At various points during the fantasy football season, injuries, bye weeks and breaking news can cause you to need reinforcements for your fantasy lineup. Every Friday throughout the 2025 NFL season, Matt Bowen will offer up some late-week pickup options to help fill those holes, with an emphasis on deeper leagues.

Because of that, this column will focus mostly on players rostered in fewer than 50% of ESPN leagues, with occasional exceptions.

With six teams on a bye this week, the options are pretty slim, but there are enough quality players available to drop into deep-league lineups. We'll start at quarterback, with two longtime veterans coming off big-time games. I'm also eyeing a couple tight ends who are providing double-digit fantasy production, and we'll hit on multiple running ba

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