Week 7 is in the books and we have updated all of our valuations for the week. If you aren’t familiar with our valuations we recently introduced you can read about it here. The short version though is that we look at player’s snap counts, PFF grades and statistics and re-value everyone’s contract based on their performance while maintaining the general structure of the market for each position. Here is the breakdown for this week.
Team of the Week: Minnesota Vikings, $272.1M
The Vikings fielded the most expensive team in the NFL this week (they totaled about $212M for everyone taking a snap), but they lived up to it this week with a $272M value. Kirk Cousins was the highest valued player of the week while Everson Griffen, Danielle Hunter, Stefon Diggs, and Riley Reiff all came in over $15M. The NFC North is certainly competitive but you could make a case that the Vikings for the last few weeks have been the most complete team in the division.
Best Value Team of the Week: Jacksonville Jaguars, +$126.8M
The Jaguars generally have one of the more expensive units in the NFL but with Nick Foles on IR and a few other notables on the sidelines they have dropped to the bottom third of the NFL in terms of talent taking the field on a weekly basis. Overall they finished 2nd in the NFL this week with a $268.5M roster value which produced $126.8 million in value over their salary of $143 million.
Worst Team of the Week: Washington Redskins, $143.3M
For the most part this just wasn’t a fair game for Washington or their opponents who came in 2nd worst in value this week. They played their game in a monsoon which pretty much rendered everyone on offense inept and offensive gameplan’s that were not exactly going to make the defense stick out either. Washington only posted two players worth $10M on Sunday, but it almost doesn’t feel fair to put them here.
Worst Value Team of the Week: Atlanta Falcons, -$25.9M
The Falcons get the nod for the worst value of the week and were the worst team to not play in a monsoon to boot. Atlanta got blasted this week and the only thing that saved them from being even worse were a few injuries that kept their roster payroll down this week because they wouldn’t have changed the outcome. The Falcons look to be going into selling mode after this week’s game.
Top Players of the Week
Here is our list of the top players this week. The top player is the top valued player at the position while the top value player is the player who provided the most value over his current contract. You can view all of the players values for week 7 at our valuation page and subscribers to our Premium can view each week of the season as well as the current full season value for each player.
OFFENSE
| Position | Top Player | Week 7 Valuation | Top Value Player | Week 7 Value over APY |
| Quarterback | Kirk Cousins | $33,687,000 | Gardner Minshew | $26,664,096 |
| Running Back | Dalvin Cook | $13,727,000 | Dalvin Cook | $12,138,672 |
| Wide Receiver | Michael Thomas | $20,174,000 | Dede Westbrook | $15,991,959 |
| Wide Receiver | DeAndre Hopkins | $20,027,000 | Alex Erickson | $15,880,000 |
| Tight End | Hunter Henry | $10,796,000 | Hunter Henry | $9,200,923 |
| Left Tackle | Terron Armstead | $17,959,000 | Marshall Newhouse | $12,920,000 |
| Center | Brian Allen | $10,203,000 | Brian Allen | $9,416,266 |
| Guard | Joe Thuney | $13,293,000 | Joe Thuney | $12,489,643 |
| Guard | Kevin Zeitler | $11,843,000 | Austin Blythe | $11,153,503 |
| Right Tackle | Ryan Ramczyk | $14,618,000 | David Edwards | $13,830,870 |
DEFENSE
| Position | Top Player | Week 7 Valuation | Top Value Player | Week 7 Value over APY |
| Edge Rusher | JJ Watt | $21,774,000 | Andrew Brown | $13,719,000 |
| Edge Rusher | Chandler Jones | $21,180,000 | Joey Bosa | $13,622,582 |
| Int. D-Line | Calais Campbell | $14,687,000 | Kevin Strong | $10,436,000 |
| Int. D-Line | Geno Atkins | $13,697,000 | John Jenkins | $10,031,000 |
| Linebacker | Eric Kendricks | $14,120,000 | Nick Vigil | $11,884,093 |
| Linebacker | Benardrick McKinney | $13,532,000 | LJ Fort | $11,674,000 |
| Cornerback | Tre’Davious White | $17,379,000 | Tre’Davious White | $14,856,152 |
| Cornerback | Marcus Peters | $15,187,000 | Marcus Peters | $12,790,960 |
| Safety | Ronnie Harrison | $13,217,000 | Ronnie Harrison | $12,441,095 |
| Safety | Xavier Woods | $13,081,000 | Xavier Woods | $12,369,992 |
SPECIAL TEAMS
| Position | Top Player | Week 7 Valuation | Top Value Player | Week 7 Value over APY |
| Punter | Jake Bailey | $3,074,000 | Jake Bailey | $2,371,300 |
| Kicker | Brett Maher | $4,038,000 | Brett Maher | $3,513,000 |
| Long Snapper | Zach Wood | $1,669,000 | Zach Wood | $1,024,000 |
| Specialist | Byron Pringle | $2,440,000 | Byron Pringle | $1,900,000 |