Fantasy Football: 5 Players You Can Drop After Week 3

Thomas Rawls, RB, Seattle Seahawks

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The Seattle Seahawks backfield drama has been at once scintillating and perplexing since the team went out and signed Eddie Lacy in free agency. The general consensus headed into the season was that Lacy and Thomas Rawls would serve as co-leads of the backfield, with C.J. Prosise getting in the bulk of the passing-game work.

Almost none of that has come to fruition. After a dreadful preseason and Week 1, Lacy had been completely phased out by Week 2, when he too made this list. When Rawls came back in Week 2, seventh-round draft pick Chris Carson led the team in carries, but in hedging my bets, I didn't recommend Rawls as a drop candidate because he was coming off an ankle injury, so it remained possible that the team would ease him back into the mix slowly.

But there's no justifying keeping Rawls on your roster any longer, because right now, this is the Carson and Prosise show. After registering only five carries in Week 2 to Carson's 20, Rawls got zero carries in Week 3 (to Carson's 11) while getting no targets through the air in either week.

Unless head coach Pete Carroll is playing some insane long game, Rawls doesn't have a path to fantasy relevance in the near future barring injury. Cut bait and grab Wendell Smallwood off of waivers, who is currently available in 99% of ESPN leagues.