DJ Moore
14.67 proj
Questionable, shoulder. Your highest-projected receiver and he is on your bench.
You are down 21 to nothing and you are still the favorite - not one of your seven starters has taken the field yet, and the real decision of the week is whether DJ Moore of the Buffalo Bills is healthy enough to replace Keon Coleman on Sunday afternoon.
LordHaveMRSA
0.00
vargy
21.00
Nothing decided. Zero of your 7 starters have played; vargy has 2 of 7 done. Projections have you winning roughly 111 to 94.
Cooper Kupp
10.00 pts
Five catches, 50 yards on ten targets - from your bench, in a 17-14 overtime slog.
Kimani Vidal
Free agent
The one waiver name worth your money with $39 of FAAB left.
1. The scoreboard
LordHaveMRSA 0.00 - vargy 21.00 - wide open
This looks ugly and it is not. vargy started two Denver Broncos in Thursday night's game and banked 21.00 points before you got a single snap. You have all seven starters still to play; he has five. Consensus projections put your lineup at roughly 111 points and his at roughly 94, which makes you about a 17-point favorite from a 21-point hole. The hole is noise, not news.
Where the season sits: 2-3, eighth of twelve
You have scored 507.20 points - seventh in the league - and allowed 564.62, the second-most in the league behind only WhoottieBoys. You are not a bad team having a bad year; you are a middling team with a brutal schedule. UndisputedGiant (4-1, 662.46), Free Jacobs (4-1) and Heisenberg (4-1) are the top tier. vargy is 2-3 with the league's second-fewest points allowed, so he is beatable but his lineup rarely gets blown out. Playoffs are six teams and start in Week 15; you are two games out of the last spot with nine to play. This is a must-win more than a merely nice-to-win.
2. Your starters since the last report
| Slot | Player | Kickoff and projection |
|---|---|---|
| QB | Drake Maye (New England Patriots) | Sun 1:00 PM vs New York Jets - 20.65 proj |
| RB | Kyren Williams (Los Angeles Rams) | Sun 4:05 PM vs Arizona Cardinals - 21.12 proj |
| RB | Cam Skattebo (New York Giants) | Sun 1:00 PM vs New Orleans Saints - 13.18 proj |
| WR | Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills) | Sun 4:25 PM at Las Vegas Raiders - 7.47 proj |
| WR | Puka Nacua (Los Angeles Rams) | Sun 4:05 PM vs Arizona Cardinals - 22.71 proj |
| TE | Trey McBride (Arizona Cardinals) | Sun 4:05 PM at Los Angeles Rams - 16.60 proj |
| FLEX | Xavier Worthy (Kansas City Chiefs) | Sun 4:25 PM vs Los Angeles Chargers - 9.57 proj |
None of them. Not one. Thursday night was Seattle Seahawks at Denver Broncos, and you do not start a single player from either team. Everything you own that is playing this week goes Sunday or Monday, so your scoring column stays at zero for another two days. Here is exactly when each one goes, all times US Eastern.
Looking back - what the last few reports should have made more of
Two things from Week 5, which you won 140.16 to 114.10 over UndisputedGiant.
Drake Maye (New England Patriots) put up 39.46 points and Puka Nacua (Los Angeles Rams) put up 37.70. That is 77 of your 140 from two players. Weeks like that are not a plan, and the three starters underneath them - Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills) 7.70, Cam Skattebo (New York Giants) 7.10, Chris Godwin (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) 7.00 - are the actual shape of this roster. You won by 26 and still only put up 140.
Xavier Worthy (Kansas City Chiefs) scored 0.00 in Week 5 because he did not play - a shoulder and ankle issue. He is cleared now and he is in your FLEX slot, which is the right call, but understand you are starting a receiver coming off a missed week on a 9.57 projection. That is the thinnest spot in your lineup after Keon Coleman.
3. Bench versus starters
Cooper Kupp (Seattle Seahawks) - 10.00 points from your bench
Five catches for 50 yards on ten targets, no touchdown. He beat his 6.65 projection and he is, for the moment, your leading scorer this week - from the bench. But nobody in your starting lineup has played, so technically no starter got out-scored, and this was not a sit you should kick yourself over: Seattle's offense was a disaster. Sam Darnold went 27-of-51 for 278 yards with zero touchdowns, two interceptions and five sacks taken, and Jaxon Smith-Njigba soaked up 16 of those 51 targets for 12 catches and 134 yards. Kupp caught five of ten. Ten targets is real volume and worth remembering, but ten targets producing 50 yards is not a performance you start him for next week on its own.
The lineup change that actually matters is at wide receiver
Forget Kupp. Your bench holds DJ Moore (Buffalo Bills) at a 14.67 projection while Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills) starts at 7.47 - the same NFL team, nearly double the projection, and the wrong one is in your lineup. That is the whole decision this week and it turns entirely on Moore's shoulder. Details in the injury section below. Your other bench receivers do not threaten a starter: Tre Tucker (Las Vegas Raiders) 9.07, Chris Godwin (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) 9.42, DeMario Douglas (New England Patriots) 4.25. Najee Harris (New York Giants) at 6.81 is nowhere near Cam Skattebo's 13.18, and Geno Smith (New York Jets) at 13.19 is not displacing Drake Maye's 20.65.
