Best Plays for DFS: Week 5 (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 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 5 Main Slate Podcast
Locked-In Cash Plays
Borg – The Cardinals stack should be played by everyone in cash. I could not fathom heading into a H2H or Double-Up without Jacoby Brissett. Obviously, there are other routes in tournaments but it is not worth trying to get cute in cash this week. Paying $5500 for a QB who is averaging 38 pass attempts per game against the worst pass defense in the NFL is easy peasy.
Betz – Jahmyr Gibbs‘ role is just insane right now, and this game environment is head and shoulders above the rest. He’s expensive at $9,800, but we have plenty of value to fit him on both sites.
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 | Jacoby Brissett | Jacoby Brissett |
| 2 | Jared Goff | Jared Goff |
| 3 | Malik Willis | Tyson Bagent |
| 4 | Drake Maye | Kyler Murray |
| 5 | Jordan Love | Drake Maye |
You’re going to see a lot of Lions and Cardinals in cash this week and for good reason. We can’t say we disagree because a lot of the players in that game are underpriced for their roles. It starts with Beef Brissett, who’s way too cheap on both sites if we think this game goes back and forth. In tournaments, you could pivot off Brissett, but in cash, don’t overthink it.
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