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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Week 8 Start/Sit

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

It’s that time of the week. The start/sit questions are flying in, and Jeff breaks down the most common players everyone seems torn on. If you’re stressing over lineup decisions for Week 8, this episode has you covered.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Right back when you at.

0:14.2

Yo, what's up?

0:15.7

It's Friday, October 24th.

0:17.7

I'm Jeff.

0:18.1

This is the rant.

0:20.1

Week 8 underway. Calm down with Arronday Gadsden.

0:25.1

Okay. It was early in the game. He's not the number one fantasy. Yet. Okay. Calm down. It's good.

0:32.3

But everything is an adjustment period here in the NFL. And if you started him, I'm sure you're happy with the results so far here. But we got off to an interesting start. Obviously, Minnesota was flat last night, and the Chargers weren't. Well, who's going to be flat this week? Who isn't? I honestly don't know. Hell if I know, but I did put together my rankings over at FtnFantasy.com that I've now updated 25 times at least since the start of the week.

0:55.5

We're going to continue to keep those up to date for you here right up to kick off here on Sunday.

1:01.8

But if you want to get access, FtnFantasy.com, promo code rat pack for 10% off.

1:06.9

Like we do on Friday's, I wanted to go through some common players who have come up in terms of

1:11.5

start sit or related starts sit and because there are six teams on buy that puts guys into play

1:19.1

who normally may not be into play it pushes players up the board and there's one thing that people

1:23.7

tend to forget about buy weeks when you take other players out of the equation,

1:28.4

players move up. They do. So guys who sometimes we may not be starting, well, this week we may

1:32.9

have to. And if you've looked at your lineups, if you're anything like me, you probably are

1:37.0

starting a few of those dudes. So let's go through some of those names as well on the show today.

1:41.8

But first and foremost, probably the biggest situation, surprisingly, that I've heard about,

1:48.9

is Nico Collins.

1:50.5

What's surprising to me is I keep hearing if he doesn't play.

1:54.7

Guys, he's not playing.

1:56.4

I'd be utterly shocked because it rarely happens when a player goes DNP, DNP through the first

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