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John Laghezza's four fantasy football bold predictions for Week 7 of the 2025 NFL season. Expert predictions for Travis Hunter, TreVeyon Henderson, Harold Fannin, and more.
When pitched the idea of a weekly bold prediction fantasy football column, I jumped out of my giant comfy office chair at the opportunity. After all, fortune crowns the bold before the worthy — am I right? In this day and age, everyone's exposed to the same milquetoast rankings and mean projections. However, when you place security over freedom, you lose both while and deserve neither.
Welcome to the first edition of my RotoBaller bold predictions for the upcoming Week 7 slate. I'll be here putting a bow on every workweek with out-of-pocket takes and outlier calls to get you an unforeseen boost in this weekend's fantasy matchup. If you're not first, you're last.
Bye weeks plus waves of injuries leave so many teams right on the bubble, with difficult flex decisions yet to be decided. Let us help you highlight a few undiscovered diamonds in the rough with bigtime risk-reward ratios attached. No guts, no glory.
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Travis Hunter Finally Breaks Through Across The Pond As A Top-10 WR
Does the sequence 39, 77, 89, 52, 47, 58 ring a bell? If you guessed Travis Hunter's weekly positional finishes, you hit the fantasy nail directly on its head. Yikes — it's even worse than I thought. Well, forget everything you know about the former second overall pick's rookie campaign for our boldest call. A good sign I'm getting old is speaking in adages, but there's a reason some sayings hold lasting power.
(clears throat) Prospect growth isn't linear, and expecting immediate high-level production from any rookie, particularly from one attempting to learn multiple phases of the game simultaneously is both unfair and misplaced. Doesn't Hunter deserve a little extra patience? My answer's a resounding yes.
Two parts to this bold prediction get me stoked there's a better chance to hit this than meets the eye. First off, in each of the last five weeks without fail, Hunter's increased his route participation into full-time territory — culminating in a seven-opportunity game versus the Seahawks. Great first sign of a breakout if you ask me. We know the talent's there, evidenced in the film, box score, and draft capital spent to acquire him. The team continues to show confidence in their first-year investment and now it's just a matter of time.
I'm also especially encouraged by the increase in Hunter's slot usage, which will be necessary to exploit if Jacksonville stands a chance against the Rams' front seven. Since Los Angeles forces so much pressure, the opposition's forced into low average-depth-of-target attempts underneath all the Cover-3 Sean McVay deploys.
The result so far? LAR's allowed a league-worst 9.2 receptions per game to slot WRs. Hunter's got a great chance to rack up PPR points underneath all day in a negative game script with a chance to break a long TD any time he reels in a target.
Travis Hunter. Electric.
KCvsJAX on ESPN/ABC
Stream on @NFLPlus and ESPN App pic.twitter.com/hcjTGl0KZF— NFL (@NFL) October 7, 2025
Harold Fannin Jr. Flashes As This Weekend's TE1
The term perfect storm gets flung around at times, except this isn't one of them — especially when considering the outlandish weather conditions in Cleveland's forecast. Excuse the cheesy pun but bad dad jokes come free with the fantasy advice.
Anyway, Miami's recent inability to stop the run borders on malpractice; something Mike McDaniel's sure to address during meetings this week. While the crowd chases Quinshon Judkins in an almost-too-obvious chalk spot, it's actually fellow rookie Harold Fannin Jr. who breaks Sunday's slate.
For all intents and purposes, up until about 12 seconds ago, fantasy's current TE11 served as the TE2 on his own team. However, an injury to David Njoku paired with an undying willingness to throw the ball nonstop clears a runway for Fannin Jr. to go bananas. (taps microphone) Dillon Gabriel dropped back a ridiculous 58 times in his second NFL start! Let that sink in...
Miami just allowed another rookie TE, Chargers' Oronde Gadsden to go (7-68-0) for a TE9 finish —and had Gadsden reeled in that end zone target, he'd have finished top three. Fannin earned double digit targets against the Steelers for a ( 7-81-0) Week 6 output, perhaps most interestingly featuring eight looks from the slot (5-55-0).
Combine the recent play volume with an ideal matchup and extra attention in the box to suppress Judkins. Pat Freiermuth's Thursday Night breakout will be tough to catch if we want to nab the overall TE1, but it's not out of the question.
NEW: Dolphins-Browns game in Cleveland could have 50-60 mph wind gusts.
The National Weather Service says this is “certainly a system worth keeping an eye on” as a stronger storm may materialize.
The current forecast: 94% chance of rain, 36 mph gusts, and 65 degrees.
— Andy Slater (@AndySlater) October 16, 2025
Luke McCaffrey Closes Out Week 7 As A Top-12 WR
Few scenarios provide more certainty this season than death, taxes, the sun rising in the east... and getting elite fantasy performances against the Cowboys' secondary. Guilty of affording the opposing QB1 a top-12 finish every week so far, no defense allowed more fantasy points to the position.
Currently stone cold worst in EPA/dropback (-0.32), opposing passer rating (116.9), passing yards per game (269.5), and touchdowns allowed (15), it's the Commanders turn to get their pound of flesh from this porous defensive unit.
Terry McLaurin's already listed out (quad), Deebo Samuel's going to be limited at very best (heel), and someone's going to serve as the explosive option in the Commanders' pass game. Remember, as bad as Dallas looks on defense, the opposite can be said for Dak Prescott and the Boys, who get all-world wide receiver CeeDee Lamb back in the fold this weekend.
Working opposite a hobbled Samuel may even benefit McCaffrey in the long run, since I had my doubts he could operate as an alpha WR anyway. Sometimes less attention is more.
Sure, Washington deployed dusty veteran Chris Moore in a pinch last weekend — but I can't see Dan Quinn turning to him when the Commanders need big plays to keep up. The sample's small but of the secondary options in the WR room, Luke McCaffrey leads the clubhouse in receptions (8), yards (179), and touchdowns (3), on a very healthy 2.89 yards per route run.
Jayden connects on a deep ball to Luke McCaffrey!
WASvsLAC on FOX/FOX Onehttps://t.co/HkKw7uXVnt pic.twitter.com/Fzk0ycZbdc
— NFL (@NFL) October 5, 2025
TreVeyon Henderson Overtakes New England's Backfield For First Top-20 Finish
Buried my vibes-based call for last so my social media notifications won't get annihilated when this fails spectacularly. Forget TreVeyon Henderson's poor individual rushing metrics (3.6 yards/attempt, 4.9% explosive rush rate), absolutely nothing's worked in the Patriots' run game whatsoever.
]Still unable to believe a player as outstanding as Henderson could get buried behind the significantly less electric Rhamondre Stevenson (3.1 yards/attempt, 3.9% explosive rush rate), I went back on the All-22 tape to give every New England backfield touch my full attention.
Honestly, even as a layman in the tape-grinding streets, Henderson left very little on the table in his opportunities. Make no mistake — the Patriot's 0.85 yards before contact per rush takes a good amount of responsibility for the bottom-5 rushing success rate (33.8%).
If anything, Tennessee's played so poorly across the board, they could cough up a few short fields to turn into touchdowns on our way to this rest-of-season flippening. Once this play hits, we could be talking about the rest-of-season league-winning potential everyone drafted him for.
Rookie TreVeyon Henderson gets a carry for 13 yards
NEvsBUF on NBC
Stream on @NFLPlus + Peacock pic.twitter.com/BzPRW9YMEI— NFL (@NFL) October 6, 2025
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