Fantasy Football Rankings - Week 7, 2025
- Kev Wheeler
- 6 days ago
- 4 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
Your fantasy football season is in make or break territory. Fantasy Football Rankings for Week 7 will guide you to make the correct decisions. We now have enough data points to breakdown every team. We need to stay Bayesian and adjust or prior predictions. There is tremendous variance in football every week, no matter how much data we gather there are too many moving parts to be as confident in our predictions in football as we are when analyzing other sports.
Week 7 Schedule
Bye Week: BAL, BUF
Thursday, Night Football
Pittsburgh Steelers at Cincinnati Bengals 8:15pm ET
Sunday, October 19th
Los Angeles Rams at Jacksonville Jaguars 9:30am ET
Philadelphia Eagles at Minnesota Vikings 1:00pm ET
Las Vegas Raiders at Kansas City Chiefs 1:00pm ET
Miami Dolphins at Cleveland Browns 1:00pm ET
Carolina Panthers at New York Jets 1:00pm ET
New England Patriots at Tennessee Titans 1:00pm ET
New Orleans Saints at Chicago Bears 1:00pm ET
Indianapolis Colts at Los Angeles Chargers 4:05pm ET
New York Giants at Denver Broncos 4:05pm ET
Washington Commanders at Dallas Cowboys 4:25pm ET
Green Bay Packers at Arizona Cardinals 4:25pm ET
Atlanta Falcons at San Francisco 49ers 8:20pm ET
Monday Night Football, October 20th
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Detroit Lions 7:00pm ET
Houston Texans at Seattle Seahawks 10:00pm ET
Fantasy Football Weekly Rankings
When examining these fantasy football weekly rankings, take into consideration that we are really only looking at positional ranks, not flex or overall rankings. When it comes to who you start in the flex a lot will depend on your specific league rules and roster construction. If players are ranked within 3 spots of each other the difference between them is negligible, they are expected to score the same amount of points, in those cases go with your gut, flip a coin, or join our Discord Channel.
Quarterback
Brock Purdy (toe) will be out for Sunday's game against the Falcons, but the 49ers are hopeful that the quarterback will return to the lineup for a Week 8 contest in Houston, Tom Pelissero reports.
Running Back
Packers standout RB Josh Jacobs, dealing with an illness and a calf strain, is up in the air regarding his status on Sunday, per @Rapsheet and @TomPelissero. Whether he plays will be determined pre-game. If Jacobs is unable to play, Packers RB Emanuel Wilson would be the expected starter.
D'Andre Swift (groin), who is officially listed as questionable for Sunday's game against New Orleans, is expected to play, per Adam Schefter.
Schefter: Wanting to play both Rico Dowdle and Chuba Hubbard, the Panthers have studied how the Lions and Seahawks handle their RB split.
The Process
My usual process is to only take data from the previous six weeks, I truly believe anything older than that holds little relevance unless there is a player returning from injury or some reason to discount the newer information. In Week 2 we have very little information we can be confident in. The last six weeks of the previous season can give some indication, and the preseason could provide a glimpse of what’s to come or it could be a mirage.
Wide Receiver
Mike Evans (hamstring) is likely to play Monday night against the Lions, Adam Schefter reports.
Emeka Egbuka (hamstring) has a "real chance to play" against Detroit on Monday despite suffering a hamstring strain a week ago. His status will be determined during pre-game warmups, perAdam Schefter.
Stefon Diggs (chest), who is officially listed as questionable for Sunday's game against the Titans, is expected to play, per Adam Schefter.
Raiders WR Jakobi Meyers is inactive today.
Xavier Hutchinson will likely see more playing time Week 7 with Christian Kirk (hamstring) ruled out against the Seahawks on Monday, Jonathan M. Alexander of the Houston Chronicle reports. Jalen Noel should be the WR to benefit the most from this, but Houston hasn't really given him much opportunity to start the season.
Tight End
San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan said he expects tight end George Kittle to return to practice this week ahead of a Week 7 contest with the Atlanta Falcons.
Zach Ertz (shoulder), who is officially listed as questionable for Sunday's game against Dallas, is expected to play, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports.
Brock Bowers (knee) inactive for Week 7.
Kicker
Defense/Special Teams
News or Hype?
The best way to start our Week 7 approach is to look at implied team totals based on Vegas odds and adjust from there. We need to pay attention to DFS articles and individual player prop-bets (over/under) to get a good idea of how to project median outcomes. With six weeks of data we can begin to examine the individual matchups some players may have, but we can't overreact to that data. There are so many changes from week-to-week in the NFL the best we can do is project a range of outcomes. Picking the outliers is what wins championships.