Fantasy Football Week 8 RB Report: Raiders relegate Ashton Jeanty to pure passing role, plus more on key backfield splits
Yahoo Sports' Week 8 RB Report says the Raiders have shifted Ashton Jeanty into a primarily passing-down role, part of a wider look at backfield splits around the league.
In a wild Week 8 slate, we go over some backfield splits and what it all means for fantasy football.
Sharp take
Sharp SixStartRight · +4.3 over the lineJeanty put up 21.6 FFPC points in Week 7 and is rostered in 100% of leagues, which tells you how seriously to take a one-week usage note. A pass-game role in PPR is not a demotion, it is a floor. Las Vegas are 1.5-point underdogs in a 46.5-point game, the kind of script that keeps him on the field anyway. He is a top-10 sharp asset with a 255.2 projection; he starts. Panic-selling him into a reduced-role headline is how someone else wins your league.
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Our read on Yahoo Sports’s reporting. Not a fact beyond the source.
Players: Ashton Jeanty, Dane Key, Erick All Jr., Bub Means
Teams: Washington Commanders, Las Vegas Raiders