The seventh Sunday of the NFL season featured one of many best fourth-quarter comebacks in league historical past, with the Denver Broncos one way or the other catching the New York Giants. Broncos QB Bo Nix scored 39.96 PPR factors, almost all of them within the remaining stanza. Additionally on Sunday, Indianapolis Colts RB Jonathan Taylor tallied one other three touchdowns, and a pair of Philadelphia Eagles WRs mixed for 304 receiving yards, three touchdowns and 61.4 PPR factors. Within the night time recreation, San Francisco 49ers RB Christian McCaffrey delivered his best recreation of the season.
As we prepare for Week 8, we await readability on the standing of Washington Commanders QB Jayden Daniels (hamstring) and put together for “bye-mageddon.”
Every Monday, earlier than the present NFL week ends, we’ll establish gamers obtainable in a minimum of 50% of ESPN normal leagues worthy of your consideration, from normal codecs to deeper choices. The NFL is a weekly league, and participant valuation and roles seldom stay stagnant. It doesn’t matter the way you purchase gamers to your fantasy rosters, simply that you simply get them.
J.J. McCarthy, Minnesota Vikings (28.2%): The Vikings slipped into final place within the NFC North with Sunday’s loss to the Eagles as backup QB Carson Wentz tossed a pair of mind-boggling interceptions. One would assume McCarthy (ankle), who hasn’t performed since Week 2, will begin this Thursday’s recreation on the Los Angeles Chargers, if he’s wholesome. The Chargers are among the many higher defenses in stopping fantasy factors to QBs, however fantasy managers in SuperFlex codecs should put money into McCarthy all through the season.
Joe Flacco, Cincinnati Bengals (4.9%): Effectively, it didn’t take lengthy for Flacco to make this checklist. In his second begin for the Bengals after being acquired from the Cleveland Browns, Flacco scored 25.98 PPR factors in final Thursday’s gorgeous win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Flacco threw for 342 yards and three TDs, reinvigorating the dormant worth of his new crew’s three offensive stars (Ja’Marr Chase, Tee Higgins, Chase Brown). Flacco faces the embarrassing New York Jets this week, so despite the fact that you’ll in all probability be transferring on from him when he serves his Week 10 bye, play for the quick time period.
Marcus Mariota, Washington Commanders (1.8%): It appears seemingly that Daniels will miss time on account of his newest harm. Fantasy managers have been already involved about him holding up bodily because of his slight construct. Mariota scored 36.52 PPR factors throughout begins in Weeks 3 and 4, buoyed by his means to run. That stated, going through the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs on Monday night time in Week 8 (then the Seattle Seahawks and Detroit Lions) hardly looks as if a lot enjoyable. Go along with Flacco first.
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Kyle Monangai, Chicago Bears (4.1%): The Bears ran everywhere in the New Orleans Saints, with starter D’Andre Swift tallying 20.8 PPR factors. The rookie Monangai added 17.4 factors with 81 dashing yards and a landing. Swift is having fun with a stable season and, though he has a historical past of lacking the occasional recreation, he performed in all 17 video games final season. The bruising Monangai, a seventh-round choose from Rutgers, earned Sunday’s quantity as a result of the Bears wished to run and so they had an enormous lead, although that state of affairs would possibly happen once more the subsequent few weeks versus the Bengals and Ravens.
Tyjae Spears, Tennessee Titans (29.9%): Spears earned point out coming into Week 7 after he turned 9 touches into 50 yards throughout Week 6. On Sunday, Spears didn’t do a lot within the blowout loss to the New England Patriots, turning eight touches into 40 yards, however starter Tony Pollard was equally unproductive and has solely 52 dashing yards over the previous two video games. The Titans might give Spears an extended look.
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Rashod Bateman, Baltimore Ravens (16.2%): The Ravens and Buffalo Payments each emerge from their Week 7 byes with massive video games this coming week. The Payments play at Carolina, however WRs Keon Coleman and Khalil Shakir stay rostered in a minimum of 68% of leagues. Bateman is just not having a productive season, however with QB Lamar Jackson (hamstring) coming back from three weeks off, maybe issues change. Zay Flowers is the star WR, however Bateman reached 756 receiving yards and 9 touchdowns final season.
Xavier Legette, Panthers (23.8%): Legette entered Week 7 as a noteworthy underperformer this season, scoring simply 19 PPR factors in his 4 video games (he missed one contest). Then, on Sunday in opposition to the woeful Jets, Legette caught 9 of 11 targets for 92 yards and a landing, lastly outshining rookie Tetairoa McMillan (6.3 PPR factors), though he was largely lined up in opposition to glorious CB Sauce Gardner. McMillan is the Panthers WR to roster, in fact, however maybe Legette can proceed his relevance in future weeks.
Chimere Dike, Titans (1%): Dike, a fifth-round pick of Florida, caught simply 9 passes for 26 yards by way of his first six video games. He noticed extra consideration on Sunday with starter Calvin Ridley (hamstring) sidelined, catching every of his 4 targets for 70 yards and a landing. We’re not comfy recommending any member of the Titans’ offense, however the speedy Dike and Elic Ayomanor (26.4%) are way more prone to be a part of the crew’s future than Ridley or Van Jefferson (0.3%). Maybe QB Cam Ward begins to carry out higher and these rookie WRs can emerge.
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Oronde Gadsden II, Chargers (2.1%): One thing optimistic is occurring with Gadsden, the fifth-round rookie from Syracuse, as he adopted up his 11.8 PPR factors from Week 6 in opposition to the lowly Dolphins with 29.4 PPR factors in opposition to the stable Colts. Positive, bit of those numbers got here late within the recreation with the Chargers trailing, but it surely nonetheless occurred. A transformed extensive receiver in school, Gadsden’s 164 receiving yards on Sunday represented, by far, probably the most for a decent finish this season. Solely 5 others have even surpassed 100 receiving yards in a recreation!
Noah Fant, Bengals (2.4%): Fant scored 14.4 PPR factors in opposition to the Steelers, primarily as a result of he turned considered one of his 4 receptions right into a landing. With teammate Mike Gesicki (pectoral) out for a minimum of one other month, Fant has TE2 upside. He does have four-plus targets in 5 contests this season, albeit with three totally different quarterbacks.
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Bye weeks explode in Week 8 with the Lions, Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Rams, Arizona Cardinals, Seahawks and Jacksonville Jaguars all off. That’s numerous groups — and numerous good gamers not enjoying.