
Matthew Freedman highlights his three favorite RBs for fantasy football Week 7, and a few more that should be on your radar.

Before we get into my favorite running backs for fantasy football Week 7, let's take a look back at some of the players I liked in Week 6.
I'm just trying to set expectations appropriately low.
As of Tuesday evening, here's an early look at my (preliminary) favorite Week 7 fantasy plays—the guys who (in some combination) …
Some notes.
Updates: After I submit this piece, any changing opinions I have will be reflected in my weekly fantasy football rankings and my NFL player projections (accessible with a FantasyLife+ subscription), which I will update throughout the week.
Scoring & Ordering: All fantasy points are half-PPR scoring unless otherwise stated. Players are ordered within position roughly (but maybe not precisely) according to my rankings.
Abbreviations: Check out the end of the piece for abbreviations I might use.
Bye Week: This week, the Bears and Cowboys are off. That's great news for me as a Cowboys fan: They're guaranteed not to lose on Sunday.
Sports Betting Data: Odds are as of 10:15 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Oct. 15, and based on the consensus lines in our Fantasy Life Odds Page.
Freedman's Favorites: Although we publish this piece as four separate articles broken out by position, I think of it as one cohesive whole and write it as such. With that in mind, please be sure to check out the rest of my favorite Week 7 fantasy football plays in the other positional previews.
For the rest of my favorite fantasy football plays for Week 7, sorted by position, see below:
The Rams are favored by almost a TD at home off the bye against a Raiders defense ranked No. 28 in rush DVOA (5.4%) and missing its top interior lineman in DT Christian Wilkins (foot, IR). The spot doesn't get much better than that.
And it's not as if Williams needs much of a situational boost anyway: In five games he has 431 yards and seven TDs from scrimmage on 95 carries and 15 targets. With WRs Puka Nacua (knee, IR) and Cooper Kupp (ankle) looking likely to miss at least one more week, Williams could once again surpass 20 touches, as he has done in each of his past three games.
Despite his small size (5-9, 202 lbs.), Williams is pacing to replicate last year's 1,350-yard, 15-TD campaign.
While the Jets are theoretically strong on the interior of their defensive line thanks to DTs Quinnen Williams and Javon Kinlaw, they're still just mediocre against the run, ranking No. 28 in defensive rush SR (45.4%).
And I expect the Steelers, who rank No. 2 in the league with a 52.9% rush rate under run-obsessed OC Arthur Smith, to rely heavily on the ground game throughout this contest, which means that (once again) Harris will be someone I'm relatively bullish on.
In the big picture, Harris fails to excite as a football player. For his career, he has averaged just 3.9 yards per carry and 4.9 yards per target. Mediocrity would be a modest improvement.
But he also has a relatively high floor with at least 1,200 yards and eight TDs from scrimmage in each of the past three seasons, and this year he has at least 70 yards on 16 opportunities in every game. Last week, he finally had a standout performance with 122 yards and a TD.
Usually, I'm not a fan of underdog RBs—but the Steelers with HC Mike Tomlin have been absolutely dominant when getting points at home, going 19-6-3 ATS (43.0%) and 17-11 ML (53.0% ROI) in this spot.
Even with a reputationally bad matchup and a situationally subpar spot, Harris still has a solid ceiling/floor combination.
I highlighted Bigsby in this same piece last week, and he rewarded my enthusiasm with 24 scoreless yards on seven carries and no targets.
So I'm doubling down.
There are a number of reasons to like him this week.
The Jags are sizable favorites in London—their home away from home—and they have a massive travel advantage because they played in England last week.
Additionally, RB Travis Etienne (hamstring) exited last game early with a soft-tissue injury and is unlikely to suit up, which gives Bigsby the shot to handle the supermajority of the backfield work.
Finally, the Patriots are No. 4 in most fantasy points allowed to RBs (25.0).
With 219 yards and two TDs from scrimmage in the two games prior to his Week 6 dud, Bigsby has the explosiveness to make the most of his opportunities.