Fantasy Football Rankings & Tiers For QBs, RBs, WRs, TEs, Kickers & Defenses In Week 7

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Oct 23, 2021, 06:38 PM EDT

Setting your lineups before Sunday's games kickoff? Our expert is here to guide you through all the key start/sit decisions with six teams on bye.
He outlines his fantasy football rankings into tiers for every position: Quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, kickers and defenses.

The most bye weeks of the season plus a flurry of injuries make this Sunday’s start/sit decisions among the trickiest we’ll make in 2021.

To help, I’ve outlined my final tiers for each position based on the robust round of updates I made to my projections on Saturday afternoon. As always, these won’t reflect final actives/inactives, so make sure you consult my real-time rankings before locking in your lineups here. San Francisco will feature heavy rain for the 49ers’ showdown against the Colts — before you flood me with questions, I’m factoring the forecast into my projections and will continue to update as the situation is … fluid.

Now let’s dive in so you can start setting your lineups without players on the following bye-week teams: Bills, Cowboys, Jaguars, Chargers, Vikings and Steelers.