Cam Skattebo
0.00 pts
Benched after a fumble. Six offensive snaps, zero carries. You are still starting him.
No NFL games have been played since yesterday's report. Week 6 is closed and it closed badly: a 90.00 to 96.54 loss that two different bench swaps would have won. Week 7 does not kick off until Thursday night, so everything in this report is still actionable - the waiver claim, the Buffalo bye hole in your lineup, and a benched running back you are currently starting.
LordHaveMRSA
0.00
Gridiron Guru 23
0.00
Week 7 not started. First kickoff Thursday, October 22 at 8:15 PM Eastern.
Tre Tucker
26.70 pts
Scored it on your bench. Starting him instead of Keon Coleman wins Week 6 outright.
Roschon Johnson
14.50 pts
Led Chicago in rushing. The waiver claim that fixes your running back hole - and he plays Thursday.
Where the matchup stands
Week 7 is 0.00 to 0.00. Nothing has been played and nothing will be until the New England Patriots visit the Chicago Bears on Thursday, October 22 at 8:15 PM Eastern. Your opponent is Gridiron Guru 23, who sits 3-3 but has scored 643.56 points on the season - third most in the league, and 46 more than you have.
You are 2-4 and ninth of twelve. The record is worse than the roster: 597.02 points scored against 661.16 allowed, which is the third-highest points-against total in the league. You have been getting shot at. You have also left 102.00 points on your own bench across six weeks, which is roughly league average, so that is not the whole story - but it was the whole story last Sunday.
Running the season averages of both lineups as they are set right now, Gridiron Guru 23 projects to roughly 107 points and you project to roughly 89, and that 89 includes a zero where Keon Coleman is slotted because the Buffalo Bills are on bye. Fix the lineup and add a usable running back and this is close. Leave it as it is and it is not.
Week 6: the 6.54 points that got away
Final: LordHaveMRSA 90.00, vargy 96.54
A loss to the eleventh-place team in the league, who scored 96.54 with the fourth-fewest points-for total in the league. Two separate one-player swaps win this game. Starting Tre Tucker (Las Vegas Raiders) and his 26.70 in place of Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills) and his 15.90 gets you to 100.80. Starting Tucker in place of Xavier Worthy (Kansas City Chiefs) and his 14.30 in the flex spot gets you to 102.40.
Drake Maye (New England Patriots) - 23.80 points
Your best starter. Three touchdown passes, to Romeo Doubs for 42 yards, DeMario Douglas for nine and Hunter Henry for seven. He got A.J. Brown back off injured reserve and the two connected on only three of ten targets, so there is still upside here that has not shown up yet. He is right back out there Thursday night.
Kyren Williams (Los Angeles Rams) - 9.70 points
His worst game of the season and a real warning. Ten carries was a season low and he ceded nine to Blake Corum (Los Angeles Rams), the smallest gap between the two all year. Corum scored for the second straight week. Williams still leads 110 touches to 56 on the season, so he is not losing the job, but the 36.70 he hung in Week 4 is no longer the baseline.
Cam Skattebo (New York Giants) - 0.00 points
The worst outcome available. Not an injury - a benching. He lost a fumble in overtime the week before against the Washington Commanders and was stripped of the starting job. He played six offensive snaps and did not record a carry. Tyrone Tracy Jr. (New York Giants) - the running back you dropped in Week 6 - led the backfield with six carries and scored twice for 18.50 points.
Puka Nacua (Los Angeles Rams) - 14.00 points
Looks fine, was not. Strip out one 43-yard catch from Matthew Stafford late in the fourth quarter and his other five grabs averaged 7.4 yards. A week after 17 catches for 138 yards and a touchdown on 24 targets, this was a dud dressed up as a serviceable day. He is still at 37 catches for 417 yards in four appearances.
Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills) - 15.90 points
Actually a fine game - he led Buffalo in receiving yards with a 21-yard grab and a 12-yard touchdown, his third score in three straight weeks. It just happened to be the slot where 26.70 was sitting on your bench. He is 19 catches for 283 yards and three touchdowns on 24 targets and is genuinely trending up in year three.
Trey McBride (Arizona Cardinals) - 12.30 points
Quiet by his standards but he led Arizona in catches, receiving yards and targets in an upset win built on six field goals. He has at least seven receptions in every game this season and is up to 49 catches for 361 yards and three touchdowns on 65 targets. The touchdowns are not coming; the volume absolutely is.
Xavier Worthy (Kansas City Chiefs) - 14.30 points
His best game of the year and it came because Rashee Rice (Kansas City Chiefs) sat with a hamstring and knee problem. Worthy was the Chiefs' number one receiver and paced the team in every receiving category in a game where Patrick Mahomes threw no touchdowns. That is the catch: the ceiling here is borrowed from Rice's absence.
