Fantasy football IDP rankings and IDP streamers for Week 8 of the 2025 NFL season. Chris's IDP fantasy start 'em, sit 'em picks for individual defensive players.

The NFL has established a new tradition in recent years of scheduling six or more teams on bye at the same time. While this philosophy might make sense if the aim were to fit all byes into the center of the schedule to create balance and fairness, the NFL doesn't do that. Instead, they stack middle weeks while also assigning disadvantages to teams with unreasonably early byes.

The NFL’s scheduling creates inherent problems for NFL teams, especially teams with a Week 5 bye who could be forced to play 16 straight games to get to the Super Bowl. However, these schedules also create fantasy headaches. The most problematic of those h

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