“Buy or Bye”™ – Daily Fantasy Football Plays for Week 7 2026 Cash Games

October 23, 2026 Leave a comment

By Ha Kung Wong

In 2025, we were over 70% for cash lineups again and we’re back with more Daily Fantasy Football advice for Cash Games for Week 7 of the 2026 season!

You’re welcome.

As usual, before we get to winning you more bragging rights (and DFS cash), remember, the point of this article is not just to give you one or two lineups for each site, it’s to give you examples of a few POSSIBLE lineups. Getting exposure to a few different lineups is always a good idea, so don’t forget to mix and match additional lineups from my suggestions below. Trust me, it’s a lot more fun that way AND you’ll improve your chances of cashing!

Let’s get to winning you some CASH in Week 7 of the 2026 NFL season!

Cash Games, for those who don’t know, are essentially the lowest risk games. They include “50/50” games, in which half the entrants win about 1.8x the entry fee, and “Double Ups”, in which slightly less than half the entrants win 2x the entry fee.

Since there’s so many different sites, and I can’t cover them all, I’ve decided to cover just the most popular sites, including Fan Duel, Draft Kings and Yahoo! Daily Fantasy.

First of all, as a general rule for 50/50 Cash Games, there’s a basic target of points per salary cap spent that you’d like to look for:

For Fan Duel try to target at least 2 fantasy points per $1000 spent.
For Draft Kings, try to target at least 2.5 fantasy points per $1000 spent.
For Yahoo! Daily Fantasy, try to target at least 0.6-0.7 fantasy points per $1 spent.

Remember, this article is not focused on GPP (Tournament) Games, JUST Cash Games. Feel free to use a few of these suggested players as a base when constructing a GPP lineup, but you’ll have to take some chances on a few low cost, upside players as well.

As per usual, I’m going to provide you with a few sample lineups on each site and give you a few notes to consider. You’re welcome.

So, without further to do, here are my suggestions for the Best Daily Fantasy Football Plays for Cash Games and player props for Week 7 contests.

FanDuel

Draft Kings

Yahoo! DFS

Game Notes:

