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Waiver Wire Express - Week 5 Lightning Round

In efforts of bringing you timely information, as fast as possible, consider this the waiver wire lightning round heading into Week 5.

This column is published early every week and then updated on a daily basis. Over the course of each week, we also publish more in-depth waiver wire analysis for all positions.

Waiver pickups are in order of priority, broken down by each position. Players must be owned in roughly less than 60% of Yahoo leagues, and range from shallow options in standard leagues to deeper options in PPR leagues.

Editor's Note: Our incredible team of writers won two writing awards and received 12 award nominations by the Fantasy Sports Writers Association. A big congrats to our very own Byron Lindeque (Golf) and Jordan McAbee (NASCAR) for both winning Writer Of The Year awards! Be sure to follow RotoBaller's analysis and advice all year long, and win more. Win More With RotoBaller!

 

Running Backs (Priority Order):
Latavius Murray
Eddie Lacy
Wendell Smallwood
Alex Collins
Wayne Gallman
Jamaal Charles
Thomas Rawls
Chris Johnson
D'Onta Foreman
Alvin Kamara
Andre Ellington
Aaron Jones
Rex Burkhead
Elijah McGuire
Mike Tolbert
Orleans Darkwa

 

Wide Receivers (Priority Order):
Will Fuller
Danny Amendola
Devin Funchess
Sterling Shepard
Marqise Lee
Allen Hurns
Mike Wallace
Nelson Agholor
Cooper Kupp
Paul Richardson
Geronimo Allison
John Brown
Tyler Lockett
Kenny Stills
Jermaine Kearse
Corey Davis
Josh Doctson
Kendall Wright
JuJu Smith-Schuster
Kenny Britt
Robby Anderson
Josh Gordon
Jaron Brown
Bruce Ellington
Trent Taylor
Justin Hardy
Ricardo Louis

 

Tight Ends (Priority Order):
Evan Engram
Cameron Brate
Austin Hooper
Jared Cook
Benjamin Watson
Jesse James
Ed Dickson
Vernon Davis
Austin Seferian-Jenkins
Ryan Griffin

 

Quarterbacks (Priority Order):
Eli Manning
DeShaun Watson
Tyrod Taylor
Jared Goff
Brian Hoyer

 




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