This article focuses on building lineups with a quality foundation by utilizing the powerful Groups and Rules/Limits tools within the industry’s optimization tools. All of the concepts and pairings included below can also apply to hand-building. The goal is to create lineups with strong correlations among likely point-scorers to maximize the gains from infrequent scoring events within stacks while limiting the likelihood of building inefficient or negatively correlated entries for a full slate of NFL DFS lineups.
This video was made in a former life and features a detailed demonstration of how to apply these concepts in one leading optimizer tool: Fantasy Cruncher – How-To Video
All references to Sims were done via friends of the site: acemind.io
Don’t miss the Above/Below feature article for a few of our top picks, coming Sunday morning
Game notes are updated during the week and initially posted as “work in progress” as they take a long time to create, if teams are missing notes simply check back later in the day/week and they should be updated.
2026 Week 4 DraftKings & FanDuel NFL DFS Stack Rankings
The following stack rankings were created by pairing each team quarterback with his top three scoring options, whether they are three wide receivers, two wide receivers and a tight end, a wide receiver, tight end, and running back, or any viable combination. In some cases, an expensive running back can push the overasll price point of his team stack in the value rankings.
| TEAM | OPP | FD$ | FDpRank | FDvalRank | DK$ | DkpRank | DKvalRank | Vegas |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAR | ARI | $32,100 | 1 | 1 | $27,900 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| BUF | LV | $29,700 | 2 | 5 | $25,800 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| ATL | CHI | $29,100 | 4 | 9 | $24,400 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| KC | LAC | $28,600 | 3 | 6 | $25,100 | 4 | 10 | 7 |
| IND | TEN | $27,200 | 5 | 3 | $24,300 | 5 | 8 | 4 |
| LV | BUF | $28,500 | 8 | 11 | $24,100 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| NE | NYJ | $27,000 | 6 | 4 | $23,900 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| CHI | ATL | $26,200 | 7 | 2 | $23,200 | 8 | 4 | 3 |
| NO | NYG | $26,700 | 11 | 8 | $22,800 | 9 | 3 | 9 |
| BAL | CLE | $28,300 | 10 | 12 | $24,200 | 12 | 16 | 10 |
| ARI | LAR | $26,200 | 12 | 7 | $24,500 | 10 | 13 | 14 |
| CAR | PHI | $27,500 | 9 | 10 | $25,200 | 11 | 18 | 12 |
| NYG | NO | $27,200 | 13 | 13 | $22,200 | 13 | 9 | 10 |
| PIT | TB | $26,400 | 14 | 15 | $22,600 | 14 | 17 | 13 |
| NYJ | NE | $25,400 | 15 | 14 | $20,900 | 15 | 15 | 18 |
| CLE | BAL | $24,600 | 17 | 17 | $20,000 | 16 | 12 | 15 |
| TB | PIT | $25,400 | 16 | 18 | $19,500 | 17 | 11 | 15 |
| TEN | IND | $23,300 | 18 | 16 | $19,700 | 18 | 14 | 15 |
| PHI | CAR | $24,800 | 19 | 19 | $19,900 | 19 | 19 | 19 |
| LAC | KC | $24,900 | 20 | 20 | $19,900 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
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Week 4 DraftKings & FanDuel NFL DFS Stacks & Optimizer Groups
Overview
Rules and limits are powerful tools for lineup creation for NFL DFS, where our primary focus is creating highly correlated lineups via stacking players from the same game. Lineups will typically be coordinated around the quarterback selection, which informs at least one pass-catcher choice, establishes a budget, eliminates a defense, and sets the tone for the lineup. We will typically look to correlate a quarterback and at least one of his pass-catchers in every lineup, with many of those including a skill player from the opposing team. This player is included to support the stack in a high-scoring game that drives offense on both sides, creating additional correlated scoring potential. Stacking multiple pass-catchers in the same lineup is a sound approach, though there are typically overall ceilings on how much volume is available at any given position. While pass-catching running backs can be prioritized in stacks and group tools, including running backs who are not involved in the passing game is less important at this stage; they will fall naturally into shares as needed. High-volume backs and pass catchers out of the backfield can be included in the groups utilized below, but it is frequently not necessary to do so with the very best players, they arrive in lineups without help.
Rules and limits are typically applied in an optimizer’s Advanced Options menu. Notes are included to illustrate the reasons behind each rule and explain what it does during the lineup creation process. These settings can typically be saved for re-use, which is highly recommended. Saving the groups created below is also a good idea that will save time with updates instead of recreation each week. These groups are created manually, but most optimizers include automated group creators that can help accelerate the curation process.
DraftKings + FanDuel Settings & Advanced Options
Note – Terminology may vary from site to site but these are common functions across most industry tools.
Unique Players Per Lineup– This setting forces the optimizer to utilize at least X new players who were not in Lineup 1 when it creates Lineup 2, and so on. We recommend a setting of at least two unique players, more can be applied depending on the degree of differentiation desired within lineups.
Team Salary– a minimum or maximum salary spend can be applied here as needed, although leaving salary on the table is an easy path toward creating unique lineups while not necessarily making a negative expected value play.
FLEX position– allows restrictions on what positions can be rostered at the FLEX spot. The primary position to restrict is the tight end so that lineups do not include two players from the position. In many industry tools this is a separate option via a checkbox, it can also be handled specifically within groups.
Global Exposure Setting – allows caps on the maximum percentage of lineups a player can appear in within a given pool of lineup construction. This is a powerful tool for shaping lineups but if settings are too low, attempts to build a full set will fall short due to a lack of available players, one of the most common errors in optimizer building. Most optimizers include the ability to calculate ownership caps continuously or at the end of the pool creation process. If caps are calculated continuously, a player with a 25% cap who is utilized in Lineup 1 will not be available for use again until Lineup 5, we recommend turning OFF continuous calculation.
Randomness – provides a random multiplier to each player’s projected point total based on the set values. This valuable tool helps differentiate lineups instead of simply creating them in order of the highest median projected scores. Using some randomness for lineup generation is strongly recommended but the degree to which it is applied is down to personal preference, 15-25% is fine to get started. We suggest heavier randomness to more event-based players like wide receivers while tracking volume-based positions like running backs more toward their median or ceiling projections.
DraftKings + FanDuel Team Stack Rules
This set of rules will force optimizers to build lineups with certain combinations. We are looking to stack at least one skill player, almost always a pass-catcher, with his quarterback while frequently playing a skill player from the opposing team in the lineup. The theory behind this build is that a high-scoring stack will require some response from the opposing team to deliver a ceiling score in most situations. Most optimizers utilize a “complete the sentence” approach for rule creation with selections from drop-down menus following a very straightforward logic. Exceptions to these rules can be added for specific teams and players on most optimizer products.
