Week 6 Fantasy Football Sneaky Starts & Sleepers

Oct 09, 2024

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All but the luckiest fantasy owners at some point need to find the proverbial diamond in the rough—a waiver wire or bench player capable of putting up some points in a pinch. This weekly feature is dedicated to that part of fantasy football. It's not pretty, but it's part of the game.

I’ll put the defense’s aFPA (adjusted fantasy points allowed) rank in parentheses below. As of Week 4, we are now using only 2024 data for our signature strength of schedule metric, which makes it a great apples-to-apples comparison of each defensive matchup.

Last week’s Sneaky Starts featured Baker Mayfield (QB7), Geno Smith (QB9), Caleb Williams (QB6), Trevor Lawrence (QB11), Joe Flacco (QB4), D'Andre Swift (RB2), Kareem Hunt (RB4), Trey Sermon (RB10), Tyrone Tracy (RB16), Cam Akers (RB19), Tank Bigsby (RB1), Roschon Johnson (RB13), Wan'Dale Robinson (WR19), Josh Downs (WR26), Xavier Worthy (WR34), Darnell Mooney (WR3), Demarcus Robinson (WR32), Jordan Whittington (WR21), Tutu Atwell (WR38), Tucker Kraft (TE1), Brenton Strange (TE9), and Colby Parkinson (TE13).

Let’s see who might surprise in Week 6:

Quarterbacks

Geno Smith, Seahawks (vs. SF, 24)

With 284/1 plus 72 yards rushing last week, Geno Smith is currently the fantasy QB7 on the year. He has scored 17+ in four of his last five games. He has historically struggled against the 49ers, but San Francisco just gave up 24.1 points to Kyler Murray and yielded 19.9 points to Sam Darnold in Week 1.