Week 6: Last Minute Moves

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Welcome to Week 6 of last-minute moves to make. This article is intended to give you late-week waiver and free-agent advice based on late-week news and gameday inactives. Injuries and other late-week developments can have a huge impact on lines and rosters, and being up-to-date on these, especially before waivers and free agency locks before kickoff, is a huge advantage.

Stash Darrynton Evans

The Chicago Bears’s backfield is a complete MASH Unit. Khalil Herbert has been placed on injured reserve with an ankle injury. Roschon Johnson did not practice this week because of a concussion suffered on Thursday Night Football in week 5. Travis Homer is also out with a leg injury. The Bears will turn to D’Onta Foreman as a starter and the team has signed Darrynton Evans to serve as a reserve. Evans was a third-round pick in the NFL Draft by Tennessee but has bounced around in his career. He is an injury away from a potential spot start in the coming week or two and warrants a back-of-roster stash for the week.

Stash P.J. Walker

There is weirdness in Cleveland. Head coach Kevin Stefanski had last week that Deshaun Watson was cleared to play, before he missed week 4 and is out for week 6 after a week 5 bye. Watson is dealing with a bruise in his shoulder that is complicating his throwing ability. He will be replaced by P.J. Walker this week, who had a couple of strong spot starts last year in Carolina. Week six will be a terrible matchup against San Francisco, but week 7 will be a much better matchup against Indianapolis’s defense especially in a week with six byes.

Stash Jeff Wilson

DeVon Achane has been placed on injured reserve and is out for four weeks. This will create an opportunity behind Raheem Mostert in the Miami backfield. Wilson has struggled with durability in his career, but he is the type of running back capable of producing starter quality in the short sample size he would be expected to play with Achane on injured reserve.