- QB with at least one WR/TE from Same Team (note: It is fine to set this to two or to utilize two versions of this rule, one with WR/TE and one with RB/WR/TE, but we can also refine this via Groups)
- optional – QB with at least one RB/WR/TE from the Opposing Team (we typically prefer the pass-catchers but high-volume running backs can be effective here)
- QB with at most zero DST from the Same Team (this is a personal preference; high-scoring teams and quarterbacks tend to leave their defenses on the field, exposing them to simple point-scoring negatives)
Limits & Custom Rules and Requirements
Limit rules can be applied to restrict certain combinations from coming together. This is powerful for limiting multiple running backs from the same team or getting overweight to a certain stack within a lineup.
- Limit QB/RB/WR/TE from Same Team to three
- Limit RB/WR/TE from the Same Team to one unless paired with QB from the Same Team OR the Opposing Team (this prevents multiple players from a team that is not a primary quarterback-based stack)
- optional – Limit RB from Same Team to one (we can also do this with WR in a separate rule that adds an “unless paired with QB or opposing QB” but it’s a personal preference for NFL DFS, we typically do not want two pass-catchers from the same team without their quarterback)
We will maintain the list of rules and limits throughout the season, with occasional tweaks. Each week sees another fresh crop of value plays as situations change and injuries create opportunities around the league. These changing roles and emergent value plays are accounted for in creating these groups from week to week. After a large pool of lineups is created utilizing these groups, it is still critical to filter them for factors including ceiling projections and leverage potential. These groups should help ensure that a highly correlated premium set of options that rotates through various combinations is utilized to create the full lineup pool.
Sunday Updates
Any changes and recommended boosts to specific players will be provided in an early morning update each Sunday.
NFL DFS Week 4 Features & Projections
- Week 4 Projections
- Week 4 Above/Below
- Week 4 Quarterback Scoring & Value Rankings
- Week 4 Running Back Scoring & Value Rankings
- Week 4 Pass-Catcher Scoring & Value Rankings
- Week 4 Defense Scoring & Value Rankings
Construction Concept
Team groups are built by utilizing the quarterback as the KEY player in group settings. The quarterback decision is the driving factor in determining which stack the lineup utilizes and which corresponding plays are made to work within the structured requirements. In Fantasy Cruncher, built to specification, each team will have two groups, a team group and an opponent group, both of which utilize the same quarterback as the key player. Each game will have a total of four groups. This is the best approach to truly capture the requirement of playing individual “run-back” plays from the opposing team. A more basic approach would be to include all of the skill players from a game in each quarterback’s group and rely on rules and limits to restrict any potential overflow. It is highly recommended to save the early season groups as a foundation that will be updated for the rest of the season. The recommended groups will include skill players who have an active role in their offense and provide significant correlation with their quarterback’s scoring; often, bell-cow running backs who do not specialize in the passing game will not be included in groups as they are projected highly and appear on their own in basically correct distributions, while also not always providing the strongest positive correlation plays. Stacking quarterbacks with pass-catchers and allowing running backs to fall into the lanes created by settings, available salary, and randomness should create a well-distributed set of quality lineups. These groups are updated weekly to account for changes in utilization, schemes, injuries, target shares, and more.
Team Groups for DraftKings & FanDuel – Week 4
The goal is to create a large pool of well-built lineups that can be utilized in any large-field GPP contest. Our approach is to build far more lineups than needed and utilize a sorting table or sim process to filter to the best set of entries. The lineups created in these crunches should provide a broad distribution that includes some of the lower-owned high-upside skill players from each stack. Applying boosts is critical in pushing and pulling ownership to individual players within their team’s stacked lineups if they appear too much or too little.
The groups below are designed so that each quarterback will have two groups to create, one with his skill players and another with the opposing team. A more basic approach would be to add them all to one large group with an “at least three” and let rules and limits set things, but there is a more granular level of control in creating them separately.
Utilizing two groups also allows us to place running backs into the “run-back” position in certain teams while not including them in the primary stack for their team. This is useful when a situation has an extremely highly projected running back that does not necessarily fit into his team’s passing game. These players are threaded throughout the following construction recommendations.
Note for all optimizers the rules can be utilized to force bring-back plays in some sets of crunches and turned off for others as a global function instead of changing each group to “exactly one” bring-back play, wherever applicable, but it will apply to all teams.
Arizona Cardinals
Game Total: 44.5 (ARI -2.5 / 23.5)
Offense: 3.6 ypa rush (39.0%) / 5.6 ypa pass (61.0%) / 21.0 ppg
oppDEF: 4.7 ypa rush / 6.6 nypa pass / 10.5% pressure / 0.98% sack / 2.97% int / 18.3 ppg
Key Player: Jacoby Brissett
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Trey McBride, Jeremiyah Love, Michael Wilson, Marvin Harrison Jr., Tyler Allgeier (on/off), Kendrick Bourne, Elijah Higgins (on/off)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Cam Skattebo, Malik Nabers, Isaiah Likely, Malachi Fields, Darnell Mooney, Najee Hariss (on/off)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
Jacoby Brissett threw the ball 52 times in a regulation game last weekend, and if that type of volume doesn’t immediately spell “appealing,” we are speaking different languages. Brissset gets an ideal matchup against a weak Giants team that has not been able to muster much of a pass rush while allowing 6.6 yards per pass attempt and another 4.7 per attempt on the ground; good things are in store for the entire Cardinals offense. Over three games, Brissett has a 70.0% completion percentage, 4.3 points over expectation, with four touchdown passes against just one interception. The signal-caller works short, gaining just 5.6 yards per pass attempt on 6.1 intended air yards, but he has premium skill players along for the ride and should be able to inflate scoring. Brissett is just QB13 by points on DraftKings and QB14 by points on FanDuel, but he is QB1 by value on both sites this week.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
Jeremiyah Love is gaining 3.9 yards per rush attempt, sitting 0.2 yards per attempt below expectation to start his NFL career after the Cardinals used an early first-round pick to bring him aboard. Despite the slow start overall, Love is coming off of his best game as a pro, playing a season-high 55 snaps with the offense and carrying the ball 21 times for 90 yards against San Francisco. Love has a rushing touchdown on the board this season, it came in Week 1, and he also put one in the end zone in the passing game, where he is drawing four targets for 3.7 yards per target on the season. The capable three-down back should continue to grow as the season moves forward, his first 100-yard rushing effort could well come againt the weak Giants rush defense in Week 4. Love is RB8 by points and RB3 by value on DraftKings; he is similarly ranked as RB8/RB4 on the FanDuel slate.
