Start Rome Odunze or Malik Washington? Week 8

Our Week 8 call

Start Rome Odunze over Malik Washington in Week 8.

Market-based projections have Rome Odunze at 9.6 points and Malik Washington at 10.4, a gap of 0.8. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. Rome Odunze still gets the call because it also weighs where drafters take each player, ADP 54 against 165, and that outweighs a gap this size. No player market is posted for Malik Washington this week yet, so his 10.4 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 5 and 7 (10.8 and 10.0); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

No Week 8 player market is posted for Malik Washington yet. His market-based projections were 10.8 and 10.0 points in Weeks 5 and 7, an average of 10.4, which stands in until his Week 8 market posts.

Player markets imply 9.6 fantasy points for Rome Odunze, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.

The market-based projection for Rome Odunze is 43 receiving yards and 0.3 touchdowns (3 and 7 market sources).

That puts Malik Washington 0.8 points ahead of Rome Odunze on these projections.

Week 8 matchups

Malik Washington and MIA host NE on Sunday at 4:25 PM ET.

NE allowed 32.1 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 7 games, the 13th most in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 150 yards and a touchdown a game against NE.

Rome Odunze and CHI visit SEA on Monday at 8:15 PM ET.

SEA allowed 20.9 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 7 games, the fewest in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 92 yards and 0.6 touchdowns a game against SEA.

By points allowed to the position, Malik Washington has the softer matchup.

Injury status

Malik Washington is not on the injury report.

Rome Odunze is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 8

Through Week 7, Malik Washington played 84 percent of MIA snaps, drew 26 percent of the targets, earned 30 percent of the air yards and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

Malik Washington, Week 3 against KC: 63 of 73 snaps, 2 carries for 5 yards, 10 targets and 5 catches for 56 yards.

Malik Washington, Week 4 against MIN: 34 of 39 snaps, 2 carries for 3 yards, 5 targets and 5 catches for 67 yards.

Malik Washington, Week 5 against CIN: 53 of 66 snaps, 1 carry for 18 yards, 8 targets and 6 catches for 43 yards.

Malik Washington, Week 7 against NYJ: 52 of 65 snaps, 2 carries for 8 yards, 3 targets and 3 catches for 27 yards.

Through Week 7, Rome Odunze played 85 percent of CHI snaps, drew 17 percent of the targets, earned 30 percent of the air yards and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

Rome Odunze, Week 4 against NYJ: 83 of 93 snaps, 7 targets and 6 catches for 94 yards.

Rome Odunze, Week 5 against GB: 68 of 69 snaps, 9 targets and 3 catches for 40 yards.

Rome Odunze, Week 6 against ATL: 74 of 77 snaps, 4 targets and 3 catches for 39 yards.

Rome Odunze, Week 7 against NE: 65 of 69 snaps, 5 targets and 4 catches for 69 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Malik Washington played 17 games for MIA and scored 116.7 PPR points, 6.9 a game, finishing WR54.

He caught 46 of 65 targets for 317 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets and 64 air yards.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

In 2025, Rome Odunze played 12 games for CHI and scored 146.1 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing WR41.

He caught 44 of 90 targets for 661 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets and 447 air yards.

He was on the field for 82 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Their other Week 8 calls

• Start Carnell Tate over Malik Washington.
• Start Courtland Sutton over Malik Washington.
• Start Denzel Boston over Malik Washington.
• Start Rome Odunze over Carnell Tate.
• Start Rome Odunze over Chris Godwin Jr..
• Start Rome Odunze over Courtland Sutton.