Towers rank the wide receivers for Week 8

 Fantasy Football Week 8 wide receiver rankings: How to handle life without Davante Adams, more
Towers rank the wide receivers for Week 8

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                                              Towers rank the wide receivers for Week 8

Davante Adams ed on the reserve/COVID-19 list Monday  Allen Lazard was placed on the reserve list Tuesday, which comes at a time with the Packers set to face the Cardinals on Thursday night, given the league protocols around COVID-19 testing. Adams could clear to play in time for the game, assuming he doesn't have any symptoms related to his positive test, would need to have two negative tests at least 24 hours apart to be  -- which means the first would have to come no later than Wednesday afternoon. If he is symptomatic, Adams doesn't have enough time to would seem.

It THE pretty unlikely the Packers will have their No. 1 or 2  available for Thursday's game. If you're desperate for a Week 8 starter, Randall Cobb should see an increased role and might have some appeal as a low-end starter in PPR leagues. Amari Rodgers and Equanimious St. Brown are likely to see expanded roles hard to justify starting either of them unless you are desperate -- it might make Robert Tonyan, Aaron Jones, and AJ Dillon better start anything. 

Here's my first run at ranking the top 48 wide receivers for Week 8. To see the rankings from Jamey Eisenberg, Dave Richard and Heath Cummings, make sure you head here. We'll be updating this throughout the week with new notes and Rankin as we get news and the ranking get tweaked, so make sure you bookmark the page.

 THE Courtland Sutton. WAS  We'll see how Jerry Jeudy's expected return impacts Sutton's usage, but I'm not going to be too concerned about that when he gets to play against one of the best matchups in the game -- arguably the worst defence against the pass right now. I'm starting Sutton pretty confidently this week and still viewing him as  WR2 moving forward based on what we've seen G. The question is more about how Jeudy looks coming off his high-ankle sprain. 
Robert Woods @HOU

DeAndre Hopkins, Are we seeing the start of a trend back to Hopkins as a legitimate No. 1 for the Cardinals? He has nine targets in two of his last three games after averaging 6.3 per game in the first four. The thing about Hopkins' usage so far is, there's no reason they can't go back to throwing 25%-plus of their targets his way if they want to, even if there's no reason to think they will at this point. Hopkins has spent his entire career well north of that 25% mark, so this season has been a pretty outlier to date. Maybe he 

Michael Pittman vs TEN -- Pittman had four catches for 105 yards in Sunday's game, and he was even better than that, drawing two pass interference penalties that could have been touchdowns and led to goal-to-go situations for the Colts. I'm still curious to see what his target share looks like when T.Y. Hilton is, but facing a great matchup this week, Pittman belongs in your lineup. 
Jaylen Waddle @BUF

Brandin Cooks  LAR -- I don't feel good about this one at all. I wouldn't feel good about ranking Cooks much higher or lower either, though. He's still seeing a massive share of the Texans targets, which makes me wary of going against him in any game. However, this is a tough matchup, one that makes it hard to expect him to turn things around at this point.