NFL Week 8 Player Prop Bets: Josh Downs, Michael Thomas, Trey McBride

Here are all of my favorite NFL player prop bets for Week 8. Below we dive into a few notable players.

NFL Week 8 Player Prop Bets

All odds are courtesy of DraftKings, as of Thursday night.

Josh Downs OVER 44.5 receiving yards

This is all about matchup. The Colts face the Saints, who have a fine pair of outside cornerbacks in Marshon Lattimore and Paulson Adebo. But their slot corner, Alontae Taylor, is giving up 1.5 yards per route run into his coverage. PFF has Taylor 100th out of the 115 cornerbacks they've graded. Downs is coming off a 125-yard game against a tough Browns defense and has developed excellent rapport with QB Gardner Minshew.

Michael Thomas UNDER 52.5 receiving yards

Thomas faces a zone-heavy Colts pass defense, and as my colleague Derek Brown notes in this week's installment of The Primer, Thomas has been much better against man coverage than zone. Thomas has a modest 13.8% target share against zone coverage this season. Thomas has failed to top this number in each of his last two games and has averaged only 5.8 yards per target over that stretch.

Trey McBride UNDER 31.5 receiving yards

With Zach Ertz going on injured reserve, McBride should play more snaps and see more targets for the Cardinals. But even with significant increases in his snap share the last two weeks, McBride hasn't seen more than six targets in any game this season. This week, he has a hellish matchup against a nasty Ravens defense that's yielding 29.0 yards per game and 4.7 yards per target to opposing TEs. McBride will also be getting his targets delivered by the slumping Josh Dobbs, who has completed just 51.9% of his throws and averaged 5.2 yards per target over his last three games.