Football Hotpage Week Seven – Don’t Miss the Obvious

Todd Gurley put up almost 4x on his $10k salary last week and now we see him with a slight salary drop.  Don’t skip the obvious play here to try and get cute.  The floor that Gurley provides gives you a solid base in any DraftKings tournament lineup.  Find some other spot to find this weeks’ low-owned unicorn.

In searching for a RB pairing to go with Gurley, the other high-priced backs pop with “Big Score” on their foreheads.  As opposed to several other previous weeks, the idea of paying way up to fill both RB slots looks like the play with a slew of lower-priced receivers up for the taking.

The group of receivers below $5,600 (Josh Gordon) provides a ton of choices all the way down to $3,500 Josh Reynolds.

As far as potential stacks for the week, I am on the Browns but there are several other nice-looking options.  The Ravens can easily be in a shoot-out with the Saints (Joe Flacco-Willie Snead IV-Michaels Crabtree).  The Bucs are the other side of the Browns game (Jameis Winston-Peyton Barber-choice of WR).  The Patriots-Bears has back-and-forth potential (Tom Brady-James White-Josh Gordon, and Mitch Trubisky-Tarik Cohen-Taylor Gabriel).

Good luck in week seven.  My top plays and my current DraftKings tournament lineup are below:

QB Jared Goff LAR 6600 Potential shoot-out with SF
QB Kirk Cousins MIN 6400 Connection with Thielen is special to watch
QB Jameis Winston TB 6300 Coming off an elite game with potential to match
QB Tom Brady NE 6100 Tough to cover all of his weapons that are finally healthy
QB Cam Newton CAR 5900 Rushing floor and poor Eagles secondary produce big numbers
QB Baker Mayfield CLE 5800 Bucs defense is epic-ly bad
QB Mitchell Trubisky CHI 5600 Grew off the six TD game now in elite matchup
QB Joe Flacco BAL 5400 Flacco throws if Ravens defense can’t slow down Saints
RB Todd Gurley II LAR 9800 Best by a wide margin – set for another high-usage game
RB Ezekiel Elliott DAL 8100 Eats big on Washington
RB Christian McCaffrey CAR 7700 Been 2x floor with very high ceiling
RB James White NE 6900 Ravens stop Patriots run putting White heavily in play
RB Mark Ingram NO 5900 Underpriced if usage is the same as two weeks ago
RB Tarik Cohen CHI 5100 Taking the touches from Howard
RB Carlos Hyde CLE 4700 RBs have crushed Bucs defense all season
RB Corey Clement PHI 4700 Top RB in very good Eagles offense
RB Marlon Mack IND 4400 Nice return last week – Colts play with lead and can run
WR Adam Thielen MIN 8600 Exceeded 3x current price in five straight games
WR Jarvis Landry CLE 7300 10+ targets in five of six – don’t sleep after bad last week
WR Robert Woods LAR 7000 3x price in three of past four
WR Josh Gordon NE 5600 Targets have increased in each game with Pats – goes deep vs Chi
WR Taylor Gabriel CHI 4700 Back-to-back 100 yard games comes cheap
WR Marquise Goodwin SF 4600 Exploded Monday night – looked healthy
WR Antonio Callaway CLE 4300 If large target share continues – success has to come
WR Albert Wilson MIA 4000 Another game with Osweiler puts Wilson in play at low price
WR Willie Snead IV BAL 4000 Consistent targets in revenge game for Snead
WR Josh Reynolds LAR 3500 Wild card with Kupp out
TE Zach Ertz PHI 7100 Been best tight end by a wide margin
TE Eric Ebron IND 5400 Might be finally living up to the reputation
TE George Kittle SF 5000 Consistent target in 49ers offense
TE David Njoku CLE 4200 Continues to grow at play maker – TE kills Browns
TE Nick O’Leary MIA 2600 Punt flyer – adds pass catching TE option to Dolphins offense
DST Jaguars JAX 3600 Depressed price after weak performance
DST Rams LAR 3500 Will turn over Beathard
DST Vikings MIN 3400 Not been strong but Darnold turns it over
DST Colts IND 3300 This week’s Bills opponent
DST Texans HOU 2800 Gets the inconsistent Bortles still without Fournette
DST Bills BUF 2300 Been surprisingly ok
MY TEAM
QB Baker Mayfield CLE 5800
RB Todd Gurley II LAR 9800
RB Ezekiel Elliott DAL 8100
WR Taylor Gabriel CHI 4700
WR Willie Snead IV BAL 4000
WR Antonio Callaway CLE 4300
TE David Njoku CLE 4200
WR Josh Gordon NE 5600
DST Colts IND 3300
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