Week 7 Fantasy Football Projections: Top 100 Flex Players and Stat Predictions

As the NFL season continues, it is seemingly getting tougher to fill a competitive lineup in fantasy football.

The Carolina Panthers and Dallas Cowboys being on bye for Week 7 takes away some top talent at a few positions, but injuries and inconsistency across the board are a bigger problem. There are plenty of options with high upside, but fewer players you can trust to perform on a weekly basis.

Despite this problem, you just have to push through and put the best selection of players available. Here is a look at the top options at each position for Week 7.

Quarterbacks

If you were patient enough to keep Tom Brady on your roster while he served suspension, you are definitely being rewarded now. The New England Patriots star has exceeded expectations in his first two games back, totaling 782 passing yards, six touchdowns and no interceptions.

With healthy weapons around him, Brady might be the No. 1 quarterback in fantasy football for the rest of the year.

Matt Ryan is also near the top of this list after showing his hot start was for real. While the Atlanta Falcons were unable to get a win on the road against the Seattle Seahawks (possibly thanks to questionable officiating), he still had 335 passing yards and three touchdowns against one of the toughest defenses in the NFL.

With the toughest games already behind him, Ryan could be a must-start player every week.

This might no longer be the case for Aaron Rodgers, who has fallen hard this season both on the field and in fantasy. He is missing passes, causing turnovers and not putting up the numbers we have come to expect.

Bleacher Report’s Zach Kruse summed up the difference in the former MVP:

Aaron Rodgers isn’t even recognizable. Once made the impossible look easy. Now the easy looks impossible.

— Zach Kruse (@zachkruse2) October 16, 2016

It’s too early to completely give up on the talented player and he still remains in the top 10 due to his upside alone, but he is falling fast. It wouldn’t be crazy to move him to your bench in favor of a more consistent option or someone with a favorable matchup.

One of those players could be Marcus Mariota, who has exploded over the last two weeks with six passing touchdowns and a rushing score. With the Indianapolis Colts defense not posing too much of a challenge, the second-year passer has a chance to keep up his hot streak in Week 7.

Running Backs

Jay Ajayi is the talk of the fantasy world after his 204-yard, two-touchdown performance against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 6. This came with the running back’s previous season high of 42 the week before.

The second-year player made sure to praise the rest of his team for helping him get to that point, per Alain Poupart of the team’s official website:

lt’s a special thing. Definitely something to cherish for sure because I pride myself of wanting to be the best. Just glad I was able to get that …

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