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Tyler Allgeier dipped to just two carries in Week 3, losing a yard in the effort. He did get involved in the passing game, hauling in all four of his targets for 10 yards. Overall, Allgeier is gaining 2.9 yards per rush attempt (-0.7 vs expectation) and has yet to steal a touchdown from Love, he ddrops from Tier 2 to a pure touchdown-dependent dart throw, and is outside of the top-30 running backs across the board in Week 4.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
Part of the appeal of the Cardinals as a strong value stack this week is in the concentrated nature of their offense. Brissett is a quarterback who can play favorites; 28 of his 52 pass attempts went in the direction of his top pass-catchers last week. Elite tight end Trey McBride, TE1/TE4 on DraftKings and TE2/TE2 on the FanDuel slate this week, saw 11 of those opportunities in Week 3, catching nine passes for 75 yards but failing to score for the first time this season. McBride stands a strong chance to shine against a Giants team that has built a franchise on allowing scoring to opposing tight ends.
The other primary target in the offense is Michael Wilson, who drew a massive 17 chances in last week’s game, hauling in 11 of them for 89 yards and scoring his first touchdown of the season. Wilson has seen steady involvement with seven targets in each of the team’s first two games, but last week was a major escalation in a pass-happy environment. The receiver operates at a 9.5-yard ADOT that puts him in reach of big play territory, and his whopping 41.05% air yards share easily leads the team. Wilson is a playable WR target as WR19/WR19 on DraftKings and WR19/WR18 on FanDuel, but if forced to choose, we still lean toward the tight end.
Tier 2:
Marvin Harrison Jr. stock has bottomed out. The receiver draws three targets per game on the season and has managed a paltry 0.66 yards per route run for his 36.7 wind sprints each week. Harrison does work in big play range, checking into Week 4 with a robust 17.7-yard average depth of target that puts him well further downfield than any of his teammates, but Brissett has only managed to deliver a 55.56% catchable ball rate on his chances. Harrison Jr. is providing diminishing returns and is in danger of becoming a player whose best season was his hotshot rookie campaign (885 yards and eight touchdowns on 62 catches). The receiver is still the nominal number two in this offense but the concentration around Love, McBride, and Wilson leaves only crumbs for everyone else. Harrison Jr. is WR36/WR38 on DraftKings and slips further down the board as WR47/WR47 on FanDuel.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Kendrick Bourne is running 31.7 routes per game and outdoing Marvin Harrison Jr. with 1.14 yards per route run on 4.7 weekly targets. Bourne has picked up two red zone opportunities but is yet to score this season while working primarily in short yardage. The receiver is more of a dink-and-dunk option with limited appeal for NFL DFS action; he is WR55/WR49 and WR53/WR52 across sites this week.
Elijah Higgins runs 7.3 routes per game, his three targets in Week 3 were his first of the seeason, he caught them all for 20 yards but that is all there is in his ledger for 2026.
Jalen Brooks has played 10 snaps with the offense and run three routes all season; he is the fourth receiver on the depth chart but has zero fantasy appeal outside of extreme desperation darts.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 8 points / 1 value; FanDuel: 9 points / 1 value
Best Stacking Options: Brissett-McBride-Wilson +/- Love
Best One-off: Trey McBride
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Jeremiyah Love
Wildcard: Marvin Harrison Jr.
Baltimore Ravens
Game Total: 42.5 (BAL -11.5 / 27.0)
Offense: 5.2 ypa rush (54.49%) / 9.8 ypa pass (45.51%) / 30.7 ppg
oppDEF: 3.6 ypa rush / 6.4 nypa pass / 22.3% pressure / 6.74% sack / 2.41% int / 19.7 ppg
Key Player: Lamar Jackson
Setting: at least one / exactly two / at most three (allows for large stacks and Lamar Jackson one-off lineups; these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Derrick Henry, Zay Flowers (Q), Mark Andrews, Rashod Bateman, Chris Moore (Q), Devontez Walker, Justice Hill (on/off), LaJohntay Wester (large field), Elijah Sarratt (very large field if active)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Tony Pollard, Carnell Tate, Wan’Dale Robinson, Gunnar Helm, Elic Ayomanor, Calvin Ridley, Tyjae Spears (on/off)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
Superstar quarterback Lamar Jackson has been sharp over his team’s first four games, throwing four touchdown passes against a lone interception and adding a rushing touchdown in classic Jackson form. The volume leaves a bit to be desired; over three games, the quarterback’s peak is 31 pass attempts this season, but he more than makes up for it with a completion percentage that sits 6.5 points over expectation while gaining a whopping 9.8 yards per pass attempt on 9.7 intended air yards per attempt. Jackson is elite by any measure, and he is one of only a few quarterbacks who can truly hold up to “naked” shares without any of his associated skill players, largely on the back of his 7.3 yards per rush attempt over 5.7 attempts per game and individual touchdown-scoring acumen. Jackson is QB4 by points on both sites but a hefty price forces him down to QB23 by value on DraftKings and QB12 by value on FanDuel.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
Derrick Henry is RB3 by points on both sites. Like his quarterback, Henry takes a hit in value rankings and lands as RB14 on DraftKings and RB7 on FanDuel in the points-per-dollar category. The veteran star has not slowed down, seeing 22 carries per game and returning 4.6 yards per rush attempt, with 2.7 of those coming after contact per attempt. Henry has already punched the ball into the end zone six times in just three games but has only been over the 100-yard mark once on the season, in Week 1 against a gettable Colts rush defense. With the opposing Titans limiting rushers to just 3.6 yards per attempt so far, eighth in football, Henry may be a bit more challenged, but his touchdown-scoring and big-play potential remain unchallenged near the top of the running back position.
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Justice Hill is a low-volume back who sees just 4.3 carries per game but gains a solid 4.4 yards per rush attempt. Hill has not been heavily involved in the passing game this season, drawing a single target per game, but he does run double-digit routes on a weekly basis, putting him in the mix on passing downs in a forward-looking sense. The running back caught 21 of 27 targets over his 10 games last season, scoring once through the air. His best season in the passing attack was in 2024 when he caught 42 of 51 targets for 383 yards and three touchdowns. Ultimately, Hill will live and die with a look or two from Jackson, but he is an extreme stretch as an NFL DFS option in Week 4 as RB38/RB38 and RB43/RB39.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
Zay Flowers played just 20 snaps in Week 1 and 21 in Week 3, while missing Week 2 entirely. The wide receiver is nursing a hamstring injury; he was limited in practice throughout the week and remains questionable to suit up on Sunday. Flowers is the team’s top option; even in limited action in Week 1, he caught five passes for 150 yards and a touchdown, and he caught five of six targets for 84 yards last week, adding another 20 yards on his lone touch on the ground, pushing him over 100 yards from scrimmage in two of two games played. Flowers is an excellent downfield weapon for a quarterback who can deliver the ball with ease; his 12.2-yard ADOT and 40.0% explosive play rate have gigantic appeal. Assuming he takes the field, he is WR6 by points and WR13 by value on DraftKings, and WR7 by points and WR3 by value on FanDuel.
