Cracking FanDuel Week 2

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Sunday Morning Update

Small Sunday Update this week. This is made on a gut feel more than anything as I have both Rhamondre Stevenson and James Conner projected to score within 0.1 of each other. I'm switching from Stevenson to Conner. The reasoning for this is that the Cardinals are somehow favored in this game, and one of the highest-projected scoring teams on this slate. As a tiebreaker give me the better offense. What I have realized is that I was taking Stevenson to fill out the salary cap more than the actual player.  

This also allows me to go up from Malik Nabers to Rashee Rice, who feels slightly safer and goes in line with trusting the better offense.

• QB Jayden Daniels- WAS $7,900
• RB Breece Hall, NYJ, $8,500
• RB Jordan Mason, SF, $5,500
• WR Cooper Kupp, LAR, $7,700
• WR Rashee Rice, KC, $6,900
• WR Deebo Samuel Sr., SF, $7,300
• TE Trey McBride, ARI, $6,200
• Flex RB James Conner, ARI, $6,500
• TD Denver, $3,400

SITUATIONS THAT STAND OUT TO THIS WEEK ON THE MAIN SLATE.

• Detroit (vs TB) - 29.0 Points
• Kansas City (vs CIN) - 27.0 Points
• Baltimore (vs LV) - 25.5 Points
• Arizona (vs LAR) - 25.25 Points
• San Francisco (at Min) - 25.0 Points

Injuries Create Opportunity:

Puka Nacua will miss this week as he has been placed on IR with a knee injury. This is a week where Cooper Kupp should be 100% rostered as he had 21 targets last week.

Ken Walker III will miss this week with an oblique injury. While Zach Charbonnet has yet to find consistent success in the NFL, for just $6,300 is a tremendous value for the second-year player. The issue for Charbonnet is that he has yet to have that breakout performance, and could be facing a difficult New England defense that completely shut down Cincinnati’s rushing game last week.

Christian McCaffrey will once again miss this week. At just $5,500 Jordan Mason is a must-start this week after running for 147 yards last week. Deebo Samuel Sr. is also an intriguing play as he had 9 targets and 8 carries with McCaffrey out. At just $7,300, Samuel is more than a fair price.

Jake Ferguson will miss this week with a knee injury. Without their number two receiver last season, the Cowboys will likely look heavily towards CeeDee Lamb as the only other receiver for Dallas who caught more than two passes was Brandin Cooks last week.

Marquise Brown’s season appears to be over. The receiver was placed on IR this week and is having shoulder surgery. This should narrow the targets in Kansas City to Travis Kelce, Rashee Rice, and Xavier Worthy. Kelce and Rice are both in cash game consideration, while Worthy is still a GPP play, given his upside due to his speed but likely will have week-to-week volatility.

Cash Game Strategy- Week 2 Be Careful

This week is about as easy of a week to build a lineup in a long time. The reason for this is that there is value all over the board that makes this a star and scrub type lineup build. Most weeks, the optimal lineups are in the 120-125 range. This week, you can easily build a lineup that is projected to score more than 140 and get close to 145 based on Footballguys projections.