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Fantasy Football: Players may consider quitting to make room for the Week 7 wire draw
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Fantasy Football: Players may consider quitting to make room for the Week 7 wire draw

The following is an excerpt from the latest edition of Yahoo’s fantasy football newsletter, Get to the Points! If you like what you see, you can subscribe for free here.

Fantasy managers will be working on the waiver wire over the next 24 hours, but that’s obviously only part of the process. In most cases you will also need to make a corresponding decrease. And we are happy to help you make those difficult cuts.

Most fantasy advice will never be one size fits all, and that’s especially true of a cut list. You need to apply this to your situation and the context of your competition. A handy stock in one league could be a bye player in another room. And remember, if you never regretfully cut back during the season, you’re probably playing way too conservatively.

I have a few fantasy shares of Likely, and I’m reluctant to give them up. But we have to accept that he is just a contingency stock these days, not someone you can play against. He has just nine catches since the season opener. Unless Mark Andrews gets hurt, Likely can’t be trusted in lineups. And in the spirit of farewell, that might now yield him a drop.

You followed a good process when you added Wicks, but he didn’t come through in his last two chances, and now the receiver room is healing. The Packers also have two talented backs and a tight end. Wicks is also dealing with a shoulder injury, which puts him on weekly status. In most formats it’s not worth the wait.

Jonathan Taylor likely won’t be gone much longer, even if he can’t play in Week 7. But Sermon has a more pressing problem: Tyler Goodson is clearly outpacing him. This is certainly not lost on the Indianapolis coaching staff.

He flopped his starting opportunity last week (13 carries, 19 yards) and the Patriots will go back to Rhamondre Stevenson if he’s healthy, no matter how much he fumbles. And some of New England’s production will also be distributed to athletic and resourceful rookie QB Drake Maye.

He’s dealing with a sore hamstring, the offense is floundering due to poor blocking and QB play, and Nick Chubb may return this week. Ford was a fantasy dud for most of the year, and while it wasn’t largely his fault, he has a capped ceiling.

He made sense as a Week 6 sleeper, even if the home-road splits are starting to become too big to ignore (Jones is playing poorly in New Jersey for some reason). It’s a home date against Philly this week, and then a trip to Pittsburgh. Even with Malik Nabers expected back, we hope you have a better QB option to navigate the bye weeks.