Tier 2:
Rashod Bateman played 53 snaps in Week 1, running 28 routes and drawing just one target that he did not catch. With Zay Flowers out in Week 2, Bateman was a featured participant who drew nine targets and caught seven of them for 88 yards and a score. The receiver dropped off again with Flowers back in Week 3, catching two of three targets for 37 yards over just 20 routes run, despite playing 56 snaps. The entire passing game was a bit more conservative in Week 3; Jackson only threw the ball 20 times in Week 3. Overall, Bateman gains 1.51 yards per route run for his 27.7 routes per game, working at a 12.8-yard average depth of target for a 22.97% air yards share that actually leads this group. Still, the volume is concerning and makes Bateman much more of a go-to when his teammate is out of action. The receiver is playable for depth and differentiation within Ravens stacks; he is less appealing as a standalone option and ranks as just WR44/WR43 and WR38/WR43 across sites.
Tight end Mark Andrews is just a mixer on this slate, slotting in as TE14/18 and TE12/11 across DraftKings and FanDuel, but he always brings touchdown-dependent upside and has been targeted in the red zone six times in three games, while drawing a 24.7% target share on routes run and putting up an excellent 1.91 yards per route run. Andrews has more upside than may be visible in his rankings; he is highly playable in Ravens stacks, and is probably a better option than Bateman if Flowers is in action.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Devontez Walker and Chris Moore are depth options who work at extreme average depth. The two bombers are drawing targets at an average of 37.7 and 27.7 yards, respectively, but they are seeing just a handful of chances each week. Moore is slightly outpacing Walker in opportunities, running 11.0 routes per week and seeing an average of two targets; he has the team’s lone depth touchdown this season. Both receivers rank outside of the top-75 at the position in Week 4.
LaJohntay Wester is only in the mix if Flowers does not play, and even then he is mostly a depth dart throw. With Flowers out in Week 2, Wester played 31 snaps and ran 21 routes, but drew only two targets and caught one pass for 14 yards. Elijah Sarratt is yet to take the field despite a fourth-round draft pedigree; the rookie would only be an option with multiple teammates out of action.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 7 points / 15 value; FanDuel: 4 points / 6 value
Best Stacking Options: Jackson-Henry-Flowers +/- Andrews
Best One-off: Derrick Henry
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Mark Andrews
Wildcard: Rashod Bateman
Buffalo Bills
Game Total: 49.5 (BUF -7.0 / 28.25)
Offense: 5.2 ypa rush (48.91%) / 9.1 ypa pass (51.09%) / 33.7 ppg
oppDEF: 4.3 ypa rush / 5.1 nypa pass / 22.9% pressure / 7.0% sack / 2.15% int / 17.0 ppg
Key Player: Josh Allen
Setting: at least one / exactly two / at most three (allows for large stacks and Josh Allen one-off lineups; these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: James Cook III, DJ Moore, Dalton Kincaid, Khalil Shakir, Keon Coleman, Dawson Knox (on/off), Joshua Palmer (large field), Ty Johnson (on/off)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: TreVeyon Henderson (on/off), Rhamondre Stevenson (on/off), Romeo Doubs, Hunter Henry, Mack Hollins, DeMario Douglas, Kyle Williams
Game Notes:
Quarterback
We are setting up optimizers to unleash Josh Allen in standalone situations as well as Bills stacks in a matchup against a sturdy New England defense that sits second in football with just 5.1 net yards allowed per pass attempt on the year. The Patriots have been steady but unspectacular in pressuring the quarterback but they are containing well while coughing up better average gains to opposing running backs. Josh Allen can attack both fronts. The superstar quarterback is carrying a 65.0% completion rate, 1.6 points above expectation, on 28.67 pass attempts per game while throwing for 9.1 yards per pass attempt on an outstanding 10.2 intended air yards per attempt. Allen can deliver the big deep ball and he can also take off running or punch the ball in from short yardage. The quarterback has five touchdown passes against a pair of interceptions and has already posted a ridiculous six rushing touchdowns in just three games, exceeding the expectations of even the person who created the Ralph Wiggum/Allen rushing touchdown gif. The Bills quarterback is QB1 by points on both sites in Week 4, he dips to QB9 by value on DraftKings but remains a strong buy as QB2 by value on the blue site.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
James Cook has scored a third as many rushing touchdowns as his quarterback over three games despite posting a phenomenal 6.0 yards per rush attempt on his 19.3 carries per game, a full 1.1 yards over expectation per attempt. Cook is elite on the ground; he gains a ridiculous 4.3 yards per carry before contact and has an 8.62% broken tackle rate on the season. The lone detriment is Allen’s designs on a quarterback rushing touchdowns record. Cook has scored twice on the ground, drawing two carries inside the five-yard line in Weeks 2 and 3 and scoring in each game. Cook put up 135 yards on 21 carries in Week 2 and 154 on 24 chances in Week 3, adding upside with moderate chances in the passing attack, where he has been targeted eight times in three games. James Cook III is RB5/13 and RB5/8 across sites in Week 4.
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Ty Johnson did not play in Weeks 1 and 2 but got into the action for 15 snaps in Week 4. The running back made the most of his opportunity; he did not carry the ball, but he ran 13 routes out of the backfield on those 15 snaps, picking up four targets and catching them all on his way to 50 yards from scrimmage. Johnson should see a similar chance this week and may draw another look or two if Ray Davis is unable to suit up. Ultimately neither of the running backs has much more than dart-throw appeal; Johnson is RB43/42 and RB42/43, while Davis is outside of the top-50 positionally.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
Dalton Kincaid is a top-tier tight end who can find the end zone and rack up strong gains, given his 12.6-yard average depth of target over three games. Kincaid works downfield a bit more than the average tight end, connecting for big gains on his 5.7 targets per game, leading to a massive 3.76 yards per route run for the year. While he has only scored once, his 25.15% air yards share rivals many wide receivers, and keeps him more interesting than the average NFL DFS gamer thinks. Kincaid is TE5 by points on both sites, he slips to TE16 by value on DraftKings but stands tall as TE8 by value on FanDuel.
