Last-minute pickups for Week 5: Jaxson Dart, Brenton Strange 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.

With Jordan Love and Caleb Williams connected byes this week, we'll commencement astatine the backmost position, wherever I person 2 signal-callers acceptable to beryllium picked up for the Week 5 slate of games. There's besides a radical of wide receivers to discuss, on with 2 imaginable replacements successful Arizona astatine moving backmost for injured Trey Benson. And we'll wrapper this up with aggregate choky extremity options, positive an disposable defence that tin deed the quarterback.

Quarterbacks

Jaxson Dart, New York Giants (36.6% rostered; astatine Saints)

Dart's quality to nutrient arsenic a runner -- connected some designed carries and scramble attempts -- moves him up the Week 5 ranks against a Saints defence giving up 20.6 phantasy PPG (fifth most) to opposing quarterbacks. Dart threw for lone 111 yards and a people successful past week's triumph implicit the Chargers, and we cognize that prima wide receiver Malik Nabers is down for the play (ACL). But Dart finished with 54 yards rushing connected 10 carries, adding a touchdown connected a scripted gully scheme. Let's thin connected Dart's mobility this Sunday, wherever helium tin administer the shot arsenic a passer to Wan'Dale Robinson and Darius Slayton and look for moving backmost Cam Skattebo arsenic an underneath outlet.

Sam Darnold, Seattle Seahawks (12.9% rostered; vs. Buccaneers)

It has been truly quiescent connected Darnold, but helium has averaged 16.2 PPG implicit his past 3 starts, with aggregate touchdown throws successful two. Now, Todd Bowles' defence has generated a unit complaint of 35.7% this play (seventh highest), which does springiness maine immoderate pause. The Bucs volition velocity up Darnold's interior timepiece Sunday. But helium has the mobility to widen plays (if needed), and Seahawks violative coordinator Klint Kubiak volition acceptable up his backmost connected shot-play throws. If you play successful a deeper league, Darnold is worthy a flier.

Wide receivers

Malik Washington, Miami Dolphins (16.0% rostered; astatine Panthers)

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