Week 7 Preliminary Lineup

I do not think Colossus is updated as of yet this early but I have a preliminary lineup I have made.

What I like about this line-up is there is a lot of room for options.

I love Carson this week against Baltimore's lousy team. Ravens rank 25th in total defense and the O/U is 48.5. Predicted Vegas score for this game is roughly 27-20 in favor of Arizona.

It is hard to argue against Devonta Freeman. You can't predict him necessarily having 30 fantasy points a game but 2 important things to keep in mind. 1) His ownership levels last week were very high. So if you pick him and do lousy, so does everyone else, relatively. 2) Atlanta was losing pretty much all game last week. AND they STILL used him non-stop.

Latavius Murray is going against the 4th worst rushing defense in the league. I also don't think the Chargers blow them out either.

I will hit on Martavis in a minute and Stefon Diggs in a minute.

Jarvis Landry has been consistent for PPR. While I don't expect 20+ from him week to week, I think he is due for some receiving TD's. He also has rushed the ball 1-3 times a game this season. Houston has given up the 5th most TD's to WR's this season.

Charles Clay could benefit from a banged up WR core in Buffalo. For the price, I like it.

John Brown has only has 2 games under 10 points and only 2 games under 50 yards this season.

That leaves us to the rest. Martavis Bryant and Stefon Diggs are merely place holders to some degree for me. I am not sure what to make of the QB situation in Pittsburgh and am not sure if Diggs will be given more time due to his success. With $1900 already left over I can easily add Steve Smith Sr. I can drop Latavius and get Gurley for $1100 less. I can move John Brown to a WR slot and add Lamar Miller with the remaining moneys.

Here is a revised lineup

When Colossus is up and running today, I will obviously use them as a base lineup and make changes from there. I am interested to see how it compares to these however.

Any lineup that does not have Gurley in it is doing things wrong this week. I am glad that when I scrolled down he was in your second lineup.

With such a high ownership possible this weekend, it might be worth avoiding in some GPP leagues no?

Hopkins and Freeman were highly owned last week but for good reason. There is a saying I follow "Be contraion with out being stupid". Some times playing a player even though he will be highly owned is the right move. You can differentiate in other positions. For instance everyone will be on Gates this week and you have switched to Clay. Or you could go from Palmer to Rivers.

Great quote. Ill keep that in mind!

I have Fitzgerald, and snead as my WRs, with 6,100 any recommendations?

Palmer looks like he is going to be the most popular QB this week. Definitely would use him in cash games and double ups, and the same with Gurley. Gurley will probably be in every cash lineup you face. I like the Jets offense against the Pats, I think the team total is way too low, the 4-12 Jets lost to the Pats by a total of 3 points in TWO games last year, it may be fan bias, but I'm somewhat confident that Brandon Marshall is going to destroy Malcolm Butler if he is shadowed by him. BB will try to take away the run, bc that is the key to beating the Jets, so I'm a little wary of Ivory, but he is still Beast. I also wouldn't be surprised to see the line move a little closer on that game by Sunday. I don't know what to think about Freeman this week, if Julio is still not 100% healthy, he is also kind of a must start, because if he goes off, you will lose if you don't have him, plain and simple. I like your second lineup better than the first, and I'm also a Lamar Miller believer. Baltimore is such a mess, they have to throw to Steve Smith and even Aiken isn't a bad play either probably as they will be most likely be playing from behind.

I am looking at adding a couple Jets to a line up or two (mainly BM or CI). For GPP I think I may go Tannehill or Flacco. Should both be low end owner %s.

I'll echo Zach and others, I think Gurley is a must in lineups of all game types. The combination of ceiling and price point are too good to pass up. I'm also a bit disappointed to see neither Fitz nor Hopkins on either of your rosters, but I like the Brown wrinkle in GPPs (I do worry a tiny bit about the "lemming boost" in ownership, meaning in addition to those wisely using him you see a few more percentage points of ownership from those merely chasing last week's point total). The Redskins made the cut in The Blitz this week, but I can't get away from the Rams at the same price point. A Gurley/Rams defense stack has enormous potential. The Browns have turned the ball over frequently and ceded a ton of sacks too. Overall, I'm a fan of a number of pieces in both of your lineups!