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One of the most frustrating things is losing out to your leaguemates on the waiver wire week after week after week. But what if you finally had the foresight to know exactly who to stash before your leaguemates even have the chance to roster those players? We're going to help you accomplish exactly that today. I'm Lucas Wentzel here with Fantasy Pros, bringing you my top five waiver wire stashes ahead of week five and next week's waiver run as well. Before we dive on into that list of players, though, we've got a special offer going on for you all. Unlock a month of Betting Pros Premium for free. Download the Betting Pros app today and use promo code FP1MONTH. Get access to tools like the Same Game Parlay tool, the Prop Bet Analyzer, and the Prize Picks Prop Bet cheat Sheet. Don't miss out on it. Try it free 100% free for one month. Now available both on iOS and Android. Alrighty. First player on our list this week is Miami Dolphins wide receiver Malik Washington, who is rostered in 34% of leagues. Now this breaks my typical rule of only talking about players who are rostered in less than 30% of leagues, but these are unprecedented times. After the Tyree Kill injury, right, dislocated his knee, tore multiple ligaments, including his acl. His time as the as a Miami Dolphins wide receiver likely done debatably his entire career. Yet to see on that. But now all of a sudden we're scrambling this year to figure out who is going to see the biggest bump in this Miami Dolphins receiving group. Now, I know Washington has yet to record more than 20 receiving yards in a game this season, but Jalen Waddle and Devon Hn can only become more involved until you need to get another receiver or pass catcher in this group touches. And I do think that player ends up being Malik Washington in terms of what we see on like a snapshare basis. I really want to be surprised if it's actually Nick Westbrook Kenne, who plays more snaps as the second perimeter wide receiver alongside Jalen Waddle. That was a reality after the Tyreek injury in Week four. But on a per route basis that's where I do think we start to see Malik Washington make more of His Mark Mike McDaniel he's already been willing to give Malik Washington more of these manufactured looks. Washington currently leads all wide receivers with eight carries this year. He's sixth of all wide receivers in yards after catch per reception as well. So if Mike McDaniel wants to keep things close to the line of scrimmage for tua, that's where I do think Malik Washington can become an interesting option at Virginia in 2023, his final year in college, Washington set an ACC and school record with over 1400 yards on 110 receptions while leading the nation in force. Missed tackles per attempt coming out as well. We know he can handle the volume we we know he could be a playmaker. Excuse me. And Mike McDaniel is he's going to need more explosives without Tyree Kill, right? That's just a simple fact. Again, I'm breaking the mold of these videos because I do think Malik Washington really should be rostered in more than 34% of leagues. To me this should be much closer to 50% if he is on your waiver wire in a deeper league especially get him added even in like a 12 man league. I really don't hate throwing Malik Washington at the end of your bench. The second player on our list this week is Chicago Bears wide receiver Luther Burden, who is rostered in 28% of leagues. Now. I loved Luther Burden as a stash even before the season started because once we had that first spike week in the first four weeks, I knew he was immediately going to be the headliner of every single waiver wire video. And we got that in week three. A 65 yard flea flicker touchdown and majority expected that to be the catalyst for Luther Burden to get even more design plays in the coming weeks. Unfortunately, that hasn't happened. But what I also haven't entirely expected is that people are just going to throw in the towel so quickly on Luther Burden after having negative 4 yards against Vegas last week and now he's going into the team's Week 5 buy. All of a sudden it feels like people are just willing to dispose of him. And I know 28% of snaps and 11 rounds isn't exciting or even close to what you were hoping for with Luther Burden, but we could potentially get a rookie by week bump here for him rest of the season. To me, it's only a matter of time before Luther Burden unseats Alambada Zacchaeus as the wide receiver. Three in this Bears offense, you can only trot out in my mind a wide receiver who's on his fourth team in the last four years for so long until you have to get your early second round pick on the field more often. And I also don't want to pretend that like DJ Moore is doing anything super special right now either. He only has 59 yards in his last two games. It's like it's entirely been the Roman Dunes Show. But I guess my point being is that Luther Burden still has a tremendous amount of upside here and now. I do want to be careful about how I talk about these numbers because it's such a small sample size, but through Luther Burden's first four games, he's drawing a target on 26% of his routes and and he's running 3.19 yards per route. That's the third best of all wide receivers with 25 plus routes this year. Those to me are marks of a wide receiver who has a very high ceiling should he become more involved in the Chicago Bears offense. We knew it was going to take time with Ben Johnson implementing his offense. We knew there was going to be a lot of mouths to feed, but we also knew the talent was there with Luther Burden coming out and considering Ben Johnson hand selected Luther Burden with one of the team's second round picks in the NFL draft this year. The this is just a player I want to stay well ahead of the curve on and keep Luther Burden stashed while your league mates are willing to throw in the towel on him. Third player on our list this week is New Orleans Saints running back Kendra Miller, who is rostered in 26% of leagues. Every time I looked up at the Saints Bills game on Sunday, it was Kendra Miller getting another tote instead of Alvin Camara. He finished the day 11 carries for 65 nearly six yards per tote, 65 yards and one score on the afternoon that was good for the running back, 25 in PPR formats last week. And as I was watching Kendra get carry after Kerry, I was asking myself where did this come from, right? Why are the Saints featuring him more this week and going back and checking the advanced metrics on this game like it wasn't hard to figure out why. Per Joel