Week 6 DFS Picks: Tournament Plays

Every week, I will go through the players I am targeting to play in DFS for all games, tournaments, and game stacks.

The idea is that this will paint a clearer picture of framing lineups.

It is not that tournament players cannot be used in cash games.

If a player here works out for your team structure in cash games surrounding your primary core, use them.

These are just the players that come with some element of inherent risk, but they also are the primary players I still want to be ahead of the field on, compared to the percentage of rosters they are projected to make this weekend.

I will analyze the player selections and game writeups, but please refer to the Week 6 Worksheet for a detailed breakdown of the players and games.

Quarterback

Jordan Love ($8,300/$6,200)

Love is coming out of the bye with multiple passing touchdowns in three of his opening four games.

Love is averaging 8.3 yards per pass attempt (4th) with a 6.6% touchdown rate (6th).

That is while being pressured on 41% of his dropbacks (sixth highest).

When Love has been kept clean, he leads the NFL with an 87.2% completion rate and 10.7 yards per pass attempt, while his 10.3% touchdown rate ranks third.

That is relevant here because the Packers are also getting back both Aaron Banks and Zach Tom up front.

Tom has played just 31 snaps so far, while Banks has played 73.

To double down on Love’s stats from a clean pocket, the Bengals are 27th in pressure rate (29.5%) with a 5.3% sack rate (20th).

When the Bengals have not gotten pressure on the quarterback, they have allowed 7.7 yards per pass attempt (24th) and a 6.8% touchdown rate (23rd).

The primary concern here is that the Bengals do not provide enough push, allowing the Packers to grind out the game on the ground.

Sam Darnold ($7,400/$5,400)

Darnold stayed hot on Sunday, setting season highs in completions (28), attempts (34), passing yards (341), and touchdowns (4).

He now leads the NFL with 9.3 Y/A.

That rate climbs to 13.3 Y/A when using play action.

Darnold is averaging a league-high 19.1 yards per completion using play action.

The Jaguars have been more vulnerable to the play action pass.

They are allowing 8.3 Y/A (20th) and a 72.1% completion rate (22nd) on play action passes compared to a 59.1% completion rate (4th) and 6.1 yards per attempt (8th) on non-play action passes.

It was good to see Seattle pushed to throw, something that should hold up here with them as road underdogs.

Running Back