Fantasy football Week 7 RB preview: Here come Josh Jacobs and Zach Charbonnet

Both backs project for 10 to 12 touches as high-end flex options this week, but their long-term upside could reshape lineups

Zach Charbonnet is expected to return in Week 7 with a limited workload, but his rest-of-season Fantasy outlook is promising It has been a difficult year at the running back position. Two of the teams on bye this week are part of the reason why. Omarion Hampton was supposed to be a top-12 running back but instead, he's found himself in a full-blown committee in one of the worst offenses in football. The Commanders don't have one running back on the roster averaging double-digit PPR Fantasy points. In other words, Fantasy managers won't miss them during their bye week. They will, of course, miss James Cook and Bhayshul Tuten, who are also on bye.

The story of the week is the running backs we're getting back, though, to be fair, Jordan Mason will be more of a nuisance to Aaron Jones than a help to your Fantasy teams. The other two guys we are projecting to return, Josh Jacobs and Zach Charbonnet, are more exciting for the long term. Early in the week, I am ranking Jacobs and Charbonnet as high-end flexes and projecting them to get 10-12 touches in their debut. Though I am starting to wonder if that is too low for Jacobs. Jacobs will face the Lions in one of the highest projected scoring games of the