Smith, Kendrick Miller was third in yards after contact per attempt in Week 4. But even on the entire year he Kendra Miller leads all running backs with at least 25 carries in force missed tackles per attempt. So we are finally starting to see those grinder between the tackle attributes we saw in his college profile coming out of TCU. I mean the guy was 5 11, 215 pounds coming out like this is a big dude we're talking about here. His snapshot continues to rise each week, going from 15% in weeks one and two to 27% in week three. And now in week four he was all the way up to 31%. Eventually I think this plateaus out. But could his Snapshare reach 40, 45% here in the near future? Like I absolutely think it can. The carries are rising with that number as well. Five totes in the first two weeks, seven in week three, and then again those 11 carries against the Bills in week four. I'm not here to communicate the fantasy demise of Alvin Camara in any capacity, but if you go in Google search, I found this fascinating. If you go and Google search and Alvin Camara trade, you'll see that there is still plenty of speculation around contending teams calling the Saints for Alvin Camaro, who like, let's just be honest, he doesn't need to play the rest of his contract on an 04 Saints team right now. And again, that is all like literally wild speculation. I don't want you to I think I'm sitting here reporting an Alvin Camara trade in any capacity. But I do think you have to consider that when making Kendrick Miller a stash, there's nothing concrete out there. But when considering him as a stash, I think you have to at least acknowledge that the upside for him to potentially lead this backfield should anything happen to Alvin Camaro, whether it is a trade or an injury. Next up on our list is Kansas City Chiefs running back Burchard Smith, who is rostered in 6% of leagues. Now I talked about Burchard Smith last week. It was a suggestion that wouldn't pay you dividends in the near future. But hey, lo and behold, Matt Nagy after week four has come out and said that he wants to see increased usage each week for Burchard Smith. And that might have actually already started in week four. We saw his snaps jump from 11% to 26% this last week. He was given eight opportunities this week, which is only two less than Isaiah Pacheco's 10 opportunities. But this is exactly what I talked about last week. Isaiah Pacheco and Kareem Hunt, they they're just extremely uninspiring man Even in a dominant win against a banged up Ravens team, Isaiah Pacheco only seven carries. He did get 35 yards in a score, but Kareem Hunt 13 carries for 34 yards. Why are we giving Kareem Hunties at this point? Andy Reid, Matt, what are we doing here, right? At some point they have to look at this group of running backs and realize Berchard Smith just gives them the most juice. It's the great pass catching chops as a converted wide receiver. It's the suddenness and changing of gears when he runs. He's dynamic once he hits the perimeter in the second level of the defense. I had brought up Isaiah Pacheco's rookie season last week as well, who also was a seventh round rookie. He did have a strong week one in his rookie season, 62 yards and a score on 12 totes. But then immediately in week two returns a 9% of the snaps, 8% of the snaps in week three, then all the way down to 3% of the snaps in week five. It wasn't until after the Chiefs week eight, by that year when Andy Reid finally just threw his hands up, quit messing around and said, fine, Isaiah Pacheco is probably the best guy we have here. Let's throw him out on the field and see what happens. So based on Matt Nagy's comments, I feel like that's the trajectory we could already be on with Rashard Smith. I know the Chiefs don't have their buy until week 10, but they're going to need to keep ramping up Rashard Smith's usage if they want more juice out of this backfield. Considering just how uninspiring Isaiah Pacheco and Kareem Hunt continue to be, the last player we'll touch on this week is Isaiah Davis, New York jets running back who is rostered in 5% of leagues. The driving factor in this stash is solely because of Braylon Allen's knee injury that he sustained on Monday Night Football. As of this recording, Braylon Allen is seeking a second opinion, but the team is already bracing for a stint on IR for him after sustaining what's reported to be a sprained MCL. Now he only played 6 snaps against the Dolphins on Monday night. It was Isaiah Davis who stepped in afterwards and played 21 snaps to Breece Hall's 40. And even only with six naps braille and Allen was still given four carries and Davis only logged five opportunities the entire game. So I do think if you want to ship those Braille and Allen carries, maybe not entirely over to Isaiah Davis, but I think there's room essentially for Isaiah Davis to be this 10 to 12 touch player every game. If the jets don't want to give Breece Hall 25 plus opportunities each game with Braylon Allen out primarily, I do think we're going to get Isaiah Davis as the change of pace back, soak up a few receiving downs from Breece hall, maybe take away one or two receptions as well. But really, you're stashing Isaiah Davis in case anything catastrophic happens to Breece hall while Braylon Allen is out. So again, not while Braylon Allen is out. Excuse me. So again, not any major dividends expected to be paid on this stash, but in deep leagues it is absolutely worth a speculative ad as we've already experienced this year, right? Injuries can happen on any given so I would rather be safe than sorry. Stash Isaiah Davis. Again, he's not going to be this fantasy brain buster while Braylon Allen is out, but at the very least you're going to get a handful of opportunities every single game and insurance on Breeze Hall. And there you have it. My top five waiver wire stashes ahead of Week five. Go sprint to your waiver wire right now. See if any of these guys are available again. Except for Malik Washington, all of them should be rostered in less than 30% of league, so there's a good chance they're available in yours as well. Before we finally sign off here, hey, remember, we have got a special deal going on for you, all right? Now unlock a month of Betting Pros Premium for 100% free. Download the betting Pros app today and use promo code FP1MONTH. Get access to tools like the same game parlay tool, the Prop Bet Analyzer, and the Prize Picks Prop Bet Cheat Sheet. Don't miss out on it. Try it free 100% free for one month. Now available both on iOS and Android.
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