Week 2 DFS Picks: Best Game and Team Stacks

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.

One of my favorite ways to play DFS from a tournament standpoint is small-field, single-entry to five-max games with fields of 5K or smaller.

Both sites even offer these types of games with fewer than 100 entries (albeit at a higher cost of entry) if you want to go after a really small field.

In these contests, my approach is to go with full-game stacks.

You will likely lose a lot of weeks, but if you get the game right, you will gain a significant advantage.

Just cashing in on one of these over an 18-week season can make your entire year.

When doing these, I want to aggressively build around games that have a wider range of outcomes.

Still, with the reduced number of entries, you can also eat some chalky game stacks because we are going further in the overall game stack than our opponents likely will.

This is the spot where you will find some missing names from the core and tournament play sections.

Just because a player is not mentioned in those two pieces does not mean I will have zero exposure to them.

These are the games I am circling for those tournaments in Week 2, but you can also tie these games into your stacks for other tournaments.

I will analyze the player selections and game writeups, but please refer to the Week 2 Worksheet for a detailed breakdown of the players and games.

Jaguars at Bengals

The highest game total on the slate (49 points) will draw interest.

The Bengals were once again flat in Week 1.

The Jaguars started with a strong first half against Carolina and were dormant in the second half.

Ja’Marr Chase is one of my favorite players in Week 2.

If you plan to build a Joe Burrow double stack with him and Tee Higgins, it will cost you 40.7% of the cap on FanDuel and 41.6% on DraftKings.

In the event of that popping, you are going to need significant push on the Jacksonville side.

I like Brian Thomas to bounce back, but adding Thomas to that double is a significant salary allocation.

We do have some discounted pieces on the board this week, but nothing like we had in Week 1.

Players like Brenton Strange and Travis Hunter will need to be a part of the Jacksonville push to make full Cincinnati stacks work.

Playing through the Jacksonville side is a bit easier, and they will likely be pushed to chase points as road underdogs.

Playing this game through Trevor Lawrence, Thomas, and one of Hunter or Strange in doubles with Chase is my preferred angle.

Both Chase Brown and Travis Etienne work in as correlated plays attached to the opposing passing game you are playing.

Patriots at Dolphins

The ugly duckling special for Week 2.