bay can’t stay healthy, and Aaron Rodgers looks like garbage, so possibly Romeo Doubs and Christian Watson can go. Zay Jones clearly isn’t a top goal in Jacksonville, so why are we still holding onto him?
Allen Robinson? Gross. Robert Woods? Yuck. Tyquan Thornton? Who? You’ll be able to probably rid yourself of Darrell Henderson and Darren Waller when you’re at it.
If it hasn’t happened by now for any of those players, likelihood is, it won’t over the subsequent few weeks. Your roster needs a housecleaning, and it is healthier to do it now than to attend until it’s too late.
Cutting players you invested in with early picks or players you claimed who you thought had high upside might be tough to do, but nobody said winning a championship was easy. Sometimes, it’s making the difficult decisions that makes you a champion. Spare yourself the aggravation of wishing and hoping. Make those tough cuts and get yourself to the championship game.
Howard Bender is the VP of operations and head of content at FantasyAlarm.com. Follow him on Twitter @rotobuzzguy and catch him on the award-winning “Fantasy Alarm Radio Show” on the SiriusXM fantasy sports channel weekdays from 6-8 p.m. Go to FantasyAlarm.com for all of your fantasy sports advice, player projections, injury updates and more.
