Daily Fantasy Football Cash Game Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings Week 1 - Main Slate Want access to the projections that power these picks? For a limited time, we're offering a free one-week trial to all the sports that we cover - that's optimal lineups for NFL and MLB - for the same low price. Get started now! START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! Quarterbacks Jalen Hurts FD 8000 DK 6800 Opponent DETProj Points FD - 23.92 DK - 24.78 The Eagles have the 4th-highest implied total on this main slate of games and the offense should be a pretty high-powered one this season. Hurts is coming in as a high-floor option seeing as how he now has an improved group of receiving weapons with the addition of AJ Brown and can take off running at any moment. Last season, Hurts was first among quarterbacks in rushing yards, putting up 784 yards on the ground in his 15 starts. The 61% completion percentage leaves some to be desired, but that should improve some this season. In terms of price, Hurts is coming as QB6 and QB5 on DraftKings and FanDuel respectively, putting him in a great place as a value play. Lamar Jackson FD 8500 DK 7300 Opponent NYJProj Points FD - 24.79 DK - 25.66 In terms of just pure safety on a week-to-week basis, it’s hard to beat Lamar Jackson over the last few years. Because he isn’t reliant on touchdown variance, and runs as much as really any quarterback ever has, the floor is just so high time in and time out. He didn’t have the same passing success as 2020, but the returns were still excellent when he could stay on the field last season. He was QB6 in DraftKings points per game and one has to think the 16:13 TD:INT rate is something of a blip even if he isn’t the most prolific passer. Running Backs It sure looks like we are going to be rostering one or maybe even two expensive running backs on this slate. There will be some value at WR to offset some of the pricing. Jonathan Taylor FD 10200 DK 9100 Opponent HOUProj Points FD - 21.4 DK - 22.77 You are paying through the nose, but it’s hard to find someone safer at the running back position. The Colts, with Matt Ryan no under center, are -8.5 road favorites against the Texans and it stands to reason they will lean on Taylor early and often. He was RB1 in fantasy last season despite not seeing a monster workload early in the year. But when he started taking all of the snaps, all of the points followed and he had...

Daily Fantasy Football Cash Game Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings Week 1 Football season is back! For now. Hopefully forever. With a lot of off season movement and no preseason this has to be the weirdest set of week 1 picks ever, so let's get to it. Want access to the projections that power these picks? For a limited time we're offering a free one week trial to all the sports that we cover - that's optimal lineups for NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB - for the same low price. Get started now! START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! Quarterbacks Russell Wilson FD 8400 DK 7000 Opponent ATLProj Points FD - 21.63 DK - 21.86Wilson comes out of the gate playing in the game with the second-highest total (49) on the road against the Atlanta Falcons. He’ll get dome conditions against the Falcons who ranked 21st in defensive DVOA against the pass in 2019. Wilson threw for the sixth-most yards in the NFL last season despite attempting about 100 or more fewer passes than anyone else in the group above him. His passing yards and passing touchdowns per attempt were easily the best in the league. He loses Doug Baldwin, and the Seahawks still love to run the ball, but Wilson is just so damn efficient, throwing only five interceptions last season while ranking sixth in quarterback rushing yards. It will cost you, but he’s about as safe as it comes. Teddy Bridgewater FD 6800 DK 5900 Opponent LVProj Points FD - 18.59 DK - 19.25Bridgewater will take over behind center for the Panthers this season after Cam Newton and Kyle Allen have departed the team. Bridgewater walks into an advantageous situation with the best pass-catching running back in McCaffery along with a full complement of wide receiver weapons in DJ Moore, Curtis Samuel, and the newly-acquired Robby Anderson. Bridgewater started five games for the Saints last season in place of an injured Drew Brees and was effective, completing almost 70% of his passes with a 9:2 TD:INT rate. Sure, he has Michael Thomas and Alvin Kamara there as well, but the accuracy has never been an issue even back to his time in Minnesota. This game has the fourth-highest total of the main slate with the Panthers 3-point home dogs to the Raiders. I love the price on Bridgewater here in what should be a close game. Carson Wentz FD 7700 DK 6300 Opponent WASProj Points FD - 19.59 DK - 20.02 Wentz has to be one of the most slept on quarterbacks in the NFL. No, he hasn't turned into a Russell Wilson/Lamar Jackson/Deshaun Watson type, but he's still awfully good. In his last five games last season...

Daily Fantasy Football Running Back GPP Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings Week 1 - 9/10/17 We already covered David Johnson, Le’Veon Bell, Todd Gurley and Carlos Hyde in our Week 1 picks for FanDuel and DraftKings. Those are more cash game suitable and likely represent much of the chalk we'll see in the first week of the NFL. These plays are more off beat and mean taking more risk in your life. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NFL optimizer for FanDuel and DraftKings, our MLB 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. Melvin Gordon FD 7400 DK 6600 Opponent DEN Proj Points FD - 15.23 DK - 16.65 Despite missing three games to end the season, Gordon still finished 2016 as a top 10 overall fantasy running back thanks to close to 20 carries and 4.5 targets per game. Only David Johnson, Le’Veon Bell and Ezekiel Elliott saw more per game volume than Gordon and he comes into 2017 with a clean bill of health and his role in the offense solidified. Denver was a top defense last season, but it’s worth noting they were significantly worse against the run than the pass. In fact, Denver ranked 28th in league allowing an average of 130 yards per game on the ground. He’s not available on the main slate, but I really like Gordon as a GPP play for the full week’s slate and definitely looking ahead the shorter Monday set of games. Dalvin Cook FD 6500 DK 5900 Opponent NO Proj Points FD - 12.69 DK - 14.62 Rookie running backs are one of the hardest positions to prognosticate on early in the season. Coach-speak and preseason usage are rarely fantastic ways to decipher what a rookie’s workload will look like once the games actually start in earnest. Cook enters the season as the Vikings’ starting running back though a healthy Latavius Murray waiting in the wings does have me a little concerned about how many touches Cook sees early in the season. The Vikings are -3.5 favorites over New Orleans who ranked dead last in non-weighted DVOA last season though it should be said they were better defending the run than the pass. But, they weren’t good against either. The Vikings ranked near the bottom of the league in rushing attempts last season (24 runs per game average) though that could be a chicken/ egg thing considering the bodies they...