SportsLine's model reveals its Week 8 Fantasy football projections, PPR rankings, start-sit advice for sites like CBS Sports, ESPN and Yahoo

Jacory Croskey-Merritt and Isiah Pacheco are both lead running backs in split backfields. They both have good Week 8 matchups against each others teams.

The most successful managers have found value in waiver wires, balanced their rosters with steady mid-round contributors, and got the right stars.

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Johnston might be one of the most feast-or-famine players around in fantasy football. As former Chargers player Breiden Fehoko pointed out, much of Johnston’s stat struggles on Thursday night could be attributed to the specific matchup against Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores.

49ers 24, Texans 16: San Francisco may be without defensive pillars Nick Bosa and Fred Warner, but the Houston offense has given no reason to believe it can be effective. The Texans’ defense will keep them in this game for a bit but it can only do so much, as we saw Monday in Seattle.