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DraftKings NFL DFS: Week 6 Price Analysis & Picks

Jon Anderson looks into the NFL DFS projections for week five to pick out some spots to attack and mispriced players for your DraftKings DFS lineups.

Hey, RotoBallers! It's Jon Anderson back for another "primer" for the Sunday NFL slate. I have had a good amount of fun looking back at this post on Saturday/Sunday to see how many of the plays the projections point out early in the week actually make it into a reasonable "tight player pool" for Sunday's slate. It has been okay, but I will admit it's been far from great.

The point of this article is not really to give you picks but to set the stage for the week and pick out those obviously mispriced players, as this is the best thing projections can do for us. I don't think it's profitable to build a lineup based on these picks, and certainly not this early in the week. You should be focusing heavily on game environments and correlations when building lineups, and this post doesn't really give you that. It's just a table-setter to look at the slate from a high level and pick out these mid-priced players. I hope it is helping, and I will continue to make it stronger as we move forward.

We are looking at the DraftKings NFL DFS main slate on Sunday, October 16th. Here we go!

Be sure to check all of our fantasy football rankings for 2025:

 

Game Environments

Top over/unders on the main slate:

  • KC vs. BUF: 54 points
  • SEA vs. ARI: 51 points

Those are the only two games above 50, and the third-highest (NYJ vs. GB) is down at 46. Those two games stand out like a sore thumb, which makes this slate pretty darn tough since so much of the ownership is certain to be concentrated on those two games.

 

Top team implied points totals:

  • BUF: 28.5
  • ARI: 27.0
  • GB: 26.5
  • LAR: 26.0
  • TB: 25.8
  • KC: 25.5
  • LAC: 25.3

 

There won't be too many weekends for the rest of the season where the Bills don't lead the way in projected points scored. This week, they get that special matchup where they play an offense that can keep pace. We will almost surely see a full game of Josh Allen, and that is highly likely to be an insanely fun game to watch, and certainly one we can't get away from in DFS outside of GPPs where ownership matters so much (and even so, I don't think you want to fade Bills vs. Chiefs just because it will be highly owned, but again - I'm no expert here!)

 

DraftKings NFL DFS Quarterbacks

Top Raw Projections

Player Salary Opponent Projection
Josh Allen $8,200 KC 27.4
Lamar Jackson $8,100 NYG 24.4
Patrick Mahomes $8,000 BUF 23.9
Tom Brady $6,300 PIT 23.1
Kyler Murray $7,300 SEA 19.8

 

Top Values

Player Salary Opponent Projection
Teddy Bridgewater $5,500 MIN 19.0
Trevor Lawrence $5,600 IND 18.8
Tom Brady $6,300 PIT 21.2
Josh Allen $8,200 KC 27.3
Andy Dalton $5.200 CIN 17.3

 

One thing projections don't accurately capture is ceiling, and ceiling matters so much in NFL DFS. I can't really imagine building a cash lineup this week without one of Mahomes or Allen in it, because those two are just so, so likely to go for 40+ points in this spot, which makes for essentially a "have to have it" score. Now, of course, life and sports are random and weird things can happen - but to me playing someone like Bridgewater or Lawrence is just foolish here even with the price tags. The one I could see going for is Brady because the Steelers' defense is so easy to beat and the Bucs have that way about them where they'll be perfectly fine throwing the ball a ton even while up three touchdowns. But yeah, I'm guessing I end up on Josh Allen here.

 

 

DraftKings NFL DFS Running Backs

Top Raw Projections

Player Salary Opponent Projection
Leonard Fournette $7,400 PIT 19.8
Dalvin Cook $7,500 MIA 18.6
Christian McCaffrey $8,300 LAR 16.5
Joe Mixon $6,900 NO 18.3
Alvin Kamara $6,700 CIN 17.7

 

 Top Values

Player Salary Opponent Projection
Kenneth Walker $5,400 ARI 15.3
Leonard Fournette $7,400 PIT 19.8
Joe Mixon $6,900 NO 18.3
Alvin Kamara $6,700 CIN 17.7
AJ Dillon $5,600 NYJ 14.2

 

Kenneth Walker is another one of these "don't overthink it" plays. He is a super-talented running back coming into the starting role after Rashaad Penny's unfortunate injury. So far, the Cardinals haven't exactly been bleeding points to opposing running backs:

