NFL DFS: Best Plays for 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 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 – With CMC is out, Jordan Mason is a cash lock. He touched the ball on 41.4% of SF offensive plays. Last year, CMC hit that mark in 4 of his 16 games. But I’ll give you another name (in case CMC is in) that I have locked in this week: Breece Hall. His usage is elite and the total touches (21) look small only because the Jets ran 49 total plays last week versus San Francisco. His salary ($7400) is too cheap given his role and his floor of 4+ receptions per game.
Betz – Cooper Kupp just saw 21 targets with Puka Nacua on IR and is now competing with borderline NFL talent for targets against a bottom five secondary. Let’s not overthink this.
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 | Jayden Daniels | Patrick Mahomes |
| 2 | Patrick Mahomes | Jayden Daniels |
| 3 | Daniel Jones | Baker Mayfield |
| 4 | Baker Mayfield | Kyler Murray |
| 5 | Dak Prescott | Daniel Jones |
In cash, it really only comes down to Daniels or Mahomes. If you want to play it safer, the Chiefs offense and team implied total gives you a much safer outcome although Daniels scrambling ability creates some easy points. Daniel Jones in a GPP is a fun play but realize it’s not going to be that sneaky this week. Veteran DFSers know about his ability to wreck a slate so single-stacking him as leverage over Daniels is only viable if the Commanders push the tempo. Expect TB/DET to garner a lot of attention but the Lions side might come in lower than it should roster percentage wise.
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