2026 Fantasy Football Players To Know With A Week 8 Bye

Jul 30, 2026 05:00 PM - 2 hours ago 4

Up to this point, weeks five, six, and 7 person each been covered regarding the key imagination shot players pinch a bye that week.

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There are four teams pinch a bye successful week eight, which are the San Francisco 49ers, Houston Texans, New Orleans Saints, and New York Giants.

Just arsenic we’ve done successful these erstwhile bye week articles, we’ll beryllium covering the cardinal imagination options based connected the consensus ADP from Footballguys.

1. San Francisco 49ers

Christian McCaffrey: ADP 6
Mike Evans: ADP 52
Ricky Pearsall: ADP 95
George Kittle: ADP 102
Brock Purdy: 104

Outside of Christian McCaffrey, there’s not different apical action for the San Francisco 49ers, but he’s intelligibly the champion imagination action connected this team, scoring 24.5 PPG (PPR) successful 2025.

At wide receiver, Mike Evans is intelligibly the WR1 successful position of ADP, coming complete from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers successful free agency. Ricky Pearsall is the different cardinal wide receiver successful this room who was drafted 31st wide backmost successful the 2024 NFL draught but only played successful 11 games arsenic a rookie and 9 games successful twelvemonth 2 due to injuries.

Staying connected the taxable of injuries, Brock Purdy besides missed clip successful 2025 owed to injuries, only playing successful 9 games, but he had 19.7 PPG complete that span. As for Kittle, he only played successful 11 games owed to injuries arsenic good and besides went down pinch a torn Achilles successful the playoffs. There’s still nary definitive day arsenic to erstwhile he’ll beryllium back.

2. Houston Texans

Nico Collins: ADP 22
David Montgomery: ADP 47
Jayden Higgins: ADP 127
Woody Marks: 135
C.J. Stroud: ADP 165
Dalton Schultz: ADP 172

Nico Collins is the champion wide receiver and subordinate connected this Houston Texans squad by far, coming disconnected a 15.1 PPG play successful 2025 and a 17.6 PPG play successful 2024. Outside of Collins, Jayden Higgins is adjacent up arsenic he’s coming disconnected scoring 7.6 PPG arsenic a rookie, but it’s worthy noting that he was drafted 34th overall.

At moving backs, David Montgomery will beryllium playing his first play successful Houston, and the ADP suggests astir judge he will beryllium the featured back. Woody Marks still ranks wrong the apical 150 and scored a respectable 9.4 PPG arsenic a rookie.

Neither C.J. Stroud aliases Dalton Schultz are being drafted very high, arsenic Stroud had conscionable 14.9 PPG past year. As for Schultz, he scored 10.5 PPG, but he besides scored conscionable 7 PPG successful 2024.

3. New Orleans Saints

Chris Olave: ADP 28
Travis Etienne Jr.: ADP 41
Jordyn Tyson: ADP 61
Tyler Shough: ADP 128
Juwan Johnson: ADP 142
Alvin Kamara: ADP 150

The New Orleans Saints are specified an absorbing squad arsenic they person six players wrong the apical 150.

Chris Olave is still the WR1 successful this discourtesy aft scoring 16.8 PPG successful 2025, but there’s immoderate added target title successful the shape of rookie Jordyn Tyson. The Saints drafted Tyson 8th wide successful the 2026 NFL draft.

At moving back, Travis Etienne Jr. is intelligibly now seen arsenic the lead back, which makes consciousness arsenic he scored 14.9 PPG pinch the Jacksonville Jaguars, compared to Alvin Kamara astatine conscionable 9.2 arsenic he played successful 11 games because of injuries.

Tyler Shough looks to beryllium the starting backmost for the Saints arsenic the sophomore looks to build connected his 14.4 PPG season. Juwan Johnson had the champion play of his profession pinch 10.6 PPG, but he’ll person to compete pinch Olave and Tyson now for targets.

4. New York Giants

Malik Nabers: ADP 38
Cam Skattebo: ADP 43
Jaxson Dart: ADP 99
Isaiah Likely: ADP 112
Tyrone Tracy Jr.: ADP 133

There’s a batch of talent pinch the New York Giants but besides a number of wounded concerns. Both Malik Nabers and Cam Skattebo are very talented but suffered superior injuries successful 2025.

Nabers tore his ACL, and Skattebo suffered a dislocated ankle that constricted him to conscionable 8 games past year. Again, the news astir Skattebo has been much promising than Nabers, but this is simply a business that we should beryllium monitoring starring up to week one.

Outside of those two, Jaxson Dart heads into twelvemonth 2 aft scoring 17.7 PPG arsenic a rookie, and Isaiah Likely heads into his first twelvemonth pinch the Giants. After playing alongside Mark Andrews for years, Likely looks to beryllium the starter successful 2026.

Tyrone Tracy Jr. is an absorbing subordinate for fantasy football pinch questions astir Skattebo. In some twelvemonth 1 and two, Tracy has been fine, scoring precisely 10.7 PPG each year.