We are now halfway through the fantasy football regular season, and significant injuries and disappointments to cleave from our fantasy football rosters to go get Russell Wilson, Tank Bigsby, and David Njoku (among others!). To make room for those players, you must cut existing players on your roster. Your fantasy football Grim Reaper is here again this week, giving you a list of players to cut. To make this list, a player must be rostered in at least 50% of Yahoo! leagues.
Quarterbacks
Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City (99% rostered)
Patrick Mahomes doesn’t have a top-12 game under his belt, doesn’t have Rashee Rice, and had the longest rush of his career on Sunday. He is still the greatest quarterback of all time, but the Chiefs aren’t needing him to air it out, so fantasy points just aren’t there.
Anthony Richardson, Indianapolis (78% rostered)
Anthony Richardson just plain might not be a good NFL player, and his rushing isn’t enough to offset it. He has just one game with a passing touchdown and has six interceptions on the season. Richardson finished four games this year, and he’s finished outside the top 16 in three of those four games. He has the Texans and Vikings in the next two weeks, so he probably won’t crack your starting rotation, anyway.
Kirk Cousins, Atlanta (69% rostered)
Cousins has just one game over 17.6 fantasy points on the season (and that one went to overtime!), and just two games over 12.5 fantasy points. He just doesn’t have the juice and was benched for Michael Penix in the second half on Sunday. If you want to believe in his upcoming matchups, he gets a rematch of his 500-yard, 4-touchdown game opponent, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, next week.
Wide Receivers
Chris Godwin, Tampa Bay (100% rostered)
Godwin dislocated his ankle in a gruesome injury in the waning moments of week seven’s game.
Brandon Aiyuk, San Francisco (98% rostered)
Aiyuk tore his ACL and is out for the season. Don’t do to yourself what you did with Rashee Rice (who finally went under 50% rostered this week!) and move on.
Diontae Johnson, Carolina (91% rostered)
The Andy Dalton Bump is fading, and Diontae has fewer than 6 PPR points in two of his last three weeks and is going to get Surtained next week, a Saints slap fight the following week, and the Giants’ pass rush the week after. And then a bye, then the Chiefs. So, you can hang onto Diontae for weeks nine and thirteen, I suppose. Or, you could just move on and free your mind and soul from Diontae in shallow leagues.
Calvin Ridley, Tennessee (68% rostered)
Calvin Ridley has 23 targets for 5 catches and 56 yards over the last four games. Sheesh.
Josh Downs, Indianapolis (58% rostered)
In the two games with Anthony Richardson, Josh Downs has a combined 4/8/25 line. The passing game just doesn’t work without Joe Flacco.
DeAndre Hopkins, Tennessee (50% rostered)
Nuk hasn’t put together a double-digit day since week three and has more games under 2 fantasy points (three games) than he has over 6 fantasy points (two games). And now, it’s a Will Levis-Mason Rudolph two-quarterback flip-flop season.
Jerry Jeudy, Cleveland (50% rostered)
Jerry Jeudy had a fun run to start the year, but in his last three games, he has 11 targets for 3 catches and 79 yards… combined.
Running Backs
Travis Etienne Jr., Jacksonville (94% rostered)
Tank Bigsby will likely relegate him to passing-downs work only, which makes him a less-than-appealing option in standard-scoring leagues.
Devin Singletary, N.Y. Giants (81% rostered)
Devin Singletary ended week seven with 5 carries for 18 yards and 1 catch for 13 yards. While that’s disconcerting, it’s even more disconcerting that Tyrone Tracy outsnapped him three-to-one (39 to 12).
Zach Charbonnet, Seattle (55% rostered)
Charbz finished week seven with nine touchdowns for 14 yards and 2.4 PPR points. We are now three weeks into Zach Charbonnet being nothing but a handcuff for Ken Walker, who is playing like one of the best running backs in the league.
Jerome Ford, Cleveland (52% rostered)
Ford missed week seven with an injury and spent the first six weeks of the season being unreliably mired in a three-way backfield with Pierre Strong and D’Onta Foreman. All of that came before Nick Chubb returned from his 2023 knee injury.
Tight Ends
Sam LaPorta, Detroit (98% rostered)
LaPorta tied Jameson Williams with 24 routes (the second-most on the team) and finished with two targets, one catch, and 25 yards. The Lions just plain aren’t using him. Jameson Williams’ emergence and the Lions yanking Tim Patrick off of the scrap heap, there just isn’t room for Sam LaPorta. He has three or fewer targets in four of six games this year. If you’re in anything deeper than an eight-team league, then hang onto him… for now.
Dalton Schultz, Houston (71% rostered)
Schultz hasn’t had himself a difference-making day yet, notching a season-high 7.4 PPR points three weeks ago. He currently has zero games inside the top 20 and has under 5 PPR points in four of seven games this season.
