Week 7 Start/Sit Help | Mastering YOUR Fantasy Football Matchups
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Jacob Gibbs and Ryan Heath are back to help you with all things start/sit and matchups for Week 7 of the NFL and fantasy football season.
(0:00) Intro
(0:30) Bill Croskey-Merritt & RB Rankings
(16:30) Darnell Washington & other TEs
(18:30) Tee Higgins & Ja’Marr Chase vs. man coverage
(20:00) Saquon Barkley optimism
(23:28) Tampa Bay vs. Detroit: Baker & TBs weapons, Detroit weapons & more
(30:18) The Rams: Kyren Williams, Davante Adams
(35:15) Bears vs. Saints & Cover 3
(39:45) Breaking down the DFS slate - Jayden Daniels, Breece Hall, TEs, Chiefs and more
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. This is Beyond the Box Score. We are talking through some week seven matchups. My guy, Ryan Heath, from Fantasy Points. Data is here with me. As always, this is mastering matchups. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:21.6 | Brian, we're going to start right at the top with our guy, Bill Kroski Merritt, as we always do. |
| 0:27.5 | You know me. I can't help myself. Let's start there. So I do have, even after a disappointing |
| 0:32.3 | week six, Bill Kroski Merritt, in my top 12. I think this week we got a clearly defined top |
| 0:40.0 | six or seven guys that are the elite backs that ends with Josh Jacobs, Giovante Williams, |
| 0:44.8 | Devon A-chan. This Rico Dowdell ranking is made with the assumption that he's going to get |
| 0:50.5 | most or all of the work. We don't know what's going to happen with Chuba Hubbard. |
| 0:53.3 | Quintan Junkins up into this range, obviously a game script dependent type of running back. |
| 1:00.0 | And he gets the dolphins this week at home for Cleveland, a game where he could run all over them. |
| 1:05.7 | But after that, it's like Kairn Williams. I like the matchup. |
| 1:08.5 | Sequin Barkley, maybe not so much. There's very few guys that I can push ahead of Jacori Kroski, Merritt. |
| 1:14.3 | So just real quick, the matchup notes on him. |
| 1:17.1 | The Cowboys, obviously we know, have been bad. |
| 1:19.9 | Tackling, have been bad defensively all over the place. |
| 1:22.6 | But specifically against the type of runs that Bill specializes in, |
| 1:28.3 | the Cowboys have been bad. |
| 1:33.3 | They're allowing a 63% success rate to man gap runs, |
| 1:37.6 | up from 56% against zone runs, |
| 1:43.1 | and 68% of Bill's runs have been man gap runs. |
| 1:45.9 | Stan Quinn has talked specifically about liking that aspect of what he brings to the offense. And so I do feel confident going back to the well here |
| 1:52.0 | in a potential shootout. What I actually, you can add anything on that top 12 if you want. What I actually |
| 1:57.0 | want to get your thoughts on the most, Ryan, is first how you're doing, of course. |
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