Start Treylon Burks or Rashid Shaheed? Week 8

Our Week 8 call

Start Rashid Shaheed over Treylon Burks in Week 8.

Market-based projections have Rashid Shaheed at 5.5 points and Treylon Burks at 5.3, a gap of 0.2. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. No player market is posted for Rashid Shaheed this week yet, so his 5.5 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 5, 6 and 7 (5.0, 5.3 and 6.3); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

No Week 8 player market is posted for Rashid Shaheed yet. His market-based projections were 5.0, 5.3 and 6.3 points in Weeks 5, 6 and 7, an average of 5.5, which stands in until his Week 8 market posts.

Player markets imply 5.3 fantasy points for Treylon Burks, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.

The market-based projection for Treylon Burks is 25 receiving yards, 1-2 receptions and 0.2 touchdowns (8, 7 and 8 market sources).

That puts Rashid Shaheed 0.2 points ahead of Treylon Burks on these projections.

Week 8 matchups

Rashid Shaheed and SEA host CHI on Monday at 8:15 PM ET.

CHI allowed 29.2 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 7 games, the 10th fewest in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 149 yards and 0.9 touchdowns a game against CHI.

Treylon Burks and WAS host PHI on Sunday at 8:20 PM ET.

PHI allowed 40.1 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 7 games, the 2nd most in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 184 yards and 1.3 touchdowns a game against PHI.

By points allowed to the position, Treylon Burks has the softer matchup.

Injury status

Rashid Shaheed is listed as questionable with a knee injury.

Treylon Burks is listed as questionable with a foot injury.

Usage before Week 8

Through Week 7, Rashid Shaheed played 49 percent of SEA snaps, drew 14 percent of the targets, earned 21 percent of the air yards and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

Rashid Shaheed, Week 4 against LAC: 36 of 60 snaps, 2 carries for 33 yards, 3 targets and 1 catch for 20 yards, 1 touchdown.

Rashid Shaheed, Week 5 against SF: 29 of 63 snaps, 4 targets and 2 catches for 23 yards.

Rashid Shaheed, Week 6 against DEN: 39 of 85 snaps, 1 carry for 2 yards, 8 targets and 5 catches for 66 yards.

Rashid Shaheed, Week 7 against KC: 22 of 69 snaps, 3 targets and 2 catches for 1 yards.

Through Week 6, Treylon Burks played 50 percent of WAS snaps, drew 11 percent of the targets, earned 19 percent of the air yards and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

Treylon Burks, Week 3 against SEA: 25 of 69 snaps, 2 targets and 2 catches for 13 yards, 1 touchdown.

Treylon Burks, Week 4 against IND: 38 of 64 snaps, 3 targets and 1 catch for 47 yards, 1 touchdown.

Treylon Burks, Week 5 against NYG: 45 of 62 snaps, 5 targets and 2 catches for 26 yards.

Treylon Burks, Week 6 against SF: 37 of 67 snaps, 6 targets and 4 catches for 66 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Rashid Shaheed played 18 games for SEA and scored 156.6 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing WR39.

He caught 59 of 92 targets for 687 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets and 510 air yards.

He was on the field for 61 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

In 2025, Treylon Burks played 8 games for WAS and scored 29.0 PPR points, 3.6 a game, finishing WR138.

He caught 10 of 22 targets for 130 yards and 1 touchdown, with 4 red zone targets and 96 air yards.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Their other Week 8 calls

• Start Rashid Shaheed over Adonai Mitchell.
• Start Brian Thomas Jr. over Rashid Shaheed.
• Start Rashid Shaheed over Cooper Kupp.
• Start Treylon Burks over Adonai Mitchell.
• Start Treylon Burks over Brian Thomas Jr..
• Start Treylon Burks over Cody White.