NFL DFS Best Plays: Week 15 (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 15 Main Slate Podcast
Locked-In Cash Plays
Borg – I can’t pass up the opportunity to play Christian McCaffrey this week as a 12.5-point home favorite. $9,000 isn’t expensive enough for the type of workload he’s seeing: 43% of the team’s total rush attempts and targets on the season. That is the highest % in the NFL and warrants him being above $10K.
Betz – Since Tyler Higbee landed on IR, Puka Nacua is being targeted on over 40% of his routes and now Davante Adams is dealing with a hamstring issue (expected to play). I can’t imagine not having him in cash this week at home with the total sitting at 55.5 against a Lions secondary that’s down Kerby Joseph, Terrion Arnold and Brian Branch.
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 | Marcus Mariota | Marcus Mariota |
| 2 | Jaxson Dart | C.J. Stroud |
| 3 | C.J. Stroud | Jaxson Dart |
| 4 | Trevor Lawrence | Brock Purdy |
| 5 | Brock Purdy | Trevor Lawrence |
We’ve preached this all year long: DraftKings pricing remains way too soft at the QB position. The $5K range gives you options with Jaxson Dart and Marcus Mariota in the same game. We also don’t mind C.J. Stroud at home as a 9.5-point favorite, the largest spread for the Texans since 2018! These QBs need 16+ points in cash to pay off put you know more is in store for these guys. We do love the spend-up options for tournaments whether that is Lamar or Burrow playing against each other, or the Josh Allen/Drake Maye showdown.
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