Tier 2:
DJ Moore hit the century mark on the head in his first action with the Bills, catching five of eight Week 1 targets for 100 yards and a touchdown. The receiver played just 23 snaps after taking an injury in Week 2, coming away with no catches on nine routes in a wash, but he was back for Week 3 and put up a healthy 67 yards on 6-of-10 receiving. The veteran’s numbers are slightly skewed by the partial game in Week 2, but he has an excellent 2.83 yards per route run for his 19.7 routes per game while operating in deep territory at a 15.9-yard ADOT. Moore is WR18 by points on both sites and is closely matched for value as WR22 on DraftKings and WR21 on FanDuel in the category.
Khalil Shakir works the midrange for Buffalo, drawing his targets at an average depth of “just” 8.2 yards, gaining 1.49 yards per route run over his 21 sprints per game. Shakir is a crafty receiver with after-the-catch skills, but his 6.2 yards after the catch per reception this season actually fall short of expectations by 1.3 yards per catch. Shakir has game-breaking ability and draws regular chances in the red zone, where he has already seen four targets in three games. The talented short-yardage receiver is WR27/26 and WR30/29 across sites in Week 4.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Keon Coleman sees a 12.4-yard average depth of target while picking up an average of just three targets in the busy offense, drawing a chance on 11.0% of his 21.o routes per game, gaining 1.6 yards per route run in his limited role. Coleman sees a quality opportunity from his elite quarterback, with Allen delivering an 88.89% catchable target rate on the deep chances. There is big play potential but Coleman gets knocked down the board with all of the volume and most of the scoring chances going in different directions.
Dawson Knox runs just 16.7 routes per game, but they tend to come in interesting spots. The tight end has been targeted just once in the red zone to this point, but he caught that chance for a touchdown and is likely to do so a few more times on a few similar chances throughout the year. Knox is a quality alternative to make a wide turn for differentiation in any stack of Bills; he is less valuable as a standalone play and has perhaps the most upside in Showdown formats where the value of one catch for a touchdown soars. Knox is TE26/26 and TE27/26 across sites.
Joshua Palmer is another deep bomber in this offense, drawing a target on just 6.1% of his 14.7 routes run per game but operating at a 20.2-yard ADOT that sends him sailing downfield regularly. Palmer has a pair of touchdown catches already on the board and is a compelling piece of big-play differentiation buried in the Buffalo passing attack.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 6 points / 10 value; FanDuel: 5 points / 5 value
Best Stacking Options: Allen-Cook-Kincaid +/- Moore
Best One-off: James Cook III
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Khalil Shakir
Wildcard: Joshua Palmer
Chicago Bears
Game Total: 43.0 (CHI -3.5 / 23.25)
Offense: 5.3 ypa rush (50.24%) / 7.2 ypa pass (49.76%) / 29.7 ppg
oppDEF: 4.2 ypa rush / 5.1 nypa pass / 23.4% pressure / 7.92% sack / 0.0% int / 20.3 ppg
Key Player: Tyson Bagent (possibly Case Keenum)
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: D’Andre Swift, Luther Burden III, Colston Loveland, Rome Odunze, Kyle Monangai (on/off), Kalif Raymond, Cole Kmet (on/off), Jahade Walker (very large field), Zavion Thomas (very large field)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Garrett Wilson, Braelon Allen, Kenyon Sadiq, Isaiah Williams, Jeremy Ruckert (on/off), Sterling Shepard, Malik McClain
Game Notes:
Quarterback
The Bears were desperate for a quarterback in Week 3 with starter Caleb Williams out of action with an injury, and regular backup Tyson Bagent nursing an injury, when grizzled grey gunslinger Case Keenum came riding into action. Keenum took the reins for Chicago and delivered an A+ backup quarterback performance from end-to-end, throwing for 247 yards and a pair of touchdowns on 24-34 passing, while connecting regularly with the team’s top receiver. Keenum’s reward for beating the Eagles in surprising fashion seems to be relegation to the backup role, with Bagent healthy and expected to start in Week 4, though the Bears have technically not yet announced the starter as of Saturday evening.
Bagent comes into action ranked as QB18 by points on both sites, but he leaps to QB4 by value on the DraftKings board and QB9 by value on FanDuel, and is surrounded by quality skill players. The fourth-year quarterback has never thrown more than 143 passes in a season, something he accomplished over five games as a rookie in 2023, posting 859 yards and three touchdowns against six interceptions in the effort. Bagent has thrown 15 NFL passes since that season, including nine in his brief Week 2 appearance after Williams’ injury. Bagent completed five of nine passes for 54 yards in that game but was knocked out of action before anything could truly develop. This is a wildcard option at the quarterback spot; Bagent is a former undrafted free agent who went to D-II Shepard University, not exactly an NFL quarterback factory. Assuming Bagent starts, it would not be surprising in the least to see a Keenum takeover if there are signs of struggle or if the Bears are trailing a Jets team that has a reasonable pass defense that allows just 5.1 net yards per pass attempt.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
D’Andre Swift gains 4.7 yards per rush attempt over 18.0 weekly carries, giving him plenty of standalone quality on volume and talent. The running back adds to that mix with another 3.3 potential touches from targeting in the passing attack, pushing him to premium volume levels. Swift has three rushing touchdowns on the board in three games, though they all came in Week 1. He is gaining 2.2 yards before and 2.5 yards after contact per attempt with a 7.41% broken tackle rate on the season, and his 6.8 yards per target and two red zone targets put him in range of scoring potential as a pass-catcher while also operating as a safety valve for either of the backup quarterbacks. Swift is ceding some chances to backup Kyle Monangai, but the situation is not concerning, with volume to spare. Swift is RB9 by points and RB11 by value on DraftKings; he is RB9 by points and RB10 by value on the FanDuel slate.
Tier 2:
Kyle Monangai sees 10 carries each week, exactly 10 carries in each of three games in fact. The running back had a big Week 1 with 100 yards and a touchdown on the ground, but he has fallen short of those marks in subsequent games with 47 yards in Week 2 and 31 in Week 3. Still, that amounts to a fantastic 5.9 yards per rush attempt overall for the season, and the second-year player sees a bit of upside in the passing game as well, running regular routes each week and drawing a pair of targets in each of the first two games. Monangai is a limited-volume dart throw with a bit of upside as a differentiator, particularly if Swift has to leave the field for an extended stretch at any point. Monangai is RB23/24 and RB25/25 across sites in Week 4.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
n/a
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
Luther Burden III ranks as WR15 by points and climbs to WR4 by value on DraftKings in Week 4. The talented second-year receiver is WR17 by points and WR7 by value on the FanDuel slate, and is underpriced around the industry. Burden was targeted 11 times in Keenum’s start last week and should continue to see regular team-leading volume as he continues his ascendancy. The talented wideout gains 1.86 yards per route run over his 28.0 routes per game, drawing a 25.3% target share on routes run at an average depth of 7.7 yards. Burden has after-the-catch skills; his 4.1 yards after the catch per reception sits 0.7 yards above expectation per reception, and he picks up gadget play upside in the rushing attack because of those same skills. Burden has a touchdown on the board in the passing game and has been targeted five times in the red zone in just three games; he is the top receiver in this offense, make no mistake.
