With six teams on bye, the Week 7 Fantasy football rankings won’t look quite as robust as earlier in the year. Add in injuries to players like Saquon Barkley and Christian McCaffrey and you may have to dig deep into depth charts to find suitable Week 7 Fantasy football matchups. Perhaps you’ve struck gold in recent games by rostering someone like Khalil Herbert, but with Herbert facing Tampa’s No. 1 rushing defense and Damien Williams returning, you may have to look elsewhere for options in the backfield.
Can you trust someone like James Conner against the Texans’ 31st-ranked rushing defense? No week will have as many teams on a bye as this one, so it’s pertinent to scour the Week 7 Fantasy football rankings to find hidden gems. Before you lock in your lineups, be sure to check out the Week 7 Fantasy football rankings from the advanced computer model at SportsLine.
When it comes to ranking players, SportsLine’s model beat human experts in Fantasy football for the past several seasons especially when there were big differences in ranking. Over the course of a season, that could literally be the difference between winning your league or going home empty-handed.
Last week, the model was extremely high on Colts running back Jonathan Taylor, saying he’d finish as a top-five player at his position. The result: Taylor finished with 14 carries for 145 yards and two touchdowns against the Texans. Anybody who had him in their lineup was well on their way to a huge week.
Now, the model, which simulates every NFL game 10,000 times, has revealed its Fantasy football rankings for Week 7 of the 2021 NFL season. Head to SportsLine now to see them.
Top Week 7 Fantasy football picks
One player the model is extremely high on this week: Rams running back Darrell Henderson. Those who fretted that Sony Michel would cut into Henderson’s touches have to be pleased with the workload Henderson is getting. Since returning from injury in Week 4, Henderson has out-touched Michel 60-to-24 as the Rams’ clear-cut RB1. He is also the team’s goal-line and third-down back for one of the league’s most explosive offenses.
Henderson should go off versus the Lions this week since Detroit has allowed the most Fantasy points to opposing running backs. Henderson has posted at least 82 yards from scrimmage in every game this year and is projected to far exceed that number in Week 7. Last week, Detroit allowed Joe Mixon to post over 150 yards and a score, while Mixon’s backup, Chris Evans, also found the end zone. The model ranks Henderson only behind Derrick Henry in its Week 7 Fantasy football RB rankings.
And a massive shocker: Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, who’s thrown for 1,540 yards and 14 touchdowns this season, stumbles big-time and doesn’t even crack the top 15 at his position. Burrow completed 65.5 percent of his passes for 271 yards and three touchdowns last week against the Lions.
Burrow has thrown two or more touchdown passes in every game this season, but now he’ll face off against the Ravens, one of the NFL’s stingiest defenses. The Ravens are giving up just 20.5 points per game this season, which ranks seventh in the league. Plus, Baltimore has held opponents to seven points or fewer in two of its last three games. In addition, Burrow struggled mightily against the Ravens last season, throwing for just 183 yards, zero touchdowns and one interception in Cincinnati’s 27-3 loss last October. With such a tough matchup on Sunday, Burrow is a player to consider putting on the bench in Week 7.
How to set your Week 7 Fantasy football rankings
The model is also calling for a surprising quarterback you aren’t even thinking about to finish in the top 10 of its Fantasy football rankings. This pick could be the difference between winning big and going home with nothing. You can only see who it is here.
So who should you start and sit this week? And which surprising quarterback could lead you to victory? Visit SportsLine now to get Week 7 Fantasy football rankings for every position, plus see which QB is going to come out of nowhere to crack the top 10, all from the model that has out-performed experts big-time.
