DraftKings NFL picks, Week 15: Best bargains in DFS play
By Drew DeLuca
Wide Recievers
Chris Godwin (TB at DET, $7,700): Combine his high price with the recency bias of a bad week, and his ownership should be relatively low this week. With Mike Evans effectively done for the season, the Delaware-bred Penn State product should see target volume shoot through the roof against a soft opponent this weekend.
Kenny Golladay (DET vs. TB, $7,200): Death, taxes and good fantasy players who face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers: these are the three sure things in life. David Blough has managed to find Golladay for big plays against tougher opponents; with Marvin Jones, Jr. heading to the IR, there’s no reason Golladay can’t exploit a defense that has allowed more fantasy points to wide receivers than any other.
Tyler Lockett (SEA at CAR, $6,900): Lockett has gone ice-cold after a red-hot start to the season. However, he finds himself in a great bounce-back spot against a Carolina Panthers defense that just coughed up 29 points to the Washington Redskins and 40 to the Atlanta Falcons in back-to-back weeks.
Jarvis Landry (CLE at ARI, $6,700): I take back all of the things I said about Landry and Odell Beckham Jr. at the start of the season. I couldn’t have been more wrong about either player. Start Landry with confidence; any possession receiver worth a damn makes a worthwhile start against a team that ranks among the league’s worst in time of possession allowed.
Emmanuel Sanders (SF vs. ATL, $6,600) will see a spike in ownership after posting a 7-157-1 stat line in his Week 14 showing. That eye-raising performance should draw enough attention to open the door for teammate Deebo Samuel (SF vs. ATL, $5,800) to post big numbers; Samuel has been impressive in his own right of late and offers more bang for the buck.
Cooper Kupp (LAR at DAL, $6,500): Kupp garnered only 10 targets the past two weeks combined, but caught every single one of them while getting two red zone looks last week. Still, Robert Woods (LAR at DAL, $6,200) remains a better value, as he continues to outproduce Kupp in PPR formats.
Keenan Allen (LAC vs. MIN, $6,300): After missing time earlier this year due to injury, Allen’s level of production has traced an upward arc, and that pattern should continue in Week 15. While Xavier Rhodes offers what looked like a great matchup on paper at the start of the season, the Minnesota Vikings‘ star cornerback has been pedestrian at best this year.
A.J. Brown (TEN vs. HOU, $6,000): After destroying the Raiders in Week 14, Brown has caught 12 of his last 16 targets from Ryan Tannehill, proof positive that indelible bonds are forming between the two. Brown is clearly the alpha and is delivering the kind production most thought Corey Davis would offer at this point in his career.
There are no shortage of cheap sources of value at the wide receiver position this week, starting with Darius Slayton (NYG vs. MIA, $4,700), who averaged almost 10 targets per game over the past four weeks and showed no signs of slowing down on Monday night against the Eagles. Slayton hauled in five passes for 154 yards and two touchdowns and should continue to feast on a suspect Dolphins defense in Week 15.
Dede Westbrook (JAX at OAK, $4,600) is averaging eight targets over his last three contests, and that volume should increase with DJ Chark on the shelf. A juicy matchup awaits against a Raiders pass defense that ranks among the league’s worst.
Mike Williams (LAC vs. MIN, $4,600): leads the league among qualifying receivers in yards per reception with a 21.0 mark. Averaging 11.4 fantasy points per game despite scoring his first touchdown of the season last week. After crossing the stripe 10 times the year before, expect the ginormous Clemson product to continue finding paydirt on big plays down the stretch.
Further down the list, Breshad Perriman (TB at DET, $4,500) fills the void left by Mike Evans, while Danny Amendola (DET vs. TB, $4,100): sneaks back into our bargain bin watch list. Amendola has seen eight or more targets five times this season, including three of his last five games; he should benefit from the loss of Marvin Jones, who was placed on injured reserve earlier in the week.
Alex Erickson (CIN vs. NE, $3,500) is in line for extra work with Auden Tate heading to the IR and should see plenty of garbage time work out of the slot, at the very least. Finally, JJ Arcega-Whiteside (PHI at WAS, $3,300) and Greg Ward (PHI at WAS, $3,000) are in line for their biggest roles of the season and could pull their weight in “studs and scrubs” lineups this weekend.