Each week, we’ll be reviewing some of the content in DFS Pass and discussing some of our most confident plays heading into Sunday. A lot can change over the weekend, especially with injury news (see Betz’s Injury Blitz podcast) and roster percentages shifting as to who’s in and out for roster lock time. Let’s take a look.

• Fixed cash games
• CORE games
• Game Stacks We Love
• Full-On Fades of the Week
• Favorite Leverage Games
• Favorite Darts Throws
• The most daring calls of the week

Week 1 Main Slate Podcast

Fixed cash games

bail – The price tag may seem intimidating, but this is a cheaper price tag for Tyreek Hill than we’re used to paying. He’s historically crushed in Week 1, and in a game that’s approaching 50, I’m willing to build in ceiling results even in money. His receiving line (98.5) is ridiculously high, unless you consider what he’s done in his career:

• 2016: 14% snaps, 1 touch… but scores a TD.
• 2017: 7/133/1
• 2018: 7/169/2
• 2019: 18% recover, get injured
• 2020: 5/46/1
• 2021: 11/197/1
• 2022: 8/94/0
• 2023: 11/215/2

Ignore the price because you know the QB position and the $6,000 RBs have value, allowing you to accept his tag.

Betz – Yoshi szn! Andrei Iosivas was already on our radar as a pure point play ($3,000) before we got the Tee Higgins news. Higgins is questionable (hamstring) while Ja’Marr Chase’s (contract) status is up in the air. Either way, there’s a path for Yoshi to play a role that’s always good alongside Joe Burrow. Cashing him in unlocks the rest of your lineup.

DraftKings Core Games

These are the 3-5 players at each position that we have mixed into our cash player pool. Based on salaries, late news, and budget constraints, it is guaranteed that you will not be able to fit them all. However, their high floors and team-implied totals make them great plays for the week in both cash and GPPs.

These are simply in order of favorite core players. You can’t fit them all into a cash lineup, and there are salary tradeoffs for paying each position.

It’s really close for us between Anthony Richardson, who led all QBs in fantasy points per drop last year, and Kyler Murray, who’s averaging over 20 fantasy points per game in his healthy starts over the course of his career. Both of those guys can run and have great weapons in game environments that we like.

NOTE – Russell Wilson is listed as questionable due to a calf injury. If he is ruled out, Justin Fields ($5,000) becomes our top cash game QB on the list.