Oct 13, 2026 · 1h 19m
Thin running-back market shifts waiver strategy toward stashes
Week 6 Waiver Wire: Must-Add Players, Season-Long Stashes, and Yellowstone Bear Attacks
With immediate running-back help scarce, the hosts weigh speculative additions against upside receivers, tight ends, and weekly streamers.
- 1A depleted running-back pool makes long-term stashes more valuable than chasing immediate production.
- 2The hosts prioritize upside receivers and Pat Freiermuth among tight ends, balancing opportunity, injuries, and red-zone roles.
- 3Quarterback and defense streamers round out the fantasy plan before the show veers into trivia and guilty-pleasure music.
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The closing bedroom-music debate turns the episode’s guilty-pleasure-song theme into its most memorable comic exchange.
The brief
Week 6’s waiver strategy starts with a problem: the running-back pool is unusually thin, so the hosts favor speculative players who could matter later.
Kalen Black and Emmitt Johnson headline the running-back stash debate, where injuries, uncertain roles, and future opportunity matter more than immediate points.
At receiver and tight end, the discussion turns to second-half upside, with Pat Freiermuth emerging as the clearest tight-end add.
The hosts then cover quarterback and defense streamers before listener mail sends the show toward Yellowstone bear fatalities, crocodiles, and songwriting credits.
The standout detour is the closing debate over embarrassing songs and bedroom music, a comic coda to an otherwise methodical waiver-wire episode.