Fantasy Football Week 7 Wide Receiver Preview: Waiver adds, starts, sits, stashes, and more

What a day! In case you missed the news, Davante Adams is now on the New York Jets. Amari Cooper is now on the Buffalo Bills. I wrote up the Adams trade, and Dan Schneier wrote up Cooper to the Bills. Of course, we broke down both deals over on the Fantasy Football Today podcast as well. While everyone is excited for Adams, Cooper, Josh Allen, and Aaron Rodgers, there may be some reason to be cautiously optimistic about the pass catchers left behind as well.

In Las Vegas, we’ve already seen how good Brock Bowers and Jakobi Meyers could be without Adams. Bowers is TE2 on the season and TE1 in my Dynasty tight end rankings. Don’t expect either to change any time soon. Meyers is dealing with an ankle injury, but he’s seen 28 targets in his last three games and averaged 14.1 PPR FPPG in those three games. He may just be a must-start wide receiver in three-receiver leagues once he gets healthy.

The situation is a bit more complicated in Cleveland because, surprisingly, Deshaun Watson has been worse than both Gardner Minshew and Aidan O’Connell. Still, David Njoku just saw seven targets last week, and that was with Cooper on the field. He’s probably a must-start tight end, but that’s not too surprising. What is more surprising is that Jerry Jeudy may be a Fantasy starter as well.

Jeudy has four fewer catches, two fewer yards, and one fewer touchdown than Cooper this season despite the fact that Cooper has seen 17 more targets. While Jeudy hasn’t been efficient at all, he has averaged 2.2 more yards per target than Cooper and .04 more yards per route. His target share should spike as the WR1 with Cooper gone. If the Browns could be even marginally better (they can’t be worse), Jeudy could be a serviceable WR3 or better. 

Here is the rest of the Week 7 WR Preview:

Week 7 WR Preview

The following players are not being projected to play Week 7 at this time. Here’s what it means:

• 6 — Amari Cooper has six drops this season. Only Darius Slayton has more.
• 3.67 — A.J. Brown leads all wide receivers (minimum 50 routes) with 3.67 yards per route run.
• 38.6% — Cooper Kupp was targeted on 38.6% of his targets before his injury. When he returns, everyone else in this passing game may disappear.
• 12 — Garrett Wilson leads all wide receivers with 12 red zone targets this season. Davante Adams could certainly change that.
• 11 — 11 of Darnell Mooney’s receptions have gone for at least 16 yards. Only Nico Collins and Ja’Marr Chase have more explosive plays.
• 27.9% — Wan’Dale Robinson had a 27.9% target share with Malik Nabers healthy. Nabers return may actually help Robinson because of the attention Nabers commands.
• 20 — Don’t forget that Juju Smith-Schuster scored 20 PPR Fantasy points in the Chiefs’ last game and had a ball bounce off his hands in the end zone.

My full set of Week 7 Fantasy football projections for every position are now available on SportsLine. Find out which of my favorite plays are projected to score higher than consensus rankings and which don’t live up to their draft hype, at least in Week 7. Projected stats for all starting wide receivers are available, so be sure to check out the full set of projections at SportsLine.