Week 6 · 2026 · Oct 15–19 · 14 games, none played yet

Waivers, defense and kickers

Every recommendation here is a pair: who comes in, who goes out, and what your starting lineup is worth before and after. A good free agent is not a good move if the required drop costs more than he adds.

What this screen will not do

It will not rank a defense or a kicker as if that ranking were validated.DST_ORDINAL_RANKING and KICKER_ORDINAL_RANKING are REJECTED in the capability registry, and the labels below are read from that registry rather than written by hand — the day an experiment moves them, the wording changes on its own. What you get instead is the factual context for each matchup and, for kickers, the one thing that is verifiable: whether the player actually has the job.

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As of each row dates its own source

Rankings2026-10-14T13:59:16Z

Injury reportweek 6 PARTIAL · 2 of 28 clubs filed · 0 designations

Rosters2026-10-14T12:52:12Z

Kicker jobs2026-10-14T12:51:31Z

The report does not cover every club yet

Only 2 of 28 clubs have filed the week 6 report — clubs playing Thursday report first, the rest from Wednesday on. So far only DEN, SEA have. For a player on a club that has not filed, no designation means NOT REPORTED, not healthy.

2 daily snapshot(s) kept for this week: 2026-10-13.json, 2026-10-14.json. Nothing is overwritten, so what changed and when stays auditable.

Best available in my league add + drop, with your lineup before and after

Link a Sleeper league above to see who is actually available in it. Until then this section stays empty on purpose: a waiver list that ignores your league is a list of players you may not be able to add.

Defense / DST this week’s context · DESIGN_ONLY

This is context, not a ranking. Streaming defenses is DESIGN_ONLY in the registry (E24): the opponent’s implied total predicts points allowed at r 0.388, which is enough to order this table and not enough to call a DST1–DST12 ranking validated.

Defense	Opponent	Opposing QB	Opp. implied	Pts allowed	Sacks	TO
KC	vs LAC	Justin Herbert	16.40	18.50	1.33	1.33
BAL	@ CLE	Deshaun Watson	17.51	24.17	2.00	1.00
NE	vs NYJ	Geno Smith	18.21	20.50	2.00	1.00
SEA	@ DEN	Bo Nix	18.69	19.67	3.33	2.00
IND	vs TEN	Cam Ward	18.79	29.33	1.67	0.33
PIT	@ TB	Baker Mayfield	19.52	23.17	2.33	1.67
CAR	@ PHI	Jalen Hurts	19.80	26.50	1.83	1.33
LAR	vs ARI	Jacoby Brissett	19.95	25.17	1.83	0.83
JAX	vs HOU	C.J. Stroud	20.02	16.17	2.00	1.33
PHI	vs CAR	Bryce Young	20.70	22.50	1.17	0.83
TB	vs PIT	Aaron Rodgers	20.98	21.00	1.00	1.50
SF	vs WAS	Jayden Daniels	21.65	22.33	2.17	1.00
DEN	vs SEA	Sam Darnold	21.81	20.17	3.00	1.17
NO	@ NYG	Jameis Winston	22.24	28.33	2.33	0.83
HOU	@ JAX	Trevor Lawrence	22.48	23.33	3.83	1.33
BUF	@ LV	Kirk Cousins	23.02	29.00	1.83	1.00
NYG	vs NO	Tyler Shough	23.26	20.50	1.33	1.50
CHI	@ ATL	Michael Penix Jr.	23.66	19.33	2.67	0.83
CLE	vs BAL	Lamar Jackson	24.99	21.67	3.00	1.33
NYJ	@ NE	Drake Maye	25.29	21.83	2.83	0.83
TEN	@ IND	Daniel Jones	25.71	25.00	2.00	0.33
ATL	vs CHI	Caleb Williams	25.84	23.17	2.50	1.00
LAC	@ KC	Patrick Mahomes	26.10	24.17	2.67	1.67
GB	vs DAL	Dak Prescott	26.18	23.83	2.50	1.83
DAL	@ GB	Jordan Love	27.32	28.33	1.50	0.50
WAS	@ SF	Brock Purdy	28.85	27.67	2.00	1.33
LV	vs BUF	Josh Allen	30.48	23.50	3.50	2.00
ARI	@ LAR	Matthew Stafford	31.55	33.17	2.00	1.00

Ordered by the opponent’s implied total, ascending — the only measured signal in this block. Recent numbers cover 6.00 game(s), which is a small sample this early and is shown so you can judge it.

