10 Fantasy Football Stash Candidates Ahead of Week 2

Sep 09, 2025

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Week 1 met us with plenty of injury news to monitor before, during, and after the collective slate, which gives us a lot of moving pieces to work with as we navigate the opening of the season. Due to those machinations, I’ve highlighted stashable players because of injuries, potential soft upcoming schedules, or shifts to playing time in the near future.

Editor's Note: Check out the Week 2 Waiver Wire Watch!

Tyquan Thornton (0%), JuJu Smith-Schuster, WR - Chiefs (1% rostered)

It’s not as if the team was able to gameplan for it, but considering Xavier Worthy only played three snaps on Friday night, we do have a good idea of how the Chiefs divvied up the wide receiver rotation with him sidelined.

Chiefs WR Snaps, Week 1
Player	Routes Run	Slot	Wide
Hollywood Brown	46	25	23
Tyquan Thornton	38	13	27
JuJu Smith-Schuster	38	10	30

With Hollywood Brown playing about as close as you can get to a 100% route participation, the 3-WR set consisted of him, Tyquan Thornton, and JuJu Smith-Schuster, with the former operating as a sideline burner and the latter receiving all five of his targets from within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage. It’s worth pointing out that rookie Jalen Royals was declared out earlier in the week with a knee issue and didn’t travel with the team, so whether or not he forces more of a rotation is to be determined. Based on how they were deployed, Thornton could quickly become the unrealized air yards king of 2025 as a boom-or-bust option while Smith-Schuster is more of a medium-floor/capped-ceiling option over the next month. There’s the potential that Worthy ends up missing the rest of the season.

Romeo Doubs, WR - Packers (15% rostered)

The Packers’ target share was as flat as it’s ever been in Week 1. In typical Green Bay fashion, their leading target-earner (Jayden Reed) accounted for only five of Jordan Love’s 22 pass attempts. At the same time, Tucker Kraft and Romeo Doubs trailed slightly behind with four apiece. So, clearly, Doubs isn’t a stash candidate because of his gaudy numbers, but rather, his (predictable) inclusion as a starter in 2-WR sets, and the fact that he saw a 71% snap rate, dwarfing the next closest pass-catchers, Matthew Golden (48%) and Dontayvion Wicks (46%).

This rotation will be hard to peg on a week-to-week basis, but if Doubs is consistently that far ahead of the pack, we need to be taking a longer look at him.