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Week 7 Player Notes, Injury Report, Picks

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Oct 23, 2021
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WATCH: SAT INJURY UPDATE, PROPS, DK OWNERSHIP

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I went with the anytime TD special this week against two bottom 10 run defenses…

Week 7 Injuries (Last Updated Sunday AM)

I’ll be updating this list up through the Sunday am Inactives (1135amET) so save the hard link to check back. Also…

Oh, and play in the RAKE FREE PME DraftKings league. We can’t have them making it smaller now can we? 3-MAX, $15 Dollar to play, flat payouts and, again, NO RAKE…

WEEK 7 PME DK LISTENER’S LEAGUE LINK

Running Back

  • Rhamondre Stevenson OUT

  • Damien Williams (COVID LIST) IN

  • JaMycal Hasty (Ankle) Likely IN

  • Tevin Coleman (hamstring) OUT

  • Rashaad Penny (Calf) Activated from IR; Expected to Play

  • Alex Collins (hip) IN

  • Antonio Gibson (Shin) Likely IN

  • Samaje Perine (COVID LIST) IN

  • Latavius Murray (ankle) OUT

  • Saquon Barkley (ankle) OUT

  • Nick Chubb (Calf) Could Play Week 8

  • Kareem Hunt (Calf) Expected to Miss 4-6 Weeks

Wide Receiver

  • Sterling Shepard (hamstring) OUT

  • Nico Collins (ankle) QUESTIONABLE

  • Deonte Harris (hamstring) OUT

  • Tre’Quan Smith Designated to return from IR

  • Julio Jones (hamstring) Likely IN

  • DeVante Parker (hammy) OUT

  • Preston Williams (groin) Game Time Decision

  • Darius Slayton (hamstring) IN

  • Jerry Jeudy (foot) Activated from IR; Could return soon

  • Michael Thomas (ankle) Expected back Week 8 or 9

  • Calvin Ridley IN

  • Russell Gage IN

  • Chris Conley (neck) QUESTIONABLE

  • Antonio Brown (ankle) OUT

  • TY Hilton (quad) OUT

  • Parris Campbell (foot) OUT; Placed on IR

  • Kadarius Toney (ankle) OUT; Likely to miss 1/2 Weeks

  • Brandon Zylstra OUT; Placed on IR

  • Terrance Marshall (concussion) OUT

  • CJ Board (arm) OUT 

  • Sammy Watkins (hamstring) OUT

  • Kenny Golladay (knee) OUT

  • Curtis Samuel (groin) OUT

Quarterback

  • Jimmy Garoppolo (calf) WILL START

  • Trey Lance (knee) OUT

  • Tyrod Taylor (hamstring) Will NOT start Week 7

  • Dak Prescott (foot) Spotted in Walking Boot post game; On BYE WEEK

  • Baker Mayfield (shoulder) Missed Week 7

Tight End

  • Darren Waller (Ankle) GAME TIME DECISION

  • Travis Kelce (hand) Likely IN

  • Evan Engram (calf) Likely IN

  • Dallas Goddert (COVID19) IN

  • Rob Gronkowski (Ribs) OUT

  • Jimmy Graham (COVID 19) OUT

  • Dawson Knox (broken hand) Likely OUT 2-4 weeks

  • WATCH: MAYO’S WEEK 7 RANKINGS

    Rankings Lists

    RB https://bit.ly/21W7RBs
    WR https://bit.ly/21WRsW7
    QB https://bit.ly/21W7QBs
    TE/DST https://bit.ly/21W7TEDST

WATCH: Week 7 Best Bets… and Dangerous Cereal Rankings

Or if you don’t wanna watch.

Week 7 Player Notes

Carries aren’t everything, but through 6 weeks, 52 players had a game with 13+ carries and Chase Edmonds was NOT one of them.

