Best Player Prop Bets For Week 8 of the NFL Season
by Sam Cox | by Tyler Doty
Even with the Cardinals, Lions, Jaguars, Raiders, Rams, and Seahawks on a bye, Week 8 has plenty of games for us to get stuck into when picking our favorite player props.
Lamar Jackson returns from injury to lead the Ravens against the 4-2 Bears. Josh Allen is fresh off a bye week to take on the 4-3 Panthers, and Joe Flacco is trying to get the Bengals to .500 against the 0-7 Jets.
CJ Stroud and the Texans are battling to keep their season alive, Drake Maye is riding an all-time heater, and the young Giants are looking to get back on track after a humiliating meltdown in the fourth quarter in Denver.
Here are our best player props for this week’s games:
James Cook Over 16.5 Rushing Attempts (-136)
James Cook has hit this over in four of the last five games. Cook is facing a Carolina Panthers team that’s no better than a middling run defense, even with Derrick Brown ranking as the fifth-best interior defensive lineman against the run.
Buffalo is likely to boss this game from start to finish. Allen and co. are coming off a bye week and are favored by more than a touchdown in Week 8.
The game script is going to lend itself to plenty of Cook carries. There’s some juice here, but it’s still a worthwhile wager with how integral Cook has been on the ground for this Bills offense.
Tee Higgins Over 4.5 Receptions (-130)
Tee Higgins has hit this over in each of the last two weeks. Even with Sauce Gardner unlikely to play, the Jets have a decent matchup for Ja’Marr Chase in Brandon Stephens, who is fifth in pass breakups and ranks 21st in pass coverage.
New York, however, is in the bottom five in quarterback pressure rate and the bottom 10 in expected points from its pass defense. Flacco is above average in bad throw percentage and has only seen four passes batted away all year.
Cincinnati knows it has to continue leaning on its two elite receivers. Higgins averages 5.1 receptions per game since the start of last season.
Drake Maye Over 220.5 Passing Yards (-114)
Drake Maye has gone over 220.5 passing yards in six out of seven games this year. New England’s offensive line is one of the NFL’s biggest overachievers this year, ranking sixth among all offensive lines, per PFF.
Cleveland is a good-rather-than-great pass defense. Their pressure rate is around league average. They don’t give up a huge number of passing yards, but some of that can be attributed to game script and their schedule.
The Patriots aren’t throwing the ball that much, but they haven’t needed to for Maye to put up big numbers. Even if New England controls this game, Maye should hit this over, so long as he makes 20+ pass attempts.
Kyle Pitts Over 4.5 Receptions (+104)
The Dolphins are awful. Their pass defense has been cooked over and over again – they are 28th in passes defended and have conceded the highest pass completion percentage in the league.
Darnell Mooney has been limited in practice, freeing up a big target share for Kyle Pitts. A former first-round pick, Pitts was targeted 10 times for seven catches in Week 7. He’s averaging five receptions per game this season.
Miami has conceded 5.86 receptions per game to tight ends. Per PFF, Pitts is the seventh-best receiving tight end in the NFL in 2025. A 26.3% target rate in Week 7 was his highest target share of the season and indicates an increase in usage for Week 8 against the woeful Dolphins. Keep an eye out for Pitts lining up in the slot, too.
