Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Stashes Ahead of Week 5: Wide Receiver (2022)

Week 4 is here, and the NFL fantasy season is quickly sliding through our fingers. Week 5 is just around the corner, and we’ve got some players you should be picking up now to get ahead of your league mates.

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Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Stashes Ahead of Week 5: Wide Receiver (2022)

Wide Receivers

Jakobi Meyers (WR – NE) – 55% rostered

The Patriots need whatever juice they can squeeze out of their pass-catchers this year, with Hunter Henry fading away and Nelson Agholor seemingly out of favor. Meyers was the clear WR1 in 2021 and likely will return to that when healthy. Mac Jones will miss at least Week 4, but it sounds promising that he was at least at training on Friday. Over the opening two games, Meyers scored 28.7 PPR points and was heavily targeted. In Week 5, the Patriots play the Lions, who’ve allowed the ninth-most points to receivers. Then in Week 7, the Bears, who haven’t slowed anyone down.

Treylon Burks (WR – TEN) – 42% rostered

Burks is fourth amongst rookie receivers with 2.02 yards per target run, and despite the Titans failing to get their passing game going, he’s been involved and seen plenty of looks. It really feels that if this Titans team is going to offer anything other than Derrick Henry, then Burks will be at the heart of it. The Titans have two appealing matchups coming for Burks with games against the Commanders (Week 5) and Texans (Week 8), who both rank bottom ten in fantasy points allowed to wide receivers. To cap it all off, Titans offensive coordinator, Todd Downing, told reporters this week that the team wants to get Burks more involved. If you’re not ahead of the curve on this one, it might be painful to watch from the sidelines.

Treylon Burks led all Titans receivers with a 96.4% route participation rate in Week 3

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Michael Gallup (WR – DAL) – 36% rostered

On Friday, Michael Gallup was removed from the Cowboys injury report for the first time this year and seems set to make his debut in Week 4 against the Commanders. Re-signing Gallup was a priority move for the Cowboys this off-season, forcing the team to trade Amari Cooper to the Browns at a below-market rate. The Cowboys have enough of an ego that they will want to show this was the correct move. Gallup has shown he can be a reliable fantasy asset with double-digit PPR performances in four of his last six games for the Cowboys. Sometimes fantasy managers feel the need to see it before they believe in it with players returning from injury, and in this case, that might be too late to acquire Gallup.