Roster management is the single most crucial in-season task for fantasy football managers. Knowing which players to let go is as important as adding the right guys. Which players find themselves on our Week 11 fantasy football cut list?
Quarterbacks: Justin Fields, QB, New York Jets
Rostered: 46%
Justin Fields is an affront to quarterbacking. It took two special teams touchdowns for the New York Jets to find a way to win this game.
Fields attempted 11 passes in the entire game. He completed six of them, including one to Breece Hall that the running back turned into a 42-yard catch-and-run touchdown. That means Fields’ other five completions amassed a whopping 12 yards.
Since the Jets won, Fields will undoubtedly get another start on Thursday. It certainly won’t go well.
Fields now has as many games with single-digit fantasy points as he does 20+ points. There’s simply no way he can be started in fantasy. And it is only a matter of time before we see Tyrod Taylor take over.
Joe Burrow, QB, Cincinnati Bengals
Rostered: 55%
It’s déjà vu for the Cincinnati Bengals. The 2025 season is essentially a repeat of the 2024 season. The offense scores a boatload of points. The defense can’t stop anyone. As a result, the Bengals continue to lose games.
Cincinnati is now 1-6 since Joe Burrow went down. They carry a 3-6 record coming out of their bye week with a gauntlet to run. Their next five opponents are the Steelers, Patriots, Ravens, Bills, and Ravens again.
The Bengals are not expected to win any of those games. Two more losses essentially end their season. They’re taking at least three. By the time Burrow can return, this team will be mathematically eliminated. He’s not going to play again this season and can be safely dropped.
Kyler Murray, QB, Arizona Cardinals
Rostered: 44%
After three strong performances, Jacoby Brissett reminded everyone why he’s not a starting quarterback against the Seattle Seahawks. Even so, it seems likely we don’t see Kyler Murray play another snap for the Arizona Cardinals ever again.
Murray was placed on IR ahead of Week 10. He will be sidelined until at least Week 14. At that point, the Cardinals will almost certainly be practically eliminated from playoff contention.
Even when he was starting, Murray wasn’t perfect for fantasy. He doesn’t have a single game with 20+ fantasy points. The once elite QB1 is in desperate need of a career reset.
According to reports, Murray and the Cardinals are expected to discuss his future with the team. It seems likely they are headed for a split. There is no incentive for either party to have Murray play in a couple of meaningless games at the end of this season.
Running Backs: Chuba Hubbard, RB, Carolina Panthers
Rostered: 82%
To be clear, you do not absolutely have to drop Chuba Hubbard. He remains the clear RB for the Carolina Panthers and would be startable in the event of a Rico Dowdle injury. Dowdle is currently not 100% healthy, either. He was on the practice report last week with a quad issue and was shown getting his quad stretched out on the sideline in between series on Sunday.
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Hubbard is on the cut list because, right now, he has no fantasy value. The Panthers turned to Dowdle as their lead back. Even following a bad home loss to the New Orleans Saints, Dowdle certainly wasn’t to blame. He did his thing with 63 total yards and the team’s lone touchdown.
Dowdle’s role was essentially the same as it was during the two games Hubbard missed. He played 72% of the snaps, and it would’ve been even higher had he not checked out of the game for a brief period. Hubbard has now played only 21% of the snaps over the past two weeks. He is a pure handcuff and nothing more.
Jordan Mason, RB, Minnesota Vikings
Rostered: 85%
Similar to Hubbard above, you absolutely do not have to drop Jordan Mason. In fact, you shouldn’t unless you need the spot. But one thing we know for sure is that while Aaron Jones Sr. is healthy, Mason can no longer be started.
I really thought Mason would still be the lead runner with Jones as the passing-down back. Mason is probably still the goal line back, but the Minnesota Vikings’ offense isn’t good enough to make that matter all that much.
This was no timeshare. Even with Jones coming off a shoulder injury, he saw his heaviest snap share of the season at 70%. Mason was down at 24%, unsurprisingly a season low for him. Better days are ahead, but at this point, Mason is nothing more than a Jones handcuff.
Nick Chubb, RB, Houston Texans
Rostered: 54%
Game script continues to play a huge factor in who sees the field in the Houston Texans’ backfield. Even though the Texans were victorious over the Jacksonville Jaguars, they fell behind early and were chasing on the scoreboard the entire game. That led to Woody Marks dominating with 60 snaps to Nick Chubb’s 10.
Impressively, Chubb still managed 47 yards on just five carries. But the lack of playing time is concerning. And the fact remains that the rookie is a vastly superior player at this point in each of their respective careers.
