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Streaming your starting QB, TE, or D / ST is not the goal in fantasy football. Aim, if you're weak at a position where you can pick up up usable fantasy weeks from the waiver wire can be a beneficial process. In typical start-one quarterback, tight end, and D / ST 12-team formats, most of your leagues should not – and should not – carry a QB or D / ST backup. Positional scarcity leaves with the plausible weekly starting options based on their matchup and expected game-flow.
Simply put, because they are able to predict their success, and they are easier to predict their bottom line, if they can stream their "onesie" positions (usually their defense) better than their opponent.
With four more teams on bye (Atlanta, Dallas, Chargers, Tennessee), this is another important streaming week:
quarterbacks
Floor and Ceiling: Mitchell Trubisky, QB, Chicago Bears (78 percent available) vs. New York Jets
Mitchell Trubisky is on a mini-hot streak of high-end fantasy finishes. Trubisky has piled on QB1, QB5, and QB2 overall weeks. In this span, Trubisky has thrown for over 315 yards in each contest and compiled 3/53, 8/47, and 6/81/1 on the ground. Trubisky has missed multiple throws this season, as evidenced by its third-worst adjusted completion rate per PFF. Trubisky 's receivers have only dropped three passes, too – the fewest in the NFL. Trubisky has another excellent chance to continue his QB1 (top-12) output in Week 8 against a Jets side that is allowing 285.0 Pass YPG (tenth-most) and gave (8/44 to Ryan Tannehill, 4/22 to Tyrod Taylor, 3/28 to Blake Bortles).
Floor and Ceiling: Baker Mayfield, QB, Cleveland Browns (83 percent available). Pittsburgh Steelers
Fresh off his QB6 (20.9 fantasy points) performance in Week 7, Mayfield draws another fantastic matchup against a struggling Steelers' secondary. Over the full year, Pittsburgh has passed the sixth-most passing TD (6.1 percent), they've allowed the sixth-most Pass YPG (305.2), and coughed up the seventh-most passing fantasy points per dropback (0.51) . After finally synching up with Jarvis Landry for a big-awaited big day last week (10/97/1), Landry should run wild again against Pittsburgh's shoddy slot coverage (second-most receiving YPG allowed to receivers).
Tight Ends
Floor: C.J. Uzomah, TE, Cincinnati Bengals (93 percent available) vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
If nothing else, C.J. Uzomah is playing with Tyler Eifert (ankle) and Tyler Kroft (foot) healthy. Now, third-stringer Mason Schreck (knee) is also on I.R. The Bengals have no other choice but to feature Uzomah at this point. Over the last two weeks, Uzomah has been on the field for 91 and 98 percent of Bengals' snapshots and speaking with his playing time on useful 6/54 and 2/13/1 receiving lines. Uzomah is far from a week-winner, but the end is the thinnest position in the world, turning usual back-end streamers like Uzomah into weekly starters. No team is allowed more fantasy points per target to TEs than the Bucs.
Deep: Ed Dickson, TE, Seattle Seahawks (99 percent available) vs. Detroit Lions
If you're really going through the weeks, check and see if Ed Dickson is available in your league. The Lost Seahawks Will be Dissly (knee) for the season Nick Vannett (back) Miss Seattle's game before the bye. Vannett, if healthy. This week, Dickson 's floor is literally zero – goal, at the very least, he faces Detroit side allowing 1.68 fantasy points per target to tight ends (ninth – most).
Defenses
Floor and Ceiling: New England D / ST Patriots (25 percent available). Buffalo Bills
The most obvious play of Week 8. In Derek Anderson's first start in place of Josh Allen, he absorbed two sacks, threw three INTs, and lost a fumble. Anderson's pass was rated 19.8 as the Colts tagged 19 fantasy points on the Bills. As Rotoworld pointed out, Anderson's TD-to-INT ratio over the last ten years is 17 to 28. Load up.
Floor and Ceiling: Indianapolis Colts D / ST (75 percent available) vs. Oakland Raiders
I'm not sure how the Raiders think they are going to score in 2018. Derek Carr is throwing deep at the league's lowest clip (6.4%) and is nowhere near the only receiver that has been shown to explode this season that Amari Cooper is in Dallas. Oh, by the way, Marshawn Lynch (snake) is on I.R., too. The Raiders' skill group in Week 8 will be Doug Martin, Jalen Richard, Jordy Nelson, Martavis Bryant, Seth Roberts, and Jared Cook. Yuck. Barring a miracle turnaround from rookie T Kolton Miller – who leads all offensive tackles in sacks allowed (7) per PFF – the Raiders are going to remain a weekly streaming target for fantasy defenses.
Deep: Washington Redskins D / ST (95 percent available) vs. New York Giants
No team is pressing the quarterback more often than Washington (34.4 percent). Meanwhile, no quarterback turns into a turtle against pressure faster than Eli Manning. Seriously, when manning faces pressure – he has absorbed a sack of 28.8 percent of the time, the ninth highest in the NFL. The Giants offensive is not doing Manning any favors for sure, but Manning rarely sticks in the pocket and delivers a throw under duress. Per Next Gen Stats, Manning gets rid of the ball in 2.88 seconds (seventh-fastest) and averages just 5.9 scramble yards per attempt (seventh-fewest) when under pressure. With limited pocket mobility, Manning turns into a sitting duck against violent front sevens. Washington has one. After finishing as a top-12 option in the last four games, the Redskins D / ST may be the sneakiest fantasy play on the 8th slate week.
Deep: Kansas City Chiefs D / ST (89 percent available) vs. Denver Broncos
Case Keenum will be a semi-popular Week 8 streamer because of two obvious reasons: The Chiefs defense and projected game-script. Now, to be fair, the Chiefs are allowing the second-most pass YPG (332.7), but they are only allowing a 3.6 percent TD rate (fifth-lowest) and an 83.2 passing rating (tenth-lowest). Essentially, the Chiefs are giving up passing yards in spades … but that's really it. Offenses are not torching Kansas City for left and right scores because of their still-elite front seven. The Chiefs do not blitz often (sixth-lowest rate, by Next Gen Stats) and still fire up 2.7 sacks per game (tenth-most). Keep in mind, Keenum has just one of the top-12 (QB1) finishes. Keenum has thrown one interception in every game and has absorbed multiple sacks in five-straight (3.0 per game in this span).
– Graham Barfield is the managing editor of fantasy football content at NFL.com. Follow him on Twitter @GrahamBarfield.
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