Week 5 RANKINGS: Bye weeks are here
In a blink of an eye, the fantasy football season is four games into the 2024 NFL season. It is tough to believe but teams are starting their byes this week. Not only are our fantasy squads down players due to injuries but now it is time to start worrying about filling these players on their vacation week. Luckily there are a slew of matchups that project to provide fantasy managers with a bunch of scoring. Buffalo versus Houston, Green Bay versus LA, Baltimore versus Cincy, Zona versus the Niners, even Jacksonville versus Indy all have over 45 point over/unders. Let’s take a peek into my rankings for this week. They are live right now so go click on weekly rankings under the rankings tab on the South Harmon website to see ALL OF MY WEEK 5 RANKS.
Bye Week Fillers
A number of key members of fantasy teams are M.I.A. this week due to byes. Teams are scrambling to find replacements for players like Amon-Ra St. Brown, Saquon Barkley, Tony Pollard, and way more. Quick, go check to see if players like Josh Downs, Trey Sermon, Dontayvion Wicks, or Antonio Gibson are available. Sermon and Gibson are ranked inside my top 35 at running back. Downs and Wicks have settled comfortably inside the WR 3/Flex conversation. Both guys can be used this week to fill in some of the fantasy football gaps left by the first wave of byes.
Trust These Players
Kenneth Walker III, Justin Fields, Travis Kelce, and D’Andre Swift are a few players that posted good numbers in Week 4 but can they be trusted in Week 5? Here is a snapshot of where I have some of the kings from Week 4:
Kenneth Walker III - RB 7
D’Andre Swift - RB 14
Travis Kelce - TE 2
Justin Fields - QB 12
Jordan Addison - WR 27
Josh Downs - WR 31
Crash and Burn
It’s always important to make the correct lineup decisions to get wins in fantasy football but those decisions become even more difficult when the byes are happening. Rhamondre Stevenson has already put the ball on the ground four times this season and the Patriots are contemplating starting Antonio Gibson because of it. There has been a large gap between the two backs but this week that gap has narrowed. Mondre comes in at RB 26 while Gibson is only a handful of spots behind. Kyle Pitts can no longer be looked at as a top 10 option at tight end. After a BIG goose egg in Week 4, he came in at TE 14 heading into TNF. He’s big and was brought in to be Josh Allen’s number one receiver but it just ain’t happening yet. Keon Coleman cannot be trusted and will be outside my top 50 until things change. Starting these players will cause your Week 5 lineup to crash and burn.
Check out the entire Week 5 positional ranks on South Harmon dot com to help make even the toughest of lineup decisions.