Week 7 Trade Targets
Six players whose current value doesn’t match what they can do from here. Make your offers before their managers notice.
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QB: Kyler Murray (MIN)
Murray comes out of the bye with one of the friendliest three-week stretches any quarterback will see this fall, and in plenty of leagues he’s sitting on a bench.
Next three: Colts, Lions, Bills. Detroit and Indianapolis are two of the most favorable matchups for fantasy QBs in the NFL, and the Bills defense has been leaky as well.
The rushing is back. He ran 10 times for 51 yards in Week 5, alongside a 24-of-30, 229-yard, one-TD line through the air.
He has a long track record. Murray has finished as a top-12 fantasy QB in points per game in every season of his career. He’s one of only four players ever to average 200+ passing yards and 30+ rushing yards per game, alongside Josh Allen, Cam Newton and Jayden Daniels.
He has been more game manager than gunslinger so far, but this schedule plus his legs gives superflex managers, and 1-QB managers hit by injuries, a cheap way to add a ceiling.
RB: Chase Brown (CIN)
Nobody has been more frustrating at running back this season, and that’s exactly why the price has dropped.
The volume has been real. He handled 71.4% of Cincinnati’s RB opportunities in Week 3 and caught all 11 of his targets in Week 4.
His touchdowns have lagged. He has just one score on the season despite that workload, which is the kind of number that tends to correct.
The Burrow version is the real one. Brown has averaged 17.2 PPR points per game over the last two seasons with Joe Burrow in the lineup, and finished as the RB7 in points per game in 2025.
Samaje Perine’s 50/50 split in Week 5 is a real concern, and the bye week gave anxious managers two weeks to stew on it. Brown is still the most talented back in an intact Bengals offense, so make a play for him if you need RB help.
WR: Luther Burden III (CHI)
Caleb Williams is back, and the window to buy Burden before he takes off is closing fast.
He produced right away with Williams back. Burden caught all eight of his targets for a season-high 95 yards in Week 6 and led the Bears in targets.
He’s already efficient. His 2.62 yards per route run as a rookie was 3rd in the NFL, behind only Puka Nacua and Jaxon Smith-Njigba.
He has room to grow. He ran a route on just 19 of Chicago’s 45 dropbacks in Week 6. Any increase in snaps turns that efficiency into much bigger weeks.
He’s sitting outside the top-20 PPR receivers and may be wearing on his manager’s patience, but the weeks without Williams are behind him.
RB: Saquon Barkley (PHI)
The Eagles’ offense has fallen apart without Barkley, and they’ll have little choice but to lean on him when he returns.
Philadelphia’s quarterback situation changed. Jalen Hurts is expected to miss the rest of the season with blood clots, and Tanner McKee takes over. That makes Barkley the most important piece of the offense when he’s healthy.
He’ll get the work. Even in a down 2025, Barkley ranked 4th in opportunity share (80.3%) and 3rd in snap share (79.5%).
His replacements haven’t held the job. Dameon Pierce, Carson Steele and Jaydon Blue were expected to split touches in his absence, and Pierce has been the one to take the lion’s share. None of these guys scare me for touch threats when Barkley is back.
He’s week-to-week with the hamstring, so this is a patience play. But Barkley is one of the best backs in the NFL when healthy, and a manager watching his second-round pick sit out is a manager you can deal with.
WR: A.J. Brown (NE)
His return was ugly, and the frustration among his managers is your discount.
The volume was there. Drake Maye targeted him 10 times in his first game back since Week 1, even though only three were caught for 27 yards.
The drops should pass. He was charged with at least three drops and looked stiff after a multi-week high-ankle sprain, which points to rust rather than a lost role.
Wide Receivers are Banged up. Brown has four straight 1,000-yard seasons, posted a 29.5% target share last year (9th), and the Patriots are now down Mack Hollins AND Romeo Doubs.
Thursday’s game against the Bears has an O/U total of about 50, so it’s a good chance for him to rebound, especially now that Doubs has hit IR. Buy before he and Maye get in sync.
RB: Bijan Robinson (ATL)
One bad week, and someone in your league may be ready to trade a top-3 pick.
Week 6 was an outlier. Robinson managed nine carries for 61 yards and -8 receiving yards against a Chicago defense that set out to stop the run.
His previous three weeks were elite. He ran for 425 yards over Weeks 3-5, including back-to-back 100-yard, two-touchdown games.
The Week 7 matchup helps. Undefeated San Francisco is next. They’ve been fairly generous to RBs so far this season, and Robinson is still the engine of a run-heavy Falcons offense under Kevin Stefanski.
Robinson led the NFL with 2,298 scrimmage yards last season and has never missed a game in his career. If his manager is impatient, this is the time to make an offer.
That’s the list. Making an offer for any of these six guys could be the key to a championship run this year.
-Joe
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