DFS Lineup Strategy: Picking Top NFL Running Backs

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00:00So we're building our DFS lineups and we started running back Christian McCaffrey, 9,800 Derrick

00:08Henry, 9,400.

00:09Let's start the conversation there and folks pay attention.

00:13We're about to go on a ride.

00:14Joe.

00:15Yeah.

00:16Look, every week we have an approach to depending what the pool looks like, the bi-weeks, the

00:19injuries, the costs of everybody.

00:21A couple of weeks ago it was, Hey, you got to pay up for running back this week.

00:24And this week you're going to hear me say, pay up for quarterback.

00:26I just think that's where we are.

00:27And you're getting a discount on one or two that are really intriguing today.

00:32But it's still more expensive than some of the other quarterback pivots we've had in

00:36the past where, you know, sometimes the boat nixes of the world look like good investments

00:39at their price and we take them and things work out well.

00:42But in terms of the running backs this week, as you mentioned, Matt, we do have very expensive

00:45guys here at the top here.

00:47No sake one Barkley cause he played on Thursday.

00:49So Christian McCaffrey is at the top with 9,800 Derrick Henry against the Steelers.

00:53I expect him to get a lot of work, but it's going to be tough to be prolific against that

00:58rush defense.

00:59Then you got Brees Hall, who theoretically in this matchup against the Colts should be

01:02really good.

01:03Theoretically, Brees Hall should have been really good last week.

01:06We saw him against the Arizona Cardinals.

01:07Guess what?

01:08Didn't happen.

01:09They didn't give him the ball enough.

01:10So I don't know what the hell they're doing.

01:11I don't trust the Jets anymore.

01:13Well, or ever, but I definitely don't trust them this week.

01:17So how are we going to go invest in Brees Hall?

01:19I want to, maybe we have one share in one lineup of that, but I don't know.

01:22Instead, I want to pivot to Chase Brown 6,800, who's been getting a ton of work, Zach Moss

01:27got hurt and Chase Brown's kind of emerged as the guy and look, he was the more explosive

01:32back anyway.

01:34So it's 6,800.

01:35He's a really good value.

01:36So that's where we start with trying to pay up at the quarterback position.

01:40And we're gonna have to find some values at wide receiver to in a second.

01:42The other guy is Nick job where he talked about, I think is in a good spot here against

01:46the new Orleans Saints, a team that is not very good.

01:49Despite the fact they got that coach bounce last week and came out with a victory, we've

01:53seen it time and time again.

01:54This happens in the NFL.

01:55Everybody rallies around.

01:56It's good feelings with a lesser opponent.

01:58You come out with a victory.

01:59And then the next week you go back to being a crappy team because that's who you were

02:01in the first place.

02:02Okay.

02:03And they still don't have a lot of weapons and it's going to be a tough game for them

02:05to come out with a victory.

02:07So Chase Brown at 6,800 Nick job at 6,200.

02:10Those are two guys in particular that I think have some really good return on investment

02:14potential.

02:15They have touchdown equity too.

02:16That's kind of what we're searching for here is the touchdown equity.

02:20After that, you have to go down to guys like Najee Harris.

02:22We already talked about that matchup.

02:23It's not good.

02:24Uh, we talked, uh, we haven't talked about estimate yet, but again, we just don't know

02:27what that workload is going to be.

02:29And then the guys, when you fall off after that, it's just not a lot of upside or touchdown

02:33equity.

02:34So the sweet spot to me, Chase Brown, Nick job, and then we move on to wide receiver.

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