Fantasy Football Week 6 Running Back Preview: Waiver adds, deep stashes, starts, sits, and more

In Week 6 the Chiefs, Dolphins, Rams, and Vikings are all on bye. The timing couldn't have been better for De'Von Achane and Aaron Jones, who both left their Week 5 games with injuries. But Kareem Hunt may feel differently, he was just heating up. 

Hunt carried the ball 27 times for 102 yards on Monday night against the Saints and scored 18.7 PPR Fantasy points. While he was on the waiver in most leagues just two weeks ago, he now looks like a must-start running back who must be held through his bye week. There's a good chance we get a full month of Hunt as a starting running back in Fantasy before Isiah Pacheco returns.

With my first place teams this is the time of the year I like to go shopping on the bad teams for bye week or injured running backs that I can afford to stash until later in the year. Hunt doesn't exactly fit that profile because he has competition on the way and we don't expect him to be a starter in the Fantasy playoffs. But Achane, Jones, and Kyren Williams certainly fit the bill. Offer seventy-five cents on the dollar, help a struggling team win this week, and turn a profit when those backs return. Other backs I would be targeting with this strategy are Jonathan Brooks, Nick Chubb, Christian McCaffrey, and Jonathan Taylor. It might not hurt to kick the tires on Breece Hall or Bijan Robinson, just make sure you're buying low.

You'll find my projections for every running back on the slate over on Sportsline. 

Now, let's get to the rest of the Week 6 RB Preview:

Week 5 RB Preview

The following players are not being projected to play Week 6 at this time. Here's what it means:

• 40%-- Tank Bigsby played a season-high 40% of the offensive snaps in Week 5 but Doug Pederson said Travis Etienne's shouldwee had a lot to do with that. 
• 4.54 -- Antonio Gibson is averaging 4.54 yards after contact per rush. That ranks second behind Tank Bigsby.
• 5.6 -- Chase Brown has averaged 5.6 yards per carry. Teammate Zack Moss is averaging 3.7 for the season.
• 9 -- Kyren Williams and Derrick Henry both have nine rush attempts inside the five-yard line. Brian Robinson is the only other back with more than six.
• 21.5% -- Alvin Kamara has a 21.5% target share, no other back is above 16%.
• .05 -- Breece Hall is averaging less than a tenth of a yard before contact per rush. Only Tony Pollard has a lower mark.

My full set of Week 6 Fantasy football projections for every position are now available on SportsLine. You'll find them here. Find out which of my favorite plays are projected to score higher than consensus rankings and which don't live up to their draft hype, at least in Week 6. Projected stats for all starting running backs are available, so be sure to check out the full set of projections at SportsLine.