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Dan's fantasy football start 'em, sit 'em picks for Week 10 of 2025. He looks at potential warning signals from Rachaad White, Bam Knight, Jakobi Meyers, Tre Tucker, and Luke Musgrave
Hello again, RotoBallers, and welcome back to another edition of my Warning Signals column. For the uninitiated, each week as I prepare my fantasy football starting lineups, I can’t help but notice some players seem set up for failure in their next game. I then highlight a handful of those players whose warning signals I can’t ignore in this space, in the hopes that it will help you dodge disappointments in your own matchups.
Sudden shifts in backfield usage for Rachaad White and Bam Knight are keeping my hopes for either bouncing back in check. Jakobi Meyers' departure from Las Vegas brought my focus to him and to Tre Tucker. The move improved their season-long outlooks, but we will have to wait until after Week 10 to see some gains. Finally, Luke Musgrave is the next man up in Green Bay after Tucker Kraft was lost for the season, but his prospects suffer thanks to a poor matchup.
With only a handful of matchups left to secure a spot in the fantasy football playoffs, you can't let your guard down. The waiver pick-up that won you a week might work against you the next. Keep an eye out for the Warning Signals like the ones below while you set your rosters for Week 10 of the fantasy football season.
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Rachaad White, RB, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
It is always a relief to get a player coming back off a bye week. Unfortunately for Rachaad White, he is coming back from his week off and then being thrown against a brick wall. In Week 10, the Buccaneers are meeting the New England Patriots, whose defense is allowing a league-leading 3.10 yards per carry to opposing running backs and the fewest rushing yards (484) to the position despite the fact that they have yet to have their own bye.
Matchup aside, White’s time as Tampa’s unquestioned lead back may have come and gone. After Bucky Irving (foot, shoulder) was injured in Week 4, White assumed the starting role and was handed the lion’s share of backfield opportunities. Everything changed in Week 8, however, when the Bucs brought a heavy dose of Sean Tucker into the mix.
Sean Tucker powers it in for the Bucs TD on 4th down 💪
TBvsNO on FOX/FOX Onehttps://t.co/HkKw7uXVnt pic.twitter.com/dZ6uNf7eK3
— NFL (@NFL) October 26, 2025
Tucker was on the field for a season-high 20 snaps and handled 12 carries to White’s 13 against the Saints. Tucker finished with more rushing yards than White (42 to 35) and ran in a touchdown. To his credit, White was still in for the majority of third-down work and the two-minute drill, though he failed to find his way into the endzone despite taking three consecutive handoffs at the New Orleans one-yard line in the second quarter.
Perhaps it is White’s ineffectiveness as a runner that had Tampa seeing what they had in Tucker. In the four games Irving has missed, White finished as a top-12 running back twice, but those results are buoyed by touchdowns. Since Week 5, White is averaging 3.3 yards per carry and 44.8 rushing yards per game. White's burgeoning timeshare against matching up against one of the toughest opposing defenses in the league is a situation I hope to avoid.
Bam Knight, RB, Arizona Cardinals
Speaking of injury-replacement running backs whose role is suddenly in question, Bam Knight’s performance against the Cowboys relative to Emari Demercado’s fills me with doubt for Week 10. Demercado was limited to just three snaps in Week 6 after suffering an in-game ankle injury and was held out of Week 7 entirely. Rested after a bye in Week 8, Demercado was on the field for 27 snaps to Knight’s 38 on Monday Night Football to cap off Week 9.
In comments to the media ahead of the game, head coach Jonathan Gannon was noncommittal about who would lead the backfield beyond acknowledging Knight as the starter. Demercado proved to be the more effective back and led the team in carries (14, to Knight’s nine) and rushing yards (74 to 27 from Knight).
HC Jonathan Gannon says Bam Knight will start, but all three running backs "have their own role"
"We'll see who is running it well. That guy will probably get a little more touches."
