Come on now. It’s Week 10. You know how I do here at DKN for the fantasy football waiver rush! We kick off the week with a battery of droppable players so as to make space for guys whose value has taken a turn for the moon over the weekend.
As always, if you’re interested in who I’d recommend replacing for the below droppables, check out:
- My Top five players to stash before NFL Week 9 list
- My colleague Zach Thompson‘s Week 10 Waiver Wire column, as well as his weekly rankings.
Nothing to it but to do it.
Drop ‘Em
Jordan Love, QB, Green Bay Packers (89.5% rostered)
It’s not exactly fair to write this after Love was charged with the task of beating arguably the most menacingly-physical team in the NFC in horrid conditions on Sunday. But I went back and watched Love’s tape, especially after listening to what Tom Brady had to say about some of Love’s tendencies that keep him from being great. And the tape wasn’t good. He’s definitely still not healthy; we shouldn’t have expected him to be.
Even so, it really does appear that some of the shine from the Packers’ playoff run last year has calcified, and opponents have gotten more hip to the explosive play-calling of LaFleur & co. Romeo Doubs is back in a big way, but Dontayvion Wicks can’t stop dropping footballs. Tucker Kraft and Jayden Reed are having trouble doing it all, despite the run game improving. Jordan Love is having trouble getting his playmakers the ball in space as consistently as he did last year.
This offense will definitely improve as Love gets healthier, but—and forgive the soft analysis here—something feels a bit off with this Green Bay offense in 2024. Why does it feel like all that was clicking last year in the air attack looks like it was never meant to gel in the first place?
But we can be fair, here. He has zero rushing upside. He’s not a top-12 quarterback this year in fantasy football. He’s currently QB19. Love has two tough defensive passing matchups after his BYE this week: at Chicago, and then hosting Miami. That’s three questionable weeks for an already-injured quarterback on a shaky offense.
I bet you’re already looking for another long-term option at quarterback if you roster Love, anyways.
Michael Pittman, WR, Indianapolis Colts (90.6% rostered)
One catch the last two weeks. Let’s start there.
Now let’s get into how Joe Flacco looks every bit his age, and his elite EPA/dropback Weeks 3-6 is deep in the rearview mirror. Anthony Richardson might(?) be benched for the entire season. We just don’t know.
This is another situation where it feels like playmakers will soon grow frustrated with the lack of leadership vision on the team. What I’m saying is: Pittman might be the next disgruntled wideout to walk off the field mid-play.
I say it every week. The second a once-high-end-WR2’s situation devolves such that he becomes a weekly WR3 with a high ceiling, he’s become droppable. So it goes with Pittman.
So, too, with—
Rome Odunze, WR, Chicago Bears (56.2% rostered)
You could make the case for Keenan Allen, here. But I think it’s gonna have to be Rome, when all’s said and done.
Maybe he’s a sell-high candidate after hanging 104 yards on five grabs this past Sunday. And, trust me—this hurts to write, seeing as I called Odunze one of my five league-winning players to snag in fantasy drafts here at DKN. Maybe I’m advocating to drop this absolutely-underutilized super-athletes from last year’s rookie class in hopes it will make him go volcanic the rest of the year.
When this Bears offense was clicking the most, Odunze was stretching the field. His route tree was more medium-to-deep than short-to-medium. Keenan Allen, Cole Kmet, D’Andre Swift, and D.J. Moore were, truly, the top options in the passing game, just because they were, likely, the safest reads in Caleb WIlliams’ progressions.
Maybe you can sell high on Rome. Maybe you want to hold onto him. I just worry there’s going to be some sort of playcalling pivot in Chicago that is going to grease D.J. Moore’s squeaky wheel, and set Caleb Williams up for more success. He seems to need it. And I don’t think Rome is that guy for him the rest of the year.
He’s a WR3 with etc.
Jalen Tolbert, WR, Dallas Cowboys (22.5% rostered)
This is less about Jonathan Mingo and more about Ceedee Lamb being fine. It’s about Cooper Rush being the one throwing passes for the foreseeable future. It’s about Jake Ferguson’s clear role as the passing game’s safety valve.
And, frankly, it’s about the playcalling. I think Tolbert represents the easiest piece for defense to erase in this Dallas offense on any given week. He’s a fine dart-throw FLEX play, but he’s not startable on a weekly basis. No way.
Christian Watson, WR, Green Bay Packers (50.0% rostered)
I’d rather have Doubs than Watson. I’m over trying to invest in Watson as a season-long asset. He’s frustrating and inconsistent in DFS, too.
Part of me wonders if the only reason he’s been healthy enough to play the last few games is because he’s been so under-utilized in the offense. Jordan Love is hurt.
In the league where I have Watson on my bench, I haven’t put him in my starting lineup once. And I drafted him. It’s okay to move on.
Honorable mention: Jaylen Waddle, WR, Miami Dolphins (89.0% rostered)
Waddle represents the threshold, for me. I’m not quite ready to drop him. But I acknowledge his stats and his situation, so far, have reduced him to a WR3. I just think Tua might be on the rise, and after Achane’s big game last week, defenses might shade more toward the run against Miami.
I’d rather you test the trade market with Waddle before you drop him altogether. But I could understand if/why you end up cutting ties absolutely.
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