18 players to start or sit in fantasy football for Week 8

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• Each week, we're listing players to start or sit in fantasy football.
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• As always, these are less obvious choices - players fantasy owners might be on the cusp of starting or sitting.
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• Here are our start 'em, sit 'ems for Week 8 of the NFL season.
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Week 7 was an ugly fantasy week all-around.

Several players left games early with injuries, while several players on fantasy benches exploded (looking at you, Chase Edmonds). We called for Marvin Jones to sit last week and he exploded for three touchdowns. Sorry.

Though Jones was among a few gaffes we made (we also called for sitting Kirk Cousins), we still did OK for the week. We judge success by: quarterbacks and tight ends finishing in the top 12 in fantasy scoring at their positions and running backs and wide receivers finishing in the top 30 in scoring at their positions. A correct "sit" call means that player finished outside of the top 12 or 30.

On the whole, we got six start-sit calls correct. Though "sit" calls like Melvin Gordon and Adrian Peterson finished inside the top 30 at running back (so we won't count them as correct calls), they both finished with below seven points in standard scoring, meaning we hopefully didn't hurt fantasy owners too much if they followed our advice.

We'll look to rebound in Week 8. As always, we try to pick less obvious choices - players fantasy owners might be on the cusp of starting or sitting.

Check out our start 'em, sit 'ems for Week 8 below.