Week 5 Fantasy Football Projections: Top 100 Players and PPR Predictions

With bye weeks ramping up and injuries always prevalent, fantasy football only gets tougher from here on out.

Four teams have a bye this week, including the New Orleans Saints. This not only takes away a number of useful players on the Saints offense, but it also takes easy fantasy points off the table for anyone who was hoping to benefit from the dreadful New Orleans defense.

Still, there are always players to fill in wherever you need help. Here are the latest rankings at each position heading into Week 5.

Quarterbacks

Welcome back, Tom Brady. Can I interest you in a juicy matchup against an 0-4 Cleveland Browns team with a defense allowing 28.8 points per game this season?

The New England Patriots quarterback served his four-game suspension and will return to the field in Week 5 ready to show what he can do. Browns head coach Hue Jackson isn’t looking forward to the matchup, per Nate Ulrich of the Akron Beacon Journal:

#Browns HC Hue Jackson on Tom Brady coming off suspension to face Cleveland: Not fun at all. … He’ll be champing at the bit.

— Nate Ulrich (@NateUlrichABJ) October 3, 2016

Brady has the talent, motivation and matchup to throw a lot of touchdown passes in Week 5. If you kept him on your bench until now, put him in your lineup now.

It’s a bit harder to fill out the top 10, as a few top options have a bye week. Matt Ryan has a tough matchup, but he has been good enough this year to justify his spot. Ben Roethlisberger also moves up the list, thanks to his performance on Sunday night.

While Carson Wentz represents a bit of a risk going into his fourth career game, he continues to play well and is coming off a bye. If he can keep up his level of play, the rookie will be a valuable fantasy commodity going forward.

Running Backs

There seems to be a separation forming at the top of this group, especially with Le’Veon Bell showing he is clearly at full strength. Ezekiel Elliott is living up to expectations as well, proving his worth as a first-round pick in the real world and in fantasy leagues.

On the other hand, there are major question marks around a few other top picks, like Lamar Miller and Todd Gurley.

Bill Barnwell of ESPN shared a concerning stat of Miller’s:

Lamar Miller has more touches through four games without a touchdown (106) than anybody in modern NFL history.

— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) October 3, 2016

The other way to look at this is the running back is getting an insane number of touches to begin with, averaging 26.5 per game. This has led to high yardage totals, …

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