Tier 2:
Rome Odunze is WR31/42 on both sites this week. The receiver may still be listed atop the group’s depth chart, but that role belongs to Burden. Odunze has seen three, four, and six targets from Weeks 1-3, while running 30.3 routes per game. He has been OK, returning 1.53 yards per route run in the effort and picking up quarterbacks who have delivered just a 69.23% catchable target rate to some degree. The primary appeal lies in Odunze’s big play potential on a 17.2-yard average depth of target; he just missed a big touchdown catch in Week 3 but is knocking on the door of a strong performance with his 34.37% air yards share for the year. Odunze is a playable option on both sites, both in and out of Bears stacks.
Colston Loveland is sinking like he hit an iceberg on Lake Michigan. The tight end was expected to be elite in his second season; typically coming off the board as the third tight end selected in season-long drafts ahead of the 2026 campaign. Loveland has done nothing but disappoint, with just 0.38 yards per route run over his 30.0 routes per game. With a 5.2-yard average depth of target on the season, it is fair to criticize the team’s quarterback play as part of the problem here; Loveland has seen just a 66.67% catchable target rate in short yardage. Still, there has been zero production from a player who caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and six scores as a rookie just last year. Loveland is too important for this team to allow him to go under-involved for much longer; his three targets per game are just not enough, though he caught four of four for 31 yards in his best performance of 2026 in Week 3. Loveland is difficult to trust, but that also makes for a high-quality upside play at low ownership with a player we know for certain is better than his numbers have been in a small sample. Colston Loveland is TE8/14 and TE11/13 across sites in Week 4.
Kalif Raymond’s involvement and production in the passing game have been astonishing – for him – over the first three weeks of the year. Raymond’s seven targets per game are second on the Bears so far this season, and he is gaining a ridiculous 2.68 yards per route run over 26.7 routes per game. Now in his 11th season, Raymond has never gained more than the 616 yards he posted over 17 contests with the Lions in 2022, and has never scored more than the four touchdowns he had the year before that. Raymond caught 24 passes for 289 yards and one touchdown in 15 games last season and had 17 catches for 215 yards and two scores the year before, he already has 19 catches (on 21 targets!) for 214 yards and a touchdown this season in what is looking like a surprise career year for the veteran. In the words of Clark Griswold, “If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn’t be more surprised…” Raymond is WR43 by points but WR18 by value on DraftKings; he is a less-appealing WR36/27 on the FanDuel board.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Cole Kmet runs 15.3 routes per game and sees 1.7 targets, returning 0.76 yards per route run over three games. The tight end has a touchdown on the board, however, and he sees the occasional red zone chance in this offense if history is any indicator. Kmet is a low-end dart throw with touchdown dependency as TE28/28 and TE29/32.
Zavion Thomas runs an utterly elite 4.28 40-yard dash, but that is yet to translate to production on the football field in his rookie campaign. Thomas did not see a snap on offense in Week 1 and has played just 10 total snaps, running two routes and seeing one target, which he caught for one yard last week. The skills are there, and Thomas can break a game in return action on special teams if given the chance, but he is a one-play boom-or-bust dart throw at best and ranks outside of the top-75 receivers across sites in Week 4.
Jahdae Walker is not any more likely than Thomas, but he did catch a touchdown pass on his one opportunity of the season, which came as he played 34 snaps and ran 14 routes in Week 1. The receiver has played 11 snaps and run five routes, drawing zero targets, in the two games since. He is also outside of the top-75 receivers this week.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 17 points / 8 value; FanDuel: 17 points / 17 value
Best Stacking Options: Bagent-Swift-Burden +/- Loveland +/- Odunze
Best One-off: D’Andre Swift
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Colston Loveland
Wildcard: Colston Loveland
Cincinnati Bengals
Game Total: 51.0 (CIN -2.5 / 26.75)
Offense: 4.0 ypa rush (38.2%) / 7.2 ypa pass (61.8%) / 26.7 ppg
oppDEF: 3.6 ypa rush / 7.7 nypa pass / 24.5% pressure / 8.7% sack / 4.76% int / 12.0 ppg
Key Player: Joe Burrow
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Ja’Marr Chase, Tee Higgins, Chase Brown, Mike Gesicki, Dohnte Meyers, Samaje Perine (on/off), Erick All Jr. (on/off), Drew Sample (on/off), Mitch Tinsley, Tanner Hudson (on/off)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Parker Washington, Jakobi Meyers, Brenton Strange, Brian Thomas Jr., Chris Rodriguez Jr. (on/off), Travis Hunter (large field), Josh Cameron (large field)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
The Bengals pull into the NFL DFS game of the week as 2.5-point favorites with veteran Joe Burrow at the helm of the high-flying passing attack. Burrow is completing passes 2.5 points ahead of expectation at a 71.0% completion rate, throwing for 7.2 yards per pass attempt. The quarterback has thrown six touchdown passes against a lone interception, while slinging the ball 34.33 times per game in 2026. Burrow brings elite skill players to the table in stacks, both Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins are premium receiver plays with a knack for finding the end zone, and the team’s running back and tight end options are involved and underappreciated publicly. Burrow is an easy QB3 by points and QB12 by value for $6,800 on DraftKings; for $8,200 on FanDuel he is QB3/QB6.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
Chase Brown is the under-discussed option in the Bengals offense. The running back gains a steady 4.0 yards per rush attempt on 16.3 carries per game, with 2.5 of those coming before contact and just 1.5 after. Brown has a touchdown on the board in the ground game and has been regularly involved with 4.3 targets per game, including an early look in the red zone that was not converted. The running back put up his first 1,000-yard rushing season in 2025, gaining 1,019 on 232 carries and punching the ball in six times, but his quality comes from the added involvement in the passing attack. Brown drew 88 targets and caught 69 of them for 437 yards and five touchdowns last season, and has 13 targets and 10 catches, albeit for limited output, so far in 2026. Chase Brown is RB6 by points and RB2 by value on DraftKings; he is RB7/9 on the FanDuel slate and is a valuable option both in and out of stacks of Bengals in Week 4.
