Fantasy Football Rankings - Week 8, 2025
- Kev Wheeler
- 17 minutes ago
- 4 min read
Your fantasy football season is in make or break territory. Fantasy Football Rankings for Week 8 will guide you to make the correct decisions. We now have enough data points to breakdown every team. We need to stay Bayesian and adjust or prior predictions. There is tremendous variance in football every week, no matter how much data we gather there are too many moving parts to be as confident in our predictions in football as we are when analyzing other sports.
Week 8 Schedule
Bye Week: ARI, DET, JAC, LV, SEA, LAR
Thursday, Night Football
Minnesota Vikings at Los Angeles Chargers 8:15pm ET
Sunday, October 26th
New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles 1:00pm ET
Miami Dolphins at Atlanta Falcons 1:00pm ET
Cleveland Browns at New England Patriots 1:00pm ET
New York Jets at Cincinnati Bengals 1:00pm ET
Buffalo Bills at Carolina Panthers 1:00pm ET
San Francisco 49ers at Houston Texans 1:00pm ET
Chicago Bears at Baltimore Ravens 1:00pm ET
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at New Orleans Saints 4:05pm ET
Dallas Cowboys at Denver Broncos 4:25pm ET
Tennessee Titans at Indianapolis Colts 4:25pm ET
Green Bay Packers at Pittsburgh Steelers 8:20pm ET
Monday Night Football, October 27th
Washington Commanders at Kansas City Chiefs 8:15pm ET
Fantasy Football Weekly Rankings
When examining these fantasy football weekly rankings, take into consideration that we are really only looking at positional ranks, not flex or overall rankings. When it comes to who you start in the flex a lot will depend on your specific league rules and roster construction. If players are ranked within 3 spots of each other the difference between them is negligible, they are expected to score the same amount of points, in those cases go with your gut, flip a coin, or join our Discord Channel.
Quarterback
Commanders QB Jayden Daniels had an MRI on his hamstring and it is not considered a long term injury, per HC Dan Quinn. His status for next Monday night vs. KC won’t be revealed until later this week, per Schefter.
QB Lamar Jackson remains sidelined with a hamstring injury. The 2-time NFL MVP did not participate in Monday’s practice, which was the Ravens’ first one since coming off the bye. Jackson hasn’t suited up since injuring his hamstring in Kansas City on Sept. 28. @nflnewsposter.bsky.social
Kyler Murray (foot) expected to return in Week 9. Cardinals have a bye Week 8.
Falcons QB, Michael Penix has a bone bruise in his foot and ankle, per coach Raheem Morris, who called him day-to-day, per @rapsheet.bsky.social.
Panthers QB, Bryce Young suffered a high ankle sprain on Sunday, an MRI revealed, and he is expected to miss this week’s game against the Bills, per @tompelissero.bsky.social.
When Vikings QB JJ McCarthy suffered a Week 2 high ankle sprain, doctors expected it to be a six-week injury. Nothing has changed. It still looks like a six-week injury, which means McCarthy would miss next week, and possibly be able to return in Week 9 at Detroit.
Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell said that Carson Wentz (shoulder) will start at quarterback in Thursday's game against the Chargers in Los Angeles.
Coach Kellen Moore said Monday that Spencer Rattler remains the Saints' starting quarterback despite turning the ball over four times in Sunday's loss to the Bears, Nick Underhill of NewOrleans.Football reports.
The Chicago Bears were 15th in neutral drop-back rate the first four weeks (60.2%).
They are 30th since the bye (50%).
They were 2% under expected pass rate the first four weeks.
They are 6% under expected since the bye.
Running Back
Packers standout RB Josh Jacobs, dealing with an illness and a calf strain, is up in the air regarding his status on Sunday, per @Rapsheet and @TomPelissero. Whether he plays will be determined pre-game. If Jacobs is unable to play, Packers RB Emanuel Wilson would be the expected starter.
New Orleans Saints RB, Kendre Miller (ACL) is out for the season.
The Process
My usual process is to only take data from the previous six weeks, I truly believe anything older than that holds little relevance unless there is a player returning from injury or some reason to discount the newer information. In Week 2 we have very little information we can be confident in. The last six weeks of the previous season can give some indication, and the preseason could provide a glimpse of what’s to come or it could be a mirage.
Wide Receiver
Tight End
Kicker
Defense/Special Teams
News or Hype?
The best way to start our Week 8 approach is to look at implied team totals based on Vegas odds and adjust from there. We need to pay attention to DFS articles and individual player prop-bets (over/under) to get a good idea of how to project median outcomes. With six weeks of data we can begin to examine the individual matchups some players may have, but we can't overreact to that data. There are so many changes from week-to-week in the NFL the best we can do is project a range of outcomes. Picking the outliers is what wins championships.