NFL DFS Best Plays for Thanksgiving Day Slate (Fantasy Football)
Happy Thanksgiving, FootClan! We hope you all have a fantastic holiday and enjoy this special DFS slate. We will have additional content out on Friday and Saturday this week for the Week 13 Sunday Main slate.
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
Thanksgiving Day Slate Podcast
Locked-In Cash Plays
Borg – While I don’t play a ton of cash, Rico Dowdle will be in my Double-Ups and H2Hs. His salary on both sites mixed with the matchup against the Giants porous run defense makes him an easy click.
Betz – Like Borg, I’ll be light on cash this week given the nature of the small slate. If I am playing cash, CeeDee Lamb is locked in for me. He’s seen target counts of 17, 12, 10, 10, 12, 12 over the last five weeks. That’s really hard to get away from at this price tag for cash games.
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 | Jordan Love | Caleb Williams |
| 2 | Jared Goff | Jordan Love |
| 3 | Caleb Williams | Jared Goff |
| 4 | Tua Tagovailoa | Cooper Rush |
| 5 | Drew Lock | Tua Tagovailoa |
Caleb Williams at just $5,300 is probably the best salary-adjusted QB play on the slate for cash games, but this is a difficult matchup on the road against a Lions D that ranks #1 in EPA per play over the last six weeks. We don’t mind coming in underweight in GPPs while shooting for the upside with guys like Jordan Love or Jared Goff.
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