A new week of waiver pickups is beginning, and there's the added wrinkle of four teams on byes besides. It's time to clear some room on the bench, and I'm going to help you find some right now. It's not as difficult as it was a little while ago.

First off, Josh Gordon can hit the bricks. He's back on indefinite suspension by the NFL after checking into rehab, and the Browns have washed their hands of him. I suppose there's some scenario where he comes back into the league a month from now clean and sober, Roger Goodell gives him a vote of confidence, and the Patriots send Cleveland a draft pick and immediately install him as Tom Brady's No. 1 receiver. Could happen, right?

Well, no. He's probably not going to play in the NFL this season -- definitely not in Cleveland, probably not anywhere else.

I just traded away Thomas Rawls in dynasty, and if I had him in a re-draft league (I don't), I would cut him. He's got a fractured bone in his leg and won't play for the next several weeks at a minimum. When he returns, he'll back up Christine Michael, who's better. Pete Carroll can say whatever he wants about Rawls being a perfect fit for the offense or whatnot, but he's an injury-prone backup who doesn't catch passes and will probably get hurt again if he ever gets back on the field. Goodbye.

Sammy Watkins is definitely out for the next seven games. If the Bills had any hope he'd be healthy and able to play football in fewer than that amount of games, they wouldn't have placed him on injured reserve. What that says to me is they know for a fact he won't be ready to play for that long, and suspect he'll be out even longer. Best guess is that he undergoes another surgery on his foot and is officially done for 2016 at some point in the next week or two. I cut him last Friday, and I know somebody will pick him up in this week's round of waiver adds. When that happens, I shall laugh. He's done.

The NFL is a cold business. We hear it all the time. Fantasy football is no different -- and in fact it should be even more ruthless, because there's no human element here. If Hue Jackson says we're moving on, it seems just a little bit sad. I guarantee that Josh Gordon does not know or care that I cut him from my fantasy team, nor should he.

As Jackson says: We've got to think about what's best for the team. So do fantasy owners.