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Darrel Williams (RB, KC) - Week 4 Waiver Wire Pickups

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ANALYSIS: Go get Darrel Williams before he's gone and then come back to read this! There is mostly one thing you should always consider when playing fantasy football and assessing your roster: targets/touches/opportunities matter the most. In 2018, we started devising a new one and 2019 is just confirming it: play whoever is part of Kansas City's attack.

Through Week 3, in each and every weekend, at least one KC player and Mahomes have both racked up more than 15.0 PPR. Sammy Watkins did it first, Demarcus Robinson and Travis Kelce followed suit, and this last week it's been Mecole Hardman and LeSean McCoy. If we lower the cutoff to around 10 PPR things turn too crazy. Kansas City has the most consistently powerful offense in the league and you should have at least some shares of it.

The next in line to put on a massive performance could perfectly be Darrel Williams. At the end of the preseason, Williams was the No. 4 option at RB. Now Damien Williams is sidelined, LeSean McCoy is not fully healthy (although his Week 3 performance didn't say that), and Darwin Thompson has not done much in his few chances. In his first full-time game along McCoy, Darrel Williams finished Week 3 with 62 yards on nine carries and added 47 more on five pass receptions. He didn't drop any of the five targets he saw and averaged 9.4 Yards per Target.

Although Kansas City will probably be back to fielding a backfield mostly composed of Damien Williams and LeSean McCoy, the 109 yards that Darrel Williams got this weekend speak well of his prowess and his abilities going forward. It looks hard to see a three-headed monster of a backfield running with the Chiefs, much less with the weapon they already have at QB and their passing game, but Darrel Williams will get his chances in any emergency/injury situation such as in Week 3.

As long as any of the other RBs remains under 100% healthy, Darrel Williams is worth stashing and moving to a Flex position if they look like potential limited players come gameday. Not a weekly league-winner, Williams still can end any given game with up to 25-plus PPR if all things click for him on such a force of an attack.


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