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Fantasy Football: 4 Things We Learned From Week 5

Ryan Ward  —  @marvinhward84 Oct 10th, 2016
Week 5 in the NFL was full of surprises. Here are some of the fantasy football takeaways.

The NFL just won't calm down this season. Okay, maybe it did a little bit in Week 5. There were no serious injuries to players, and there were no wildly unpredictable upsets that turned talking heads' conversations upside down.

But for fantasy football purposes, Week 5 was still wild as ever. There were six players who notched over 125 receiving yards in Week 5, two of whom were undrafted fantasy assets heading into the season -- Adam Thielen and Cameron Meredith -- and one, Tevin Coleman, is a running back.

Sometimes events in fantasy football are impossible to foresee.

But there are nuggets of intelligence we can find now that players' roles are becoming even more solidified five weeks into the season. As such, let's take a look at some of the things we've learned with Week 5 in the rear-view mirror.

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