Week 3 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 3, 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 3 Worksheet for a detailed breakdown of the players and games.

Cowboys at Bears

This is likely to be the most popular game on the slate, given the way both defenses have performed so far this season.

There is a reason this game has the highest game total on the slate (50 points).

The Cowboys have a 53.3% success rate on defense, 29th in the league.

The Bears have a 51.8% success rate on defense, 30th in the league.

You can build around this game in so many directions that you can just about fill an entire lineup around this game alone.

Dak Prescott can be paired with any combination of CeeDee Lamb, George Pickens, and Jake Ferguson.

Javonte Williams can go along for the ride if you are building out from the Chicago side.

Caleb Williams has clear stacking partners in Rome Odunze and D.J. Moore.

Raiders at Commanders