Waiver Favors™: 2026 Week 4 Fantasy Football Pickups

By Ha Kung Wong  Week 2 Fantasy Football Pickups

Twitter: @FBGarbageTime

As I do every year over the last 14 years, I’m here to help with waiver wire adds via my weekly Waiver Favors™ article!  And I’m assuming if you’re reader right now, you’re in your fantasy football playoffs, so congratulations!

I’ll make a couple suggestions for after Week 4 of the 2026 fantasy football season that hopefully will keep your team running in the playoffs.  You’re welcome.  Again.

As usual, all pickups are available in at least 50% of Yahoo standard fantasy football leagues (with some minor exceptions) as of Sunday evening.

Kirk Cousins

QB – Las Vegas Raiders – 22% Owned

While everyone was excited about 1st overall pick Fernando Mendoza, its Kirk Cousins that’s started the Raiders off to a 3-1 season.  Although he lost to the Chiefs in Week 4, it really isn’t his fault as he completed 31 of 52 passes for 365 yards, 2 touchdowns and an interception, also completing a two-point conversion for good measure.  He has an 11:4 TD:INT ratio and has averaged 256.5 passing yards this season, which means you should grab him in all 12-team leagues or deeper if you’re unhappy with your current options or just need a high-end backup.

Emanuel Wilson

RB – Seattle Seahawks – 48% Owned 

With both Jadarian Price on IR and Zack Carbonnet not ready to come back from IR yet, Emanuel Wilson took control of the backfield and rushed 21 times for 81 yards and a touchdown while adding three catches for 39 yards and another touchdown.  Wilson may not be a special talent, but he’s tough to bring down and has good-enough vision to take advantage of the holes he receives, not to mention having a significant opportunity. George Holani received just 7 carries for 18 yards and only one catch in Week 4 so its clear that Wilson has some runway going forward.  Go grab him in all leagues.

Tank Bigsby & Will Shipley

RB – Philadelphia Eagles – 28% Owned & 1% Owned

Saquon Barkley went out in the second series with a hamstring injury opening the way for Tank Bigsby to take control of a relatively depleted Eagles offense backfield.  He managed 14 carries for 55 yards and one target before suffering his own injury and ceding way to the only RB left on the roster, Will Shipley.  Shipley managed 6 carries for 23 yards, unsurprisingly producing an almost identical 3.9 yards per carry.  It’s not going to blow the doors off, but whoever takes over in the backfield should get between around 18-22 carries with touchdown upside, so both are worth a pick up in all leagues.

UPDATE 10/6/26 – Tank Bigsby is going on IR so Will Shipley is elevated to a priority pick up.

Khalil Shakir

WR – Buffalo Bills – 42% Owned

I actually like Keon Coleman more as a pickup based on the potential upside, but with DJ Moore reaggravating his shoulder injury, Khalil Shakir may have an opportunity to turn it up.  He had 7 catches on 8 targets for 82 yards in Week 4, which nearly matched the 8 catches for 94 yards he’s had total in the first 3 games of the regular season.  He’s worth a speculative pick up in all 12-team leagues or deeper.

Keon Coleman

WR – Buffalo Bills – 4% Owned

This is the Keon Coleman that the Bills thought they selected back in the 2nd round of the 2024 draft.  After totaling just 8 of 9 targets for 101 yards total over first 3 weeks of the season, Coleman broke out catching 6 of 7 targets for 116 and a TD in Week 4, including one incredible catch that I won’t try to describe.  Just Google it.  Go get him in all 12-team leagues or deeper.

Dohnte Meyers

WR – Cincinnati Bengals – 1% Owned

Meyers brought in the Bengals’ 22-17 loss to the Jaguars on Sunday.
Dohnte Meyers started as the Bengals’ No. 3 receiver, but the former CFL standout became Joe Burrow‘s top target by the time the end of Week 4 due to Ja’Marr Chase‘s concussion in the first half and Tee Higgins‘ adductor injury in the 4th quarter.  Meyers finished with career highs across his receiving line while also remaining effective in his special-teams role, totaling 7 of 9 targets for 82 yards, 6 kickoff returns for 161 yards and 2 punt returns for 9 yards. With both Chase and Higgins uncertain for Week 5 and Andrei Iosivas still out on IR, Meyers could remain in the No. 1 receiver in Week 5 against the Dolphins.  Pick him up if you have either Chase or Higgins, or need a speculative WR pickup in 14-team leagues or deeper.