Best Plays for DFS: Week 2 (Fantasy Football)
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 found in the optimizer 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
Week 2 Main Slate Podcast
Locked-In Cash Plays
Borg – Aaron Jones Sr. is too cheap for the role he has while Jordan Mason is on IR. It was a small sample size but in the one game Mason missed last year, Jones saw 22 opportunities. At $5,100, that is straight cash homey. Last week against Carolina, the Bears ranked 29th in yards per carry allowed, 31st in rush success rate allowed, and 30th in Yards before contact per attempt allowed. It is a 3RB build week for me.
Betz – I don’t want to overthink this on Derrick Henry as a TD favorite at home against the Saints. Without Zay Flowers and Ja’Kobi Lane, do we think Declan Doyle builds the plane out of Rashod Bateman, Devontez Walker (Inactive last week, Groin) and Elijah Sarratt (Healthy inactive last week) or the Big Dog?
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.
| DraftKings-QB | BORG | BETZ |
| 1 | Brock Purdy | Carson Wentz |
| 2 | Dak Prescott | Dak Prescott |
| 3 | Carson Wentz | Brock Purdy |
| 4 | Jayden Daniels | Jayden Daniels |
| 5 | Trevor Lawrence | Trevor Lawrence |
The $6K QBs this week all project so well especially as Purdy is a heavy home favorite. The WAS/DAL game projects to be the highest scoring of the week so we do not fault anyone getting access to that game. Carson Wentz is a dilemma as he dang cheap against a Bears secondary that was annihilated by Bryce Young last week. The Vikings did play quite slow (dead last in neutral pace) last week so you really need Ben Johnson and the Bears to push him this week.
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