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Is Geno Smith Worth a Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickup Amid His Impressive Start to the NFL Season?

When the Seattle Seahawks acquired quarterback Drew Lock from the Denver Broncos for Russell Wilson, all expectations were that Lock would be the new QB1 in Seattle.

Instead, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll opted for familiarity, giving the job to 2021 backup Geno Smith following a training camp competition.

The move has paid off so far.

Smith currently leads the NFL with a 77.3% completion percentage and has thrown six touchdowns and just two interceptions. His best game statswise came last week in a 48-45 win against the Detroit Lions when he completed 23 of 30 passes for 320 yards and two touchdowns. Smith also ran for 49 yards and a touchdown.

“Geno played some spectacular football,” Seattle head coach Pete Carroll said, via the team’s official website. “Spectacular football. Not just the throwing and the catching, but the command of the game and running the whole show. He did an incredible job, and he ran the ball, too, for 50 yards or something. Fantastic day, I don’t know how you could do a whole lot more, play a whole lot better than that.”

Geno Smith Fantasy Football Ranking & Analysis

Despite Smith becoming a hot name on the fantasy football waiver wire, he still was pretty low on our Week 5 rankings (27th) for our Stokastic NFL Start/Sit Fantasy Football Rankings.

Though it’s hard to discount Smith’s impressive start to the season, it’s also pretty tough to give him too much credit for carving up a porous Lions defense. Detroit has allowed at least 27 points in each game and the most yards against through the first four weeks of the NFL season.

“Well, I know this, we lack confidence. That’s very clear to see, that’s one element to it,” Lions head coach Dan Campbell said, via ESPN. “We lack a lot of confidence, and so certainly to do that you have to have production in games and have success and stop your opponents, get some stops, things of that nature. So we’re lacking some confidence in areas, and then there again we’re still making errors that falls into our boat as coaches. That’s on us.”

Smith is proving that he might still be an NFL starter, but given the Seahawks’ preference to run the football, along with several tough matchups coming up, it’s probably best not to plug the veteran QB into your starting lineup right now.

He sure is an easy guy to root for, though.

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