Week 7 Buy-Low Trade Targets: Rome Odunze and More
Jonathan Fuller shares his top buy-low trade targets in fantasy football heading into Week 7 of the NFL season, including second-year Bears WR Rome Odunze.
The injuries are piling up and some teams in your fantasy league are starting to get desperate. In many leagues, we have about 2-3 more weeks before teams are eliminated from the playoff pictures and managers start to lose interest. The prime trading window is starting to close, but there is still time to make moves that set you up to win your league.
As usual, I'm looking for players who are either positive regression candidates or breakout candidates. These are players I believe are undervalued relative to their rest of season outlook. Of course, the hardest part of these trade target articles is recommending what to give up to acquire the player. I'll do my best to outline the player archetypes that I want to trade away and give examples of trades I think are good value, but ultimately you can only trade the players who are on your roster. To help with crafting your trade offer, I recommend using our Rest-of-Season rankings and Trade Analyzer to come up with a deal that is reasonable, but still a win for your team.
Rome Odunze - WR, Chicago Bears
The Bears gutted out an impressive win on the road in terrible weather against the Washington Commanders on Monday. Unfortunately for fantasy managers hoping for a Monday night miracle from the Bears' top receiver, Rome Odunze had his worst performance of the year.
However, the context behind his dud is important. Odunze still had 91% route participation and had a TD catch erased by an illegal formation penalty. Through five games he has been the clear WR1 in Chicago, and the Bears' offense seems to be making progress under Ben Johnson. If they continue to ascend as the season rolls on, Odunze will be one of the biggest beneficiaries. Coming off of a bye week and a down game, some of the early season excitement has worn off for Odunze managers, which makes this the perfect time to make an offer.
If you are attempting to make a WR for WR trade, I would try to move an elite number two like Davante Adams. Adams should be great if Puka misses time, but over the course of the rest of the season I would rather have Odunze.
You will probably get better value sending away an RB to acquire Odunze, particularly if that manager is dealing with RB injuries. If you have some RB depth to spare, you could try to sell high on one of the rookie breakouts like Cam Skattebo or Quinshon Judkins, who have looked great and are startable, but will have a difficult time sustaining elite production all the way through the fantasy playoffs.
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Darren Waller - TE, Miami Dolphins
I'm willing to admit that I was skeptical about whether Darren Waller would be fantasy relevant in 2025. After three games, I believe I was wrong. Waller has seen his role increase each week, hitting a 78% route rate in Week 6, and he has had at least one end zone target in every game he has played in. The TE position is very TD dependent, and it looks like Waller is a major part of the Dolphins' red zone offense.
He has also passed the eye test for me, looking explosive and sure-handed when targeted. I think he will be a low-end TE1 most weeks moving forward. Waller is an ideal trade candidate because he is essentially found money for the team that rosters him. They probably have another TE and probably have only started Waller once or twice this season. That will make it easier for them to part with him in a trade.
If they do have another TE, you will want to make a cross-positional offer. It is difficult to get the value right in those types of deals, but you will at least have their attention if you offer a FLEX level player like Rashid Shaheed or Romeo Doubs as an opening offer.
The biggest risk here is that Mike McDaniel looks unlikely to make it through the season and a change in offensive scheme could impact Waller's role and usage. With Tyreek Hill out for the year, I think Waller is relatively insulated from a coaching change, but there is a chance he could be featured less in the red zone in a different scheme which would lower his upside. Despite that risk, Waller is still being undervalued relative to his floor and ceiling for the rest of the season.
Lamar Jackson - QB, Baltimore Ravens
The QB position is the most difficult to make trades at in redraft leagues. The elites are worth their weight in gold and there are generally startable options on waivers in single QB leagues. This is the rare opportunity where I think you might be able to get a deal done for Lamar Jackson while the Ravens are on bye.
Lamar has missed the last two weeks with a hamstring injury, but is expected to return in Week 8 after their bye. The nature of the injury and the fact that the Ravens are 1-5 has a lot of fantasy managers worried about Lamar's rest of season outlook, the re-injury risk, and the chance that Baltimore might shut him down if they are out of the playoff hunt late in the year.
I'm not going to deny those risks, they do exist, but this is the kind of league-winning trade that you don't get a chance to make every year. Lamar Jackson is the QB2 in fantasy points per game this season and the Ravens are going to be in desperation mode starting in Week 8. I expect them to pull out all the stops and be aggressive.
What makes me think this is a trade worth making is the Ravens' post-bye schedule:
Week 8: vs. Chicago
Week 9: at Miami
Week 10: at Minnesota
Week 11: at Cleveland
Week 12: vs New York Jets
Week 13: vs Cincinnati
It is very feasible that they could win six in a row coming out of the bye and be right back in contention. Not only are those winnable matchups, but four of them (Bears, Dolphins, Bengals, Jets) are in the bottom third of the league in fantasy points allowed to opposing QBs. This sets up for Lamar and the Ravens' offense to go on an epic run from Week 8 - Week 13.
The trickiest part is knowing what to give up. Ideally, I would want to package a QB with a startable RB or WR to add Lamar to my team. For example, packaging Justin Herbert and J.K. Dobbins to trade for Lamar Jackson ahead of his bye is a reasonable offer, but I would much rather be on the Lamar side of that trade. In reality, it will depend which other QB the Lamar manager has on their team, what position they are weakest at, and who is available on waivers in order for you to structure a good trade offer.
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