NFL DFS Best Plays for Week 18 (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 18 Main Slate Podcast
Locked-In Cash Plays
Borg – Zamir White is the perfect combination of volume (20+ touches in 3 straight games) and salary ($6000) to lock in for cash this week. Oh, and the Broncos are terrible against the run this year. Expect a ton of Zamir with Josh Jacobs ruled out.
Betz – Thanks to so many cheap RB plays on this slate (shoutout to the #NastyBoiz), you can comfortably fit both Justin Jefferson and CeeDee Lamb in awesome matchups. They’re the clear WR1 and WR2 plays on the slate for cash games, and I’ll be playing both.
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 | Nick Mullens | Nick Mullens |
| 2 | Justin Fields | Dak Prescott |
| 3 | Jeff Driskel | Justin Fields |
| 4 | Dak Prescott | Tyrod Taylor |
| 5 | Jordan Love | Jeff Driskel |
Expect a lot of cash game players to punt the position this week to spend up at WR. Mullens is a maniac but we love that for DFS. Justin Fields is our favorite spend-up option with his rushing floor and the fact the Packers are 25th in schedule-adjusted fantasy points allowed to QBs since Week 11. With a huge player pool and so many options across the board, double-stacking isn’t necessary in our opinion for tournaments.
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