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

Sam Darnold continues to be an enigma in his journeyman NFL career. For example, not many NFL quarterbacks can put up 27 points on one of the league's best defenses and win a big Monday Night Football ... only to fall in the quarterback rankings.

See where Jonathan Taylor, Jaxon Smith-Njigba and other players netted out in the latest Madden ratings updates.

Indiana's quarterback has held the top spot in our rankings for weeks but Alabama's rising star is closing in.

Who bumps Sam Darnold from the top five in Nick Shook's QB Index rankings? Which player falls 12 spots? Check out the updated pecking order, 1-32, heading into Week 8 of the 2025 NFL season.

We're putting the league into four buckets: the inner and outer circles of contenders, fringe playoff teams and draft preparations. Those tiers are below with the teams in them listed alphabetically.

Their 2-5 record puts them in the same stratosphere as bad teams like the Cleveland Browns and New York Giants, both of whom rank behind the Cardinals. However, the Cardinals are just a few plays from being 7-0, although that is indicative of bad teams.