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Lions Wire fantasy football weekly: 2021 Week 7 preview

derek okrie
·4 min read

Often in fantasy football leagues, you are in a league with your good friends who you have known for years. You know their tendencies and strategies inside and out.

You have fun with those friends during the off-season and even during the draft, but then it turns to fierce competition when the real games start to be played and even ratchets up more when you play head to head.

Lions at Rams fantasy focus

The Detroit Lions find themselves in a bit of a fantasy matchup this week when they travel out to Los Angeles to play their former quarterback Matthew Stafford.

The current Lions quarterback Jared Goff is also in fantasy land as he is traveling back to play against the team he called for years in the Rams.

It feels similar to that matchup you often see in your fantasy league where two really good friends are playing each other, you know they both want to win badly, but on paper you can tell one has a distinct advantage over the other when it comes to the talent on their team which often is reflected in the final score.

Expect this one to be lopsided and for all of the Rams offensive players to be starting options in your fantasy lineup. Stafford should play well to help your fantasy team if he’s your starting quarterback, but will also probably show his former team some respect in the end by not running up the score too much.

Start

Sit

Top 3 projected players by position

Quarterbacks

Running Backs

Wide Receivers

Tight Ends

Team Defenses

  • Cardinals vs. Texans

  • Buccaneers vs. Bears

  • Patriots vs. Jets

Kickers

Waiver wire options

Intriguing games and players in Week 7

(Week 7 Bye Weeks: Buffalo Bills, Dallas Cowboys, Jacksonville Jaguars, Minnesota Vikings, Pittsburgh Steelers, Los Angeles Chargers)

Denver at Cleveland, Thursday 8:20 PM, EST

Cincinnati at Baltimore, Sunday 1:00 PM, EST

Kansas City at Tennessee, Sunday 1:00 PM, EST

Atlanta at Miami, Sunday 1:00 PM, EST

Detroit at LA Rams, Sunday 4:05 PM, EST

  • DET: D’Andre Swift (RB), Jamaal Wiliams (RB)

  • LAR: Matthew Stafford (QB), Darrell Henderson (RB)

Chicago at Tampa Bay, Sunday 4:25 PM, EST

Indianapolis at San Francisco, Sunday 8:20 PM, EST

New Orleans at Seattle, Monday 8:15 PM, EST

  • NO: Alvin Kamara (RB), Adam Trautman (TE)

  • SEA: Tyler Lockett (WR), Gerald Everett (TE)

Bottom Line

Having a great fantasy football league with your friends is an awesome way to compete and enjoy football together, but at times it can also be complicated.

Trades are made, high stakes are on the line between friends when they play against each other, and at the end of the day you both just really want to win.

Lions safety Tracy Walker said it best during a recent press conference, “When I’m on that field you aren’t my teammate, you aren’t my friend but after the game, it is all love.”

The interesting matchup for the Lions this week will be one to remember or maybe one to forget when it’s all said and done. Enjoy your fantasy leagues with good friends, but when it’s time to play them there is only one objective and that is to win.