The absurdity of Derrick Henry through 6 weeks (not including the Titans):

  • 178 touches: Only 3 entire backfields have more

  • 783 rush yards: Only 2 entire backfields have more

  • 10 rushing TD: Only the Browns have more as a team

  • 377 rush yards after contact: Only the Browns have more as a team

  • 3 games with 3 rush TD: No other set of RBs has done that

Rashod Bateman was targeted on 30% of routes last week, a greater rate than Stefon Diggs, Travis Kelce and DJ Moore.  He’s priced outside the top-50 receivers on the DK Main Slate this week despite facing a defense that allows the highest completion percentage to WRs of any team in action this week,

Targeting upside? There are 3 players on the main slate averaging 120 air yards per game this season. Here they are and the rank of their Week 7 opponent in terms of deep pass on-target rate:

  •             Davante Adams: 7th highest

  •             Terry McLaurin: 5th lowest

  •             Brandin Cooks: 2nd lowest

Galaxy Brain Time: Matt Ryan to Kyle Pitts (at Dolphins)

Does it feel a little dirty? If so, that just means you’ve bet on this Falcons team/offense at some point this season. Did they burn you that week? Probably. But this is DAILY Fantasy. They haven’t wronged you (yet) in Week 7 and while no one in their right mind is going to call anything that has to do with this game “safe”, there’s certainly a path to a big payday here. Stay with me.

Matt Ryan has thrown for 250 yards 3 times this season … if you’re even remotely considering this as an option, you’re going to have to assume this to be true this week. So let’s work with that. In those 3 games, Kyle Pitts has totaled 18 catches, 25 targets, 242 yards and a TD. That’s a season pace of 102 catches and 1,371 yards. Yea, that’s more what we are talking about and at $5,900, anything close to reflecting that sort of pace is a beautiful thing.

So why buy Pitts in this spot? What do Devante Adams, Deebo Samuel, Mike Williams and Terry McLaurin all have in common? All have proven to be the unquestioned top option in their pass games. No question. They are the top four players in percentage of team first down receiving yards. Maybe that’s a niche stat, but it makes logical sense … the early down targets go to the guys you trust to put you in good position. Need further proof? Adams, McLaurin, Hopkins and Diggs were among the league leaders last season. Seems to check out.

Well, Pitts ranks 2nd among TEs and 15th in the NFL as a whole in percentage of team first down receiving yards (28.8%). And guess what? Miami just so happens to allow the 6th most yards per first down completion this season (12.2, nearly 14% more than league average). Interesting at the very least and enough salary relief to piece this together:

Do I love it? No. Are all winning lineups comfortable feeling? How would I know what a winning lineup looks like? We get heavily favored running backs, exposure to the cheat code of Davante Adams (deep stats are favorable as mentioned above), a part of our creative stack from Tuesday (Bengals/Ravens) and a defense facing Danny Fumbz. I’ve wasted money on dumber things in my life. Hell, I’ve wasted money on dumber things this week. Actually, between starting this and finishing this, purchased $234.12 of things of Amazon I will likely never use.

Here’s what Rasa and I came up with for the Shitter Guy lineup this week on the show.

WATCH: Week 7 DRAFTKINGS PICKS BY POSITION

Not sure yet if Shepard is gonna go or not, but Shitter guy doesn’t know that.

Frankly, if you want to win on DraftKings (or any DFS NFL Site), just use Run The Sims. The product is so good it’s actually made me a profitable player 2021, which, as most of you know, seems impossible. Justin’s projections come preloaded in all systems, and you can tweak them how you like if you want, but Justin’s are pretty damn good. Consider this: He almost won the giant GPP on both sites on Thursday! Stupid Jarvis Landry…

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Week 7 DraftKings Ownership Guesses

Again, these are just guesses…

QB

Mahomes
Lamar
Stafford

RB

Henry
Henderson
Darrell Williams
Hubbard

WR

Kupp
Adams
Ridley
Godwin

TE

Kelce
Gesicki
Seals-Jones

DST

Cardinals
Patriots

I don’t know if it’s going to change much going into Sunday, but I’m seeing a sub 5% owned Tom Brady right now. With no Brown or Gronk, the Brady/Evans/Godwin (or OJ/Johnson, if you want to be tricky) stack looked primed for points this weekend and appears like it will be weirdly contrarian.

WATCH: Week 7 Spread Picks & CUST CORNER

Good luck this week

— PM

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