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The Sicko List, Week 7: G6 CFF Plays Hiding in Plain Sight

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Thursdays are for the sickos, and that means it’s time for The Sicko List, Week 7: G6 CFF Plays Hiding in Plain Sight. While most managers spend the week refreshing Power Four injury reports, the Sicko List lives in the Group of Six. There, the defenses are softer, the usage is easier to read and the ownership is still low. Every player here is rostered in under 30% of leagues. Moreover, every one of them has a reason to pay off this week.

Week 7 hands us a few gifts. For example, Charlotte can’t stop a quarterback, San Diego State can’t cover the outside and Rice keeps getting torched in the slot. If you caught Week 7 G6 Risers: Four Waiver Wire Adds to Make Before Tuesday, a few of these names will look familiar. That’s by design: when the usage holds and the matchup lines up, a waiver add becomes a start. Below are the G6 CFF Plays Hiding in Plain Sight that I’m targeting at every position. Plus, there is a bonus running back worth stashing before his breakout window opens.

Note: All advanced stats I provide throughout the article are pulled fromย g5hive.com.

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The Sicko List, Week 7: G6 CFF Plays Hiding in Plain Sight

Quarterbacks

Max Johnson, Georgia Southern

Fantrax Rostership: 11%
Total Fantasy Points: 126.1
Fantasy Points Per Game: 21 (6-point passing TDs)

Simply put, Max Johnson is on a heater. Over his last three games against Houston, Coastal Carolina and James Madison, he scored 26.56, 28.62 and 31.52 points. He is climbing each week.

Next up is Old Dominion, and on paper it’s a tough draw. The Monarchs allow just 186 passing yards per game, though they still give up 22.71 fantasy points per game to opposing quarterbacks. Johnson, meanwhile, averages 37 pass attempts and 262 passing yards per game, 19th in the nation, with 11 touchdowns against two interceptions.

Something has to give between Johnson’s volume and ODU’s stingy pass defense. Therefore, given how he handled Houston, Coastal and JMU, I’m betting on the quarterback.

Ajani Sheppard, Temple

Fantrax Rostership: 4%
Total Fantasy Points: 107.7
Fantasy Points Per Game: 18 (4-point passing TDs)

This breakdown is short and sweet. Sheppard is all about the floor. In fact, he’s averaging 18 points per game, and Week 7 brings Charlotte. You had me at Charlotte.

The 49ers are the worst team in the nation against quarterbacks, allowing 36.16 points per game to the position. I don’t expect to see Sam Brown this week, so Sheppard should add an extra two to three points with his legs alone. In short, this is as safe as a G6 quarterback gets.

Running Backs

Dominic Kelley, Nevada

Fantrax Rostership: 24%
Total Fantasy Points: 87.9
Fantasy Points Per Game: 17.6

Not all touches are created equal. Nevada’s backfield looks like a committee until you check the usage. For instance, Kelley holds a 63.08 weighted opportunity share to Herschel Turner’s 47.06. In addition, his 16.6 touches per game are four more than Turner gets.

Furthermore, Kelley is turning that work into 102.8 yards per game. Both backs have four rushing touchdowns, but Kelley owns the red zone with 10 more carries inside the 20 than Turner. After all, volume plus goal-line work is how touchdowns regress in your favor. I don’t love this week’s matchup against NDSU, but I would not wait. Grab him now!

AJ Newberry, Oregon State

Fantrax Rostership: 20%
Total Fantasy Points: 92.6
Fantasy Points Per Game: 15.4

New week, same name, still no respect. Newberry carries a 72.8 weighted opportunity share and does damage as a receiver. For example, he is averaging 4.33 targets and 30.17 receiving yards per game.

On top of that, he has 10 red zone carries and three red zone targets, and he’s averaging 82.33 total yards per game. Make no mistake: this is his backfield. Oregon State faces Washington State in Week 7, a defense allowing 19.98 points per game to running backs. For that reason, Newberry is about as safe as plays come this week.

Bonus Stash: Keenan Phillips, South Alabama

Fantrax Rostership: 36%
Total Fantasy Points: 93
Fantasy Points Per Game: 15.5

Keenan Phillips is technically over the 30% rostered threshold, but I’m making an exception because he should be on far more teams than he is. He’s on a bye this week, which makes now the perfect time to grab him.

