NFL.com analysts provide one bold prediction for Week 8 of the 2025 NFL season, from fantasy forecasts to team-based takes.
Bijan Robinson goes for 200 scrimmage yards and two touchdowns.
What happens when “the best player in football” meets one of the worst defenses in football? Magic! Whether or not you back Raheem Morris’ lofty claim about his RB1, there’s no denying Bijan's impact. Now he gets to face a Dolphins defense that is allowing more than 5 yards per carry. Compound that with surrendering the seventh-most receiving yards to running backs, and Robinson is in the ultimate smash spot this week.
Drake Maye continues hot streak vs. No. 1 defense.
Cleveland ranks in the top five in most major defensive categories, including first in total defense (256.1 ypg) and third in passing defense (173.7 ypg). Maye is amid a breakout season, but the second-year pro has yet to throw for 300 yards in an NFL game ... until this weekend. The Patriots quarterback throws for more than 300 yards and three touchdowns in a win over the Browns on Sunday.
Panthers run over Bills defense in close contest.
Sometimes, when an unstoppable force meets a very moveable object, strange things happen in the NFL. This week, Rico Dowdle and the red-hot Panthers rush attack draw a matchup with a soft Bills defense allowing the second-most rushing yards per game this season. Dowdle will rip off multiple explosive plays against this unit, Carolina will top 200 rushing yards as a team and what might look like a blowout on paper will be decided by three points or fewer in the final minute.
Will Campbell puts NFL on notice.
New England's rookie left tackle has already faced -- and held his own against -- the likes of Maxx Crosby, Joey Bosa and Cameron Jordan in his young NFL career. But on Sunday, Campbell cements himself as a Pro Bowl-caliber force by shutting down perennial Defensive Player of the Year candidate Myles Garrett. I’m talking zero sacks and zero pressures in a Patriots rout.
Jets win a football game.
The Aaron Glenn era actually started out fun, with the Jets engaging in a season-opening shootout against the Steelers. Two weeks later, the first-time head coach punctuated a momentum-swinging touchdown with a joyful sideline strut that instantly went viral. Unfortunately, the Jets lost both of those games. They've lost all the games, as the NFL's only winless team. But they're not getting blown off the field on a weekly basis: Five of Gang Green's seven defeats have come by seven points or fewer. The defense has yielded just 13 points in each of the past two weeks. And heading into this weekend, New York actually has a better point different (-54) than Cincinnati (-78), the three-win team on the Sunday docket. So, I say this is when Glenn's Jets get off the schneid, taming the Joe Flacco-led Bengals and heading into the bye with the rarest commodity for a franchise that owns the league's longest postseason drought: optimism.
Rookie runs wild in Houston.
I envision Texans fourth-round pick Woody Marks running for 100 yards and a touchdown against a depleted 49ers run defense that has allowed 4.6 yards per carry -- including the sixth-most yards after contact per carry -- since Nick Bosa's season-ending injury.
