Chris Godwin Jr.
7.00 points
Three targets. Three catches, 37 yards, one carry for three. Caught everything thrown at him and it still barely moved the needle.
One starter apiece has played and you lead 7.00 to 2.90, which flatters you: UndisputedGiant is 4-0, the highest-scoring team in the league, and still has Josh Allen, Christian McCaffrey and Davante Adams in the chamber. Everything you can still act on is below, and the lineup is already correct.
LordHaveMRSA (1-3)
7.00
UndisputedGiant (4-0)
2.90
One starter each in the books from Thursday night. Six of your seven still to play - two at 1:00 PM, one at 4:25 PM, three on Monday night. Nothing is decided.
Trey McBride
Best matchup on your board
Leads every tight end in the league in targets by eleven and sits fourth among tight ends in receiving yards. Detroit cannot cover him.
Keon Coleman
6-116-1 last week
Career day in Week 4 on six of seven targets. With DJ Moore's shoulder hurt again, he is Buffalo's clear number one receiver.
Thursday night in the books
Chris Godwin Jr. (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) - 7.00 points
Three catches on three targets for 37 yards, plus one carry for three yards, in Tampa Bay's 24-16 win over the Dallas Cowboys. He was not inefficient - he caught every ball - he was invisible. Three targets is a fourth-receiver workload. Emeka Egbuka (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) saw nine targets, rookie Tez Johnson (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) turned his one into a 64-yard catch, and Bucky Irving (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) ran for 165 yards and two scores. Godwin has not been targeted more than four times in a game all season and was only third among Buccaneers receivers in snap share - the percentage of his team's offensive plays he was on the field for - back in Week 3 at 62 percent. Now Baker Mayfield has a dislocated right thumb and undrafted rookie Jalon Daniels (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) is running the offense. This is a dead roster spot, not a slump.
The one break you got: CeeDee Lamb (Dallas Cowboys) - 2.90 points
Your opponent's starting wide receiver was worse than yours. Lamb, who carried a questionable tag into the game, caught two of five targets for nine yards while George Pickens (Dallas Cowboys) went 9-130-1 on thirteen targets beside him. A 2.90 from a first-round wide receiver is the kind of gift you cannot count on twice, so bank it.
Your lineup and when it plays - no changes needed
| Slot | Player | Kickoff (ET) | The call |
|---|---|---|---|
| QB | Drake Maye (New England Patriots) | Sun 1:00 PM | Start. Named AFC Offensive Player of the Week for his Week 4 game. Home against a Las Vegas Raiders defense that just gave up a 300-plus-yard passing day. No decision here. |
| RB | Kyren Williams (Los Angeles Rams) | Mon 8:15 PM | Start. Off the injury report. Home against Buffalo in a game expected to be high-scoring in both directions, which is what you want from a back who catches passes. |
| RB | Cam Skattebo (New York Giants) | Sun 1:00 PM | Start. Shoulder flared up midweek - limited Wednesday and Thursday - but he practiced fully Friday and carries no injury designation. He is playing at Washington. |
| WR | Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills) | Mon 8:15 PM | Start. 6 catches, 116 yards, a touchdown last week on seven targets, and DJ Moore's shoulder injury leaves him as the alpha. Highest ceiling on your roster Monday night. |
| WR | Puka Nacua (Los Angeles Rams) | Mon 8:15 PM | Start. Groin issue gone - he is off the injury report entirely for the first time in weeks. Never a question. |
| TE | Trey McBride (Arizona Cardinals) | Sun 4:25 PM | Start. Your single best asset in your single best matchup. Arizona hosts Detroit in a game tied for the highest projected point total on the slate, and both teams want to throw. |
| FLEX | Chris Godwin Jr. (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) | Played Thursday | Locked at 7.00. In hindsight this slot should have gone to Cooper Kupp (Seattle Seahawks) or Tre Tucker (Las Vegas Raiders) - but Thursday has come and gone, so it is a lesson for Week 6, not a fix for today. |
To be clear about what is and is not still live: there is no start/sit decision left that improves this lineup. Every one of your six remaining starters is the right man for his slot, and the only slot you could have optimized is already spent. Leave it alone and watch.
Bench, byes and injuries on your roster
DJ Moore (Buffalo Bills) - questionable, shoulder
He reinjured the shoulder and is officially questionable for Monday night. He is on your bench, so this costs you nothing - and it actively helps you, because every target Moore does not get is a target Keon Coleman might. Do nothing.
Xavier Worthy (Kansas City Chiefs) - bye week
Kansas City and the Carolina Panthers are the two teams off this week. Worthy is benched anyway, so there is no action to take. Worth noting your opponent has two Panthers on his bench in the same spot.
Everyone else is clean
Tre Tucker (Las Vegas Raiders), Tyrone Tracy (New York Giants), Geno Smith (New York Jets), Cooper Kupp (Seattle Seahawks) and Brian Robinson (Atlanta Falcons) all carry no designation. If Cam Skattebo's shoulder goes sideways in the first half today, Tyrone Tracy is the direct replacement on the same NFL team - but you cannot make that swap after 1:00 PM, so it is a Week 6 note.
Waivers - what to claim and what it should cost
| Player | Why | Bid |
|---|---|---|
| Efton Chism III Wide Receiver, New England Patriots | The actual answer to your Chris Godwin problem. He caught the touchdown that beat Buffalo in Week 4 and head coach Mike Vrabel has since hinted at a bigger role. He is unowned in your league, he plays at 1:00 PM today, and you already start Drake Maye - stacking your own quarterback with his emerging receiver doubles down on points you are already collecting. | $7 of your $53 left |
| Dameon Pierce Running Back, Philadelphia Eagles | Saquon Barkley is out with a hamstring and Tank Bigsby is on injured reserve. Will Shipley is the lead back and is already owned in your league, but Pierce was elevated into that backfield and is free. Pure insurance on a hamstring that tends to linger. | $2 |
| Roschon Johnson Running Back, Chicago Bears | The most-added player in fantasy football over the last two days by a wide margin - Kyle Monangai's thumb has him missing practices and D'Andre Swift is limited. But he is a stash, not a starter, and you are last in the league in points scored. You need somebody who can score this month, not a lottery ticket. Let someone else pay up. | Pass |
You have spent $47 of your $100 season FAAB budget - the pool used to bid on waiver pickups - leaving $53, and you sit last in the waiver order, so ties go against you. Bid the number, not a dollar under it. Chris Godwin is the obvious drop: a receiver who cannot crack four targets a game with an undrafted rookie at quarterback has no path back to being startable.
The honest problem
You are 1-3 with 366.86 points - the fewest of any team in this league that has won a game at all, and eleventh of twelve overall. UndisputedGiant, today's opponent, has 548.36. That is a 181-point gap in four weeks and it is not luck.
Here is the part that should sting. Your maximum possible score across those four weeks - the best lineup you could have set each week with the players you already owned - was 450.16. You scored 366.86. You have left 83.30 points on your own bench, better than twenty a week, and twenty points a week would have flipped at least one of your three losses. The roster is not the problem. The Sunday-morning lineup card is.
Three of your seven starters do not kick off until Monday night in Los Angeles, and your opponent has Josh Allen and Davante Adams in that same game. This matchup gets decided at SoFi Stadium, not this afternoon. You need Trey McBride to post a big number today to keep it close enough that Monday still matters.