One of the most frustrating things is losing out to your league mates on the waiver wire a week after week after week.

But what if you finally had the foresight to know exactly who to stash before your league mates even have the chance to roster those players.

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Today I'm Lucas Wentzil here with Fantasy Pros, bringing you my top five waiver wire stashes ahead of Week five and next week's waiver run as well.

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Alrighty, first player on our list this week is Miami Dolphins wide receiver Malik Washington, who is rostered in thirty four percent of leagues.

Now, this breaks my typical rule of only talking about players who are rostered in less than thirty percent of leagues, but these are unprecedented times.

After the Tyreek Hill injury, right dislocated his knee, tore multiple ligaments, including his ACL his time as the Miami Dolphins wide receiver likely dot debatably his entire career.

You have to see on that.

But now all of a sudden, we're scrambling this year to figure out who is going to see the biggest bump in this Miami Dolphins receiving group.

Now, I know Washington has yet to record more than twenty receiving yards in a game this season, but Jalen Waddle and Devon a Chian can only become more involved until you need to get another receiver or pass catcher in this group touches, and I do think that player ends up being Moleikue Washington in terms of what we see on like a snapshare basis, I really want to be surprised if it's actually Nick westbrook Kine who plays more snaps as the second perimeter wide receiver alongside Jalen Waddle.

That was the reality after the Tyreek injury in Week four, But on a per route basis, that's where I do think we see to see Malik Washington make more of his mark.

Mike McDaniel, he's already been willing to give Malik Washington more of these manufactured looks.

Washington currently leads all wide receivers with eight carries this year.

He's sixth of all wide receivers in yards after catch per reception as well.

So if Mike McDaniel wants to keep things close to the line of scrimmage for TUA, that's where I do think Malik Washington can become an interesting option at Virginia.

In twenty twenty three, his final year in college, Washington said an acc and school record with over fourteen hundred yards on one hundred and ten receptions while leading the nation enforced misstackles per attempt coming out as well.

We know he can handle the volume.

We know he could be a playmaker.

Excuse me, and Mike McDaniel, is he's going to need more explosives without Tyreek Hill, Right, That's just a simple fact.

Again, I'm breaking the mold of these videos because I do think Malik Washington really should be rostered in more than thirty four percent of leaks.

To me, this should be much closer to fifty percent if he is on your waiver wire in a deeper league, especially get him added even in like a twelve man league.

I really don't hate throwing Mileak Washington at the end of your bench.

The second player on our list this week is Chicago Bears wide receiver Luther Burden, who was rostered in twenty eight percent of leagues.

Now, I loved Luther Burden as a stash even before the season started, because once we had that first spike week in the first four weeks, I knew he was immediately going to be the headliner of every single waver Wire video.

And we got that in week three, a sixty five yard flee flicker touchdown, and majority expected that to be the catalyst for Luther Burden to get even more design plays in the coming weeks.

Unfortunately, that hasn't happened.

But what I also haven't entirely expected is that people are just gonna throw in the towel so quickly on Luther Burden after having negative four yards against Vegas last week and now he's going into the team's Week five by all of a sudden, it feels like people are just willing to dispose of him.

And I know, twenty eight percent of snaps and eleven rounds isn't exciting or even close to what you were hoping for with Luther Burden, but we could potentially get a rookie bye week bump here for him rest of the season.

To me, it's only a matter of time before Luthor Burden unseats a Lambad's a Kaas as the wide receiver three in this Bears offense.

You can only trot out, in my mind, a wide receiver who's on his fourth team in the last four years for so long until you have to get your early second round pick on the field more often.

And I also don't want to pretend that like DJ Moore is doing anything super special right now either heally has fifty nine yards in his last two games.

It's well, it's entirely been the roalm of Doonesday Show.

But I guess my point being is that Luther Burden still has a tremendous amount of upside here.

And now I do want to be careful about how I talk about these numbers because it's such a small sample size, But through Luther Burden's first four games, he's drawing a target on twenty six percent of his routes and he's running three point one nine yards per round.

That's the third best of all wide receivers with twenty five plus routes this year.

Those to me are marks of a wide receiver who has a very high ceiling should he become more involved in the Chicago Bears offense.

We knew it was going to take time with Ben Johnson implementing his offense.

We knew there was going to be a lot of mouths to feed, but we also knew that talent was there.

With Luther Burden coming out and considering Ben Johnson hands selected Luther Burden with one of the team's second round picks in the NFL draft this year.

This is just a player I want to stay well ahead of the curve on and keep Luthor burdon stash layer.

League mats are willing to throw in the towel on him.

Third player on our list this week is New Orleans Saints running back Kendre Miller, who was rostered in twenty six percent of leagues.

Every time I looked up at the Saints of Bills game on Sunday, it was Kendre Miller getting another tote instead of Alvin Kamara.

He finished the day eleven carries for sixty five nearly six yards per tote, sixty five yards in one the score on the afternoon.

That was good for the running back twenty five in PPR fourmats last week, And as I was watching Kendre get Carrie after Carrie, I was asking myself, where where did this come from?

Right?

Why are the Saints featuring him more this week?

And going back and checking the advance metrics on this game, like it wasn't hard to figure out why.

