Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Tera Roberts look ahead to Week 7 of the season and pick a pair of players who can lift fantasy managers to victory. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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And for week seven, our keys to winning as it always is, is picking the guys that you need that are gonna make the difference in your flex spot.
Give me one player that fantasy managers could potentially be debating putting in that final starting flex spot that you say is worth the shot this week.
So I dragged Jacksonville earlier and um, rightfully so, but the one bright spot of that offense that I trust and want to lean into is Brian Thomas Junior coming off of last week’s underwhelming performance.
Maybe people are feeling like, oh, I don’t know if I can trust him.
Maybe he’s a little bit more risky than I thought.
And that was after two top 10 finishes in half P pr where Thomas had absolutely been gelling, looked like it was really ascending into that wide receiver one role here and then everything kind of went downhill last week with just three receptions on six targets for 27 yards.
But this week here is a Brian Thomas week, the Jags played New England, New England’s defense is dealing with injuries.
This is just not the difficult matchup of the past.
So don’t let one bad week pull you off of him.
He has legitimate wide receiver one upside and he’s a very solid wide receiver too that can win your week here.
Uh, my pick here for keys to winning is Colts wide receiver, Josh Downs.
I don’t care which Colts quarterback is under center.
I’m still starting.
Josh Downs.
Josh Downs has been targeted on an outrageous 35% of his routes in the last three games.
And again, I know a lot of that with was with Joe Flacco under center.
But let’s remember that we haven’t really seen Anthony Richardson line up.
We’ve not seen his games overlap with a healthy and fully integrated.
Josh Downs, I think Downs is their best step.
He is their layup target and against the Miami Dolphins defense, I think Josh Downes is gonna get a lot of targets underneath.
So again, despite the fact that we’ve got a quarterback change here downs, I think is still a low end wide receiver too.
Somebody you’re probably still starting in that last Flex spot.
So don’t worry about Anthony Richardson.
Be confident in Josh Downs.