Week 7 Free Agent/Waiver Wire Pickups (Tue 10/20/09)
If you actually enjoy all the roster manipulations that go with managing a fantasy football team through the bye weeks, then you will be very happy the next three weeks. Instead of having just four teams with bye weeks, we’ll all be faced with 6 teams on bye. Teams with a Week 7 bye are Baltimore, Denver, Detroit, Jacksonville, Seattle, and Tennessee. Players with injuries or a bye week include
QB
- Matthew Stafford (bye, inj)
- Daunte Culpepper (bye, inj)
- Trent Edwards (inj)
- Joe Flacco (bye)
- Kyle Orton (bye)
- David Garrard (bye)
- Matt Hasselbeck (bye)
RB
- Darren McFadden (inj)
- Felix Jones (inj)
- Glen Coffee (inj)
- Frank Gore (inj)
- Sammy Morris (inj)
- LenDale White (bye, inj)
- Chris Johnson (bye)
- Ray Rice (bye)
- Willis McGahee (bye)
- Knowshon Moreno (bye)
- Correll Buckhalter (bye)
- Kevin Smith (bye)
- Maurice Jones-Drew (bye)
WR
- Anquan Boldin (inj)
- Roy Williams (inj)
- Anthony Gonzalez (inj)
- Percy Harvin (inj)
- Jerricho Cotchery (inj)
- Derrick Mason (bye)
- Brandon Marshall (bye)
- Eddie Royal (bye)
- Calvin Johnson (bye, inj)
- Mike Sims-Walker (bye)
- Torry Holt (bye)
- T.J. Houshmandzadeh (bye)
- Nate Burleson (bye)
TE
- Todd Heap (bye)
- John Carlson (bye)
K
- Adam Vinatieri (inj)
- Matt Prater (bye)
- Jason Hanson (bye)
- Josh Scobee (bye)
- Olindo Mare (bye)
- Rob Bironas (bye)
DEF
- Baltimore
- Denver
- Seattle
So, who are some players at each position who should be on your radar screen if you need a replacement? The following list contains players who may not be available in your league, depending on the number of teams in your league and your roster requirements. LT indicates players who may have fantasy value for the rest of the season, while ST indicates players whose fantasy usefulness is likely to be limited to the amount of time it takes a player ahead of them on the depth chart to recover from an injury/return from a suspension. SPEC indicates a player whose fantasy worth may not be obvious now, but may be worth speculating on for use later in the season. An asterisk (*) indicates a player whose team has a bye this week.
Quarterbacks
Shaun Hill (LT), Jake Delhomme (ST), Josh Johnson (ST), Marc Bulger (SPEC), Chad Henne (SPEC), Jason Campbell (SPEC), Derek Anderson (SPEC), Kevin Kolb (SPEC), Vince Young (SPEC *), Seneca Wallace (SPEC *), Josh Freeman (SPEC), and Matt Leinart (SPEC).
Running Backs
Laurence Maroney (LT), Justin Fargas (LT), Chris Wells (LT), Mike Bell (SPEC), Jerome Harrison (SPEC), Justin Forsett (SPEC), Michael Bush (SPEC), Jamaal Charles (SPEC), Chester Taylor (SPEC), Rashad Jennings (SPEC *), Maurice Morris (SPEC *), Ryan Moats (SPEC), Shonn Greene (SPEC), Bernard Scott (SPEC), Aaron Brown (SPEC), Marcus Mason (SPEC).
Wide Receivers
Lance Moore (LT), Donnie Avery (inj? LT), Mark Clayton (LT *), Kenny Britt (SPEC), Hakeem Nicks (SPEC), Andre Caldwell (SPEC), Michael Clayton (SPEC), Michael Jenkins (SPEC), Muhsin Muhammad (SPEC), Sammie Stroughter (SPEC), Mike Wallace (SPEC), Mohamed Massaquoi (SPEC), Deion Branch (SPEC *), Davone Bess (SPEC), Greg Camarillo (SPEC), Louis Murphy (SPEC), Chansi Stuckey (SPEC), Julian Edelman (SPEC), Earl Bennett (SPEC), Mike Furrey (SPEC), Kelley Washington (SPEC *), Bryant Johnson (SPEC *), Bobby Wade (SPEC), Mark Bradley (SPEC), Nate Washington (SPEC *), Robert Meachem (SPEC), Keenan Burton (SPEC), Jacoby Jones (SPEC), Joe Cribbs (SPEC).
Tight Ends
Jermichael Finley (LT), Zack Miller (SPEC), Sean Ryan (SPEC), Brandon Pettigrew (SPEC *), Marcedes Lewis (SPEC *), Ben Watson (SPEC), Randy McMichael (SPEC), Chris Baker (SPEC).
Kickers
John Carney (LT), Nick Folk (LT), Jason Elam (LT), Neil Rackers (LT), Robbie Gould (ST), John Kasay (ST), Jay Feely (ST), Rian Lindell (ST), Joe Nedney (ST).
Defenses
Indianapolis (ST), San Diego (ST), Carolina (ST).
I’ll post my analysis of the Week 7 games on Thursday.
Until then,
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