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Samaje Perine ranks outside of the top-40 positionally across sites in Week 4. The veteran draws just 2.3 targets per game and sees an additional few chances on 3.3 carries but gains just 3.5 yards per attempt on those. Perine is just a dart throw at a cheap touchdown or a couple of catches in full-PPR format, but there is very little to work with, given the volume demands of the big players above him on the depth chart across positions.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
Ja’Marr Chase has three touchdown catches on 8.3 targets per game for the season, and spiked to a full dozen targets in the team’s Week 3 contest, turning in nine catches for 98 yards and a touchdown in the effort. The superstar receiver has three touchdowns and 16 catches in the past two games and is an elite true number-one option in an offense that throws the ball 34 times each week. Adding gasoline to the inferno is the 7.7 yards per pass attempt that the generous Jaguars’ pass defense has yielded on the season. While Jacksonville has ultimately been excellent at keeping teams out of the end zone, that is simply too much to work with in terms of big gains when facing this Bengals team, priming Chase for another explosive performance. The wideout is WR2 by points and WR1 by value on DraftKings, and is WR2/WR2 on the blue site. Chase is a top-priority receiver in any format, both in and out of Bengals stacks, but his popularity is also likely to be crushing with all eyes on this game’s 51-point total.
Those looking to get away from Chase’s popularity, to a small degree, would do well to look toward Tee Higgins, a top 1A option on the other side of the field. Higgins is actually outdoing his teammate with a 45.32% air yards share on his 13.2-yard average depth of target for the season; he has truly huge potential for explosive gains on any given play. The underappreciated Higgins gains 2.49 yards per route run over 32.7 routes and 7.7 targets per game and could have more on the board were it not for an unsightly and uncharacteristic 60.87% catchable target rate from Burrow to this point in the season. Higgins has found the end zone once in three weeks, but his average target path offers big-gain potential and volume, and he is coming off back-to-back double-digit touchdown seasons: 10 in just 12 games in 2024 and 11 scores in 15 outings last year. With all eyes on Ja’Marr Chase, Higgins could squeak through at significantly lower popularity numbers, adding to his already significant appeal. Of course, simply playing both receivers in Bengals stacks offers massive scoring potential. Tee Higgins is WR13 by points and WR10 by value on DraftKings; he is WR13/WR9 on the FanDuel slate.
Tier 2:
Mike Gesicki picks up whatever scraps of targets are lying around after the rest of the family gets fed. Gesicki runs 20.0 routes per game and sees 3.3 targets but gains 1.92 yards per route run overall, and has already scored twice on two red zone chances. The tight end works to a 9.5-yard average depth of target and draws a 15.01% air yards share overall. The veteran is a relatively touchdown-dependent play, but he is an easy pivot for popularity and price in stacks of Bengals, and is very much in play in the big Week 4 spot, where he drops into the slate as TE21/22 on both sites.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Dohnte Meyers fills the nominal third receiver role with Colbie Young and Andrei Iosivas out of action. Meyers runs just 12.0 routes per game and sees 2.3 targets, returning 1.31 yards per route run in limited action to this point. The receiver has seen just seven targets all season, but five of those came in his expanded role with 32 snaps and 24 routes run in Week 3. That volume could continue in Week 4, making Meyers a reasonable dart throw as a wildcard low-volume, low-ownership play.
Erick All Jr., Drew Sample, and Tanner Hudson all see the field here and there as the Bengals are one of the league’s frontrunners in using multiple tight end packages. Sample leads the group with 14.7 routes run per week but he gains just 0.43 yards per route run. He has the lone red zone target among the depth options at the position but is no more playable than any of the others, all of whom fall below Gesicki in the pecking order.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 1 points / 2 value; FanDuel: 1 points / 3 value
Best Stacking Options: Burrow-Chase-Higgins +/- Brown
Best One-off: Ja’Marr Chase
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Tee Higgins
Wildcard: Dohnte Meyers
Dallas Cowboys
Game Total: 48.0 (DAL +3.0 / 22.5)
Offense: 4.1 ypa rush (38.98%) / 7.0 ypa pass (61.02%) / 29.3 ppg
oppDEF: 3.5 ypa rush / 6.7 nypa pass / 21.3% pressure / 10.28% sack / 1.04% int / 25.0 ppg
Key Player: Dak Prescott
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: CeeDee Lamb, George Pickens, Javonte Williams, Jake Ferguson, Ryan Flournoy, KaVontae Turpin (large field), Emari Demercado (on/off)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Nico Collins, Dalton Schultz, David Montgomery, Kayshon Boutte, Xavier Hutchinson, Woody Marks (on/off), Jaylin Noel
Game Notes:
Quarterback
The Cowboys’ high-flying passing attack takes the field in the battle for Texas supremacy against the team from Houston, landing as three-point underdogs in a game that should offer significant fantasy-scoring potential if all goes to plan with a 48.0-point total. Dak Prescott is having a strong start to 2026, firing 35.0 pass attempts per game and completing them at a rate 5.9 points ahead of expectation (70.0%). Prescott has thrown seven touchdown passes against one interception in three games, gaining 7.0 yards per pass attempt overall on 7.8 intended air yards per attempt. The quarterback does not add significant upside in the ground game, but he is unafraid to run with the ball, picking up 3.3 rush attempts for 5.9 yards per attempt on the season. Prescott brings a cadre of elite weapons into action across positions; the concentrated volume and star power lead to Dallas landing regularly as an upside NFL DFS stack across sites. Prescott is QB7 by points and QB14 by value on DraftKings and lands as QB7 by points and QB13 by value on FanDuel. The Cowboys rate slightly better as a stack on the DraftKings slate, where the elite passing volume stacks up a bit more in the full-PPR format; they are Stack 3 by points on that site but Stack 7 by points on FanDuel. The team is loaded for bear collectively or as a group of individuals to be deployed as standalone weapons across other lineups.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
Javonte Williams is an underrated running back option for fantasy scoring potential; he has a pair of rushing touchdowns and a touchdown catch on the board in three games, and was one of the most widely targeted running backs in the red zone throughout last season. Williams has already seen three red zone targets in 2026; he is a big part of the team’s plan in scoring position. Williams has been a bit limited for output on the ground, gaining just 3.9 yards per rush attempt on 14.3 carries per game, but that does sit 0.3 yards above expectation per attempt, so the limited gains are not necessarily entirely on him. While he has upside for scoring and involvement in the passing game, Williams is typically a bit below some of his peers when it comes to volume, drawing about 18 potential touches each week when we truly want 20+. Still, he can make up for it by getting in the end zone, and the team is looking for him to do just that each week. Williams is a playable RB13/17 and RB13/16 across sites, and can join his quarterback and a pass-catcher as an angle into lower-owned stack combinations.
