Fantasy Football's Week Seven Waiver Wire

By Garth Gregor

Fantasy Football's Week Seven Waiver-Wire pickups are here! The wire picks are players who are or were still available in most leagues this week. Depending on how your waiver wire/free agents’ pool works, players may not clear waivers until later this week.

Most players should not be trusted to start in Week Seven unless your draft really went poorly. 

Instead, these players should be monitored or stashed away on your bench for bye weeks’ use or a future starting spot consideration.

QUARTERBACKS 

Brad Johnson - Whether Romo was your starting QB or you built your whole roster around the Cowboys' offense, Sunday was a tough one. Veteran Brad Johnson becomes a must have for the next four weeks. 

It will be hard to start a 40-year-old dud, but with weapons like Terrell Owens, Jason Witten, and the newly acquired Roy Williams, anything is possible. 

It is doubtful that it will be a quarterback controversy, but a favorable Week Seven matchup against the Rams could give Johnson some decent fantasy consideration.

Chad Pennington - I am leaving him on here this week, even with a tough Week Seven matchup against the Ravens. Peyton Manning lit them up on Sunday and Pennington will likely be throwing a great deal. Pennington threw for 282 yards and two touchdowns while only turning the ball over once. He makes a decent spot start if Tony Romo, Donovan McNabb, and/or Kurt Warner are your starting QB.

RUNNING BACKS

Cedric Benson - Chris Perry is officially horrible, as are the Bengals. If there ever is a turning point, Benson or Kenny Watson will have to be involved. Benson had four touches for six yards and faces the Steelers in Week Seven. This is not the week to try him out but, still has the potential to be a feature back on decent a offense.

Shaun Alexander - Only worth a look if you are a Clinton Portis owner or have a very deep bench. Keep an eye on the Redskin's box score but that is it for now.

Dominic Rhodes - Joseph Addai's owners should have him on their radar. 25 rushes for 73 yards and a touchdown is excellent and the Colts are known for "easing" players back to full speed after injury.

WIDE RECEIVERS

Steve Smith - This is the "bad" Steve Smith, who happens to be playing very well lately. Nine catches for 94 yards sounds pretty good in Week Six, and Week Four was seven catches for 60 yards. Great PPR potential, but he's inconsistent, as in Week Five, when he went for just 27 yards on two catches. Plaxico Burress gets all the...

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