The Week 4 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire appears to be heavy at running back again, but not with players we should necessarily be jamming in our line-up right away. Most of the waiver adds are contingency based in some way.
Looking at the overall meta of scoring this year it seems that defenses have gotten sophisticated enough that QB's can't get clean pre-snap reads. Leading to not being able to get the ball to wide receivers consistently, and overall scoring is WAY down because of it. Strong run game and short passes are the way to defeat the cover-2 defense, so running backs get more touches. It doesn't seem as if there is some sort of bell-cow running back Renaissance, it's just that all other parts of offenses are getting stopped.
Waiver Wire Adds
Be early on Jonathon Brooks, he should return from IR next week and the Panthers have had a resurgence after a change at QB and the second round rookie should take over the backfield in a few weeks.
Braelon Allen scored two touchdowns in Week 2, on only 9 touches, and followed it up with 68 yards, on 14 total touches in Week 3. He is a legit, one-for-one replacement if Breece Hall goes down.
Rachaad White’s usage continues to get worse. After 21 total touches in Week 1 he has had only 11 and 12 touches in Week 2 and Week 3. Bucky Irving continues to get incrementally more involved with a 37.5 percent backfield carry share in Week 1, increased to 41.1 percent in Week 2. Irving split touches evenly with White in Week 3, out-carrying White 9-6.
The KC Chiefs have elevated Kareem Hunt to the active roster and waive RB Keontay Ingram.
Being a Packers Fan Requires Patients
Green Bay QB, Jordan Love is targeting Week 5 for his return from an MCL sprain, though there is a chance he beats that goal, per Ian Rapoport
Jalen Tolbert led the Cowboys with 9 targets, and a 21.4 percent target share. Tolbert had never exceeded 5 targets during any game in his career. Brandin Cooks was held to just 2 catches on a 5% target share, per @RyanJ_Heath.
Parity in New England
We need to wait until Drake Maye takes the helm before buying back-in on the Patriot wide receivers, but we may not have to wait very long.
Sell High
Aaron Jones
Chuba Hubbard
In Week 3 it seemed as tough most analysts were suggesting starting Cam Akers in the flex after Joe Mixon and Dameon Pierce were pronounced out. Akers was a healthy scratch in Week 1 and fumbled in limited touches in Week 2, not to mention he is coming off a slew of injuries himself. The touts got bailed-out by a screen pass TD, but Akers was NOT a strong play.
Players We Can Drop
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Rest of Season Rankings
There aren't many places we can get full rankings that have the rest of the season in mind, let alone rankings as accurate as ours. These Rest of Season Fantasy Football rankings have been among the most accurate over the past five seasons.
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