Welcome to the Fantasy Football Waiver Wire for Week 5! Injuries continue to pile up around the league, and for the first time this season we’ve got Bye weeks to contend with too. So that’s fun. I’ll put it in economic terms: The Waiver Wire now shifts from shopping for luxury items to buying the necessities, depending of course on how damaged your roster is and how well you’ve survived (and navigated) the first four weeks of the season.
Here’s a tip for the Bye weeks, that I also noted last week: If you’ve got the roster space, plan ahead, and especially at the “onesie” positions of QB, TE, PK and D/ST, where you’re often going to roll with a streaming option as opposed to playing someone off your bench.