Week 8 Start/Sit: Bench Patrick Mahomes and Start Saquon Barkley

Ravens at Bills, 1 p.m. ET

START: Khalil Shakir as a WR3/flex

Shakir has scored at least eleven PPR points in three straight games while earning an 18.8% target share and producing 2.68 yards per route. Baltimore has recently allowed the seventh-most receiving fantasy points to slot receivers, which is where Shakir does his best work. DJ Moore is questionable with a shoulder injury, so the target tree could narrow further. Shakir is in.

SIT: Mark Andrews at the TE1 line

The route participation and target share still look playable at 66.1% and 18.3%, but the production has already rendered its verdict. Andrews is TE28 in points per game and hasn't reached double figures since Week 4. Buffalo has allowed 15.3 combined TE PPR points per game, which isn't enough to pull Andrews out of this ditch. Bench him.

Titans at Bengals, 1 p.m. ET

START: Tony Pollard as an RB2

Pollard has averaged 19.2 touches since Week 2 and controlled 83% of Tennessee's rushing work over the past two games. His last outing produced twenty-eight touches, 155 yards, and three touchdowns. Tyjae Spears is out with a knee injury, while Cincinnati's recent defense has allowed the league's highest explosive-run rate. The volume is enormous and the runway is open.

START: Wan'Dale Robinson as a PPR flex

Carnell Tate is out with a shoulder injury, leaving Robinson positioned to handle Tennessee's leading receiver role. He already owns a 20.2% target share, a 25.9% first-read share, and eight red-zone targets. Cincinnati has allowed the most fantasy points per opportunity to slot receivers over its past five games and is tied for the most touchdowns allowed to the position. Start Robinson.

Cardinals at Cowboys, 1 p.m. ET

START: Jacoby Brissett as a streaming QB1

Brissett is only QB22 by average, but he has already delivered two twenty-five-point games. Dallas has allowed the sixth-most yards per attempt and sixth-most EPA per dropback over its past five games, and this matchup carries Sunday's highest listed total at 54.5 points. This is the week to stream him.

SIT: Jake Ferguson

Since Week 6, Ferguson's snap rate has fallen to 54.1%, his route participation sits at 51.2%, and his target share has collapsed to 4.9%. One first-read target across two games tells the whole story. Arizona's defense is vulnerable to tight ends, but a favorable matchup can't run the routes for him. Ferguson stays out.

Vikings at Lions, 1 p.m. ET

START: Kyler Murray as a lower-end QB1

Murray has averaged 7.5 rushes and forty-five rushing yards over his past two games, which restores the fantasy floor that had gone missing. Detroit has allowed more quarterback production than any defense, including 23.3 points per game under the Statyx scoring subset. Murray's highly accurate throw rate is the worst among qualifiers. Against Detroit, he can survive it.

SIT: Jameson Williams at WR2

Williams still has ceiling because seven red-zone targets and ten deep targets can turn one catch into a week's worth of points. The weekly volume is thinner, with a 16.6% target share, and Minnesota has allowed the fourth-fewest WR fantasy points. Over the past five games, the Vikings have also surrendered the second-fewest points per opportunity to perimeter receivers. Williams is a volatile flex, not a WR2.

Colts at Jaguars, 1 p.m. ET

START: Brenton Strange as a TE1

Strange owns a 17.9% target share, a 19.5% first-read share, and 2.02 yards per route. Indianapolis has allowed the eighth-most fantasy points per TE opportunity and is tied for the sixth-most TE touchdowns allowed over the past five games. Strange belongs in the lineup.

SIT: Brian Thomas Jr.

Thomas played 51.4% of Jacksonville's snaps two games ago and 21.1% last week. Five total targets across those games produced no catches. Wait for the role to return.