Chubb scored in Week 2 and Week 5. Outside of those two games, he’s failed to reach double-digit fantasy points in any contest.
Next week should be better against a very bad Tennessee Titans run defense. But that may just mean more for Marks. Either way, Chubb hasn’t done nearly enough to justify a continued spot on fantasy rosters outside of intense leagues.
Wide Receivers: Matthew Golden, WR, Green Bay Packers
Rostered: 53%
Not every Round 1 wide receiver can pan out. In every draft class, there will be busts. Sometimes, they are surprising. Other times, they are Matthew Golden.
In one of the most predictable flops in recent memory, Golden just isn’t an NFL-caliber wide receiver. This isn’t revisionist history. I wrote about it in August.
Everything about Golden’s prospect profile screamed bust. Sure enough, here we are more than halfway through the season, and Golden has shown absolutely nothing.
The rookie’s slow start is to be expected. There was a brief period where we thought maybe he might be starting to put it together. It turns out that was just the two worst defenses in the league making him look moderately competent.
Over his past three games, Golden has had a total of 10 targets, nine receptions, and 50 yards. Christian Watson’s return provided more competition from a superior talent.
As if that isn’t enough, Golden picked up a shoulder injury in the Packers’ home loss to the Panthers and did not play on Monday night against the Eagles.
Golden was on this list last week, but he is still on far too many rosters. Let’s correct that this time around.
Chris Godwin, WR, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Rostered: 50%
This sure feels like a lost season for Chris Godwin. After missing the first three weeks of the year, the veteran wide receiver returned in Week 4 and looked pretty good. He saw 10 targets, but only caught three of them for 26 yards. Then in Week 5, he had the same stat line on four targets, albeit against a much more formidable opponent.
In that game, Godwin picked up a mysterious fibula injury. Despite not being placed on IR, he’s now missed four games. The latest reports from NFL insiders indicate that Godwin will be out until at least late November.
There’s undoubtedly a chance Godwin returns in Week 13 or 14 and ends up being healthy and contributing, but it gets increasingly unlikely by the week. If you need to replace injured players or cover bye weeks, Godwin is expendable.
Brandon Aiyuk, WR, San Francisco 40ers
Rostered: 38%
Early in the season, we thought each passing week got us closer to Brandon Aiyuk’s return. Now, each passing week makes it less and less likely that the San Francisco 49ers WR will contribute anything this season.
We are now in Week 11, and there is no indication that Aiyuk’s 21-day practice window will be opened. With the team on bye in Week 14, it’s hard to imagine Aiyuk playing before Week 15. It’s equally challenging to envision fantasy managers willing to put Aiyuk in fantasy lineups the first week of the playoffs.
Are you suddenly going to feel good about starting him in the semifinal? The final? The more you begin to think about the scenario in which Aiyuk finds his way into your lineup at some point this season, the more you realize there isn’t one. If you need the IR spot, do not hesitate to drop Aiyuk.
Darnell Mooney, WR, Atlanta Falcons
Rostered: 32%
Last week’s international game was actually fantastic. The Atlanta Falcons and Indianapolis Colts played an overtime thriller that saw Jonathan Taylor post one of the 10 most outstanding running back fantasy performances of all time.
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Amidst all of the good we saw, there was also Darnell Mooney. For reasons none of us will ever know, he saw eight targets in this game. Naturally, he caught just one for 17 yards. That’s now three straight games with one reception. Mooney has now caught a total of three of his last 14 targets.
The box score tells enough of a story, but watching Mooney play is somehow so much worse. He belongs nowhere near an NFL field, let alone your fantasy rosters.
Tight Ends: Evan Engram, TE, Denver Broncos
Rostered: 48%
It’s impressive how Evan Engram manages to do just enough to convince unwitting fantasy managers he might be worth something. Outside of his flukey touchdown reception in Week 5, Engram hasn’t hit double-digit fantasy points this season.
Engram has 12 total targets across his last three games. He’s posted lines of 4-36, 0-0, and 2-12. He played 44% of the snaps on Thursday night. There is no fantasy upside here whatsoever.
Tucker Kraft, TE, Green Bay Packers
Rostered: 44%
This is a carryover from Week 9 to serve as a reminder that Tucker Kraft tore his ACL. This is most unfortunate for the breakout tight end who had been operating as Jordan Love’s No. 1 target in the passing game. With Kraft’s season over, there’s nothing to do but drop him.