Your Week 7 lineup - one slot is a zero right now
| Slot | Player | Status |
|---|---|---|
| QB | Drake Maye (New England Patriots) | Start. At Chicago Bears, Thursday 8:15 PM ET. |
| RB | Kyren Williams (Los Angeles Rams) | Start. At Las Vegas Raiders, Sunday 4:25 PM ET. |
| RB | Cam Skattebo (New York Giants) | Start by default - you have no other healthy running back. At Houston Texans, Sunday 1:00 PM ET. |
| WR | Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills) | BYE - must be replaced. This slot is a zero as your lineup sits. |
| WR | Puka Nacua (Los Angeles Rams) | Start. At Las Vegas Raiders, Sunday 4:25 PM ET. |
| TE | Trey McBride (Arizona Cardinals) | Start. Hosting Denver Broncos, Sunday 4:05 PM ET. |
| FLEX | Xavier Worthy (Kansas City Chiefs) | Start, but watch Rashee Rice's hamstring. At Seattle Seahawks, Sunday 8:20 PM ET. |
| BENCH | Tre Tucker (Las Vegas Raiders) | Recommended replacement for Coleman. Hosting Los Angeles Rams, Sunday 4:25 PM ET. |
| BENCH | DeMario Douglas (New England Patriots) | Safe alternative, locks in Thursday night at Chicago Bears. |
| BENCH | Cooper Kupp (Seattle Seahawks) | Volume alternative. Hosting Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday night. |
| BENCH | Chris Godwin (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) | Sit. At Carolina Panthers, Sunday 1:00 PM ET. |
| BENCH | Geno Smith (New York Jets) | Sit - backup quarterback. Hosting Miami Dolphins, Sunday 1:00 PM ET. |
| BENCH | DJ Moore (Buffalo Bills) | BYE and shoulder injury. Hold - back around November 1. |
| BENCH | Najee Harris (New York Giants) | Drop candidate. Four carries for two yards on eleven snaps. |
Byes this week: Buffalo Bills, Jacksonville Jaguars, Los Angeles Chargers, Washington Commanders. Buffalo's bye costs you two players - Keon Coleman, who is currently in your starting lineup, and DJ Moore, who is hurt anyway.
Start/sit: the two calls to make before Thursday
Call 1 - Keon Coleman's bye slot: start Tre Tucker (Las Vegas Raiders)
This is the ceiling play and you are 2-4, so take the ceiling. Tucker led the Raiders in receiving and caught both of Kirk Cousins' touchdown passes, from 11 and 44 yards, and Las Vegas hosts the Los Angeles Rams. Be clear-eyed about the risk: that was his second big game in six weeks and he was under 50 yards with no touchdown in the other four. He is boom-or-bust and the booms are not predictable. If you want the floor instead, DeMario Douglas (New England Patriots) is the pick - he ran 26 routes on Drake Maye's 35 dropbacks, scored in back-to-back weeks, and Romeo Doubs is now hurt, which is why his role grew. Douglas also settles Thursday night, so you would know early. Cooper Kupp (Seattle Seahawks) is the volume case: ten targets on Sam Darnold's 51 attempts last Thursday, hosting Kansas City. Chris Godwin (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) is not an option - six games between 5.5 and 9.1 points is not a tiebreaker, it is a flatline.
Call 2 - Cam Skattebo (New York Giants): you have to start him, and that is the problem
Your only other running backs are Najee Harris (New York Giants), who is in the same committee and got four carries for two yards, and nobody. So Skattebo starts unless you add a running back today. The honest read on New York: nobody seized the job in his place - Tyrone Tracy Jr. had 45 scrimmage yards on eight touches, Devin Singletary had 33 on five, Harris had two on four - so Skattebo can win the work back at Houston on Sunday. But the Giants backfield is a four-man mess and you should not be relying on it. Make the waiver claim below and this stops being a forced decision.
