Guillotine Leagues Rankings Targets for Week 8 Startup Leagues
Geoff Ulrich shares risers, fallers, and sleepers in Guillotine Leagues rest-of-season rankings, whether you're drafting a new team in Week 8 or still alive since Week 1.
As we move through the season, we’ll be providing rest-of-season Guillotine LeaguesTM rankings that will continue to update every week. These in-season rankings can be found on the app in Guillotine LeaguesTM under “rank” when you are drafting.
Since the ranks update every week, using them will allow you to adjust quickly to in-season variance when starting up a new, in-season league on guillotineleagues.com.
Of course, if you’re still involved in a league that started at Week 1, the rankings will also have tons of value. They’ll be a great assist in helping you navigate the big names on the waiver wire every week.
As always, you can pair the advice here with the fantasy football rankings, projections, and other cool tools available with a Fantasy Life+ subscription.
Week 7 had its share of injuries, but there was a lot going on to note in terms of usage and production (good and bad).
Let’s get into some of the biggest names to note in the rankings this week.
Week 8 Guillotine League Targets
Rashee Rice, WR, Chiefs – League Winner?
If you were worried about a slow start for the Chiefs, Rashee Rice, in Week 7, laid those fears to rest. The WR stepped right back into being the primary target in the Chiefs' passing game, seeing a game-high 10 targets, two of which ended with him scoring a TD. Rice wasn’t just the favorite target of Mahomes in this game, but he was also clearly the man the Chiefs wanted to get the ball to in the red zone, as four of his 10 targets came inside the Raiders' 20-yard line.
Given that the Chiefs lead the league in PROE (pass rate above expectation) and aren’t likely to be passing less now that Rice is back, he needs to be bumped way up draftboards for people starting Guillotine Leagues in Week 7.
He’s now a top WR in our ranks and may eventually crack the top 5 in ROS ranks at some point this year.
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Javonte Williams, RB, Cowboys – No Competition
Javonte Williams was coming off his worst game of the season, so there was some fear out there that his hot start to the year might be coming to an end. Again, any worries were laid to rest with Williams’s Week 7 performance vs. the Commanders. The Cowboys got up early on Washington and then proceeded to feed Williams the ball most of the game, giving him a total of 19 carries, his second-most of the year.
Like all season, Williams also showed better efficiency than he has in the last couple of years, and produced 119 yards, many of which came on a long run where he powered through numerous tackles. Jaydon Blue did take seven carries in this game, but most of those came with the game out of hand. With Miles Sanders injured and Blue not showing much with his limited touches, Williams is going to continue to get big volume the rest of the way.
He’s moved into the top 10 in our ROS RB ranks, and remains a great early-round RB to target in Guillotine formats.
Tucker Kraft, Green Bay Packers – Mid-Round Value
There are a couple of TEs out there that trump Tucker Kraft in volume, but most of those names will require expending high draft capital that may leave you short at other positions. Kraft’s a great compromise in that regard, as he’s got plenty of upside and has also scored double-digit FPs now in three straight games in full PPR leagues. With Green Bay also having too many smaller WRs, Kraft should continue to see good red zone usage, and he’s already second among TEs in YAC (208).
He’s now up to TE4 in our ROS Guillotine Leagues rankings and looks like a solid way to play the TE position overall in mid-season drafts, given his cheap valuation and propensity for landing big plays—a rarity at the TE position.
Week 8 Guillotine League Fallers
Ashton Jeanty, RB, Raiders – No Supporting Cast
After a few solid weeks of production in a row, Ashton Jeanty busted in Week 7, producing just 4.4 FP in full PPR leagues, the third time in seven starts that he has gone for under 8.0 FP this season. That’s a recipe for disaster in Guillotine League formats, where you need your RB1s to have a great floor and still get you those valuable 12.0-16.0 points on off weeks, so you can avoid being chopped.
At this point, it’s hard to see this season turning around for Jeanty soon, either. While the talent is there, the Raiders weren’t really in a roster position where they should have been drafting an RB at pick 6 to begin with, and it’s starting to show as their O-line and QB play have been horrific. While Jeanty’s usage and lack of competition for touches are keeping him inside our top 12 RBs in the current ROS rankings, he’s not a player I’d be spending up to get in drafts at the moment.
Jameson Wiliams, WR | Sam LaPorta, TE, Lions – Too Many Mouths to Feed
It’s been a double whammy in Detroit, where the fantasy points have been either feast or famine, depending on which Lions skill players you own. The feasts have been Jahmyr Gibbs and Amon-Ra St. Brown for the most part, who are both top 5 producers at their positions in full PPR leagues, while the famine has been Sam LaPorta and, more specifically, Jameson Williams, who is coming off a catchless night against the Buccaneers.
LaPorta has had some big weeks, but for Guillotine League play, he’s also gone for less than 8.0 points in PPR leagues in four of his last six starts. That’s not great and exemplifies the issue with taking a player outside the big two at RB and WR in this offense in Guillotine Leagues. Williams is on a whole other level of bad, as he’s now just WR45 on the season in scoring, has gone for under 7.0 FP in four of his last five games, and has only seen more than five targets in two of seven games this year.
LaPorta remains in the top 10 of his position this week, although that rank is more about positional weakness than anything else. Williams is falling faster than an elevator full of bricks in a mineshaft at WR35.
The bottom line is that both players are dangerous targets for Guillotine Leagues and may need to be viewed now more as lottery picks or stashes than regular starters.
Week 8 Sleepers
Wan’Dale Robinson – Ascending with Dart
Wan'Dale Robinson has now played in three games with Jaxson Dart at QB and without Malik Nabers. In those three games, he’s managed the following stats:
- Week 5: 7 targets, 5 rec, 30 yards
- Week 6: 7 targets, 6 rec, 84 yards, TD
- Week 7: 12 targets, 6 rec, 95 yards
While he had a slow start, it’s very encouraging that Robinson was able to produce great stat lines in games against tough defenses like Philadelphia and Denver in the last weeks, which are well known for shutting down opposing WRs. Given his slot role and the lack of a big-time outside receiver like Nabers to compete with for targets, his role seems more than sustainable the rest of the way.
For Guillotine Leagues, I’d want to be targeting him as much as possible in the mid-rounds, as his PPR value provides a great base as a WR2/3 in lineups. Unless New York picks up another WR at the deadline, he could even finish as a top 12-15 WR in PPR scoring.
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