Kenny Pickett Injury: Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Replacement Pickups (Week 5)

With the injury to Kenny Pickett, fantasy football managers are left with a void on their roster. Let’s check out the extent of the injury and players you can target on your waiver wire this week. And here is all of our fantasy football waiver wire advice for Week 5.

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Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Injury Replacement Pickups

Injury Outlook

Kenny Pickett (knee) will miss some time

Kenny Pickett (knee) will miss some time, but how much has not yet been determined.

Fantasy Impact

Pickett suffered a knee injury during Sunday’s loss to the Texans that forced him to leave the game early. The team doesn’t know exactly how serious his injury is, but he’s expected to miss some real time while recovering from it. We’ll know more sometime in the near future, and Mitch Trubisky is in line to be the starting QB for however long Pickett is out.

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Waiver Wire Replacements to Target

Written by Bo McBrayer

Sam Howell (WAS): 18% rostered

• Next Opponents: CHI, @ATL, @NYG
• True value: $10
• Desperate need: $17
• Budget-minded: $6

Analysis: Allow me to take a bow for begging you to stick with Sam Howell last week after a dreadful performance against mighty Buffalo. While some managers were petrified of what Howell would do against Philadelphia, I used him as a streamer on the cheap to the tune of nearly 20 fantasy points. Howell is a good player. His next three games line up nicely to catch a glimpse of the young Tarheel’s ceiling. Stream away!

C.J. Stroud (HOU): 47% rostered

• Next Opponents: @ATL, NO, BYE
• True value: $10
• Desperate need: $16
• Budget-minded: $5

Analysis: The rookie from Ohio State hasn’t just been good in his first few career starts. Stroud has been magnificent and has gone so far as to elevate the talent around him. Stroud is QB13 in fantasy so far, rising in the rankings after a QB10 performance in which he passed for more than 300 yards for the second time in four games and tossed a pair of touchdowns for the third game in a row. Houston’s post-bye schedule is Charmin-soft, so Stroud is a Week 5 streamer with staying power in deeper leagues that start a single QB.

Bryce Young (CAR): 12% rostered

• Next Opponents: @DET, @MIA, BYE
• True value: $6
• Desperate need: $10
• Budget-minded: $2

Analysis: Pardon me, sir, but your FAAB debit card has been declined. Let’s say you can’t afford to stream C.J. Stroud or Sam Howell. True sickos read between the lines with Bryce Young‘s poor start and pick him up on the cheap anyway. Young is going to be a great aerial attacker soon. It might be as soon as this week in the Motor City. A strong showing against the Lions and I’ll let him stick around for a potential shootout in South Beach.

Joshua Dobbs (ARI): 5% rostered

• Next Opponents: CIN, @LAR, @SEA
• True value: $5
• Desperate need: $9
• Budget-minded: $1

Analysis: It would have made anyone look loony had they predicted it in the preseason, but the Cardinals aren’t that bad. Journeyman pro and certified genius Josh Dobbs just dropped 23 fantasy points on the vaunted 49ers defense a week after leading his team to victory against the Dallas Cowboys. The Bengals are next, and they haven’t looked good at all this season. Cincinnati also made Ryan Tannehill look good on Sunday. Dobbs looks sharp in this spin-off version of the Kevin Stefanski system, so he’d be the ultimate bargain bin stream start.