NFL fantasy waiver wire: who climbed, Week 5, 2026
The biggest climb onto our Week 5, 2026 fantasy board is Matthew Golden, WR11, who climbed at least 26 places from outside our top 36 wide receivers a week ago and projects 10.9 half-PPR points.
The biggest climb, free
Matthew Golden
WR11Packers- Projection
- 10.9
- Week 4
- outside our top 36 wide receivers
- Climb
- 26+ places
- Week 4 score
- not graded yet
Matthew Golden is WR11 on our Week 5, 2026 board, up from outside our top 36 wide receivers in week 4: he climbed at least 26 places into the range a 12-team league starts. Our projection has him at 10.9 half-PPR points against the Bears.
Climbed in
12
players whose position rank moved from outside a 12-team league's starting pool in week 4 to inside it in week 5
Biggest climb
26+ places
Matthew Golden, now WR11 on our board
Measured against
Week 4
the ranks we published last week, unedited, on the board that is still up
The rest of the report
11 more players climbed into a startable seat this week, across running backs, tight ends, wide receivers and quarterbacks. The full report lists every one of them with the same numbers.
The weekly board itself stays free and complete, every position and every scoring format, and it always will. What Pro adds here is the rest of this shortlist and the Wednesday mail that carries it after waivers clear.
How this list is built
A player is on this report when his half-PPR position rank was outside what a 12-team, one-flex league can start in week 4 and inside it in week 5. That pool is the top 12 quarterbacks, 36 running backs, 36 wide receivers and 24 tight ends, which is the same arithmetic our draft method page sets out. The ranks are the ones published on the weekly board, so this report and the board cannot disagree, and both are graded against actual fantasy points the week after they publish. What we do not know is which players are free in your league: rosters are private and we hold no roster data, so this is a report about what moved in our own numbers. Nothing here is betting advice.