Best Plays for DFS: Week 4 (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 4 Main Slate Podcast
Locked-In Cash Plays
Borg – We’ve discussed multiple times on the podcast how comfy a click Parker Washington is every single week. His 33% 1st read target share (10th best among WRs) and expected fantasy points per route run (3rd best) make him still too cheap in DFS.
Betz – Without Gibbs, Bijan and JT on the main slate, Christian McCaffrey is the top RB for cash games in my opinion. The Week 1 Kaelon Black usage appears to be an outlier as CMC has played 83% of the snaps in a close game against Arizona last week. With the Niners’ WR injuries, McCaffrey’s role in this matchup has to be sky high. Denver has allowed the fourth-most receiving yards per game to opposing RBs, and they’ve struggled to defend the run.
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 | Trevor Lawrence | Trevor Lawrence |
| 2 | Bo Nix | CJ Stroud |
| 3 | Jacoby Brissett | Jacoby Brissett |
| 4 | Brock Purdy | Bo Nix |
| 5 | Kyler Murray | Brock Purdy |
It takes some stones to drop down to the cheapies like Tyson Bagent or Jalon Daniels. You could do it in cash, but the downside is getting buried by other QBs in way better spots like Trevor Lawrence, Brock Purdy, or even the high-priced guys like Josh Allen or Joe Burrow. Jacoby Brissett or Kyler Murray might be a better middle ground if you are trying to save some cash in H2H or Double Ups.
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