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Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Advice: Drop or Hold? (Week 8)
Let’s look at a few players on the fringe of fantasy rosters and whether you should continue to hold them or cut them loose.
Drop Recommendations
Droppable
MarShawn Lloyd is still being rostered in 50% or Yahoo leagues. With Josh Jacobs returning from a six-game suspension, Lloyd is now a mere backup on a team that has difficulty running the ball. Drop Lloyd unless you have Jacobs and want to handcuff him.
Droppable With a Chance of Regret
The emergence of Jonah Coleman makes J.K. Dobbins a drop candidate. Dobbins played 23% of the Broncos’ offensive snaps Sunday in their win over the Cardinals and had only six carries. One of those carries went for a touchdown that salvaged Dobbins’ day for fantasy purposes, but the touchdown deodorant won’t mask the stench of a sickly workload every week. Dobbins offers next to nothing as a pass catcher, and with Coleman moving in on his rushing share, Dobbins becomes expendable.
To this point, we have resisted the urge to list Jaylen Waddle as a potential drop. We can resist no more after Waddle, QB Bo Nix and the Broncos had a delicious matchup with the Cardinals in Week 7, and Waddle produced only 4-48-0 on seven targets. It was actually Waddle’s best fantasy output in three weeks. Waddle also left the game with a chest injury in the fourth quarter and didn’t return. Waddle had 8-138-0 against the Jaguars in Week 2. He’s had fewer than 50 yards in every other game, and he’s had three games with fewer than 20 receiving yards. Waddle has been a terrific player over his five previous NFL seasons, but he’s just not clicking with Nix in Denver. Waddle could absolutely come on and make you regret dropping him. We feel obligated to lay out that caveat. But we’re knee-deep in byes, and you might really need to open up a roster spot. If you do, we will not excoriate you for dropping Waddle.
Don’t Drop Yet
Jordan Addison had 2-20-0 on three targets against the Colts in Week 7. It was a disappointing stat line, but Addison had 9-142-1 on 15 targets in his previous two games, and he gets a terrific matchup against the Lions this week. If Addison lays an egg against Detroit, then you have our blessing to cut him.
Josh Downs has been AWOL lately, with 12-121-0 on 22 targets over his last four games. But Downs led the Colts’ wide receivers in snaps (52) and routes (25) in Week 7, tying for the team lead in targets with three. There’s no case to be made that Downs is still a top-30 fantasy receiver, but with a favorable schedule in the weeks to come, Downs is still roster-worthy in normal-sized and deeper leagues. The Colts face the pass-funnel Jaguars this week, then the flammable Dallas defense in Week 9, the Dolphins in Week 10, the Texans in Week 11, and the Giants in Week 12. Don’t dump Downs just yet.
TreVeyon Henderson has been quiet and largely ineffective this season. He’s averaging 3.9 yards per carry and is RB44 in half-point PPR fantasy scoring. Henderson has had limited work the last two weeks while playing through an ankle injury. He’s behind Rhamondre Stevenson on the depth chart, and Corey Kiner is getting significant RB snaps for the Patriots, too. Still, it’s worth remembering that when Stevenson missed three games last season, Henderson had 330 scrimmage yards and five touchdowns in Stevenson’s absence and was RB3 in fantasy scoring over that span. If Stevenson were to get hurt again or fall victim to the fumbling issues that have plagued him in the past, Henderson could quickly become a valuable asset.
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from FantasyPros https://www.fantasypros.com/2026/10/fantasy-football-waiver-wire-advice-6-players-to-drop-or-hold-week-8-2026/
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