Barion Brown

Four games into 2026, Barion Brown has 0 targets. Not one. Two carries for minus-2 yards is the entire stat line, and week 4 of 2026 gave him minus-0.5 points, which is almost hard to do in PPR. He sat out one game already, and there has been no injury designation on him since before week 5 of 2026, so this is not a health story. It is a playing time story, and the depth chart says why: he is listed fourth among New Orleans receivers, behind Chris Olave, Devaughn Vele and Bryce Lance, with Jordyn Tyson also on the list. A sixth-round rookie who cannot crack the top three has no path to targets right now.

The game he sat was week 3 of 2026, his only absence so far. Before the season we gave him 19 points for the year, built on 9 expected games at 2.1 a game. He has played four and scored 0.0 a game, well under that pace, and his bye in week 8 of 2026 is still ahead. There is no ADP history for him, which tells you no one counted on him this season, and the 6 players left in his tier sit before a 1.9-point cliff, so the drop behind him is steep.

Nothing in the recent news changes any of this. We would let him go in every format and spend the spot on a receiver with a weekly route to targets. The only thing that flips the read is an injury to Olave or Vele, and you can check the wire for that the day it happens.