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Week 6 DraftKings Pricing First Glance


Oooohhhhh, whammmmmy.

That's about the only way to sum up Week 5. It was a freaking scoring frenzy.

Six players topped the 40-point mark in DraftKings scoring and the high-scoring chalk game of the week hit 85 points. And it didn't involve the Chiefs. #Shocker.

Let's take a minute to channel our inner Alex Trebek, "and let's take a look at the scores."

Not 1. Not 2. But 3.


Yes. Three players put up 50-burgers.

  • Will Fuller, 56.7
  • Aaron Jones, 52.2
  • Christian McCaffrey, 50.7
The other three to go over 40 were:
  • Deshaun Watson, 44.74
  • Michael Thomas, 44.2
  • Amari Cooper, 42.6
If you didn't have a lineup with at least two or three of these guys, you were doomed from the start. However, with Thomas' price at $6,600, Aaron Jones' at $5,900 and Will Fuller's at $4,500, it wasn't unfathomable to run into lineups that had four or five of these guys. 

That, kids, is what they call the buzzsaw. 

It's a progressive column here at For Fantasy Sake, so there's no need to dwell on the middling tournament lineups this writer constructed -- but managed to have a break-even week somehow. 



What's Week 6 look like? 

QB

High-End Plays

Patrick Mahomes $7,500 (vs. Houston)
Kyler Murray $6,500 (vs. Atlanta)
Matt Ryan $6,400 (at Arizona)

Value Plays

Kirk Cousins $5,200 (vs. Philadelphia)
Colt McCoy $4,800 (at Miami)

RB

High-End Plays

Alvin Kamara $8,000 (at Jacksonville)
David Johnson $7,600 (at Arizona)

Value Plays

Mark Ingram $6,600 (vs. Cincinnati)
Le'Veon Bell $6,400 (vs. Dallas)
Damien Williams $5,700 (vs. Houston)
Joe Mixon $5,500 (at Baltimore)

WR

High-End Plays

Julio Jones $8,000 (at Arizona)
DeAndre Hopkins $7,400 (at Kansas City)

Value Plays

Odell Beckham Jr. $6,800 (vs. Seattle)
Dede Westbrook $5,100 (vs. New Orleans)
Mohamed Sanu $4,500 (at Arizona)

TE

High-End Plays

George Kittle $5,200 (at LA Rams)
Austin Hooper $5,000 (at Arizona)

Value Plays

Chris Herndon $3,500 (vs. Dallas)
Ricky Seals-Jones $3,300 (vs. Seattle)

-- By Nathan Joyce

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