Well, it’s time. It’s time to drop that player you drafted thinking he’d be the guy. It’s been two weeks and you need a solid bench player that is actually seeing opportunities in games.
Shake off the dead weight and make the most of your bench. Do you drop them or do you hold on to them? Is their usage dropping as the weeks go on? Every week I’ll be highlighting some players who are either losing opportunity on offense or underperforming based on their roster percentage, then giving my opinion on if they’re droppable or not.
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!
Ronald Jones – 63.4% Roster Percentage
Drop him. Not only is this team not running the ball, but they’re not running it with Ronald Jones. He’s an afterthought in this offense and will continue to be all season. He’s not worth a roster spot. Jones has yet to score 5 fantasy points this season and has only touched the ball 16 times in the last three games, doing nothing with it.
Houston Texans RBs (David Johnson – 54.7%, Mark Ingram – 49%, Phillip Lindsay – 41%)
This offense is going to be playing from behind in 90% of their games and the running portion of their offense is going to be nonexistent. This past week when playing from behind against Carolina, these RBs carried the ball 16 times. Seven carries went to Phillip Lindsay, seven went to Mark Ingram and two went to David Johnson. There is not going to be value in this backfield when they split the carries between these backs so differently each week. I want out of the Houston backfield and I want them off my teams.
K.J. Osborn – 40.3%
I get it, he had some great games in the first two weeks. 14.6 points in Week 1 and then 20.1 in Week 2, but then reality seemed to hit and he became the fifth passing option in Minnesota with just two targets this past week. I’d understand holding on to him to see how he pans out in the next week or two, hoping that Week 3 was the fluke. Personally, I think he just had a great two-week run and he’s going to fall down the target ladder in Minnesota.
