Week 5 Waiver Wire PRIORITY Pickups! 🚨 Must-Add Players You Can’t Miss! | 2025 Fantasy Football

Looking for the top Week 5 Waiver Wire pickups in 2025 Fantasy Football? 🚨 Adam Aizer, Dave Richard, and Jamey Eisenberg break down the players you NEED to add, including Woody Marks, Darius Slayton, Darren Waller, and more! The guys debate the best waiver priorities, sleeper stashes, and roster moves to give you an edge heading into Week 5. Don’t miss out on who could swing your fantasy season!

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So, let’s get to the waiverwire priorities here. And, you know, Jamie, you can start. Who would be your your top three overall waiverwire priorities? Uh, for me, Woody Marks is still one. So, that’s an easy one just based on what he did and hopefully what he’s going to continue to do. Uh, two for me would be Darius Sllayton. Uh, what he was able to accomplish in the two games without Malik Neighbors last year, hopefully a sign of things to come. And then Darren Waller, um, you know, kudos to you, Adam. You kept saying, “Well, what if he does what Jon Smith does?” Well, he looked like he’s going to do what Jonah Smith does. and Jonah Smith averaged 13.1 PPR points per game last year for the Dolphins and now no Tyreek Hill. So as long as Waller stays healthy, he should continue to get more work and hopefully a lot more production. So especially with a match up on tap against the Panthers this week, those are the top three for me. Woody Marks, Darius Sllayton, Darren Waller. So Waller, I mean when I said in the preseason, can he do what Johnny Smith did? All I meant was Johnny Smith had one of the lowest A dots last year. You know, Dave Dave pointed out to me first, but he had so many catches that were behind behind the line of scrimmage. Like one of the most I forget what it was. It was like almost a record for catches behind the line of scrimmage or at the line of scrimmage and he just got a lot of cheap fantasy points like that. Kind of felt like anyone could do that. Darren Waller didn’t do that much yesterday, but he caught two touchdowns. And I just would caution he he really didn’t play that much. No, he ran something what like 12 routes. So, we’re hope I’m obviously we’re hoping that he’s he ran 10 routes that it’s gonna continue. You have to wonder what his role is going to be as he really can’t stay healthy, right? So, I just want to bring that angle up to it part of that part of it. Um, all right, Dave, give me your your top three and then I really want to talk about where Shawn Tucker and Rashad White would rank in here because Rashad White’s 45% rostered on Sleeper. Uh, so he’s available on most platforms, but go give me your top three, Dave. Morning everybody. I I have the same top three. I don’t have really anything to add other than what you kind of said about Waller and how he wasn’t used he was used more like Waller than he was Johnny Smith, but he could always be used as a short area target like Johnny Smith was. I think there’s just more to his game. Hopefully, we’re seeing him ramped up and he does become pretty close to a full-time player. Let me give you two other names. One is Brentton Strange who’s available in 53% of leagues. It’s not very sexy, but he gets you some decent PPR points. He’s had at least 10 and a half full PPR points in each of his past two games. We are struggling at tight end right now. I think a lot of people are going to gravitate toward him, especially with the by-weeks hitting. And then Malik Washington, I think, is going to end up being the Dolphins receiver who sees the most targets in place of Tyreek Hill. He didn’t see the most snaps in place of Tyreek Hill. That was Westbrook Aeen. But I I don’t know if they want to use ANA the same way they use Washington. I remember seeing them use Washington on a bunch of screens and short throws in practice when I went to see them practice and he’s fast. You saw that uh you’ve seen it obviously before this week, but certainly after Tyreek Hill went down, he got a little bit of work. I think that role might stay the same for him, but he gets a few more targets on top of it. Not a priority, but certainly a lot of people are struggling at receiver right now. and there’s somebody that lost Tyreek Killer and Malik Neighbors. If you can’t get your hands on a Giants wide receiver, maybe Malik Washington is somebody that you settle for with your fourth, fifth, sixth waiver claim. So, as we talk about the Bucks running backs, we have no idea what the severity of the injury is, but he is getting an MRI, right, Bucky Irving. So, when I look at Woody Marks, obviously, I think we all see this potential for this role to grow and for him to be a potential fantasy number two running back or something like that. And it was a really good setup for him last week against the Titans. Um, you know, and a really good setup this week against the Ravens. Yeah, Ravens are actually giving up the most fantasy points to running backs. Then I think he has a buy after that, but whatever. Uh, maybe. Look, Jackson Dart threw for 111 yards last week. You know, he’s obviously going to run the ball a lot. I don’t know that Darius Sllayton’s going to going to be in your lineup most weeks. I I hope so. He had 11 targets in each of the two games he played without Malik Neighbors last year. uh his role changes without Malik Neighbors. He becomes less of a vertical threat and more of an all, you know, lower A dot, lower route depth, more of a reliable type of role. I do think in the case of Sllayton, you make a very good point about what the what the the offense look like. It was Jackson Dart’s first start. They were playing with a lead. How often do we expect them to play with a lead? And as he gets more comfortable, they’re probably going to have to throw the ball a lot more. So, I do think Darius Sllayton’s going to have a lot of big games coming. Now to what extent we’ll find out because still Wanda Robinson will work in obviously they’ll use some other guys you know so um just going based on the two game sample size without Darius without Malik Neighbors is not exactly the the safest way to go because both those guys saw a huge uptick in targets in terms of um Sllayton and Well in the two games that Neighbors missed last year. So I I I don’t think it’s a slam dunk. It’s just a huge opportunity for him. And and to Dave’s point, just to go back to this, there are a lot of receivers this week that are stepping into potential big roles. So, it’s Sllayton long-term. It’s Malik Washington potentially long-term, you know, because it could be Westbrook A. They could go and and and get somebody to maybe fill this role. You have both 49ers guys potentially not playing on Thursday night. So, Demarcus Robinson or Kendrick Bourne could be in huge roles this week and getting a lot of targets. Again, probably a short-term situation and they’re not great, but opportunities are there. So, there’s a lot of moving parts with this week’s waiverwire stuff. And then you factor in the fi the four teams on a buy, it’s gonna look a lot of like I don’t know for you Dave, like the rankings look very weird to me, you know. Oh, dude. In in trying to get 150 players uh for our flex rankings. It was like um yeah, uh Adam Azer player ID number four, you know, like I was putting random names in there just to fill spots. Like at some point you’re going to have Kyle in your top 150. Week eight is the big by NATO. There’s six teams on by then. At some point Kyle Usek is 65. Yeah, it’s