I promised last week to be earlier with this posting, and I delivered, although it's admittedly still later than I'd like to get these names out. We'll shoot for late Friday or early Saturday for next week unless there's someone worth stashing from the Rams vs. Cardinals game Thursday night.

As always, this is not intended for teams that have good depth filling out their entire bench. The names discussed here are solely worth grabbing if there is at least one bench spot being wasted by a player going nowhere or you're just itching to drop a disappointing flyer draft pick or earlier waiver claim. The point is to add these guys before Sunday's games so as to beat your leaguemates to the punch and risk losing a potential breakout player to the waivers process.

Looking back at last week, I suggested just three names all of whom were handcuff running backs. And two of them look like good pick-ups if you got them before Sunday. With Reggie Bush leaving last week with a knee injury and possibly sitting out a game or two, Lamar Miller has a chance to see significant action. Shaun Draughn meanwhile will be the complement to Jamaal Charles after Peyton Hillis injured his ankle versus New Orleans. Chris Ogbonnaya though is not worth hanging onto for another week, as he did very little versus Buffalo and followed it up with a similar performance Thursday night versus the Ravens.

Shaun Hill, QB (DET) – Matthew Stafford has been far from the picture of health during his 3+ years in the league. Though he played all 16 games last year, he'd missed a combined 19 contests in his first two seasons. Now he has a strained muscle in his hip that forced him out of Week 3's loss to the Titans and has him somewhat iffy for Sunday. The likelihood is that Stafford will start, but should he aggravate the injury, Hill might get a chance to do his thing. And last week his thing was to throw for 172 yards and two scores in just the final 1:16 of the fourth quarter and one drive in overtime. When he started an extended period though in 2010, Hill was also very effective. In nine full games replacing Stafford that year he threw for 15 TD's and 2,500 yards. For anyone who has Stafford but not a strong backup, or is just weak in general at QB, Hill is a good stash just in case Stafford's health forces him to miss multiple games. 

Michael Floyd, WR (AZ) – The rookie first round pick has one career catch. After receiving just one target in the first two games of his career, Floyd caught his second target in Week 3, scoring an 8-yard touchdown on the only grab of his young and promising pro career. Some of the speculation as to why Floyd hasn't played more is that coach Ken Wisenhunt doesn't like to play rookies early in their first year, but that argument doesn't carry a lot of weight. As a rookie the year the Cards made their Super Bowl run, Tim Hightower scored touchdowns in the first two games of the year and vultured seven through eight weeks while also stealing some starts from Edgerrin James. As the career leader in basically every receiving category at Notre Dame, Floyd's talent level cannot be disputed. He offers size (6-foot-3, 225 lbs.), sub 4.5-speed and—as he displayed on his TD grab last week and another juggling act in the preseason—excellent ball skills. Perhaps the issue with his playing time thus far has been catching up to the speed of the NFL or learning the playbook, but it is not an issue of ability. The Cardinals took him 13th overall in the draft to help draw coverage away from Larry Fitzgerald and open up the passing game, and in the very near future, he may start doing just that.

William Powell, RB (AZ) – Beanie Wells (toe) is out, on IR for at least eight weeks, and LaRod Stephens-Howling is doubtful for this week with a groin injury. That leaves Ryan Williams to handle the bulk of the rushing duties for the Cards. Last week he turned in an impressive performance going for 95 total yards on just 14 touches, but he still has those two absolutely dreadful performances in Week 1 and 2 hanging over his head. Williams rushed for a Chris Johnson-like 22 yards on 18 carries combined between those two games and lost a fumble in each. Furthermore, his surgically repaired knee has him feeling a bit tentative running the ball. That's where Powell comes in. He'll be the primary—and possibly only—backup to Williams this weekend. The unheralded back proved to be very explosive in the preseason when he had a three-game stretch in which he carried the ball 23 times for 200 yards and a score in each game. He's built identically to Williams at 5-foot-9, 207 lbs. but is actually slightly faster with 4.4-speed. Don't be shocked if Powell sees 8-10 touches to keep Williams fresh or in the event the latter struggles against a stingy Dolphins run defense.

Isaiah Pead, RB (STL) – Steven Jackson has had plenty of trouble staying healthy in the past and has barely been able to practice the past couple of weeks with a nagging groin injury. While that does open the door to primary backup Darryl Richardson starting on Sunday with SJax a game-time decision, it also cracks it open for Pead. The latter is a bit more athletic than Richardson and was drafted in the second round this year with the intentions that he'd back up Jackson. That hasn't worked out so far but there's no reason to believe it won't change. Richardson is a talented player in his own right, but by no means does he have a stranglehold on that spot. When he replaced Jackson versus the Redskins in Week 2, Richardson ran for 83 yards on just 15 carries, but 53 of those yards came on one jaunt down a wide open sideline, a run that Pead most certainly could have made and might have taken all the way. That means his other 14 carries totaled just 30 yards. Moreover, Richardson lost a crucial fumble in the fourth quarter that could have cost them the game. So don't be shocked if the Rams' second-round investment gets a chance to spark a bad offense versus a great Seattle defense on Sunday if Jackson is held out.