Kickers job first, then the number

Does he actually have the job? That question comes before any ranking, and it is the one this project got wrong three times. Verified against the clubs’ own depth chart, snapshot 2026-10-14T12:51:31Z. Per-kicker expected points is VALIDATED (E8). The order is not: KICKER_ORDINAL_RANKING is REJECTED (E8b) — K1 through K6 beat K7 through K12 by 0.26 points per game with the interval crossing zero. Read this as a list of jobs and matchups, not as K1 > K2.

Kicker	Team	Job	Opponent	Exp. pts
Harrison MevisNO NFL TEAM	LAR	NOT THE KICKER · LAR lists Blake Grupe	vs ARI	9.01
Matt PraterNO NFL TEAM	BUF	NOT THE KICKER · BUF lists Tyler Bass	@ LV	8.87
Eddy Pineiro	SF	listed first	vs WAS	8.67
Brandon McManusNO NFL TEAM	GB	NOT THE KICKER · GB lists Trey Smack	vs DAL	8.46
Brandon Aubrey	DAL	listed first	@ GB	8.30
Harrison Butker	KC	listed first	vs LAC	8.29
Cairo Santos	CHI	listed first	@ ATL	8.25
Blake GrupeNO NFL TEAMNOW NYJ	IND	NOT THE KICKER · IND lists Spencer Shrader	vs TEN	8.23
Andy Borregales	NE	listed first	vs NYJ	8.17
Tyler Loop	BAL	listed first	@ CLE	8.12
Nick Folk	ATL	listed first	vs CHI	7.91
Daniel Carlson	NO	listed first	@ NYG	7.85
Matt Gay	LV	listed first	vs BUF	7.81
Cam Little	JAX	listed first	vs HOU	7.72
Younghoe KooNO NFL TEAM	NYG	NOT THE KICKER · NYG lists Dominic Zvada	vs NO	7.68
Jason Myers	SEA	listed first	@ DEN	7.60
Jake MoodyNO NFL TEAM	WAS	NOT THE KICKER · WAS lists Drew Stevens	@ SF	7.57
Chris Boswell	PIT	listed first	@ TB	7.46
Ryan Fitzgerald	CAR	listed first	@ PHI	7.40
Ka'imi Fairbairn	HOU	listed first	@ JAX	7.28
Chad Ryland	ARI	listed first	@ LAR	7.27
Jake Elliott	PHI	listed first	vs CAR	7.24
Chase McLaughlin	TB	listed first	vs PIT	7.19
Joey Slye	TEN	listed first	@ IND	7.05
Wil Lutz	DEN	listed first	vs SEA	7.03
Jason Sanders	NYJ	listed first	@ NE	6.93
Andre Szmyt	CLE	listed first	vs BAL	6.79
Cameron Dicker	LAC	listed first	@ KC	6.57

A row marked NOT THE KICKER is not a weak recommendation — it is not a recommendation. The name beside it is who the club actually lists.

What today's sweep does not know

official injury report for week 6: 26 of 28 clubs have not filed yet (ARI, ATL, BAL, BUF, CAR, CHI, CLE, DAL, GB, HOU, IND, JAX, KC, LAC, LAR, LV, NE, NO, NYG, NYJ, PHI, PIT, SF, TB, TEN, WAS) — no designation for their players means NOT REPORTED, not healthy
route participation: nflverse does not publish per-player routes in this dataset, so role is measured by snap share and targets, not routes
press, unofficial depth charts and transactions: SOURCE UNAVAILABLE from this environment