Last-minute pickups for Week 4: Elic Ayomanor, Chargers D/ST among top options

At assorted points during the fantasy football season, injuries, bye weeks and breaking quality tin origin you to request reinforcements for your phantasy lineup. Every Friday passim the 2025 NFL season, Matt Bowen volition connection up immoderate late-week pickup options to assistance capable those holes, with an accent connected deeper leagues.

Because of that, this file volition absorption mostly connected players rostered successful less than 50% of ESPN leagues, with occasional exceptions.

For Week 4, determination is simply a trio of adjuvant candidates astatine wide receiver for Week 4 based connected production, matchups and wide opportunity. Plus, we'll sermon aggregate moving backs for those digging deep, a seasoned passer and a defence that could beryllium successful enactment to station immoderate truly bully numbers connected Sunday.

Wide receivers

Elic Ayomanor, Tennessee Titans (27.7% rostered; astatine Texans)

We wrote astir Ayomanor past week arsenic a imaginable last-minute pickup, and the rookie finished with 13.8 points successful the nonaccomplishment to the Colts. Ayomanor is averaging 14.7 PPG and 5.5 targets successful his past 2 games, and he's caught a touchdown successful each. Plus, helium has a truly bully consciousness for uncovering abstraction versus portion coverage, and helium tin manipulate antheral defenders wrong the way stem. In deeper formats, get him successful the lineup again for this gathering with the Texans.

Romeo Doubs, Green Bay Packers (34.4% rostered; astatine Cowboys)

In Week 3, Doubs and the Packers were truly constricted by a Cleveland defence that looks similar 1 of the league's best. Doubs caught some of his targets successful that crippled for 25 yards, but successful Weeks 1 and 2, helium averaged 10.3 PPG and 4.5 targets. With a overmuch much affirmative matchup connected Sunday nighttime against a Dallas defence allowing a league-worst 288 passing yards per game, Doubs has immoderate upside successful deeper leagues. And with Jayden Reed (collarbone) out, I would expect Doubs to spot much enactment arsenic a boundary/middle-of-the-field people for backmost Jordan Love.

Sterling Shepard, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (5.0% rostered; vs. Eagles)

Shepard scored 12.0 points successful the Bucs' Week 3 triumph implicit the Jets, and helium has caught 11 of 15 targets connected the play for 153 yards. The seasoned tin inactive get escaped against coverage. It's connected the tape. There are injuries to show present with Mike Evans (hamstring) out, and we're inactive waiting connected the imaginable play debut of Chris Godwin Jr. (ankle). There could beryllium an unfastened doorway for Shepard to play the relation of the No. 2 -- oregon No. 3, astatine worst, if Godwin is progressive -- Sunday against the Eagles.

Running backs

Ollie Gordon II, Miami Dolphins (27.0% rostered; astatine Jets)

Gordon volition service arsenic the backup to De'Von A...