NFL DFS Best Plays: Week 13 (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 13 Main Slate Podcast
Locked-In Cash Plays
Borg – It’s going to be very hard to get away from De’Von Achane in cash. You and your grandmother, who arrogantly bullies people in the DK lobby, will have him in your lineup. The Dolphins RB remains too cheap ($8300) for his high floor as he has 16+ DK points in 10 of his 11 games this year.
Betz – Breece Hall is averaging 19.8 total opportunities per game over the last month, and now he gets a Falcons defense that’s 26th in EPA per rush, 28th in rush success rate this year, and 25th in schedule-adjusted fantasy points allowed to opposing backs. At just $6,000 on DK and $7,400 on FD, he’s a strong play 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 | Tyrod Taylor | C.J. Stroud |
| 2 | Jacoby Brissett | Jacoby Brissett |
| 3 | C.J. Stroud | Trevor Lawrence |
| 4 | Justin Herbert | Tyrod Taylor |
| 5 | Sam Darnold | Justin Herbert |
You can go right back to well with Jacoby Brissett this week if you want to stay in the flames. However, his price ($5800) no longer makes him a lock like on previous slates. We have a few $5K or below QBs (Tyrod Taylor especially) that make sense if you are approaching this Week 13 as an overall low-scoring slate. DraftKings remains a bit too timid on QB pricing this year allowing us to pay down at the position weekly. Our roster percentage projections in the optimizer are fairly bullish on the field playing Justin Herbert in tournaments.
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