Week 7 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 7 Worksheet for a detailed breakdown of the players and games.

Quarterback

Dak Prescott ($8,300/$6,500)

This is a tight quarterback week.

I will have some one-offs in the game stacks piece, but I am primarily running a four-player pool at the position.

Dak is off to an incredible start this season.

He has logged three straight weeks as a top-six scorer and has been the QB6 or better in four of his past five games.

Prescott has thrown at least three passing touchdowns in each of the past three weeks.

Washington has been bleeding out big plays in the passing game.

The Commanders are allowing 8.2 yards per pass attempt (30th) and a league-high 13.0 yards per completion.

They are allowing 15.8 passing points per game (24th) and gave up the highest-scoring weeks to Geno Smith (26.1 points) and Michael Penix (18.7 points) this season.

Jalen Hurts ($8,400/$6,700)

This slate is going to be played heavily through Patrick Mahomes and the quarterbacks in the Dallas/Washington game.

That sets up Hurts as a perfect tournament play, and one that does not necessarily even need to be stacked.

For as uneven as things have been for the Philly offense, Hurts has remained a consistent fantasy scorer.

He has been a QB1 scorer in five of six games this season, and he is the QB5 in fantasy points per game (20.5).

The Eagles threw the ball 5% over expectations in Week 6 (12% over expectations on first downs) after throwing the ball 19% over expectations in Week 5 (24% over expectations on first downs).

If this offense ever finds its footing with these types of pass rates, Hurts has an extra gear to push for fantasy.

This is a tougher spot for the Eagles to find answers, but the first half of the Broncos game did showcase that this passing game can still beat the best in the league.

Hurts was QB12 (19.5 points) against Denver, which feels like a reasonable expectation for this matchup, while Hurts has added upside via his legs since he did not run in that Denver game (3 yards).

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