Fantasy Football Cut Candidates: Week 10

By Week 10, fantasy rosters tell the truth. Usage trends have hardened, injuries have reordered depth charts, and bye weeks punish passive benches. In standard 10-to-12-team formats, the edge comes from churn: move off players whose routes, snaps, or touches have cratered, and reallocate to streamers or contingent upside. These fantasy football cut candidates remain popular, but current roles—snap shares under fifty percent, shrinking targets, and red-zone droughts—point clearly toward the waiver wire, not a protected bench spot. Wondering who to look for in the waiver wire? Check the dedicated article!

Fantasy Football Cut Candidates: Week 10

Chuba Hubbard, Carolina Panthers, RB (75% rostered)

Rico Dowdle has taken over this backfield. In Week 9 at Green Bay, Dowdle played 72% of offensive snaps while Hubbard was at 22%; the split persisted in Week 10 vs. the New Orleans Saints (Dowdle 79%; Hubbard 21%). That leaves Hubbard as a low-volume, non-featured runner with minimal passing-down work, which is not worth a bench spot in shallow redraft formats. The share of touches and yards is even more one-sided in Dowdle’s favor.

Nick Chubb, Houston Texans, RB (54% rostered)

Since the Houston Texans’ Week 6 bye, Chubb’s role has shrunk while rookie Woody Marks has increasingly led the rotation. Chubb’s post-bye snap rates: 21% (Week 7), 44% (Week 8), 36% (Week 9), and just 13% in Week 10. He has not scored since Week 5 and has averaged less than 10 rushing attempts in Weeks 7–10, respectively—profile of a touchdown-dependent RB2/bench piece on a time-share team. With Marks now listed above Chubb on depth charts and earning the heavier usage (80% of snaps in Week 10), managers in standard leagues can move on.

Dalton Kincaid, Buffalo Bills, TE (87% rostered)

Even before the new injury, Kincaid’s playing time had capped his week-to-week reliability. Since Week 6, he has not topped 50% of snaps. In Week 10, he exited with a hamstring injury and was ruled out; the club and beat reports now describe him as week-to-week. In typical 10 to 12-team redraft formats without IR, managers can churn the spot and play the streamer market while he heals and the role remains constrained. (If you do have IR, stash.)

Hunter Henry, New England Patriots, TE (73% rostered)

Henry’s peak came in Weeks 3 and 4; since Week 5 he has averaged 2.5 catches and under 30 yards per game (15/173/1 across six contests). That line typically lands outside the weekly top 20 tight ends, and his lone score in that span came on a single 7-yard catch. Unless benches are deep, this profile fits the streaming pool rather than a permanent roster spot.

Bottom line

The late-season push rewards decisiveness. Clinging to fading roles because of preseason priors blocks higher-leverage bets—backup runners one injury away, tight ends with every-down routes, and weekly streaming matchups. With five or six regular-season weeks left in most fantasy leagues, every bench slot should either cover a bye or threaten a rest-of-season leap. The calls above are data-driven, not personal. Make clean cuts, reallocate aggressively, and keep one roster spot flexible for the next breakout. The Fantasy Football Cut Candidates Hubbard, Chubb, Kincaid, and Henry are still rostered in more than 50% of Sleeper leagues and should not have those guaranteed roster spots anymore.