Week 5 Roundup: Waiver Wire, Rankings & Start/Sit Analysis

Kickoff is just over 24 hours away! While you're working off Friday night's hangover with a big fat sausage egg n cheese hero, side of waffles and a big gulp sized iced coffee, indulge in this roundup of our past week's fantasy football and NFL analysis, including matchup previews, start/sit analysis, week 5 sleepers, weekly rankings, and waiver wire pickups.

Week 5 Matchups and Sit/Start Analysis

Edward Gorelik, Adam Sabol and Lou Cappetta provide in-depth matchup analysis and start/sit advice for all of Week 5's games:

• Part 1 (games 1-7)
• Part 2 (games 8-11)
• Part 3 (games 12-15)

Week 5 Rankings

Zach Wilkens and Ryan Rufe provide deep analysis on their Week 5 Rankings.

Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups  and Sleepers

• Defenses to Start in Week 5, by Matt Libonati
• Deep Sleepers for Week 5, Darrin Reaves, Austin Seferian-Jenkins, Marvin Jones, Andre Holmes, Andre Roberts, and Louis Murphy by Evan Okulanis
• Wide Receivers to target in Week 5, including Eddie Royal, Andrew Hawkins, and Allen Robinson by Bill Dubiel
• Running Backs to target in Week 5, including Darrin Reaves, Andre Williams, Ka'deem Carey, Denard Robinson, Brandon Oliver, and Travaris Cadet by Bobby Koch
• Quarterbacks to target in Week 5, including Mike Glennon, Blake Bortles, Eli Manning, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Brandon Hoyer by Nathan Calderon
• Tight Ends to Target in Week 5, including Larry Donnell, Travis Kelce, Heath Miller, Clay Harbor, Eric Ebron, and Garrett Graham by Matt Hartman
• Kickers to Target in Week 5, broken down into 5 tiers
• The most thorough Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups Overview, by Zach Wilkens

And of course, make sure to check out (and bookmark) our waiver wire pickups list, which is updated with all the hottest fantasy football waiver wire pickups. Recent pickups include: Torrey Smith, Charles Clay, Jerick Mckinnon, Bishop Sankey, Blake Bortles, Eli Manning, Mike Glennon, Denard Robinson, Louis Murphy, Brandon Oliver, Allen Robinson, Darrin Reaves, Andrew Hawkins, James Jones, Eric Ebron, Justin Forsett, Nick Novak, and more!