At last, the most devastating of bye weeks has arrived. Byemageddon. Byenarök, in the Norse tradition. Six NFL teams will be out of the mix in Week 8, so none of us are safe. Fantasy totals will suffer.
Still, someone has to win your matchup. It might as well be you. Each week around here, we offer a collection of usable fantasy options, all of them available in over 50% of leagues. Add as needed…
QUARTERBACKS
Joe Flacco, Cincinnati Bengals
15% rostered at Sleeper
At 40, Flacco has the haggard look of a TV detective — hardened by life, unkempt and always in yesterday’s clothes. Unfiltered. Quick with a deadpan insult for his lieutenant. Unpromotable, certainly. A flask hidden in the desk. Forever at risk of losing the only job he ever wanted.
And yet they keep giving him all the dead-end cases and that crazy sonofabitch just keeps cracking them.
On Thursday night, Detective Flacco targeted Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins a combined 33 times. It was a plan so audacious no one had previously considered it — and, by God, it worked.
Flacco delivered the Bengals’ third win of the season, gunslinging his way to 342 yards and three scores while routinely cooking the Steelers defense. In just two games with Cincinnati, he’s already put the ball in the air 92 times. Fifty-three of those pass attempts have targeted either Chase or Higgins. Seems like a pretty sensible approach, honestly.
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