Fantasy Football Outlook: Russell Wilson, Joshua Dobbs, Jared Goff, Jordan Love

Fantasy football managers are facing a six-team bye week. Bye-mageddon has arrived.

Six-team bye weeks are challenging, arduous, headache-inducing … and kind of fun?

There are plenty of lineup nightmares in weeks where we have a half-dozen teams on bye at once. But you are really playing the game of fantasy football at a time like this.

I provide my fantasy football rankings and tiers for Week 7 to help you navigate your start/sit lineup questions. Below we dive into a few notable players for the week.

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Fantasy Football Outlook

After throwing six TD passes in his first two games, Jordan Love has thrown only two TD passes in his last three — along with six interceptions. But the Denver defense is an 11-man get-well card. The Broncos have yielded the most touchdown passes (14), the second-most passing yards (1,608), the highest completion percentage (76.4%), the highest yards per attempt (8.2), and the highest opponent passer rating (117.8). Despite his recent struggles, treat Love as a low-end QB1 this week.

A week ago, I encouraged you to start Jared Goff against the Buccaneers despite his troubling home/road splits. It worked out pretty well, as Goff was the QB4 on the week with 22.4 fantasy points. Once again, I think Goff is worth starting in a road game, even though the matchup against the Ravens looks slightly tougher than last week’s matchup against the Bucs. Baltimore is allowing a league-low 10.5 fantasy points per game to QBs. But Goff has been a stud this season. He’s third in passer rating (105.1), fifth in passing yardage (1,618), tied for fifth in TD passes (11) and sixth in fantasy points per game (19.9). Trust Jared Goff, and trust the play-calling of Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson.

Here’s how bleak the QB position is in Week 7: One week after perhaps the worst performance of Russell Wilson‘s 12-year career — 95 passing yards, one TD, two INTs, 4.3 yards per attempt and a 46.6 passer rating — the Denver quarterback qualifies as a high-end QB2 against the Packers. Green Bay has allowed the ninth-fewest fantasy points to opposing QBs, but in a six-team bye week, the phrase “any port in a storm” applies.

Yes, Arizona’s Joshua Dobbs is a surprisingly respectable QB18 in fantasy scoring this season, but beware: Dobbs has completed only 49.3% of his passes in his last two games (vs. the Bengals and Rams), with two touchdowns, three interceptions and an average of 5.5 yards per attempt. The carriage may be turning into a pumpkin.

-Pat Fitzmaurice