{"id":801983,"date":"2026-07-14T19:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/801983\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:57:14","slug":"start-vs-sit-2-must-plays-and-who-to-avoid-in-week-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/801983\/","title":{"rendered":"Start vs. Sit: 2 must-plays and who to avoid in Week 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six weeks of CFL football are in the books, and even if you\u2019re playing CFL Fantasy presented by theScore Bet or CFL Weekly Fantasy, there\u2019s still plenty of time to become organized.<\/p>\n

Week 7 brings a full four-game slate, and, as usual, we\u2019re here to provide our Start vs. Sit to get your fantasy game plan rolling.<\/p>\n

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START<\/p>\n

DAVIS ALEXANDER | QUARTERBACK | MONTREAL ALOUETTES<\/p>\n

Davis Alexander<\/a> has thrown for 1,779 yards with eight majors so far in 2026. He\u2019s also yet to throw an interception in his first 184 attempts while averaging 9.7 yards per pass despite injuries that have hit the Als\u2019 receiving corps.<\/p>\n

Alexander has thrown for at least 301 yards in his first five games and has three games of two touchdown passes to boot. This game could once again feature the Alouettes pivot adding points to the board against the Stampeders for the second straight week, as Alexander operates an offence that averages over 36 points per game. Don\u2019t overuse your bandwidth when it comes to starting Alexander.<\/p>\n

SIT<\/p>\n

KENNY LAWLER | RECEIVER | HAMILTON TIGER-CATS<\/p>\n

Ugh, this hurts. One of the league\u2019s elite talents was a fantasy afterthought in Sunday\u2019s loss to the Roughriders, catching five passes for a mere 36 yards on nine targets. If there\u2019s anyone who misses the presence of Bo Levi Mitchell<\/a>, it\u2019s Kenny Lawler.<\/p>\n

Sitting Lawler is equally painful considering the Argonauts pass defence that is among the league\u2019s worst in fantasy points allowed to receivers. The starting status of Jake Dolegala<\/a> or Tre Ford<\/a> will also factor into whether the risk of playing Lawler has merit or if a backup with a more favourable\u00a0matchup is the better play.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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START<\/p>\n

TRAVIS THEIS | RUNNING BACK | MONTREAL ALOUETTES<\/p>\n

This is quickly becoming Travis Theis\u2019 starting job, and his 100 yards from scrimmage in the Week 6 win over Calgary is only bolstering that belief. Stevie Scott III has appeared in just one game this season, giving Theis near unlimited touches, and he\u2019s making the most of it.<\/p>\n

Theis has scored majors in three straight games and has averaged 13.6 Fantasy Points per game. Stay with Theis\u2019 hot hand in Week 7, where his salary makes him more appealing.<\/p>\n

SIT<\/p>\n

GREG BELL | RUNNING BACK | OTTAWA REDBLACKS<\/p>\n

Signs were encouraging after Greg Bell<\/a> scored 11.6 FP in Week 5, but those numbers tumbled in Week 6 when he scored just 6.6 Fantasy Points. He has yet to score a major and has yet to top 76 yards from scrimmage. Like the rest of the REDBLACKS offence, Bell hasn\u2019t gotten on track as the team ranks near the bottom of the league in most offensive categories.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s always the mindset that Bell could turn things around this week, but fantasy users would be wise to keep him off their Week 7 rosters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six weeks of CFL football are in the books, and even if you\u2019re playing CFL Fantasy presented by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-801983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}