Fantasy Football Start/Sit Rankings & Advice: Tight End (Week 8)

Here are rankings from our analysts for Week 8 of the fantasy football season. You can find our expert consensus fantasy football rankings for the week here. And you can also sync your fantasy football league for free using our My Playbook tool for custom advice, rankings, and analysis.

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Fantasy Football Week 8 Rankings & Start/Sit Advice

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Week 8 Player Notes & Start/Sit Advice

Taysom Hill (NO) vs. LV: Saints +2 | 49.5 O/U

Hill isn’t a traditional tight end — he has just 27 routes and two targets on the year — but he gets regular usage each game as a wildcat quarterback, and as such he is 5-of-7 for 86-1-0 passing with 17-160-3 rushing.
Hill is 4-of-5 in converting his red-zone carries into touchdowns this year.
Especially in the bye weeks, Hill’s upside is too great to ignore.
The Raiders are No. 3 in most fantasy points allowed to tight ends (14.0 FPPG).

Irv Smith (MIN) vs. ARI: Vikings -3.5 | 49 O/U

In Week 1, Smith had just two targets on a 31% snap rate as he worked his way back from last year’s knee injury and this offseason’s thumb injury, but since then he has averaged 5.4 targets per game.
The Cardinals are No. 28 in defensive pass DVOA against tight ends (29.2%).