NFL DFS Best Plays for 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 – For what feels like the 5th week in a row, Jordan Mason is locked into my lineup. He’s seeing 39% of the team’s total rush attempts and targets, the same rate CMC saw last year. The usage is through the roof, the 49ers team implied total is approaching 30, and they should smash at home against the Cardinals. He’s the cover boy and our consensus RB1 for a reason.
Betz – I agree with Borg. Jordan Mason is in there! I’ll also add Jayden Reed as a guy I want in cash this week. No Doubs. No Watson. No Luke Musgrave. Reed should cook against a Rams defense allowing the highest YPA in the league.
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 | Brock Purdy | Brock Purdy |
| 2 | Geno Smith | Geno Smith |
| 3 | Joe Burrow | Jordan Love |
| 4 | Trevor Lawrence | Joe Burrow |
| 5 | Lamar Jackson | Trevor Lawrence |
There’s some really high ceiling plays falling through the cracks on this slate, namely Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, but in cash games, we’re spending down in the mid tier thanks to the strong projections on Brock Purdy, Geno Smith and Jordan Love.
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