South Alabama runs a near-even split between Phillips and Patrick “P.J.” Martin. Martin holds a 34.2% rush share to Phillips’ 29.7%, and the red zone work is just as balanced, with each back logging 19 carries inside the 20. As a result, that shared usage makes Phillips viable on his own. Additionally, he already has five rushing touchdowns.

The Jaguars run the ball 65% of the time, and after the bye they get Marshall in Week 8, a defense that has been a dumpster fire all season. Phillips is the definition of G6 CFF Plays Hiding in Plain Sight, so stash him now before someone else does.

Wide Receivers

Josiah Freeman, Fresno State
Fantrax Rostership: 25%
Total Fantasy Points: 88.3
Fantasy Points Per Game: 14.7

Freeman leads the Bulldogs with a 30.8% target share and is tied for the team lead with five red zone targets. Additionally, his game log reads 16.0, 21.5, 18.6 and 20.8 points, with one down week of 8.3 against Boise State. That’s a season you’ll take.

Now he gets San Diego State, which allows 48.8 points per game to wide receivers, including a nation-worst 43.1 points per game to the outside. Did I mention Freeman plays on the outside? Needless to say, fire him up in Week 7.

Oran Singleton, Tulsa

Fantrax Rostership: 21%
Total Fantasy Points: 96.9
Fantasy Points Per Game: 16.2

Singleton leads the Golden Hurricane with a 24.3% target share, averaging 7.17 targets, five receptions and 63.67 yards per game. Moreover, he has four straight double-digit games and three straight with eight or more targets.

The recent run looks like this:

  • Arkansas: 6 receptions on 8 targets for 39 yards, 10.6 points
  • North Texas: 11 receptions on 17 targets for 104 yards, 23.6 points
  • Navy: 5 receptions on 8 targets for 81 yards and a touchdown, 25.4 points

Above all, that Navy game matters. You’d expect a ball-control offense to muck things up, yet Singleton still delivered. Rice plays a similar style, but Navy executes it better than Rice does.

The real hook is where Singleton lines up. Rice allows about four times as many points per snap to the slot as it does to the outside, and slot receivers are averaging 15.2 points per game against them. Guess where Singleton plays? You guessed it, the slot. Rice will try to shorten this game, but I see a big day coming.

Tight End

Cole Keller, James Madison

Fantrax Rostership: 18%
Total Fantasy Points: 66.1
Fantasy Points Per Game: 11

Admittedly, nothing about this pick is sexy. Keller is the fourth option on a team that throws only 40% of the time. But if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

To illustrate, over his last three games, Keller has seen four targets, four targets and, wait for it, four targets. He turned them into 3 catches for 21 yards and a touchdown (11.1 points), then 3 catches for 35 yards (6.5 points), then 4 catches for 108 yards and a touchdown (20.8 points). JMU draws Georgia State in Week 7, and at a position this thin, steady targets with touchdown upside are exactly what you want.

The Sicko List, Week 7: G6 CFF Plays Hiding in Plain Sight

The theme this week is simple: follow the usage, then find the matchup. First, Max Johnson and Ajani Shepherd give you rising production and a soft floor under center. Next, Dominic Kelley and AJ Newberry own their backfields where it counts, and Keenan Phillips is a stash with a Marshall matchup waiting. Finally, Josiah Freeman and Oran Singleton line up exactly where their opponents are weakest, and Cole Keller keeps cashing in on steady targets.

None of these names will headline a waiver column, and that’s the point. These are G6 CFF Plays Hiding in Plain Sight. Grab them while they’re still under the radar, set your lineups, and I’ll see you in Week 8!

Still hungry for more names? Don’t stop here โ€” swing back through Monday’s piece, Week 7 G6 Risers: Four Waiver Wire Adds to Make Before Tuesday, for the names I think should have been picked up on Tuesday. And if you’d rather listen to your G6 Waiver Wire content than read it, Justice and I break down the waiver wire every week on YouTube. This week, catch me as Justice and I give you G6 College Fantasy Football 2026 Week 6 Waiver Wire Honey for even more names to stash before your league mates catch on.

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