Fantasy Week 6 Waiver Wire: 10 Guys That Can Help Your Team and Five That Won't

Injuries are unavoidable. They happen every year to some of the best players in the league, and even though they can suck the life right out of your team, you deal with them and move on because hey, this is fantasy football, not fantasy badminton.

So now that a few injuries have thinned out the league and the bye weeks are upon us, what do you do? Hopefully, you have a little depth that you can plug right in there, but what if you don't?

This is where the all-important waiver wire comes in handy and why you need to know exactly who to pick up...and who to drop.

Pickup: QB Curtis Painter (Indianapolis Colts)

Curtis has played so well that it looks like Peyton Manning may be in jeopardy of his job... Ha!

The guy is basically like a modern era Don "Magic Man" Majkowski. Any time a guy can look like Jeff Spicoli and chuck the ball three-quarters of the way down a football field, you gotta like him.

He hasn't looked great doing it, but 19.1 fantasy points per game the last two weeks is pretty darn impressive, and you know the Colts are going to need to pass the ball in order to win games.

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Pickup: RB Jackie Battle (Kansas City Chiefs)

Looks like the Chiefs have finally found the guy they want to hold Jamaal Charles' jockstrap for the rest of the season...

Granted, he's on a slow-sinking ship over there in Kansas City, but if you need a bye week filler over the next month (FYI - he's actually on his bye this coming weekend) or so, he's a decent pickup to turn to.

He's not all that big or fast, but he's playing better than Thomas Jones at this point and looks to have earned more playing time at the very least.

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Pickup: RB Earnest Graham (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)

At this point it's looking doubtful that LeGarrette Blount (knee) gets out on the field in Week 6. In fact, Coach Morris has already stated that Graham will be his feature back and get the "bulk of the carries" against the Saints this Sunday.

Considering his PPR value, he's worth grabbing for at least this coming weekend as he's shown in the past (898 yards and 10 TDs in 2007 as a replacement) that he can work as a starter if the situation arises.

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Pickup: RB Delone Carter (Indianapolis Colts)

With Joseph Addai going down for at least this weekend and possibly up to a month, who do you think the Colts are going to want to test out as a possible permanent replacement for the future? Donald Brown?

Nope, been there, done that.

They'll be taking a look at their fourth-round pick in the 2011 NFL draft, RB Delone Carter, to see if he has what it takes to work with Peyton Manning in the Colts' backfield next season.

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Pickup: RB Ryan Torain (Washington Redskins)

This one is, of course, only if nobody grabbed him off the waiver wire during his bye week.

That said, Torain looked like a man on a mission in Week 4 when he finally got a chance to prove himself to Shanahan once again...and prove himself he did.

If Hightower's shoulder is bothering him even the slightest bit, you can bet Torain will be starting against one of the worst rush D's in the league this weekend (Philadelphia) and get the lion's share of the carries.

It doesn't hurt that the Redskins have two more bottom-of-the-barrel rush defenses, Carolina and Buffalo, coming up in Weeks 7 and 8 either.

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Pickup: WR Early Doucet (Arizona Cardinals)

Arizona's WR2 had 16 targets this past weekend. That's right, 16 targets!!!

If opposing defenses are just going to double Larry Fitz all the time, Doucet will be left with a lot of fantasy value out there...

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Pickup: WR Doug Baldwin (Seattle Seahawks)

That was one seriously disgusting (in a good way) display out there against the Giants last Sunday. Eight catches on nine targets, 136 yards and one TD while five of those eight catches went for over 20 yards apiece!

That's good enough for him to be on my squad any day of the week.

His bye week is coming up this weekend, but if you have room on your bench, snatch him up now and stash him until Week 7.

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Pickup: WR James Jones (Green Bay Packers)

Listen, Aaron Rodgers doesn't play favorites and can get any one of his16 receivers 100 yards and a touchdown if he wants, but it looks like James Jones has played his way into more snaps, so that certainly can't hurt.

If he's still available on your waiver wire because of his lack of early-season production, go get him.

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Pickup: WR Damian Williams (Tennessee Titans)

Damian has caught a TD pass two weeks in a row now with Kenny Britt out of the lineup and put up 66 yards on six catches last weekend. He also saw 11 balls thrown his way and says that he and QB Matt Hasselbeck are finally on the same page.

He's on his bye this weekend, but if you have room on your bench and your WR corps is hurting, you could do worse than picking this guy up.

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Pickup: WR Naaman Roosevelt (Buffalo Bills)

Starting WR Donald Jones just went down for at least a month with a busted ankle, so Roosevelt will get a shot to work out of the slot with David Nelson moving outside.

He's not big (6'0", 190 lbs) and he's not incredibly fast (4.59 in the 40), but the Bills seem to have something going on over there on offense and he did catch five passes on seven targets last weekend.

He's a long-shot, but if you need someone to fill in during a bye week, he could work.

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Pickup: TE Jake Ballard (New York Giants)

It took a couple of weeks of using the eye-test, but it was needed considering he came out of nowhere.

Ballard is making plays and scoring TDs on a weekly basis now, and with Eli throwing the ball around as much as he is, you have to add Jake to your team if you're hurting at tight end.

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Drop: QB Donovan McNabb (Minnesota Vikings)

The Vikings finally won a game...and they used AP28 to do it. McNabb was absolutely AWFUL against a bad Arizona pass D, yet the team still won despite him.

Coach Frazier is going to realize sooner or later that the only way this team is going to win is by running Peterson into the ground, which basically means that it doesn't matter who quarterbacks the offense...and also means that McNasty is expendable.

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Drop: QB Kyle Orton (Denver Broncos)

The Donkeys are 6-22 in Orton’s past 28 starts, so suck it Merril Hoge, you idiot!

It's Tebow's time to arrive...as we and everyone else has been saying for the past few weeks.

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Drop: RB Ryan Grant (Green Bay Packers)

First of all, the Packers don't give the ball to him enough.

Second, James Starks is simply better.

Third, Grant is coming off season-ending surgery and is clearly playing like it.

Trade him for whatever you can get.

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Drop: WR Donald Driver (Green Bay Packers)

It's tough to drop a Packers wide receiver because, well, you just never know...but you simply have to do it with Driver.

Rookie WR4 Randall Cobb is looking FAR better than Driver is out there, so it's tough to see Donald making any sort of fantasy impact from here on out.

Go out and grab someone with a little more upside for your bench.

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Drops: WRs Josh Morgan (49ers) and Donald Jones (Bills)

Both of these guys were fringe players on your team to begin with, but now that each of them will be out for an extended time with their respective injuries, you have to cut 'em loose.

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