Fridays are for Five Lists of Five! And, would you lookie there—it’s Week 5. Alliteration goes off the chain right now.
I’ll be doing this for every week of the season. Think of these as byte-sized, two-minutes-to-yourself lists to scan during your weekend as you foam at the mouth for any competitive fantasy edge. As much relevant analysis as I can fit into, like, 250 words per player (notice how that number has already ballooned since the first list?).
Kicking it off this week with five sell-high targets. Let’s offload some fool’s gold.
Follow along at my handle @dansby_edits for stat threads with minimal emojis all week long. The minimal emojis thing is how I differentiate myself in the market, you see.
Still some emojis, though. I’m human.
Also available from this week’s Friday’s Five Lists of Five:
- Top five fantasy football buy-low players for NFL Week 5
- Top five fantasy football stash players for NFL Week 5
- Top five fantasy football streamers for NFL Week 5
- Top five fantasy football wide receivers due for breakout games in NFL Week 5
Davante Adams, WR, Oakland Raiders (-ish?)
Hear me out: his value may never be higher than it is right now, with fantasy managers imagining nostalgic highlights of Rodgers and Adams back at Lambeau. It’s what all Jets fans, and many fantasy mangers, desire more than anything.
A famous author once said: “Desire is the sugar of fiction.” There’s some cloying sweetness to Davante Adams’s public perception, particularly as it relates to his rest-of-season production.
Sell some dessert.
Kareem Hunt, RB, Kansas City Chiefs
Similar to Adams above, Hunt’s value may not again eclipse where it is right now. Remember how ass-over-teakettle everyone went for Carson Steele as soon as word was he’d get the most touches in the Kansas City backfield after Pacheco?
It’s a similar situation right now with Kareem Hunt. But Clyde Edwards-Helaire is coming back from IR soon, Steele fumbled last week but isn’t altogether in the doghouse, and Samaje Perine lurks on passing downs.
Not to mention, Hunt’s shoulder is already ailing after one week of NFL action. Sell him this week. Now.
Stefon Diggs, WR, Houston Texans
A familiar face from last week’s list. Wonder how many more good games he’ll have to have before I start believing.
Because I still don’t. His rushing touchdown last week came on a broken trick play (for which he was intended to throw a touchdown, but still). He converted his nine targets into five receptions for 69 yards. Without the trick play, that’s an 11.9 PPR-point week.
Diggs is a leader, and a better teammate these days than fantasy asset. When the Texans figure it out, it’ll be Nico Collins, Joe Mixon, Dalton Schultz, and Tank Dell who’ll eat the most. Diggs will be more of a role-player.
Five receptions for 70-ish yards is much more what I expect from Diggs for the rest of the season. A wideout-needy team in your league might be willing to pay an injured star (Chubb, Hockenson, etc.) for Diggs, who right now is the WR12 in PPR leagues.
Christian Kirk, WR, Jacksonville Jaguars
Let me begin by saying: I love me some Christian Kirk. I think he’s one of the finest route-runners in the league. But I don’t think he’ll have double-digit targets every game, as he has the past two contests.
Kirk’s average reception is right around 9.0 yards, and that’s fairly typical for his route pattern. It’s less the route tree that bothers me than it is the volume; I think defenses are going to start keying in on Kirk and freeing things up for Brian Thomas Jr.
Not to mention, Evan Engram is a game-time decision this week. That means he’s almost fully healthy, and should be back in pads in short order. Some of Kirk’s volume will go to Engram.
Shop Kirk around before the London game.
Josh Downs, WR, Indianapolis Colts
Too many mouths to feed in Indianapolis, and not enough decent quarterback play to go around just yet. Downs had his breakout last week, and he seems to be the premier household name of the receivers behind Michael Pittman.
However, I’m a bigger fan of both Alec Pierce and Adonai Mitchell, and neither of them have run more than 15 routes yet. I wrote about them in my Week 5 Stash List here.
Downs is trendy, shiny, and new. His 22.1 PPR-point performance last week is going to have people drooling. See if you can get an above-replacement-level fantasy asset that fills one of your roster holes.
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