Welcome to this week’s Drop Zone! Where I highlight a few players that I’m comfortable dropping this week for waiver pickups.
It is now time for the fantasy playoffs! If you’ve made it in, I’m so proud of you. If you’re fighting to avoid last place, I’m wishing you nothing but the best! For waiver claims and drops moving forward this late in the season, you should be asking yourself if you’re at all comfortable starting that player in a must-win game. That’s what I considered for myself for the players listed below, and all answers were “no thank you!”
You may notice that I list only wide receivers, and there’s a reason behind that. I firmly believe that you should be loaded up with RBs on your bench as they have a clearer path to usage if a player above them goes down and provide more upside to win.
This can be used as a helpful way to decide on some players you can drop to waivers for the hot new items on the market. Maybe you’re on the fence about a bench player and seeing his name on this list will help you make that final decision!
I will only mention players with over 35% roster percentage because you can’t drop who you don’t have.
Let’s do this!
Julio Jones – 76.5% Roster Percentage
I have no faith in Julio Jones for the rest of this 2021 season as a starter. In the FOUR games he’s played in the last TEN weeks, he’s scored a max of 8.9 fantasy points. It’s also a good reminder that AJ Brown has not been playing so there isn’t any sole receiver in Tennessee that is hogging all the receiving work, Jones just isn’t performing well. You’ll constantly be chasing his week 2 performance and usage (in which he had 18.8 points) which I don’t think will return. Let someone else use a roster spot on him since I think he’s only rostered for his name.
Courtland Sutton – 74.3% Roster Percentage
Sutton was on this list last week and tried to prove me wrong with a 1.9 point performance. Drop him, he is not helping you win anything.
Allen Robinson – 65.7%
He’s still rostered? After a wildly underperforming first half of the season, Robinson hasn’t played a game since week 9 and still seems to be on over 65% of rosters. Last week he had just two catches for 14 yards, a wild 3.4 fantasy point game in PPR. If you somehow made the fantasy playoffs with Allen Robinson on your team, I’m impressed but it’s time to dump him.
Kenny Golladay – 58.8%
There have been what seems like just two healthy WRs for the Giants on any given week and if Golladay is one of them he does nothing. He could be the only healthy WR on this team for a week and still see just three catches for 42 yards. Golladay has yet to record a TD this season and likely won’t in the coming weeks. For fantasy purposes, he’s not going to have some monster 30+ point game one week and even if he does you’ll have to make your way through a few 4-point games to get there. It’s not worth it.
