The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys meet on Thursday Night Football in a Week 5 matchup between two teams headed in different directions. Tampa Bay is still searching for its first victory after falling to 0-4 with a 17-14 loss to Green Bay, while Dallas improved to 2-2 with a dramatic 34-30 comeback victory […]

The tight end position is off to one of its hottest starts in recent memory and shows few signs of slowing down. With the rise of 12-personnel and the multitude of receiver injuries, tight ends are an integral part of NFL offenses. However, a four-game sample size is still relatively small. Small sample sizes can […]

Welcome back to our NFL Pick'em Pool Picks for Week 5 of the 2026 NFL season. We're just about a quarter of the way through the season, which means we're finally able to determine which teams' successes and failures may be flukes, and which ones may be legitimate. Some questions do still exist, though. When […]

Welcome back to our NFL Survivor Pool Picks for Week 5 of the 2026 NFL season! For anyone who isn't familiar, each week we give you our recommended Survivor Pool picks to target and also avoid for 2026 Survivor leagues. This week I'm pinch-hitting on this feature for our friend Kevin Tompkins -- kind of […]

With the 2026 fantasy baseball season officially wrapped up, it’s time to look back at the most surprising breakouts of the year. Even though you can’t go back in time and draft these players, it’s still worth reflecting on this past season’s results to learn as much as you can before 2027 drafts roll around.  […]

Tonight’s slate is unusual. Despite many strong teams on the docket, few have matchups we can exploit. That leaves the Heat Map, and thus this article, loaded with second- and third-line recommendations. That makes for a fun slate, especially as we fade popular players like Auston Matthews, Tage Thompson, and Jack Eichel in favor of […]

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Each night, we will bring you our award-winning NHL DFS Heat Map with expert research and picks for cash games and GPPs. Here are a few notes about the sheet: Blue means ELITE, Green means GO (good for the player), Yellow means value/supplemental play,... […]

With the 2026-2027 NBA season creeping right around the corner, it's a good time for point league managers to scope out their primary draft targets. Points leagues are an entirely different animal, with many players who have different values than they do in category or roto leagues. In this article, you’ll find our Top 150 […]

With the 2026 college football season underway, let's take a look back and name some of the most infamous coaches in college football history. While many of these coaches didn't have great success, fans and alumni of their schools remember them well. Today, we look at the 15 worst hires since the 2010 season. Will […]

Week 5 is upon us! The Falcons might be the real deal now that they have a legit QB. They made light work of the Saints' defense, and the Falcons' defense really kept Tyler Shough at bay. This would have been a great matchup had Baker Mayfield been at QB, but I'm not sure how […]

Welcome back to our WR/CB Matchups for Week 5 of the 2026 fantasy football season. Wide receiver injuries may cause fantasy managers to consider risky options, so several updates will occur throughout the week as injury reports come in. For those unfamiliar, this weekly series looks at fantasy football matchups for wide receivers versus the […]

  In-Season Weekly Rankings and Preparing for Fantasy Football Drafts Welcome to our updated fantasy football weekly rankings. To begin your fantasy football preparation during draft season, or weekly once the season starts, our rankings help you research the top players for developments, role changes, and other factors that can influence their updated season projections. […]

Regular fantasy football rankings have been the primary tool fantasy managers use to make start-sit calls, but projections can help you visualize how players are expected to perform. We have you covered with our Week 5 fantasy football projections for 2026. Below, see the projected output for Keon Coleman, Romeo Doubs, Ollie Gordon II, Braelon […]

Welcome to Week 5 of the 2026 NFL season, and to our fantasy football Week 5 start/sit recommendations chart for all player matchups and all games. Today, we'll look at some interesting Week 5 lineup decisions for players like Emanuel Wilson, Ollie Gordon II, Will Shipley, and more -- and how their matchups project for […]

