DraftKings NFL picks, Week 7: Best DFS fantasy football values
By Drew DeLuca
We reach deep into our bag of tricks to find the sweetest treats for your Week 7 NFL DraftKings lineups.
Every week, we analyze the DraftKings main slate (Sunday 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. ET games) and highlight the best available DFS fantasy football values at every position.
The Indianapolis Colts, Miami Dolphins, Baltimore Ravens and Minnesota Vikings are on bye in Week 7, but the inclusion of the recently moved primetime matchup between the Arizona Cardinals and Seattle Seahawks on this week’s main slate adds a number of great players to the table.
This week, we highlight values at different price points at every position in order to help NFL DFS fanatics craft the best possible lineups on DraftKings. We begin with quarterbacks.
DraftKings best Week 7 values: Quarterbacks
With Lamar Jackson on bye, and Josh Allen facing a game script that will likely limit his ceiling, two usual go-to’s are crossed off our list from the jump. Russell Wilson (SEA at ARI, $8,000), the highest-priced option on the slate, faces an Arizona Cardinals defense that ranks 25th in fantasy points per game allowed to quarterbacks over the last five weeks; only a handful of teams have done a better job of shutting down opposing passing games in recent weeks.
Meanwhile, Patrick Mahomes (KC at DEN, $7,100) is set to play in a snowstorm that will dump 5-10 inches of white stuff on the Denver area. We’ll let others pay up for Wilson and Mahomes and dial up Kyler Murray (ARI vs. SEA, $7,000) instead; only the Atlanta Falcons have been more generous to opposing quarterbacks in terms of fantasy points allowed per game over the last five weeks.
From the mid-range price tier, we like Matthew Stafford (DET at ATL, $6,500) against said Falcons. Matt Ryan (ATL vs. DET, $6,700) is likewise a solid bet in what should be a high-scoring affair, but he costs a bit more.
In the bargain bin, we find Baker Mayfield (CLE at CIN, $5,600) and Joe Burrow (CIN vs. CLE, $5,500), who likewise face one another in a contest in which the football should fly down the field early and often. We like both at their price points, as well as Gardner Minshew (JAX at LAC, $5,900), who sprung to life in the second half of last week’s game.
Minshew should benefit from the improving health of go-to wide receiver D.J. Chark against a Los Angeles Chargers defense that has coughed up 29.3 fantasy points per game over the last five weeks, third-worst in the league.
We also boldly advocate taking a risk on Kyle Allen (WAS vs. DAL, $5,200), who pairs nicely with wide receiver Terry McLaurin (WAS vs. DAL, $5,800) in GPP formats: Allen draws the much-maligned Dallas Cowboys secondary at a price point on DraftKings that allows DFS players to stuff their lineups full of studs at other positions.