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Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups: Sleepers Who May Still Be Available
- Updated: October 12, 2016
Finding sleepers in fantasy football is the true sign of a league champion. Anyone can draft a player or set a lineup, but studying the waiver-wire and analyzing player matchups take a unique set of skills each week.
Heading into Week 6 of the 2016 NFL season, the talent pool of available free agents is pretty dry. But don’t be too discouraged if you’re priority on the waiver wire is too low to snatch Sammie Coates after his monster Week 5 game against the New York Jets.
There are other players still out there who can make a big impact in your lineup as we approach the halfway point of the season.
Sleepers Who May Still Be Available
Quincy Enunwa, WR, New York Jets
If Enunwa is still available in your league, snatch him up immediately.
With Eric Decker out injured for what could be an extensive period of time (per Brian Costello of the New York Post) with a torn rotator cuff, Enunwa’s value has skyrocketed.
Rapid reaction: Eric Decker’s injury leaves a void for undervalued WR Quincy Enunwa to fill. @LizLoza_FF runs down the #fantasy options. pic.twitter.com/DSpxJMYx5L
— Yahoo Fantasy Sports (@YahooFantasy) October 2, 2016
That’s not to say that Enunwa was irrelevant before Decker’s injury, however. In Week 5, Enunwa saw seven targets and hauled in four of them for 51 yards. In Yahoo leagues with standard scoring, 5.1 points isn’t anything to get overly excited about, but seven targets are.
Enunwa has pushed himself into the No. 2 receiver role for the Jets behind Brandon Marshall and could, theoretically, pick up the slack for Decker while he’s out. Enunwa has flashed the ability to be a game-changer for the Jets, particularly in Week 1 when he caught seven passes for 54 yards and a score, followed by a 92 yard performance in Week …