Cam Skattebo
0 snaps, 2 weeks
Fifth on the Giants depth chart. He is in your starting lineup Thursday.
No games have been played since Monday night, so this is a planning report - and there is one thing on it that cannot wait. Cam Skattebo (New York Giants) is sitting in your second running back slot for a Thursday night game, and he has not played a single offensive snap in two weeks.
LordHaveMRSA (4-5)
99.4 proj
markc1281 (3-6)
110.1 proj
Week 10 has not kicked off. First ball Thursday, November 12, 8:15 PM ET.
Puka Nacua
Doubtful - knee
A 35.00-point monster last week, now a sprained MCL.
Pierre Strong Jr.
Top waiver add
Lead back while Josh Jacobs is out. Bid $8 of your remaining $24.
1. The scoreboard
Week 10 is still on the shelf. You beat honeybadgerr1 97.06 to 84.30 in Week 9 behind a 35.00-point explosion from Puka Nacua (Los Angeles Rams) on nineteen targets, which lifts you to 4-5 and sixth place - the last playoff spot in a six-team field. The league's projections have you losing this one 110.1 to 99.4 to markc1281, who is 3-6 and desperate.
Read the standings honestly: you have scored 916.28 points, third-most in the league, and allowed 937.68, second-most. You are not a bad team having a bad year, you are a good team that keeps drawing the other guy's best week. That does not get you into the playoffs on its own. Six games remain, the trade deadline is Week 13, and the three teams directly behind you - Gridiron Guru 23, vargy and Heisenberg - are all 4-5 too. There is no cushion.
2. Your starters - the calls before kickoff
| Slot | Player | Status |
|---|---|---|
| QB | Drake Maye (New England Patriots) | Start. At Detroit Lions, Sun 9:30 AM ET. |
| RB | Kyren Williams (Los Angeles Rams) | Start. At Arizona Cardinals, Sun 4:05 PM ET. |
| RB | Cam Skattebo (New York Giants) | REPLACE. Zero snaps in two weeks, fifth string. |
| WR | Tre Tucker (Las Vegas Raiders) | Start. Eight targets in Week 9. Vs Seattle Seahawks, Sun 4:05 PM ET. |
| WR | Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills) | Start only if Xavier Worthy stays limited. |
| TE | Trey McBride (Arizona Cardinals) | Start. Vs Los Angeles Rams, Sun 4:05 PM ET. |
| FLEX | DJ Moore (Buffalo Bills) | Start. At New York Jets, Sun 1:00 PM ET. |
Cam Skattebo (New York Giants) - pull him now
This is the whole report. Skattebo has played zero offensive snaps in each of the last two games and sits fifth on the New York Giants running back depth chart behind Devin Singletary, who took twenty-one carries on sixty-two snaps in Week 9. Sleeper's own projection says 12.72 points for him this week. That number is stale and it is wrong. The Giants play Thursday night, so this slot locks in roughly thirty-two hours and whatever is in it is what you get. Leaving Skattebo there is volunteering a zero in a must-win game.
Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills) - the other soft spot
Coleman has produced 1.4 and 4.7 points the last two weeks on three and six targets. He is on the field - forty-nine of eighty offensive snaps - he is just not being thrown to. If Xavier Worthy (Kansas City Chiefs) clears his hamstring, Worthy is the better start.
Drake Maye (New England Patriots) - no decision here
22.5 and 21.3 the last two weeks, and he draws the Detroit Lions on Sunday at 9:30 AM ET in the early international window. Set the alarm; he is your floor and your ceiling at quarterback.
Trey McBride (Arizona Cardinals) and Kyren Williams (Los Angeles Rams) - lock and lock
McBride has eight targets in each of the last two weeks and gets the Rams at home Sunday at 4:05 PM ET. Williams took fifteen carries in Week 9, though Blake Corum took eleven and outscored him - worth watching, not worth benching over.
3. Bench versus starter - the swaps
Xavier Worthy (Kansas City Chiefs) over Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills)
Worthy outscored Coleman 10.8 to 4.7 in Week 9 from your bench, on the same six targets, and the Chiefs visit the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET. He is listed questionable with a hamstring, which is why he carries no projection at all right now. Check the Friday practice report. If he practices in full, he starts over Coleman. If he is limited again, leave Coleman in and move on.