With a month behind us, let's look ahead to preview Week 5 and beyond with an updated rest-of-season rankings sheet. The injuries, star performances, and role changes won't let up, reflecting the famed Smash Mouth lyric, "the [weeks] start coming and they don't stop coming." We will do our best to navigate the currents with […]

We're heading into a pivotal Week 5 for fantasy football, and most of us are over a quarter of the way through our regular season. We've entered the window where we need to decide if we're disappointed or concerned about well-known players that are underperforming. We can give grace to those we are disappointed in […]

Week 5 has arrived, and the fantasy season is getting interesting. Depending on your league format, you are likely roughly one-third of the way through your regular season. However, there is a lot of football left to be played, and no one can count themselves out just yet, regardless of record. Once we get through […]

Hey RotoBallers, now that the first waiver run is complete in most leagues, we are back with more waiver wire advice. Bye weeks are here, with the Chiefs and Panthers off. Several key injuries hit heading into Week 5, including Lamar Jackson, Ja'Marr Chase, Saquon Barkley, DJ Moore, and Ladd McConkey. Below are our updated […]

We're now one month into the fantasy football season, and some trends are revealing themselves. Still, the fantasy football landscape changes in a flash. This could just be the beginning for some of this week's risers and fallers. The players in this weekly article aren't necessarily the week's best and worst performers. Instead, we'll talk […]

Hey RotoBallers! Week 5 of the NFL season kicks off in just 48 hours, so it's time to start setting the next round of our lineups. With many injuries and the first set of bye weeks beginning, managers need to be even more careful when constructing their lineups. Below, we will look at one player […]

We are nearly a quarter of the way through the 2026 fantasy football season already, and it still feels like there are more questions than answers when it comes to player values and rest-of-season outlooks. Can we rely on Drake Maye after a QB1 overall finish last week? Which pass-catcher in Chicago is the one […]

Welcome, RotoBallers, to our fantasy football D/ST streamers and starts for Weeks 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the 2026 season. This article will identify the best D/ST to pick up for this week and in the weeks ahead.  For this week, we will dive into the best defenses to pick up for the next couple […]

Seattle Seahawks running back Emanuel Wilson had a huge day in Week 4. Though he's been a career backup, with the Green Bay Packers for a few years and this year with his new team, he was the fifth-highest-scoring running back in fantasy football after his huge game. 27.0 PPR fantasy points is nothing to […]

As we head into Week 5, it marks the first time in 2026 that fantasy managers must account for bye weeks. That means streamers are in play! It's time to dig into the weekly mechanics of building winning rosters, and we're here to help! RotoBaller analyst Matt Donnelly drops his MUST START DEFENSE (D/ST) units […]

Hello everybody, and welcome to the Week 5 edition of Thursday Night Football bets and props! The NFL season is well underway, and we at RotoBaller couldn't be more thrilled to bring you some of the best content on the market. We are excited to bring betting content to all those interested in every slate... […]

Injuries continue to pile up. It has made it tough to navigate for some, but as I said last week, you just have to stay afloat during this stretch. Your team will get healthy, and other teams will get bitten by the injury bug. All you have to do right now is field the best […]

Week 5 of the NFL season kicks off Thursday night as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will travel to Dallas to face the Cowboys. With many high-end fantasy assets in this game, managers will need to make some tough lineup calls at the start of the week. In addition to our start/sit recommendation and matchup ratings […]

Seattle Seahawks running back Zach Charbonnet (knee), a key contributor for his team during their 2025 Super Bowl run, tore his ACL in the playoffs last season and required season-ending surgery to correct the issue. He remained heavily involved on offense last season, sharing the backfield with RB Kenneth Walker III. Walker is now dominating […]

Denver Broncos running back Jonah Coleman (ankle) carried the ball 10 times for 48 yards, scored a rushing touchdown, and caught all three of his targets for 19 yards in the only game he played significant action in this season, Week 2. Unfortunately, he injured his ankle in that game and was subsequently placed on […]