Week 1 (KC): 42.5 points
Week 2 (OAK): 12.6 points
Week 3 (LAR): 11.8 points
Week 4 (CAR): 26.0 points
Week 5 (PHI): 8.4 points

Really only two big weeks there, one powered by the Chiefs offense and one by a guy nicknamed CMC. There is also the problem that DeeJay Dallas seems to be the Seahawks' pass-catching back, and Walker did not run a route on 48 snaps last week. That leaves his ceiling a bit lower, but we have all of this working for us:

That's the only reason I can find to think about not playing Walker, and here are some reasons to play him

  • He's [allegedly] very good
  • Second-highest game total of the week
  • The Seahawks defense is awful (related to the second bullet point) and that keeps the pace of the game high
  • Walker is under-priced because he's been a backup all year

Maybe the low floor because of the [potential] lack of pass-catching is a reason for the fade in tournaments, but I think he's a guy you have to play in cash.

That's a lot of words on just one guy! Leonard Fournette might be the top play on the board as a guy with a locked-in role that includes getting tons of high-value targets from Tom Brady against a defense that is unlikely to do much to stop this offense. The other name that is interesting but doesn't appear above is Devin Singletary, who has seen strong usage for the Bills in "big games" this year (13 rushes, nine catches against the Dolphins, 11 carries and four catches against the Ravens). He seems to be the one they want on the field a ton in the close games and the big games, and this certainly qualifies.

The other two to note are Alvin Kamara and Joe Mixon, who both have top-five RB usage in the league and still aren't priced like it. It's true that you can poke holes in their games (inefficient offenses around Kamara, lack of per-touch production this year for Mixon), but those two project very well at the current price.

 

DraftKings NFL DFS Wide Receivers

Top Raw Projections

Player Salary Opponent Projection
Cooper Kupp $9,700 CAR 24.5
Stefon Diggs $8,400 KC 20.8
Tyreek Hill $7,500 MIN 20.3
Justin Jefferson $8,900 MIA 20.2
Deebo Samuel $7,600 ATL 19.4

 

 Top Values

Player Salary Opponent Projection
Christian Kirk $5,800 IND 17.4
Chris Olave $5,500 CIN 16.0
Drake London $5,400 SF 15.3
Tyreek Hill $7,500 MIN 20.5
Chris Godwin $6,100 PIT 16.4

 

The Cooper Kupp thing just keeps being ridiculous. The Rams aren't even really scoring points and he's still just smashing every week. The plays of the week seem to come, once again, from his $5,500-$6,000 range. This was the story last week, and it looks to be again as Kirk, London, Olave, and Godwin have great floor/ceiling combinations for what they're priced. They fit in nicely to any lineup you build and jamming two or three of them in does indeed help you get to Allen/Mahomes.

Allen + Diggs is pretty attractive, of course, but that is a lot of money to spend on two players. We will probably need some serious value to open up in order to get to that stack.

 

DraftKings NFL DFS Tight Ends

Top Raw Projections

Player Salary Opponent Projection
Mark Andrews $7,000 NYG 20.0
Travis Kelce $7,800 BUF 18.9
Tyler Higbee $4,600 CAR 13.4
Zach Ertz $4,900 SEA 11.3
Pat Freiermuth $3,800 TB 9.6

 

 Top Values

Player Salary Opponent Projection
Tyler Higbee $4,600 CAR 13.4
Mark Andrews $7,000 NYG 20.0
Dalton Schultz $3,300 PHI 8.6
Pat Freiermuth $3,800 TB 9.6
Juwan Johnson $2,800 CIN 6.9

 

Andrews and Kelce are so far away from the rest of the league right now it's just silliness. That makes them very appealing to play since you get so much more of that position than people who don't play them. HOWEVER, they also do have lower floors than the other high-priced studs like Diggs and Kupp.

It's a really interesting slate, with tons of high-priced options. I really don't think you can play a Josh Allen + Stefon Diggs + Travis Kelce, just for an example, due to price restrictions - so it's going to take some serious thought and research (and luck!) to settle in on a winning lineup. Tons of fun ahead though, thanks for starting your week here with me!

That's all I've got to offer here, hope this helps start off your week's research - I wish you all the best!

 



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