For those new to this column, note that I never advocate against you paying up at any particular position for DFS. We all know that the likes of Josh Allen and Christian McCaffrey are probably going to have the most consistent upside in terms of potential fantasy points from week to week. But remember that DFS is a salary cap game. You can feel free to sprinkle high priced players into your lineups, but you can’t pay up at every position because there’s simply not enough salary to go around. I try my best each week to provide my thoughts on how you might want to balance your cash lineups in terms of points potential and salary.
My general Week 7 cash strategy is to anchor at least one stud RB and/or WR with a higher end QB, go mid-price for TE and look for value to fill the remaining RB, WR and defense.
The “Free Square of the Week”™ is Woody Marks. David Montgomery has been ruled out against the Giants, leaving Marks in position to handle most of Houston’s meaningful backfield work. Over Weeks 4–6, Marks had 36 carries for 140 yards and a touchdown while adding six receptions for 48 yards. More importantly, he received 15 carries in each of the last two games and contributed six catches during that stretch. Now he gets a Giants defense allowing 135.5 rushing yards per game and 5.0 yards per carry, ranking 29th and 31st, respectively. Houston is also favored by approximately 10 points, creating the possibility of a run-heavy second half. That makes Marks pretty attractive at $6,200 on FanDuel, $5,600 on Draft Kings and $19 on Yahoo.
I like both C.J. Stroud and Joe Burrow, but for slightly different reasons. Stroud is the salary-conscious option. From Weeks 4–6, he completed 71 of 99 passes for 920 yards, six touchdowns and one interception, and he added a rushing touchdown. That’s three straight games with at least 261 passing yards and a particularly strong salary of $5,700 on Draft Kings. The risk is that Houston builds an early lead and turns the game over to Marks, but Stroud has already shown that he can reach value without needing 45 pass attempts. Burrow is the higher-priced alternative. He threw for 618 yards and five touchdowns in Weeks 4 and 5 before Cincinnati’s Week 6 bye, with another touchdown on the ground. Cincinnati is rested, Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins both played before the bye and are now fully healthy, and the close point spread should keep Burrow throwing.
The Green Bay Packers at Detroit Lions game has the highest over/under of the slate at 53.5, with Detroit favored by just 3, and we already mentioned in this week’s podcast that we’re in on several players on both sides for fantasy football. In particular, for the Lions, I like Jahmyr Gibbs, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Sam LaPorta and Jameson Williams, in that order. For the Packers, Jordan Love is who I’d focus on due to the injury questions, but Tucker Kraft ain’t bad either.
- Jahmyr Gibbs is expensive everywhere, but he is the player I’m most targeting from this game. Gibbs had a bye in Week 6, but in Weeks 4 and 5 he accumulated 197 rushing yards, 87 receiving yards and three touchdowns. In Week 5 alone, he handled 25 carries for 151 yards and two scores while catching five passes for another 56 yards. Detroit enters Week 7 leading the NFL at 32.8 points per game, and FanDuel lists Green Bay as the 30th-ranked matchup against running backs. Gibbs is also unusually independent of game script. Detroit can use him as a conventional runner while ahead or feature him as a receiver if the game becomes a shootout. Paying $9,800 is never painless, but predictable touches, receptions and touchdown opportunities are exactly what I want from an expensive cash-game running back.
Ollie Gordon II is the primary cap-saving partner for Gibbs. After taking over the Miami backfield, Gordon rushed for 100 yards and a touchdown in Week 4 and 88 yards and a touchdown in Week 5 before Miami’s bye. That gives him 188 rushing yards and two touchdowns on 27 carries over his last two games. Miami’s passing game has been one of the least productive in football, but that only gives the Dolphins more reason to lean on Gordon. The Jets rank 23rd against the run, and New England just rushed for 148 yards against them in Week 6. At $6,000 on FanDuel, $5,500 on Draft Kings and $20 on Yahoo, Gordon provides legitimate lead-back volume without a lead-back salary.
Aaron Jones Sr. is another reasonable FanDuel flex play at only $5,900. Jones carried the ball 20 times for 94 yards in Week 4 and 25 times for 113 yards and a touchdown in Week 5 before Minnesota’s bye. He also caught seven passes for 38 yards in those games. That’s 52 total touches and 245 scrimmage yards over his last two outings. FanDuel lists Indianapolis as the 29th-ranked matchup against running backs, and Jones gives the second FanDuel lineup exposure to a sizable workload without forcing another premium salary into the build.
Puka Nacua would be an easy recommendation if not for the calf injury he suffered during Thursday’s practice. From Weeks 4–6, Nacua caught 32 passes for 343 yards and a touchdown, and he added 11 rushing yards and another touchdown. That includes a fairly absurd 17-catch, 138-yard performance in Week 5. The Rams rank third in the league in total offense at 401.3 yards per game, while Las Vegas has allowed at least 30 points in three consecutive losses. The volume and matchup both support Nacua, but this is still a cash-game article, and cash lineups generally don’t like injury uncertainty. If Nacua is cleared without any reported limitation, I’m comfortable using him. If he is active but expected to rotate or play fewer snaps, I would move off him.
There are several useful mid-priced receivers in these lineups.
- Carnell Tate caught 16 passes for 221 yards and a touchdown over Weeks 4–6, including nine catches for 145 yards in Week 4 and six catches for 70 yards and a touchdown in Week 6. The Week 5 dud was ugly, but Tennessee’s entire offense produced only three points. Tate still leads the Titans with 29 receptions and 344 receiving yards.
- Denzel Boston produced eight catches for 150 yards and a touchdown over the same three-game period and leads Cleveland with 345 receiving yards and three scores.
- Jalen Coker returned in Week 6 and immediately caught six passes for 97 yards. When he’s healthy, Bryce Young really likes him and, thus, so should you.
Omar Cooper Jr. and Konata Mumpfield are the riskier salary-saving receivers.
- Cooper is the more interesting of the two after catching six passes for 103 yards and a touchdown in Week 6. Miami has produced only four sacks this season, the fewest in the league, so the Jets should have time to let their downfield routes develop. At $4,100 on Draft Kings, Cooper doesn’t need to repeat his 103-yard performance to justify his salary.
- Mumpfield is perhaps a little riskier. He caught only three passes for 22 yards over Weeks 4–6, but with Davante Adams out for 6-10 weeks, someone has to step up and Mumpfield appears to at least have a chance at being that guy, making him an interesting punt at just $3,200 on Draft Kings and $10 on Yahoo. He becomes even more appealing if Nacua’s injury creates additional snaps or targets, but Mumpfield is a cap-saving mechanism, not someone I’m pretending has a safe eight-target floor.
I’m comfortable paying into the middle tier at tight end because Isaiah Likely and George Kittle have both been producing. Likely caught 24 passes for 259 yards and three touchdowns from Weeks 4–6, including consecutive games with at least 94 yards and a touchdown, much of which in Week 6 came from new starting QB JJ McCarthy. That’s good volume for a tight end priced at $5,300 on Draft Kings and $5,500 on FanDuel. Kittle caught 14 passes for 163 yards and two touchdowns during the same period, scoring five times in six games this season, and with Deebo Samuel out and Mike Evans potentially out, his opportunities might be on the rise.
On defense, I like paying down and I’m comfortable taking either side of the Cleveland-Tennessee game. Cleveland ranks 28th in scoring and 29th in total offense, while Tennessee ranks 31st in scoring and last in total offense. The Browns defense has 19 sacks, second-most in the NFL, while the Titans have 16 sacks, tied for 10th. In other words, we have two productive pass rushes facing two of the league’s least productive offenses. That’s an ideal environment for inexpensive defensive scoring, even if the actual game may not qualify as ideal television. For Yahoo, the Arizona Cardinals Defense is a simple $10 value play against a Denver offense averaging 19 points per game, 26th in the NFL, and only 252.2 yards per game, 31st. Defense is volatile, so I’ll take the savings and spend the remaining salary on positions with more predictable opportunities.