{"id":30567,"date":"2015-10-28T22:26:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T02:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=30567"},"modified":"2015-10-28T22:26:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T02:26:34","slug":"nfl-fantasy-football-week-8-start-em-sit-em-and-fanduel-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2015\/10\/28\/nfl-fantasy-football-week-8-start-em-sit-em-and-fanduel-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Fantasy Football Week 8: Start &#8216;Em, Sit &#8216;Em And FanDuel Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Week 8!<\/p>\n<p>For standard leagues, I&#8217;ll pick some players outside the top 10 and 15 who I think will play well as well as some higher rated players who I see underachieving using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/fantasy\/football\/story\/_\/page\/15ranksWeek8QB\/fantasy-football-week-8-rankings-quarterbacks\">the ESPN rankings<\/a>. I&#8217;ve got my FanDuel picks at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I went 15-5 \u00a0in underachievers and overachievers, and went 14-3 and my best week of the year in FanDuel. Let&#8217;s get to it.<\/p>\n<h4>Underachievers<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers : \u00a0I would not play any skill players against Denver at home.<\/li>\n<li>Indianapolis Colts QB Andrew Luck: \u00a0Carolina at home with the way Luck is turning the ball over will not end well.<\/li>\n<li>Miami Dolphins QB Ryan Tannehill: \u00a0He has had a 5 game streak of double digit td&#8217;s but it ends in New England.<\/li>\n<li>New York Jets RB Chris Ivory: \u00a0I am more worried about the hamstring than the talent.<\/li>\n<li>New England Patriots RB Dion Lewis: \u00a0Even if he plays he is not close to 100%.<\/li>\n<li>Green Bay Packers RB Eddie Lacy: \u00a0His ankle is supposedly healed but I have to see it to believe it against Denver.<\/li>\n<li>Denver Broncos WR Demaryious Thomas: \u00a0He only has 1 td and I see another grind it out low scoring game in Denver.<\/li>\n<li>Arizona Cardinals WR Larry Fitzgerald: \u00a0He is slowing down while Michael Floyd and John Brown are getting more targets.<\/li>\n<li>Indianapolis Colts WR T.Y Hilton: \u00a0Welcome to Josh Norman island.<\/li>\n<li>Dallas Cowboys TE Jason Witten: \u00a0He looks slow and beat up, there are better te options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Overachievers<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees: \u00a0He has been getting the yards but not the td&#8217;s, it changes against the Giants.<\/li>\n<li>Seattle Seahawks QB Russel Wilson: \u00a0This is more of a gut call that he is due for a fantasy break out week.<\/li>\n<li>New York Jets QB Ryan Fitzpatrick: \u00a0The Raiders may have the worst secondary in the league.<\/li>\n<li>Kansas City Chiefs RB Charcandrick West: \u00a0He looks like the work horse and get the shaky Lionsdefense.<\/li>\n<li>Cincinnati\u00a0Bengals RB Gio Bernard: \u00a0The Steelers are tough to run against but I can see 8-10 targets in receiving game.<\/li>\n<li>San Diego Chargers RB Danny Woodhead: \u00a0He is a top 10 ppr RB, with Gordon on the outs, ride the wave.<\/li>\n<li>Miami Dolphins WR \u00a0Jarvis Landry: \u00a0I expect 8-12 targets.<\/li>\n<li>Arizona Cardinals WR John Brown: \u00a0He looks to be the favorite target of Carson Palmer.<\/li>\n<li>Minnesota Vikings WR Stefon Diggs: \u00a0He is now a WR1 and should get 10 targets a game.<\/li>\n<li>San Diego Chargers TE Ladarious Green: \u00a0I do not see Antonio Gates playing and this is a great match up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are my FanDuel picks for the week where I will give some higher and lower salaries I like at each position. As you will see, I will be focusing on the defenses to pick on:<\/p>\n<h4>QB<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Jameis Winston QB Tampa Buccaneers, $6,600<\/li>\n<li>Drew Brees QB New Orleans Saints, $7,900<\/li>\n<li>Cam Newton QB Carolina Panthers, $8,000<\/li>\n<li>Philip Rivers QB San Diego Chargers, $8,500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>RB<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Danny Woodhead RB San Diego Chargers, $6,100<\/li>\n<li>Darren McFadden RB Dallas Cowboys, $6,400<\/li>\n<li>James Stewart RB Carolina Panthers, $6,600<\/li>\n<li>Gio Bernard RB Cincinnati Bengals, $6,700<\/li>\n<li>Chris Johnson RB, Arizona Cardinals, $7,300<\/li>\n<li>Mark Ingram RB New Orleans Saints, $8,000<\/li>\n<li>Devonta Freeman RB Atlanta Falcons, $9,100<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>WR<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Floyd WR Arizona Cardinals, $4,900<\/li>\n<li>Devonte Adams WR Green Bay Packers, $5,300<\/li>\n<li>Steve Johnson WR San Diego Chargers, 5,900<\/li>\n<li>Stefon Diggs WR Minnesota Vikings, $6,700<\/li>\n<li>Keenan Allen WR San Diego Chargers, $8,000<\/li>\n<li>Julio Jones WR Atlanta Falcons, $9,200<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>TE<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Jeff Cumberland TE New York Jets, $4,600<\/li>\n<li>Ladarious Green TE San Diego Chargers, $5,300<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Thank you for reading and have a great week, feel free to ask any questions here or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dvond\">on Twitter<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Week 8! For standard leagues, I&#8217;ll pick some players outside the top 10 and 15 who I think will play well as well as some higher rated players who I see underachieving using\u00a0the ESPN rankings. I&#8217;ve got my FanDuel picks at the bottom. Last week, I went 15-5 \u00a0in underachievers and overachievers, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":16502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fantasy-football","8":"category-fantasy-sports","9":"category-featured-editorials"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fantasy-football2.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-7X1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30573,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30567\/revisions\/30573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}