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Short on your line up for this week? Need to fill holes due to injury, bye weeks or because your players just have not performed as well as you would like?
ProFootballInsight has released its Week 5 Fantasy Football Sleepers and Waiver Wire Steals.
[Editor's Note: You can also catch Fraschetti this week with me on the first edition of the MSF Fantasy Flash podcast.]
For those of you who followed PFI last week and our Week 3 Fantasy Football Sleepers and Waiver Wire Steals, you capitalized on a touchdown from Johnny Knox, an explosive game from Tashard Choice, and one of Jason Campbell’s biggest fantasy outputs of his career.
My fantasy owners who wrote in were guided in starting Kevin Kolb and up-to-then bust Santana Moss. Both had great fantasy weeks.
But enough tooting my own horn, onto this week’s closet fantasy studs, starting with the guy who is taking the place of Frank Gore in San Francisco: Glen Coffee.
Pro Football Insight is back again with our Week 3 waiver wire steals and sleepers.
If you caught last week’s waiver wire steals column, you benefitted from picking up Todd Heap and from a quality performance off the waiver wire in the Atlanta Falcons Defense.
Here is a quick teaser of this week’s predictions, and then a link to this week’s complete set of waiver wire steals.
I will start by saying that if anyone is calling Steve Smith or Mario Manningham a sleeper or waiver wire pick up, they are definitely not going out on a limb. These two are no-brainers to get on your roster if available, and are worthy of starts if you do not have a quality #1 receiver.
I was going to call Manningham a waiver wire steal last week, but as a Wolverines fan, I avoid picking from my heart. With that in mind, I did pick him up for last week in every league I’m…I just did not start him. Enough small talk, onto this week’s injury and/or poor draft pick fillers:
1. Tashard Choice – RB – Dallas Cowboys
If you own Marion Barber and did not draft Felix Jones, Choice will get carries in Barber’s absence. As Jerod updated earlier today here on MSF, reports out of Dallas are saying that Barber will most likely miss Monday’s game against Carolina. You still want to check the injury reports heading into Sunday, but that’s the latest as of right now.
As for Choice, no he will not put up Barber numbers, but he will produce points in a tandem with Felix Jones. Tashard Choice is a solid substitute for Barber and is a solid flex-level play who could produce RB#2-like numbers.
Update: Definitely keep your eye on Marion Barber’s status. The latest update, at least according to ESPN, is that Barber received treatment yesterday and hopes to play Monday night. Looks like this will be a Sunday morning decision and you’ll just have to base your thoughts on Barber’s status for Monday night — which will obviously influence Choice’s value — on as much info as you have.
There are still four more solid gold Week 3 waiver wire steals awaiting you at ProFootballInsight.net. Follow the link for the rest the Week 3 waiver wire steals.
And, as always, feel free to use the comment section here or at PFI to ask your fantasy football lineup question.
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* – Tashard Choice photo credit: Tom Fox / DMN Photo Staff via Denton Record-Chronicle
