Fantasy Football Week 8: Start ‘Em Sit’Em

Fantasy Football Week 8 is here and Cincinnati, Kansas City, New England, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay and Washington all have bye weeks.

A lot of fantasy owners will miss Tom Brady, Wes Welker, Randy Moss, Carson Palmer, Cedric Benson, Dwayne Bowe, Big Ben this week

To prepare you as best we have for your week of Fantasy Football Week 8 Start ‘Em, Sit ‘Em list.

Start em

Quarterbacks
Tennessee Titans: consider him a big option for this week as he will face the worst passing defense in the league.  In week 4 against the Titans Garrard threw for 3 TD without a pick for 31 fantasy points.

Cleveland Browns: Cutler has bounced back every time he had a poor game the week before.  The Browns don’t stop nobody, expect big number from him.

Green Bay Packers:  Favre tends to put some enormous numbers in big games like this.

Also Phillips Rivers (vs. Raiders) and Matt Hasselbeck (vs. Cowboys) have favorable matchups this week

Running Backs
Buffalo Bills: Buffalo has the worst defense against the run in the league.  Slaton is coming off a nice game against a good 49ers defense.  He put 18 fantasy points and you can’t expect something similar this week.

Matt Forte vs. Cleveland Browns: Forte is having a difficult year so far but this week could be the beginning of a new start.  He will face the second worse rushing defense in the league and you can also expect him to have a few looks through the air as well.

Detroit Lions:  this will be the week for Jackson to score his first TD of the season.  The Lions are allowing 21.9 fantasy points per game to running backs.

Also start Kevin Smith (vs. Rams) and LaDainian Tomlinson (vs. Raiders).

Wide Receivers
Mike Sims-Walker vs. Tennessee Titans: Titans rank 32nd in receiving defense, allowing an average of 325.8 receiving YPG. Sims- Walker had 21 fantasy points against Tennessee in week 4.

Seattle Seahawks:  Despite Seattle’s average passing defense, Austin playmaking skills make him a must start.

Houston Texans: he had found the end zone in the last two games and seems to be Ryan Fitzpatrick number one choice.

Consider also T.J. Houshmandzadeh (vs. Cowboys) and Johnny Knox (vs. Cleveland).

Sit 'Em

QB
Philadelphia Eagles: Manning has averaged nine points in his last two games.   The Eagles have a team that like to intercept a lot.

Denver Broncos: Broncos rank 8th vs. pass.

RB
Brandon Jacobs vs. Philadelphia Eagles:  Jacobs woke up last week but the Eagles have allowed only three rushing TDs in the season.

Arizona Cardinals: Cardinals rank first in defending the run.  If anybody has a shot in the game will be DeAngelo Williams not Stewart.

WR
Terrell Owens vs. Houston Texans: Edwards didn’t look for Owens when he was a starter neither Fitzpatrick does it now.

Roy Williams vs. Seattle Seahawks: he was the top WR receiver just on the paper.  He averages 5.1 fantasy points.