Each week we will review some of the content found in the DFS Pass and discuss some of our most confident plays heading into Sunday. A lot can change over the weekend, especially with injury news (See Betz’s Injury Blitz podcast) and roster percentages shifting who is in-or-out before roster lock time. Let’s review.
- Locked-in Cash Plays
- CORE Plays
- Game Stacks We Love
- Full-On Fades of the Week
- Favorite Leverage Plays
- Favorite Dart Throws
- Boldest Calls of the Week
Locked-In Cash Plays
Borg – Jacoby Brissett is probably the easiest click of the week. With a salary that remains far too cheap ($5300), it’s not hard going right back to the well if they don’t make us pay up for this type of volume. Jacoby is averaging 43 pass attempts and 300.8 passing yards per game. Over the last 5 weeks, the Falcons are 30th in schedule-adjusted fantasy points allowed to QBs.
Chris Cash – The Lions. Gimme all the Jahmyr Gibbs and Amon-Ra St. Brown, DET has been favored just nine times, yet in those games they’re second in passing TDs and fourth in rushing scores. Every other team in the top eight has had at least 11 favored spots to pile up production. Dan Campbell tends to go scorched earth with no reservations about running the score up late into the game either. I’ll want multiple builds in GPPs and have no issue playing both Gibbs and St. Brown in cash thanks to value options at QB/TE/DST.
DraftKings Core Plays
These are the 3-5 players at each position we have mixed in our cash player pool. Based on salaries, late news, and budget constraints, it is guaranteed you will not be able to fit in all of them. But their high floors and team-implied totals make them great plays for the week in both cash & GPPs.
These are simply in order of favorite core players. You obviously won’t be able to fit all in a cash lineup and there are salary tradeoffs for paying up at each position.
Jacoby Brissett, my man, hasn’t put up less than 19.4 fantasy points since becoming the full-time starter in Week 6. Now, most of it is garbage time, but that doesn’t matter to us. Take the points and give him a two-thumbs-up on your way to safe PP$ land since Ross at DK refuses to move his price up (he’s only $5.3k). Stroud is bringing back his rookie magic and keeping the Texans on track to find some postseason battles. Bo Nix is playing smarter outside of the pocket and looks much better than he did during his early-season woes because of it. Justin Herbert gets a defense allowing 270 yards per game through the air (league’s worst). Quinn Ewers is so cheap that he basically needs a pulse and a few dump-offs to Achane to get you the points your lineup needs at only $4k.
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