OK, is it time to hit the panic button? It might be… three weeks have gone by, and while it’s just about 17% of the NFL regular season, it’s more than a fifth of the Fantasy Football “regular season.”
If you don’t feel like panicking yet about your underperformers, then you may have another route to easily find the droppables you need to pick up the next waiver wire gem. Injuries, in this context, have an upside in that most weeks, at least a few players offer themselves up to the Waiver Wire Drop by virtue of a season-ending injury (dynasty and keeper leagues notwithstanding). I myself said goodbye to Mike Williams of the LA Chargers on a few teams this week.
But it’s also time to start listening to players as they tell us who they are. Detroit Lions rookie TE Sam LaPorta is currently the 2nd-highest scoring TE in all of the major scoring formats, behind just T.J. Hockenson. That’s right. Ahead of Mark Andrews, ahead of Travis Kelce… okay, fair, those two superstars each missed a game, but Sam LaPorta is even ahead of Andrews in points per game.
Take a look below at our rankings for the week, where you’ll notice that at least of this writing (the rankings are updated throughout the week until Sunday morning), we have LaPorta ranked 3rd in all formats, behind just Kelce and Hockenson.