Nobody on your bench can fix the running back hole
J.K. Dobbins (Denver Broncos) is on a bye this week and has played eleven and thirteen snaps the two weeks before that - he is not the answer even when Denver returns. Puka Nacua (Los Angeles Rams) is doubtful. Pat Bryant (Denver Broncos) and Chris Godwin Jr. (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) are both on byes. Your entire bench this week is two byes, two injuries, a second quarterback you cannot use, and Reggie Virgil (Arizona Cardinals), who played eighteen snaps. The fix has to come off the waiver wire.
Geno Smith (New York Jets) is a wasted roster spot
This is a one-quarterback league. A backup quarterback on your bench is a seat you are paying for and will never sit in. He is the drop when you make your waiver claim.
4. Injuries and byes on your roster
Puka Nacua (Los Angeles Rams) - doubtful, sprained MCL
The MCL is a ligament on the inside of the knee; a sprain is usually a two-to-four-week absence, and Sleeper already has him flagged inactive. He put up 35.00 and 25.00 the last two weeks on nineteen and twelve targets, so this is the single biggest hit your lineup has taken all season. You have already correctly benched him. Do not go chasing his replacement in Los Angeles - Tutu Atwell drew five targets for 3.6 points and Konata Mumpfield drew two. Neither is startable.
Xavier Worthy (Kansas City Chiefs) - questionable, hamstring
Hamstrings linger and they re-tear. He has no Week 10 projection posted, which usually means the data feed is treating him as a game-time decision. Have Keon Coleman ready as the fallback.
Byes: Denver Broncos and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
J.K. Dobbins and Pat Bryant (both Denver Broncos) and Chris Godwin Jr. (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) are all idle this week. All three are already on your bench, so the byes cost you nothing in the lineup - they just mean three of your fourteen roster spots do nothing on Sunday. The other two teams on bye are the Chicago Bears and the Philadelphia Eagles, which matters mostly for who your opponent can claim.
5. Waiver wire - players you do not own
| Player | Why | Bid |
|---|---|---|
| Pierre Strong Jr. (Green Bay Packers) | Top of the Packers depth chart with Josh Jacobs ruled out. Thirty snaps and eight carries in Week 9 and he splits with Kaleb Johnson, who is owned. Hosts the Minnesota Vikings Sunday 1:00 PM ET. This is your Week 10 starter at the second running back slot. | $8 |
| Austin Ekeler (Washington Commanders) | The safety net, and the only one of these who plays Thursday night - he is the clear second back behind Rachaad White with eight carries and three targets in each of the last two weeks. In full PPR those targets are worth real points. Claim him if you lose on Strong. | $4 |
| DeMario Douglas (New England Patriots) | You dropped him and he has gone 16.6 and 15.2 since, on nine targets last week, catching passes from your own quarterback. With Nacua out your receiver room is Tre Tucker, DJ Moore and a coin flip. This one stings; fix it. | $5 |
| Samaje Perine (Cincinnati Bengals) | The $1 fallback if the first three go elsewhere. Eleven carries in Week 9 behind Chase Brown, Sunday night at home against the Pittsburgh Steelers. | $1 |
You have $24 left of your $100 FAAB budget - that is the season-long fake money used to bid on free agents - and you are eighth in the waiver order. Spend it. Holding $24 into December while starting a fifth-string running back is how a 4-5 team becomes a 4-6 team.
The biggest raw score among unowned players last week was Kayshon Boutte (Houston Texans) at 28.5 points. Ignore it. He played twenty-three of seventy snaps on five targets - that was two touchdowns and nothing underneath them. It will not repeat.
Who to drop to make room
Geno Smith (New York Jets) is the first cut - a second quarterback in a one-quarterback league is dead weight. Reggie Virgil (Arizona Cardinals) is the second; he has played eighteen and thirty-eight snaps and scored 3.5 and 0.0 points. That is two roster spots for two waiver claims without touching anyone who can actually help you.
If you win both the Strong and Douglas claims, that is $13 of your $24, leaving $11 for the stretch run. That is the right shape. The alternative - standing pat - projects you to lose by eleven points with a zero in your lineup.