NFL Week 8 Fantasy Football Recap: Indianapolis Colts vs. Washington Commanders | Fantasy Football News, Rankings and Projections | PFF

• Antonio Gibson: 7 carries, 19 yards, 7 receptions, 58 receiving yards, 1 receiving landing

• Nyheim Hines: 5 carries, 20 yards, 1 landing, 2 receptions, 29 receiving yards

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The Commanders’ irritating three-man committee: Washington’s three backs virtually evenly cut up the workload.

• Antonio Gibson began the sport after coming off the bench the previous two weeks.
• Brian Robinson Jr., who began the earlier two weeks, began taking part in on the second drive.
• The 2 gamers cut up carries and have been equally ineffective.
• J.D. McKissic gave the impression to be dropping a few of his work on third downs to Gibson, however he took a powerful maintain on the clear receiving conditions.
• McKissic can nonetheless be left on the waiver wire, as he’s hardly ever taking part in on early downs.
• This stays a state of affairs to keep away from. Completely different sport scripts will favor completely different working backs, however there in all probability isn’t a particular script that makes somebody value beginning.

Logan Thomas’ return: Thomas noticed his first NFL motion since Week 4 because of a calf harm.

• He was nonetheless restricted in apply all week.
• Thomas cut up time with Armani Rogers, and the 2 have been used interchangeably. In the meantime, John Bates was persistently taking part in in two- or three-tight finish units.
• He was not focused on this sport.
• There’s a likelihood Thomas can take most, if not all, of the snaps from Rogers and see taking part in time just like 2021 at his peak.
• Thomas is a waiver wire goal in deeper leagues, because the Commanders have the fourth-easiest remaining schedule for tight ends.

First take a look at Sam Ehlinger: The second-year quarterback was named the starter for the remainder of the season.

• He centered his consideration on exterior extensive receivers, with over half of his targets going to gamers lined up there.
• Ehlinger focused gamers lined up within the backfield or as an inline tight finish solely twice every.
• This was excellent news for Michael Pittman Jr. and Alec Pierce, who completed first and second in targets, receptions and receiving yards.
• Pittman posted a 33.3% targets per route run charge. His season excessive previous to this week was 24.1%.
• Ehlinger ran the ball six instances, with three coming from scrambles and three from designed runs.
• He’s value a waiver wire goal in deeper leagues or superflex leagues, because the Colts might want to depend on him extra in video games the place they don’t have a lead. His dashing manufacturing provides him a safer flooring.

Desk Notes

• Snaps embody performs referred to as again because of penalties, together with offensive holding or defensive cross interference. The opposite three stats have these performs eliminated.

• Targets might differ from official NFL sources. The almost certainly discrepancy can be from a transparent thrown-away cross, the place the NFL might give the goal to the closest receiver, whereas this knowledge won’t.

• Carries are solely on designed performs. Quarterback scrambles gained’t rely for the full variety of carries within the sport.