Waiver and FAAB targets
| Player | Why | Bid |
|---|---|---|
| Roschon Johnson (Chicago Bears, RB) | The priority. Kyle Monangai (Chicago Bears) did not practice Monday with a toe injury and is questionable for Thursday. Johnson led Chicago in rushing in Week 6 - 13 carries for 51 yards and a touchdown plus two catches for 34 yards - on 31 offensive snaps to D'Andre Swift's 45. He has 125 yards and a score on 27 combined carries and targets in the two games Monangai has missed. Playable as long as Monangai sits, and Chicago plays Thursday, so you would get him in the lineup immediately. | $8 |
| Zonovan Knight (Arizona Cardinals, RB) | Arizona shut Jeremiyah Love (Arizona Cardinals) down for Week 6 with a lingering ankle problem and Knight took 15 carries for 80 yards plus two catches. Love is questionable for Sunday against the Denver Broncos, so this is a one-week bet with a real chance of being worthless - but it is a cheap second running back body for a roster that has none. | $5 |
| Ryan Flournoy (Dallas Cowboys, WR) | Not a Week 7 starter, a genuinely good stash. He is now the clear third target in Dallas ahead of Jake Ferguson - nine targets on Dak Prescott's 54 attempts, with a six-yard touchdown - and is at 23 catches for 234 yards on 36 targets through six games. If anything happens to CeeDee Lamb or George Pickens he is immediately startable. Dallas plays Monday night at Philadelphia. | $4 |
| Michael Mayer (Las Vegas Raiders, TE) | Only if you want tight end insurance behind Trey McBride, which you probably do not. Career-high receiving yards in Week 6 - seven catches for 95 yards on nine targets - and he outgained Brock Bowers by 25 yards. Las Vegas keeps using both tight ends. | $1 |
FAAB - the $100 season-long budget you use to bid on waiver pickups - is down to $39. You have spent $61, which is the fifth-most in the league, and your waiver priority is fourth. Spend what it takes on the first name here; a running back you can actually start is worth more than a bench stash in Week 12.
Injuries and roster health
DJ Moore (Buffalo Bills) - out, shoulder (AC joint sprain)
On bye this week regardless, with an estimated return of November 1 - which is Week 8. Hold him. He has had a bad year even when healthy, with 21.00 points in Week 1 and nothing above 12.70 since, but you do not have the receiver depth to cut him for a one-week flier.
Rashee Rice (Kansas City Chiefs) - questionable, hamstring - the one that affects you
He is not on your roster, but his estimated return is Sunday, October 25, which is exactly when Xavier Worthy plays at Seattle in your flex spot. Worthy's 14.30 last week came as Kansas City's number one receiver with Rice out. If Rice is active, Worthy's target share shrinks and his 9.5-point season average is the more honest expectation. Check Friday's practice report before you lock the lineup.
Najee Harris (New York Giants) - healthy, and that is the problem
He is fine physically and useless in fantasy. Eleven offensive snaps, four carries, two rushing yards in Week 6, and he has 0.80 total points for you across two appearances. Sleeper is also showing no NFL team next to his name, which is a data error on their end - he is on the Giants - but it does not matter. He is the drop when your waiver claim comes in. Note for the record: you dropped Tyrone Tracy Jr. to add him in Week 6, and Tracy scored 18.50 points last Sunday for another team.
Everyone else - clean
Drake Maye, Kyren Williams, Cam Skattebo, Puka Nacua, Trey McBride, Xavier Worthy, Tre Tucker, DeMario Douglas, Cooper Kupp, Chris Godwin and Geno Smith all carry no injury designation heading into Week 7. Skattebo's zero was a coaching decision, not a health one.
Around the league - players you do not own
Tommy Tremble (Carolina Panthers, TE) - 20.60 points, and do not chase it
The biggest Week 6 game by any unrostered player in your league: four catches for 46 yards and two red-zone touchdowns from 12 and 19 yards out. He also played 54 snaps to Mitchell Evans' 43 and ran the most routes of Carolina's three tight ends. But he came into Sunday with 11 catches for 82 yards on 15 targets all season. That was two touchdowns, not a breakout.
Jahan Dotson (Atlanta Falcons, WR) - 17.70 points, and this one might be real
Three catches for 87 yards and a 13-yard touchdown from Michael Penix. He has caught multiple passes and gone over 50 receiving yards in three straight games and looks to have separated himself as Atlanta's number two receiver behind Drake London. Worth a dollar if Roschon Johnson and Zonovan Knight both get away from you.
Today's action list
1. Put a waiver claim in on Roschon Johnson (Chicago Bears) for $8, dropping Najee Harris (New York Giants). He plays Thursday, so this one is time-sensitive.
2. Move Tre Tucker (Las Vegas Raiders) into the receiver slot Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills) is occupying. If you would rather have the floor and an early answer, use DeMario Douglas (New England Patriots) instead - he plays Thursday night.
3. Check Friday's injury report for Rashee Rice (Kansas City Chiefs) before locking Xavier Worthy (Kansas City Chiefs) in the flex spot.
4. Leave Cam Skattebo (New York Giants) in the lineup unless the Roschon Johnson claim lands and Kyle Monangai is ruled out for Thursday.