Week 6 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire

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Have any bye weeks in week 6? No need to fear! There are a lot of great one week fill ins that can help you stay afloat this week and potentially beyond!

SEA QB Geno Smith (26.3% Owned)

I am just as shocked as you are that I am putting Geno Smith in a waiver wire column. I keep feeling like this is a fluke, but honestly, its time to just look at and trust the numbers. Geno only has 1 bust so far this season (week 2 vs. a tough SF defense). The Seahawks are also looking more and more like a Lions twin, a scrappy offense who puts up points and cannot stop ANYONE on defense. Even if Geno has bad first halves in some of these games, garbage time points could be aplenty for him.

SEA RB Kenneth Walker (37.4% Owned)

Starting Seattle RB Rashad Penny suffered a fractured tibia on Sunday and will the rest of the season. Walker was expected to get a run at the starting RB role in Seattle but never really got the looks thanks to Penny’s performance. Now that he turned his opportunity on Sunday into a solid 14.8 half-PPR performance, he could turn this news into a starting role and fantasy relevance. Walker is definitely the top guy to add long term on the wire this week.

ARI RB Eno Benjamin (0.6% Owned)

Another RB of opportunity, Eno Benjamin finished the Cardinals week 5 game as the only healthy RB left on the active roster. James Conner left the game with a chest injury and backup Darrel Williams left with a knee injury. If both of them miss time, there is no doubt that Benjamin is a slam dunk starter in week 6 against a poor Seattle defense.

NE WR Jakobi Meyers (32.3% Owned)

If you are someone who added Meyers a few weeks ago when I featured him in this column, and held on to him through the 2 missed games due to injury, then congrats! You found maybe the best wavier wire WR this week on your bench. If not, Meyers proved again that he is the top passing target in New England, even with Bailey Zappe at QB. Zappe only attempted 21 passes this week and Meyers was the target of 8 of them. A target percentage of 38%! Meyers has potential to be a matchup based flex starter going into bye weeks.

ARI WR Rondale Moore (2.3% Owned)

We all started to get on the Greg Dortch bandwagon 2 weeks ago and then… poof. He was gone. We might not have seen the reason right away, but the reason was Rondale Moore. Moore’s snap share in week 4 was high despite not many results, but in week 5 he showed some promise. Moore turned 8 targets into 7 catches and carried the ball 2 times against a tough Eagles defense. It is unclear how his usage will look once DeAndre Hopkins is back, but there is one game left until the and the cardinals have that favorable matchup against the Seattle Turnstiles… I mean… Seahawks.

JAX TE Evan Engram (17.5% Owned)

Here we are again, chasing TE fantasy points and for about the 100th time with Evan Engram. So, why is this one different? The Jags offense is better this season than last and the power appears to be shifting inside of that offense. The season started with Christian Kirk dominating, and now Kirk only saw 3 targets in week 5. Evan Engram was 2nd on the team in targets with 10 only behind veteran WR Marvin Jones. While there are still a lot of targets that could see looks here, Engram looks like the check down option that we all know is athletic enough to break some tackles and make some plays. Let’s just hope he keeps seeing those looks going forward.

Baltimore Ravens DST (36.9% Owned)

My streaming defense of the week has a matchup coming up against the New York Giants and is currently DEF6 so far on the season. The Ravens have forced 2 or more turnovers every single game this season with the exception of week 5 against the Bengals. In that game last week they still held the Bengals offense down to just 17 points while getting 1 INT and 3 sacks. The Giants have looked good, but the Ravens should get plenty of opportunities for sacks and turnovers again this week.