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Mike's Main DraftKings daily fantasy college football lineup picks for Friday (11/24/23). His CFB DFS lineup picks and DFS sleepers will help you win.
The Friday after Thanksgiving is always a busy college football slate. Some of football's greatest rivalries have taken place on this day. When I was a kid, it was always Nebraska and Oklahoma. Now, Nebraska gets Iowa and Oklahoma gets...TCU. It was Bedlam, but the Cowboys are angry about the Sooners discontinuing the rivalry and they have every right to be. I don't blame them one bit.
10 of the 13 games today are on the main slate. The Oklahoma and Nebraska games start us off, as does Miami climbing Chestnut Hill. Memphis heads to Philly to take on Temple. We have some MACtion with Ohio heading to Akron and Toledo heading to Mount Pleasant to take on Central Michigan. The afternoon kicks off in New Orleans with UTSA in town. Utah State heads to Albuquerque to take on the Lobos. Air Force is in Boise to take on the Broncos. We end in Fayetteville with Missouri in town for the Battle Line game.
In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy college football lineup picks for DraftKings on 11/24/23, locking at noon Eastern. I’ll provide multiple player suggestions at quarterback, running back, and wide receiver, aiming to highlight one option at the high, middle, and lower end of the salary scale. Good luck, RotoBallers.
DraftKings CFB DFS Picks - Quarterbacks
Seth Henigan, Memphis ($8,800)
Henigan just went for 402 against SMU. What can he do against a weak Temple pass defense? This promises to be a high-scoring affair and Memphis is a pass-first team. Henigan has racked up 119.1 DraftKings points over the last four games. His floor should be around the mean (29.8 DraftKings points). His ceiling is in the 40s.
Tyler Van Dyke, Miami (FL) ($7,400)
Van Dyke had a solid game against Louisville since he didn't have to look back over his shoulder at a replacement. The job is his again and this is a good matchup. Hopefully, it is that simple for Van Dyke. We saw what he is capable of earlier this year and this is one of the best matchups he could ask for.
E.J. Warner, Temple ($6,500)
The team around him may be bad but Warner is a DFS darling. He has at least 20 DraftKings points in each of the last five games. He may have a bit of a gunslinger mentality, but he throws more touchdowns than interceptions and he's constantly around 300 passing yards. That's a nice floor in this price range.
Also consider: DeQuan Finn, Toledo ($8,300); KJ Jefferson, Arkansas ($7,300); Thomas Castellanos, Boston College ($6,000); Chubba Purdy, Nebraska ($5,900)
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DraftKings CFB DFS Picks - Running Backs
Peny Boone, Toledo ($7,700)
This is your weekly reminder that Peny Boone has been doing this for a long time. DraftKings has adjusted his price accordingly. You should also adjust your lineup builds. Boone is kind of expensive, but he has scored five touchdowns in the last three games and rushed for 308 yards. He has a very high ceiling against a Central Michigan defense that has allowed 750 yards rushing and nine touchdowns on the ground in the last four games.
Jacory Croskey-Merritt, New Mexico ($6,000)
Those of us who played the late slates this season are very familiar with Croskey-Merritt and his DFS prowess. He has 55.7 DraftKings points in the last two games against Mountain West heavyweights Boise State and Fresno State. Now, he gets one of the worst defenses anywhere in the country in Utah State. JCM is my favorite play on the entire slate.
Gavin Sawchuk, Oklahoma ($5,500)
Sawchuk has three straight 100-yard games since taking the starting job for himself. Touchdown vulture Dillon Gabriel is still questionable for this game. If Gabriel is out, that considerably raises Sawchuk's ceiling. I like him regardless, but he reaches must-play status if his main competition for rushing touchdowns is on the sidelines.
Also consider: Blake Watson, Memphis ($7,300); Emani Bailey, TCU ($6,900); Sieh Bangura, Ohio ($6,500); Mekhi Hughes, Tulane ($5,900); Owen Burk, Air Force ($4,400)
DraftKings CFB DFS Picks - Wide Receivers
Luther Burden, Missouri ($7,600)
Burden is one of the most explosive players in college football this season. He is instant electricity with the ball in his hands. He is going to have room to run in this Arkansas secondary. Burden torched Florida for 158 yards on nine receptions last week. If he can add a touchdown or two to that output, he has slate-breaking potential.
Joshua Cephus, UTSA ($6,500)
A healthy Frank Harris has done wonders for Cephus. He has at least four receptions in every game this year and has at least six in all but two of those games. He's not the game-breaker that Zakhari Franklin was, nor does he have the blazing speed of De'Corian Clark. What Cephus does have is very good hands to move the ball down the field. It's not like he's slow either. He ripped off an 84-yard touchdown against East Carolina a couple of weeks ago. Cephus is another sure thing at receiver, especially with Frank Harris closing out his illustrious UTSA career in style.
Billy Kemp, Nebraska ($4,900)
Kemp hauled in eight passes in Chubba Purdy's first start, so he appears to be the QB's favorite receiver. Kemp isn't going to be able to rip off chunk plays against a defense like Iowa, but that's not really his game anyway. Kemp is a possession guy and could have a pretty big game as one of Purdy's safety valves (Thomas Fidone being the other).
Also consider: Xavier Restrepo, Miami (FL) ($6,600); Roc Taylor, Memphis ($6,300); Caleb Medford, New Mexico ($4,800); Dante Wright, Temple ($4,000)
DraftKings CFB Stacks
Memphis and Temple
I don't often do or recommend game stacks, but this is one place where I will. Both defenses have had issues this year. Henigan and Warner are both priced reasonably enough to get a couple of expensive Memphis pieces along with him. I'm leaning towards Watson and Roc Taylor, but a lower-owned Demeer Blankumsee has been just as good as Taylor of late.
David Martin-Robinson is the favorite target of Warner and he is just $4,500. If Amad Anderson is out again, a cheap Dante Wright allows you to use Taylor, Blankumsee, and Watson and still have $6,400 left for your last running back. This could be a winning formula.
Toledo
There are some really good players in the MAC. Many casual DFS players ignore those that they haven't watched play or go for the bigger names. That's not always the best strategy and that can be advantageous for us. Finn, Boone, and Jerjuan Newton are expensive, but if you stack them with the Temple side of the Memphis/Temple tilt, you raise the ceiling of your lineup a bit even if the floor is lower. You can leverage this even more by running back the Temple stack with Blake Watson.
Also consider: New Mexico, Missouri
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