(@AZCardinals Press Pass) #BirdGang pic.twitter.com/4yDKVmDtJG
— SleeperCardinals (@SleeperAZCards) November 1, 2025
The hot hand approach won’t be the only thing working against Knight’s fantasy value in Week 10. Similar to White, Knight’s upcoming matchup against the Seahawks is a poor one, with Seattle just behind New England in yards per carry allowed, giving up 3.18 to opposing running backs. When the teams last met in Week 4, Arizona’s backfield managed just 44 yards on the ground. I avoided Trey Benson (knee) back then, and I’ll be passing on Knight this time around.
Jakobi Meyers, WR, Jacksonville Jaguars
Jakobi Meyers finally got his wish and was traded out of Las Vegas in a deadline deal on Tuesday. Now a member of the Jacksonville Jaguars, he will likely fit into the slot role vacated by Travis Hunter (knee) following the rookie’s move to injured reserve.
While the hope is that the move will hopefully reignite the talented receiver’s production, I have my doubts that he will hit the ground running. Outside of the monster games posted by Puka Nacua and Jaxon Smith-Njigba earlier this season, Houston has not allowed a top-12 finish to an opposing wide receiver. Not only that, but they haven’t allowed a top-24 finish either.
There is also the issue of Meyers being new in town and having to adjust to a new coaching staff. In particular, I am concerned about the identity of the Jags’ passing game coordinator. Why worry about a relatively low-ranking coach? Because that person happens to be Shane Waldron. The same Waldron who tanked Smith-Njigba’s rookie season and who couldn’t figure out how to make Caleb Williams, Keenan Allen, DJ Moore, and Rome Odunze work.
Good luck, Jakobi. In a better matchup, I could envision a return to the level of production he showed in the first two weeks of 2025. But against this Texans defense, and with my prejudices against Waldron, I’m out in Week 10.
Tre Tucker, WR, Las Vegas Raiders
Meyers’ trade out of Las Vegas moves Tre Tucker up to the top of the Raiders’ depth chart. Meyers had been underperforming since starting the season with 14 receptions for 165 yards on 22 targets in Weeks 1 and 2. The 5.4 targets he averaged in the games since then will have to go somewhere, though, and outside of tight end Brock Bowers, Tucker is likeliest to be the main beneficiary.
A matchup against the Denver Broncos does not inspire much confidence that Tucker will enjoy a big week in his new role. The Broncos are tied for the league’s fewest passing yards per play allowed and have the second-tightest target separation on average. The Broncos also own the league’s highest quarterback pressure and sack rates, which will reduce the number of times Geno Smith can find Tucker downfield.
On top of the difficult matchup, the scheduling of the game makes me shy away from Tucker. Since the Raiders and Broncos are meeting on Thursday night to kick off Week 10, fantasy football managers will be in a jam out of the gate if Tucker doesn’t come through against already long odds. I’ll keep my options open for Sunday’s slate instead.
Luke Musgrave, TE, Green Bay Packers
Poor Kraft (knee). The third-year tight end had a 40-469-6 line and four top-12 finishes in the Packers’ seven games through Week 8. Then, in Week 9, after adding two catches and 20 more yards, he suffered a torn ACL and is now out for the season. Enter Musgrave. The good news is that after replacing Kraft last week, Musgrave had his most productive game of the season. The bad news is that it amounted to three catches for 34 yards.
Part of Kraft’s skill set was an elusiveness that allowed him to rack up yards after the catch to the point where he was the league leader. Musgrave is not in that mold and should be handled more like a touchdown-dependent TE2. Green Bay is squaring off against the Eagles on Monday Night Football, and Philadelphia is one of three teams to have allowed only a single touchdown to opposing tight ends in 2025.
Jordan Love’s propensity to spread the ball around only makes it harder to trust Musgrave. Romeo Doubs led the team with 10 targets in Week 9, but there were eight other receivers who had between two and five targets. Musgrave might be the new TE1 in Green Bay, but that doesn’t mean he is going to be doing what Kraft was.
Luke Musgrave Set to be the Packers New TE1 https://t.co/wmufE2v7JL
— RotoBaller NFL (@RotoBallerNFL) November 5, 2025
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