Per Joel Smith, Kendrey Miller was third in yards after contact per attempt in Week four, but even on the entire year, Kendrey Miller leads all running backs with at least twenty five carries inforce miss tackles per attempt.

So we are finally starting to see those grinder between the tackle attributes we saw in his college profile coming out of TCU.

I mean, the guy was five eleven, two hundred and fifteen pounds coming out Like this is a big dude we're talking about here.

His snapshare continues to rise each week, going from fifteen percent in weeks one and two to twenty seven percent in week three, and now in week four he was all the way up to thirty one percent.

Eventually, I think this plateau's out.

But could his snapshare reach forty five percent here in the near future, Like, I absolutely think it can.

The carries are rising with that number as well, five totes in the first two weeks, seven in week three, and then again those eleven carries against the Bills in week four.

I'm not here to communicate the fantasy demise of Alphae Mara and any capacity, but if you go in Google search, I found this fascinating.

If you go in Google search Alvin Kamara trade, you'll see that there is still plenty of speculation around contending teams calling the Saints for Alvin Kamara, who, like, let's just be honest, he doesn't need to play the rest of his contract on an owen four Saints team right now.

And again that is all like literally wild speculation.

I don't want you to I think I'm sitting here reporting in Alvin Kamara trade in any capacity, but I do think you have to consider that when making Kendre Miller a stash, there's nothing concrete out there, but when considering him as a stash, I think you have to at least acknowledge the upside for him to potentially lead this backfield should anything happen to Alvin Kamara, whether it is a trade or an injury.

Next up on our list is Kansas City Chiefs running back Burchard Smith, who is rostered in six percent of leagues.

Now.

I talked about Burshard Smith last week.

It was a suggestion that wouldn't pay you dividends in the near future.

But hey, lo and behold.

Matt Nagy after Week four has come out and said that he wants to see increased usage each week four Burshard Smith, and that might have actually already started.

In week four.

We saw his snaps jump from eleven percent to twenty six percent this last week.

He was given eight opportunities this week, which is only two less than Isaiah Pichecko's ten opportunities.

But this is exactly what I talked about last week.

Isaiah Paichecko and Kareem Hunt, they're just extremely uninspiring man.

Even in a dominant win against a banged up Ravens team, Isaiah Pichecko only seven carries.

He did get thirty five yards in a score, but Kareem Hunt thirteen carries for thirty four yards.

Why are we giving Kareem Hunt carries at this point, Andy Reid, Matt what are we doing here?

Right?

At some point they have to look at this group of running backs and realize Burshart Smith just gives them the most juice.

It's the great pass catching chops as a converted wide receiver.

It's the suddenness and changing of gears when he runs.

He's dynamic once he hits the perimeter in the second level of the defense.

I had brought up Isaiah Pichecko's rookie season last week as well, who also was a seventh round rookie.

He did have a strong Week one in his rookie season six two yards and a score on twelve totes, but then immediately in week two, returns to nine percent of the snaps, eight percent of the snaps in week three, then all the way down to three percent of the snaps in week five.

It wasn't until after the Chiefs Week eight by that year when Andy Reid finally just threw his hands up, quit messing around, and said, fine, Isaiah Pachecko is probably the best guy we have here.

Let's throw him on the field.

And see what happens.

So, based on Matt Naggy's comments, I feel like that's the trajectory we could already be on with Brashard Smith.

I know the Chiefs don't have their buy until week ten, but they're going to need to keep ramping up bur Shart Smith's usage if they want more juice out of this backfield, considering just how uninspiring Isaiah, pa Checko and kream Hunk continue to be the last player we'll touch on this week is Isaiah Davis, New York Jets running back, who is rostered in five percent of leagues.

The driving factor in this stash is solely because of Brailen Allen's knee injury that he sustained on Monday Night Football.

As of this recording, Brayleen Allen is seeking a second opinion, but the team is already bracing for stent on ir for him after sustaining what's reported to be a sprained MCL.

Now, he only played six snaps against the Dolphins on Monday Night.

It was Isaiah Davis who stepped in afterwards and played twenty one snaps to Breis Hall's forty, and even only with six naps.

Brayln Allen was still given four carries and Davis only logged five opportunities the entire game.

So I do think if you want to shift those Brailon Allen carries, maybe not entirely over to Isaiah Davis, but I think there's room essentially for Isaiah Davis to be this ten to twelve touch player every game if the Jets don't want to give Breis Hall twenty five plus opportunities each game with Braylon Allen out primarily, I do think we're gonna get Isaiah Davis as the change of pace back, so up a few receiving downs from Breece Hall, maybe take away one or two receptions as well, But really you're stashing Isaiah Davis in case anything catastrophic happens to Bretis Hall while Braylen Allen is all.

So again, not while Brayleen Allen is out, excuse me, so again not any major dividends expected to be paid on this stash, But in deeply it is absolutely worth a speculative ad.

As we've already experienced this year right, injuries can happen on any given week, so I would rather be safe than sorry stash Isaiah Davis again.

He's not going to be this fantasy brainbuster while Brailn Allen is out.

But at the very least you're gonna get a handful of opportunities every single game and insurance on Bradys Hall.

And there you have it, my top five waiver wire stashes ahead of Week five.

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Except for Leake Washington, all of them should be rostered in less than thirty percent of league, so there's a good chance they're available in yours as well.

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