4. Injuries on your roster
DJ Moore (Buffalo Bills) - Questionable, shoulder - decide by 4:25 PM Sunday
He has a shoulder injury, has been practicing in a non-contact jersey, was limited through the week, and he was inactive in Week 5 - he scored 0.00 for you. He is listed Questionable for Buffalo at the Las Vegas Raiders, Sunday 4:25 PM. If he is active, start him over Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills): 14.67 projected against 7.47 is not a close call, and Coleman has cleared 8 points exactly twice all season. If Moore is inactive or you cannot confirm it before kickoff, leave Coleman in - do not gamble a zero in a must-win. Both play in the same 4:25 PM window, so there is no hedging after the fact. Check the inactives list at roughly 2:55 PM Sunday.
Xavier Worthy (Kansas City Chiefs) - cleared, but confirm he is active
Shoulder and ankle through late September; he missed Week 5 entirely and scored you nothing. He carries no injury designation now and is in your FLEX at 9.57 projected for Kansas City against the Los Angeles Chargers, Sunday 4:25 PM. That is a fine start if he plays. Your only alternative at FLEX is Tre Tucker (Las Vegas Raiders) at 9.07 - effectively identical, so there is no upgrade to make here, just a confirmation to do.
Chris Godwin (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) - conflicting reports, bench either way
Sleeper lists no designation on him; outside injury coverage has him on a fibula problem. He played Week 5 and scored 7.00. He is on your bench at a 9.42 projection and he is not in line to start, so the discrepancy does not cost you anything this week - but do not count on him as your injury fallback if Moore and Worthy both go down.
Nobody on a bye
Week 6 byes are the Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins and Minnesota Vikings. You own nobody on any of them, and neither does vargy. No bye-week landmines on either side.
5. Waivers - $39 left, position 7
| Player | Why | Bid |
|---|---|---|
| Kimani Vidal (Los Angeles Chargers), Running Back | Your running back room is Kyren Williams, Cam Skattebo and Najee Harris, and that is thin for nine more weeks. Vidal is the handcuff to Omarion Hampton - the backup on the same NFL team who takes over if the starter gets hurt - and he is a free agent here despite being added in over 400,000 leagues this week. 6.74 projected, which is not the point; the point is the week Hampton misses. | $5 of $39 |
| Rashid Shaheed (Seattle Seahawks), Wide Receiver | Five catches, 66 yards on eight targets Thursday, and unowned in this league. Eight targets in a Seattle offense that threw 51 times is real, and he is the field-stretcher behind Jaxon Smith-Njigba. Speculative, not a starter. | $1-2, or free add |
| Tanner McKee (Philadelphia Eagles), Quarterback | Leads the league in adds at over 1.2 million and is sitting unowned here. 11.13 projected. Skip him - you start Drake Maye at 20.65 and have Geno Smith at 13.19 behind him. There is no version of this roster where a third quarterback helps. | $0 - pass |
Straight talk first: nobody had a monster game Thursday night. Seattle at Denver finished 17-14 in overtime with zero receiving touchdowns in the entire game, and the one big line - Jaxon Smith-Njigba of the Seattle Seahawks, 12 catches for 134 yards on 16 targets - belongs to a roster in this league already. So the usual 'pick up last night's hero' line does not exist today. Here is what is actually available and worth your remaining FAAB, the $100 season-long budget used to bid on waiver pickups. You have spent $61 of it and have $39 left, with the seventh waiver priority.
Thursday night box score, for the record
Denver Broncos 17, Seattle Seahawks 14 (overtime). Seattle came in favored by 3 with a total of 40.5 and lost outright to an under.
Denver: Bo Nix 17-of-27 for 107 yards, no touchdowns, no interceptions - 107 passing yards and they won. J.K. Dobbins 17 carries, 41 yards, one touchdown, a 2.4-yard average. RJ Harvey 6 carries for 25 yards and a touchdown plus 3 catches for 31 yards - 14.60 points against a 10.09 projection, and the single reason vargy is ahead of you. Jaylen Waddle 4 catches, 24 yards on 7 targets - 6.40 points against an 11.34 projection, a miss.
Seattle: Sam Darnold 27-of-51, 278 yards, no touchdowns, two interceptions, five sacks. Jaxon Smith-Njigba 12 catches, 134 yards, 16 targets. Rashid Shaheed 5 catches, 66 yards. Cooper Kupp 5 catches, 50 yards on 10 targets. Emanuel Wilson 14 carries for 52 yards; George Holani 5 carries, 20 yards and the only Seattle touchdown on the ground.
Net effect on your matchup: vargy's two Denver pieces projected for a combined 21.43 and delivered 21.00. He got exactly what was on the tin, which means he has no banked surplus to lean on and his remaining five starters project for about 73.
Your one job today
Track DJ Moore's practice report Friday and Saturday
Everything else in your lineup is already correct. If Moore of the Buffalo Bills practices in full or is upgraded off Questionable, he starts Sunday over Keon Coleman and your projection goes from roughly 111 to roughly 118. If he is ruled out, you do nothing. Put a $5 claim in on Kimani Vidal of the Los Angeles Chargers for running back insurance, leave Tanner McKee alone, and that is your week.