Welcome to Week 7, fantasy footballers. I’ll say it for the third straight week—offense is back! The scoring drought of the first couple of weeks of the season is a distant memory, unless you’re the Cleveland Brown(out)s. Nine of the 28 teams in action in Week 7 broke 30 points, and only two teams (the Giants and Cowboys) scored fewer than 13. Obviously, one week is just one week, but there are larger trends. Passing proliferated in the 2000s and 2010s, and NFL scoring peaked in 2020, at an average of 24.8 points per team, per game. Scoring then dropped in each of the next three seasons, which many analysts attributed in large part to the prevalence of teams playing two safeties high.
Fantasy Football ‘24: Week 7 Fantasy preview—start/sit, and more
