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FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

It's Time to Cut These 10 Players: Busts for Week 5 and Beyond

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.810.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

As Week 5 ticks closer, the questions surrounding your roster increase, and Tera Roberts is here to tell you which players are going to sorely disappoint. If you're on edge about which players might be busts this week, here's who made our cut list of 10 players you should part ways with before Week 5.

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0:00.0

What's up everyone, Tara Roberts here with Fantasy Pros and we are talking players to cut

0:05.0

in week 5.

0:06.4

Now let's go ahead and dive right in with players to cut in deep leagues of 12 teams

0:10.2

or more.

0:11.2

First up, Traylon Berks.

0:13.3

I hate to start off a video with a promising young rookie and I hate it because he was making

0:18.4

progress in terms of Snap Count so it's possible that brighter days were ahead, but with Traylon

0:24.0

Berks now dealing with Turkto, then injury that will require him to miss time.

0:29.2

Having Berks on your roster just doesn't make sense.

0:32.6

If your league has IR spots and you can stash him, absolutely do that.

0:37.4

But if not, Berks will just burn a whole in your roster for weeks and likely still won't

0:42.7

be someone that you can trust when he does return to action.

0:46.3

Berks has averaged 2.5 receptions per game with no touchdowns.

0:51.2

And while it's sometimes justified to hold on to a talented rookie looking for that second

0:55.8

half break out, that will be extremely difficult to do.

0:59.2

As we start to hit bi-weeks and you need active and usable fantasy assets, drop him now

1:06.4

and pick him up in a few weeks when he's healthy.

1:09.4

Justin Fields.

1:11.0

Many people coming into the 2022 season drafted Justin Fields and hope that he would have

1:15.6

that special combination of rushing upside with just enough past volume to make him a

1:20.6

late round steal.

1:22.4

Four weeks in and an average of 8.5 completions per game, Justin Fields is QB32 on the season.

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