Waiver Wire Pickups: Running Backs to Stash Ahead of Week 7 (2022 Fantasy Football)

Week 6 is here, and the bye weeks are making managing fantasy rosters even trickier than the usual glut of injuries and under-performers does. Week 7 is just around the corner, and the bye weeks only worsen. These are the players you should be picking up now to get ahead of your league mates.

Waiver Wire Pickups: Running Backs to Stash Ahead of Week 7

Rachaad White (RB – TB) – 34% Rostered

As is often the case with rookies, Rachaad White has started quietly but is steadily being given more work. In his last two games, White has played almost 40% of the snaps and has had 8 touches in each game and a total of nine targets in that spell. The Tampa Bay offense is starting to click, and with very little depth behind White, it’s very possible that White could end up with a huge workload if anything happened to Leonard Fournette. The Waiver Wire is starting to look thin with bye weeks, and White has combined for 23.8 PPR points in his last two games. That’s the kind of production that can sometimes help you get through a tough bye-week situation.

Gus Edwards (RB – BAL) – 15% Rostered

On Friday, John Harbaugh said that Gus Edwards was looking very close to returning off IR soon. This weekend’s game against the Giants may come too soon for Edwards, but the Week 7 matchup with the Giants is within expectations. The Ravens are unlikely to pile a huge workload onto ‘The Bus’ straightaway, but Kenyan Drake and Mike Davis have been uninspiring. It wouldn’t be surprising to see Edwards return to being the RB2 immediately upon return. This Ravens team is itching to return to having a competent running game, and Edwards will always have touchdown-scoring upside in this electric offense.

Joshua Kelley (RB – LAC) – 14% Rostered

On limited opportunities this season, Joshua Kelley has looked by far the best option behind Austin Ekeler, has rushed 23 times for 104 yards, and notably averaged a missed tackle on every 3.2 attempts. Ekeler spent much of the summer saying the team needed someone to step up behind him in the running back room, and Isaiah Spiller is yet to be active for a regular season game. In Week 5, Kelley played on 38% of snaps and scored 16.2 PPR points. If the Chargers are as good as many hope, then it’s entirely possible he continues to spell Ekeler and make contributions.

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