Lamar Jackson comes off bye and injury to try to right the Ravens\u2019 ship, Bo Nix goes hot streak hunting against the Cowboys\u2019 burnable defense, and Jaxson Dart attempts to make it two QB1 performances against the Eagles in three weeks.<\/p>\n
Other positions: Running Back<\/a> | Receiver<\/a> | Tight End\/Kickers\/Defense<\/a><\/p>\n Week 8 Quarterbacks<\/p>\n 1Patrick MahomesKCvs. WAS2Lamar JacksonBALvs. CHI3Josh AllenBUFat CAR4Jalen HurtsPHIvs. NYG5Baker MayfieldTBat NO6Dak PrescottDALat DEN7Bo NixDENvs. DAL8Daniel JonesINDvs. TEN9Drake MayeNEvs. CLE10Justin HerbertLACvs. MIN11Jaxson DartNYGat PHI12Joe FlaccoCINvs. NYJ13Caleb WilliamsCHIat BAL14Jordan LoveGBat PIT15Aaron RodgersPITvs. GB16Marcus MariotaWASat KC17Michael Penix Jr.ATLvs. MIA18Spencer RattlerNOvs. TB19Carson WentzMINat LAC20Tyrod TaylorNYJat CIN21C.J. StroudHOUvs. SF22Mac JonesSFat HOU23Andy DaltonCARvs. BUF24Tua TagovailoaMIAat ATL25Dillon GabrielCLEat NE26Cam WardTENat IND<\/p>\n QB Notes: Patrick Mahomes has thrown for three-plus scores in three of his past four starts. This, after he posted four three-score starts in all of 2024. Now he has Rashee Rice back, whom he relentlessly targeted in Week 7. Averaging 1.4 more points per game than Lamar Jackson and 2.5 more than Josh Allen, Mahomes has his groove back. \u2026 Lamar Jackson, meanwhile, has his job back. When last we left him, he was finishing as the QB25 in Baltimore\u2019s blowout loss to the Chiefs. Before that he checked in as the QB4, QB3 and QB3. For however many problems the Ravens have this season, Lamar isn\u2019t one of them. \u2026 Josh Allen headed into the Bills\u2019 Week 7 bye stuck in a rut, clocking back-to-back QB13 and QB18 finishes. Not what anyone had in mind in August. That, of course, won\u2019t be the new normal, but Allen does lack a \u201cspiked week\u201d supporting cast. His floor remains amongst the highest at the position. His ceiling is just a little closer to earth than it once was.<\/p>\n Baker Mayfield suddenly has serious supporting cast issues. He\u2019s throwing to a hobbled Emeka Egbuka and several journeyman\/UDFA types. But the fact remains this is a pass-first offense and a team prone to high-scoring affairs. The Saints are a more forgiving Week 8 matchup than Detroit. \u2026 He had furious comeback mode to thank, but Bo Nix finally spiked a second week. Now he gets a Cowboys \u201cdefense\u201d surrendering both the most passing yards and QB fantasy points. Nix\u2019s play has been utterly uncompelling, but he has just enough weapons and creatively-drawn plays to light the lamp against teams like the Cowboys. \u2026 Jayden Daniels (hamstring) is hurt again and on the wrong side of questionable for a seismic Monday night tilt with the Chiefs. Although it\u2019s a road trip into the dark heart of Arrowhead, the fact that the Commandos are 12.5-point \u2018dogs tells you the sharps do not expect Daniels to play. In his stead will be consummate QB2 Marcus Mariota, who finished as the QB6 and QB19 in Daniels\u2019 earlier absences. Splitting that difference is a realistic outcome, making Mariota a sturdy QB2 and superflex fill-in.<\/p>\n After a red herring quiet start to the season, the Dak Prescott \u201cthesis of the play\u201d has come to fruition. This is a pass-first offense opposite a defense that can\u2019t stop anybody. Even for tough matchups like Sunday\u2019s date with the Broncos, it\u2019s difficult to bet against Prescott\u2019s volume\/big play combination. \u2026 The Flacco asset has been activated. Called on for only the most dangerous jobs<\/a> with threat to life and limb, Joe Flacco understands the assignment without having to read the briefing book. Target Ja\u2019Marr Chase a literally historic amount of times and make sure to sprinkle in enough Tee Higgins. Most of the time, that will benefit the wideouts more than the quarterback himself. Facing the Jets is not one of those times. Especially with six teams on bye, Flacco offers last-gasp QB1 appeal for Week 8. \u2026 The Bears have come out of their Week 5 bye to -1 and -10 pass rates over expected. For the season in Chicago, that number is now -3. Caleb Williams has been held below 30 attempts in three of his past four starts. All of this will be put to the test in a 49.5-totaled road game with the Ravens, but Chicago is just as likely to road pave on the ground as take to the skies.<\/p>\n The Vikings\u2019 quarterback situation only ever gets stranger. Carson Wentz is getting torn to pieces behind the Vikings\u2019 shaky offensive line \u2014 and because of his own reckless derring do \u2014 but coach Kevin O\u2019Connell is handling J.J. McCarty (\u201cankle\u201d) like a porcelain vase. McCarthy was healthy enough to be the \u201cemergency\u201d No. 3 QB for Week 7 but not healthy enough to start Thursday evening against the Chargers. Alrighty then. We will continue to take it in fantasy, where Wentz\u2019s lack of arm strength and red-zone finishing ability is not hurting the PPR compiling stats for Justin Jefferson and company. \u2026 It\u2019s an Aaron Rodgers \u201crevenge game\u201d \u2014 with the same being true for the Packers. Providing a weekly floor with no semblance of ceiling \u2014 Rodgers has yet to have a 250-yard day \u2014 the ol\u2019 gunslinger\u2019s QB2 rank has as much to do with six QBs being on bye as anything else. That being said, the Packers have proven to be a less-imposing matchup than feared, Micah Parsons taking over late against the Cardinals notwithstanding.<\/p>\n The QB3 by both average and total points since taking over as starter, Jaxson Dart was the QB3 against the supposedly foreboding Eagles two weeks ago. Although we don\u2019t love someone like Vic Fangio getting a second crack at Dart so soon after that humbling, there is no legitimate argument to keep the rookie outside the top 12 at the present moment. \u2026 Spencer Rattler is getting some flowers, though you could argue it\u2019s mostly because he\u2019s cleared the bar of his nonexistent expectations. Struggling to crack the top 24 by average fantasy points, Rattler has finished higher than QB20 one time, when he was QB9 back in Week 2. Remarkably, he almost always finishes inside the top 24, but he is not spiking any weeks. There\u2019s not much reason to expect that to change against the Bucs. \u2026 With Bryce Young high-ankle sprain\u2019d, Andy Dalton is on his 10th of nine lives as starter. This is not a \u201cFlacco situation\u201d waiting to happen. Dalton has a weaker arm, slower reflexes, and less of an ability to play dart throw pitch-and-catch. He is still a veteran who knows what to do with the ball, and he should target Tetairoa McMillan just enough times to sneak inside the top 24 at quarterback.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t forget, for the latest on everything NFL, check out Rotoworld\u2019s Player News<\/a>, or follow @Rotoworld_FB<\/a> or @RotoPat <\/a>on Twitter\/Bluesky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lamar Jackson comes off bye and injury to try to right the Ravens\u2019 ship, Bo Nix goes hot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-235451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}