Big Blue View
Welcome to the Fantasy Football Waiver Wire for Week 7. We’re almost at the halfway point of the fantasy football regular season. That was quick.
Let’s talk about Bye weeks for a second. In Week 7, just two teams are on Bye – the Bills and Ravens. But in Week 8, six teams will be on Bye for the only time this season. People will call it Bye-mageddon and other ridiculous things. It’s fantasy football, folks, not life and death. Anyway, whatever term you decide to use, six teams on Bye is a lot, and it means that fantasy managers are going to be competing for fill-ins and streaming options and especially at the “onesie” positions: Kicker, D/ST, tight end, and quarterback. My advice is to look ahead THIS WEEK at the Week 8 schedule, and if you have the flexibility with your roster, pick up what you need now, before the Christmas rush.
OK, on to the Week 7 Waiver Wire, which isn’t offering league-winners but has players who can help.
The Process***:*** Each week, I try to identify the top Waiver Wire targets and evaluate the short- and long-term prospects of those players. I also do my best to reveal which players who are coming off a big week are fool’s gold. Finally, I look at streamers who might help you in a pinch. Note that I’m writing this column BEFORE the two Week 6 Monday night games (BUF@ATL, CHI @WAS).
Some players discussed won’t be available in your league. I try to list players who are available in more than 50% of leagues. But what does that even mean? A 10-team league with six bench spots will have a much larger Free Agent pool than a 14-team league with eight. Most leagues fall somewhere in between. This isn’t “one size fits all.” By way of example, I won’t list Kimani Vidal, Rashid Shaheed, Harold Fannin, Jr., or Darren Waller, among others who probably aren’t available in any of your leagues.
WEEK 7 BYES: BAL, BUF
*Week 7 Waiver Wire
Quarterback:
QB availability will vary widely between 1-QB and Superflex leagues.
1-QB
Sam Darnold, Matthew Stafford, C.J. Stroud, Michael Penix, Jr., Tua Tagovailoa, Bryce Young, Aaron Rodgers, and Spencer Rattler won’t be available in most Superflex leagues. They’re the obvious places to start if you need long-term help or an injury replacement in a 1-QB league. I like them roughly in this order for the rest of the season (although I would ding Stafford if Puka Nacua misses significant time), but in terms of streaming them, check the matchups for a given week and target them accordingly.
Superflex/2-QB Leagues
I don’t like Jaxson Dart’s matchup in Week 7 (@DEN), but of all the “QB2s” that might be sitting on your waiver wire in a 1-QB league, I like his long-term prospects best, given the rushing floor. He needs to stop taking so many unnecessary hits, though.
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