Roster management is the single most crucial in-season task for fantasy football players. Just as important as adding the right players is knowing when players need to go. Which players find themselves on our Week 11 fantasy football cut list?
Note: All roster percentages are from Yahoo.
Who Should You Cut in Fantasy Football in Week 11?
Russell Wilson, QB, Denver Broncos (68% Rostered)
In Week 10, Russell Wilson was one of my favorite streaming options at quarterback. Given the Titans’ pass-funnel defense, everything pointed to a pass-heavy game plan against a very exploitable secondary.
My first Underdog Fantasy pick’em recommendation of the Sunday slate was Wilson higher than 228.5 passing yards. Not to toot my own horn, but I absolutely nailed that analysis.
Wilson matched his season high with 42 pass attempts. The problem remains that he’s still cooked, and once a player becomes cooked, he cannot exactly become “un” cooked.
Wilson completed just half of his passes for 286 yards with a touchdown and an interception. He has yet to throw for 300 yards since Week 1 and has just one game all season with multiple touchdown passes.
Wilson’s next four weeks look quite enticing from a streaming perspective. Sadly, he’s proven that just doesn’t matter. Even in favorable matchups, Wilson can’t be trusted. Drop him.
AJ Dillon, RB, Green Bay Packers (86% Rostered)
I always look forward to doing my postseason recap of what went right and what went wrong in my predictions for the season. However, AJ Dillon as an every-week startable RB2 went very, very wrong.
Dillon is averaging fewer than 8.0 PPR fantasy points per game. He is barely even an RB4. Dillon scored 20.1 fantasy points in Week 1, and I was feeling quite good about my prediction. He hasn’t hit double-digits since, meaning you can’t even combine any two of his other performances to get to 20.
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Dillon’s volume isn’t really the problem — he’s seen double-digit carries in all but two games. He’s just not scoring touchdowns. I really thought he would score 10+ this season. Unfortunately, the Packers just haven’t been good enough offensively.
We are now 11 weeks into the season. There’s no reason to expect anything to improve for Dillon. Even if Aaron Jones were to go down, I still don’t think Dillon would be an automatic start.
Nyheim Hines, RB, Buffalo Bills
Welp. It turns out Nyheim Hines being traded to the Bills was not good for his fantasy value. Quite the opposite, in fact.
I’m not quite sure why the Bills even bothered. They are still using James Cook as their clear RB2. Hines has played a grand total of 10 snaps in his two games in Buffalo. His first game could be dismissed as him being new. His second game, not so much.
Clearly, the Bills have no role for Hines. He’s just the third-string running back. Hines’ primary task is to play special teams, which he did at a 45% rate last week.
Unless one of Devin Singletary or Cook gets hurt, Hines won’t even have RB5 value. You can cut him.
Michael Gallup, WR, Dallas Cowboys
It makes sense to target starting wide receivers in explosive offenses. However, at this point, I think we’ve seen enough of Michael Gallup to know there’s nothing here for fantasy.
Gallup has only reached double-digit fantasy points once this season. It was in his first game returning from injury, and only because he caught a short touchdown.
Gallup hasn’t caught more than four passes in a game and has yet to hit 50 yards. He’s on the field. He’s running routes. He’s just not being targeted or converting the targets he’s getting with just a 53% catch rate. You’re never starting Gallup, so you can drop him.
Robert Woods, WR, Tennessee Titans
Robert Woods remains one of my favorite players of the past half-decade. Bob, as I like to call him, was perennially underrated for years, providing solid, reliable fantasy production.
On the Titans, Woods’ floor has bottomed out. He’s scored just one touchdown on the season and reached double-digit fantasy points twice. Since scoring 13 points back in Week 4, Woods has totaled 18.9 fantasy points in his last five games combined.
Woods’ 22% target share isn’t bad by any means. He entered Week 10 ranking 31st in the category. That’s typically good enough to be fantasy relevant…just not on the Titans with their 52% neutral game-script run rate. You can drop Woods.