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Showdown Captain mode is a DraftKings tournament where you have $50,000 to create a lineup using 6 players from a standalone single game. One of those players will be your captain. The captain costs 1.5 times their salary and will accumulate 1.5 times the points. As with every slate, GAME THEORY IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. Even more so in Showdown, you want your lineup to tell a story of how the game will go. There are a lot of options based on how you see the game going but ALWAYS make sure there’s correlation between your players.
Eagles @ Texans
Spread: PHI -14
Over/Under: 45
Injuries to Monitor
Brandin Cooks is dealing with a wrist injury but was able to play last week. He did however miss practice and is dealing with a “personal issue”. So it’s worth keeping an eye on.
Nico Collins has a groin injury and has been ruled out.
Overview
The undefeated Eagles head to Houston to face the Texans. While this game doesn’t look great on paper, it is very interesting in terms of a one game slate. The Texans are by far the worst against the run allowing a league high 186 rush yards per game. They’re middle of the pack against the pass. The Eagles are top 3 against the pass and middle of the pack in rushing yards per game allowed.
Coming off of the monster game, I expect AJ Brown to be popular but I won’t be using him at captain. I love that the Eagles defense has been priced up and will absolutely have a lineup with them and all three Philly RBs. I will not being playing the Texans defense in any contest. Honestly I won’t be playing many Texans period. I’ll have a few Philly onslaught lineups with Mills or Pierce as the only Texan in the lineup. I will play a couple with multiple Texans to hedge in case they get there in garbage time.
Captain/Flex
Jalen Hurts $17,700/$11,800
Hurts showed the upside in the passing game last week. Clearly one of the best rushing QBs and he gets the worst rush defense in football. I’m worried Philly rolls and Hurts is barely needed in the 2nd half but we’ve seen that a few times this season and Hurts has still gotten there.
Miles Sanders $15,600/$10,400
Last week was the first week Sanders didn’t have double digit carries. It was mainly due to how efficient Hurts and Brown were through the air. He averaged 17.5 carries per game in his previous six games. He’ll see double digit carries against the worst rushing defense.
Devonta Smith $12,300/$8,200
Smith has at least five receptions in all but one of his games and has a 25% target share. He’s averaging 60 yards per game. We saw a blowup game from him in week 3 and I’m willing to take the shot on him being lower owned as a captain.
The Rest
Dameon Pierce $12,900/$8,600
Pierce is practically the Texans entire offense. He’s averaged 20 touches a week despite not being the guy in week 1. He’s scored a TD in four of his last five games and has the 3rd most broken tackles this season. The Eagles have been great on defense but have allowed over five yards per carry.
AJ Brown $11,200
Brown showed off his upside last week. He has the rare combo of a great target share and huge play upside. Brown has a 31% target share and averages a ridiculous 16.9 yards per reception. Houston allows the 2nd most yards per reception to WRs.
Davis Mills $9,000
I’m not going to make a statistical case for Mills because there really isn’t one. Instead I’ll point out that you are required to play at least one player from each team and QBs tend to be the higher scoring players.
Brandin Cooks $7,200
Cooks has publicly stated his frustration with the team and hasn’t been practicing so there should be concerns. I will be severely underweight on him. With that being said he is the clear number one on the team which makes it impossible to fully fade him.
PHI Def $7,000
Philly has allowed the 4th least points per game. They’ve allowed the least points to QBs this season. They have the 2nd most interceptions and have averaged 3.3 sacks per game. They’re 14 point favorites and the Texans only have 15.5 implied team total.
Dallas Goedert $6,600
Goedert has at least six targets in each of his last four games. He has at least five receptions in more than half of his games. He also has a healthy 13.2 yards per reception.
Chris Moore $5,400
Moore scored a TD in week 7 but did not play last week. If Cooks doesn’t play or is limited he will have a larger role but if not I’d rather play the cheaper TEs who have similar upside.
Kenneth Gainwell $5,000
Gainwell has not been involved and ceded carries to Scott in garbage time last week. He still will see some carries against a pitiful Houston defense and is worth a sprinkle in lineups.
Rex Burkhead $4,600
Burkhead has been an afterthought in this offense. If the Titans get down he will see some passing game work. He did have five receptions two weeks ago.
Phillip Dorsett $4,000
Dorsett played 83% of snaps last week and had a season high five targets. He’s the safest among Texans WRs other than Cooks.
Boston Scott $1,800
Scott’s snap share has plummeted as the season has progressed but he did play 25% of snaps last week. He had a season high seven carries. I see him getting a shot at a TD late when this game gets out of control.
Zach Pascal $2,800
After barely being involved, Pascal had a season high 57 yards and his first TD last week. He’s a cheap piece that will be involved even if this game gets out of control.
Quez Watkins $1,400
Quez has played around 60% of snaps in eachbof hisblast four games but has only recorded four catches for 19 yards. He does have an average depthbof target of 16 yards so a deep catch is a possibility.
Both guys are just cheap flyers but I slightly prefer Quez of the two due to the bigger play upside especially considering the Eagles won’t be forced to pass too much in this game. A $1.4k discount helps as well.
OJ Howard $1,600
Brevin Jordan $1,000
Jordan Akins $800
Howard- 2 for 24 on three targets
Jordan- 2 for 19 on four targets
Akins- 1 for 5 on two targets
You can try and throw one of them in as a salary savings and maybe they don’t get zeros 🤷♂️
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