Players to drop from your fantasy football team - ESPN

Perhaps you are aware that ESPN Fantasy delivers a rather extensive look at the top free agent players to add to your myriad football teams each and every Monday. I don't know the goofy fellow who writes it, but rumor is he looks quite like this. Regardless, the column analyzes players that tend to be in higher demand than the week prior, are available in at least 50% of ESPN leagues and are generally wise additions to your teams.

What that free agent column does not do is share the top options a fantasy manager, either on a winning or losing team, should send packing to free agency. So let's do that now.

Look, folks, it's October. Five weeks of the fantasy regular season are in the books, and so much has changed since draft day. Many things change every week, but we are seeing a whole lot of players on fantasy rosters who perhaps do not need to be there. We focus on ESPN standard leagues, because when the rules are different (roster sizes, roster spots, player scoring, etc.) then value is different. You're not dumping any starting QB in a superflex league, for example, not even the ones we name below.

Bottom line, what you really want to know, with all these players: «Is it OK to drop this guy, whom I so dearly coveted on draft day, but now truly hate to have on my roster?» With these guys, with the league-specific caveat above, you have our permission to move on.

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