Daily Fantasy NFL Week 1 – Early Look at Lineups for FanDuel and DraftKings

Daily Fantasy NFL Week 1 Early Look at Lineups for FanDuel and DraftKings Even though NFL (and NBA for that matter) are basically year-round businesses, using the off-season to fuel narratives, I’m still shocked we’re back here talking some DFS pigskin. FanDuel and DraftKings released their pricing last week and we’ve spent the better part of that gap starting to firm up our basic assumptions and numbers going into Week 1. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer, our NFL Optimizer, and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with NFL? Be sure to read our free MLB and NFL Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. While still still roughly 327:33:16 hours away (who's counting anyway?) from Week 1 Main Slate kickoff, it's never too early to start looking at lineups. FanDuel Week 1 DraftKings Week 1 Quarterbacks At quarterback we are looking at a couple of different options. Aaron Rodgers finished 2016 as the top overall fantasy points scorer by a pretty large margin. He’s basically he perfect combination high floor/ high ceiling QB in that he’s well above average in accuracy (66% completion percentage) and he can get out and run when the mood suits him. Rodgers finished third in QB rushing yards last season behind Tyrod Taylor and Colin Kaepernick with the latter two being light years behind him as a thrower. Rodgers is basically the complete fantasy package and his arsenal of weapons is basically unchanged from last season. Sure he faces as a Seattle D but Vegas isn’t seeing that as a huge issue with Green Bay coming in at the second highest implied total (26) on the week. Meanwhile, Marcus Mariota is coming off an injury-shortened 2016 campaign that ended with a broken leg Christmas weekend. He wasn't incredibly accurate last season (61% completion) but made up for some of it on the ground where he was 6th among quarterbacks in rushing yards. The game against Oakland looks like a potential shootout on paper (51.5 o/u OAK -1). You can see Mariota is only in 28% of top FanDuel lineups so the system isn't married to him but I don't mind the play in a vacuum. Running Backs For FanDuel, the running backs need no introduction with Le’Veon Bell and David Johnson coming into top lineups. It’ doesn’t take any kind of real #tout to throw out these names, but it is interesting that FanDuel’s pricing is such that both would show up this early in the game. That likely means, for our purposes, that these...