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Emari Demercado played in Weeks 1 and 2, but sat in Week 3 as a healthy scratch, with the team slotting Tyler Goodson into the offense for 11 snaps. Demercado managed 3.0 yards per attempt on 2.5 carries per game in his two contests; Goodson gained 22 yards on six carries, good for 3.7 per attempt. Neither running back is more than a desperate, misguided dart throw at extremely low volume and low probability; they both rank outside of the top-50 running backs.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
CeeDee Lamb is WR3 by points and WR8 by value on both sites in Week 4, the superstar wide receiver is a go-to option both in and out of stacks of Cowboys. Lamb and his mates draw a Texans defense that allows 6.7 net yards per pass attempt, sitting just 18th in the league, though they have gained steady pressure and have a strong sack rate that could keep Dak Prescott hurried and potentially shorten routes somewhat. Lamb typically operates at a 12.4-yard average depth of target, good for a 39.78% air yards share across his 8.3 targets per game, and pushing him to a phenomenal 3.19 yards per route run over 32.3 routes per game. Lamb has competition for targets on the other side of the field but has been the go-to in scoring range with three touchdown catches on the board and three overall red zone targets. Lamb is a priority play across sites in Week 4, he is the top option in stacks with Prescott and is a big gun in non-stacked builds. He is likely to be lower-owned than Ja’Marr Chase will be in the 51-point Bengals game.
The Cowboys have an elite 1A option in George Pickens and, like Tee Higgins in Cincinnati, he could go slightly underowned against the brighter-burning star in his own locker room. Pickens is a top-notch receiver who has drawn the same 8.3 targets per game over three weeks as his teammate, playing up to a 32.40% air yards share on his 10.1-yard ADOT, while running a team-leading 34.3 routes per game. Pickens has yet to find the end zone in 2026, but the team is working to get him back there after he scored nine times and gained 1,429 yards on 93 catches in his first season in Dallas last year. Pickens spiked to 11 targets, hauling in a season-high seven catches for a season-high 82 yards in the team’s Week 3 contest against Baltimore. Pickens will certainly fall below Lamb in popularity this week; he is likely to be less popular than Lamb, Chase, and Higgins, while providing near-equal potential. When he finds the end zone, those who did not play him in Cowboys stacks will spend the rest of their Sunday wondering why. Pickens is WR10 by points but WR5 by value on DraftKings. He is WR12/20 on the FanDuel slate at a higher relative price point.
Tier 2:
Jake Ferguson is a talented pass-catching tight end with steady upside in scoring territory. Ferguson has already drawn four red zone targets in three weeks, and he has three touchdowns on the board in 2026. The 3.7 targets per game could be a bit more, but the regular action near the end zone more than makes up for a missing target or two here and there in the high-volume Dallas passing game. Ferguson slots in as TE12/13 and TE13/15 across sites and needs to find paint to truly make value, but he is a nice pivot for popularity and price in Cowboys stacks, and maintains just enough scoring potential to make him a reasonable, affordable one-off at the position.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Ryan Flournoy ranks outside of the top-50 wide receivers across both sites in Week 4. The wideout was a popular upside pick in season-long drafts; he has not rewarded those owners with very much, given just 0.75 yards per route run over 29.7 routes per game. Flournoy sees six targets per game and has had his number called twice in the red zone but has very little to show for it. The receiver is a short-yardage play while his better teammates charge downfield, operating at just a 6.8-yard ADOT for a 16.72% air yards share. There is very little big play potential unless the receiver breaks something after the catch or manages to convert a red zone target. Ferguson is the better pivot point in stacks, but Flournoy is playable in that role for even less popularity at the wide receiver position.
KaVontae Turpin has a rushing touchdown on the board and will see gadget play chances and return game opportunities but not much more; he ranks outside of the top-65 at the position across the board but is at least loosely in play as a deep, very large field dart.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 3 points / 13 value; FanDuel: 7 points / 14 value
Best Stacking Options: Prescott-Lamb-Pickens +/- Williams
Best One-off: CeeDee Lamb
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: George Pickens
Wildcard: George Pickens
Denver Broncos
Game Total: 48.5 (DEN +2.5 / 23.0)
Offense: 3.6 ypa rush (40.96%) / 6.5 ypa pass (59.04%) / 20.0
oppDEF: 3.7 ypa rush / 5.7 nypa pass / 25.2% pressure / 5.5% sack / 0.97% int / 16.7 ppg
Key Player: Bo Nix
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Jaylen Waddle, Courtland Sutton, Pat Bryant, Evan Engram, JK Dobbins (on/off), RJ Harvey (on/off), Troy Franklin (large field), Marvin Mims Jr. (very large field)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Christian McCaffrey, George Kittle, Deebo Samuel Sr., Mike Evans (Q), Jordan Watkins, Kaelon Black, Jacob Cowing (large field), KhaDarel Hodge (large field)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
Denver’s disappointing offense has mustered just 20.0 points per game on the season, with quarterback Bo Nix managing a mere 6.5 yards per pass attempt on 31.0 attempts per game. Nix is completing passes at a 60.0% rate, 3.9 points below expectation, and has thrown four touchdown passes against three interceptions. The quarterback has developed a quick connection with free agent acquisition Jaylen Waddle, connecting with the team’s new top receiver for 1.95 yards per route run over 25.7 routes per game, but he has lost touch with many of the other pass-catchers on the squad. Notably, Courtland Sutton has seen a significant dip in output at just 0.91 yards per route run, despite running 30.0 routes per game. Nix operates in a dink-and-dunk offense; his limited gains come against just 5.8 intended air yards per attempt. With a decent-enough San Francisco defense standing against him, Nix and his team do not look great in Week 4, despite a hefty 48.0-point game total. Nix is just QB16 by points on both sites; he is QB20 by value on DraftKings and QB19 by value on FanDuel.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
RJ Harvey and JK Dobbins would be in the reserves/darts section were it not for rookie Jonah Coleman’s injury just before he was due to take over this backfield. Neither of these running backs cracks the top-20 positionally in Week 4. Harvey is gaining 4.8 yards per rush attempt but has only carried the ball 2.5 times per game; he sees more action on passing plays with 5.5 targets per game, including a pair of red zone chances, but he has not scored this season. Dobbins, meanwhile, draws 11.7 carries per game but gains just 3.5 yards per attempt, 0.5 yards below expectation per attempt, with 1.5 before and 1.9 yards after contact per attempt. Neither of these options has appeal, but Harvey has more function in stacks, given the targeting and a sliver of touchdown-scoring potential in the passing game.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
n/a
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
Jaylen Waddle works to a 12.4-yard average depth of target that represents Nix’s most significant chance at connecting for explosive passing plays. Waddle has not caught a touchdown for his new squad, but he does have everything else working, with a 39.99% air yards share and significant gains despite just a 60.0% catchable target rate from the quarterback. Waddle has elite burst after the catch but is currently sitting 0.9 yards below expectation after the catch per reception this season. The receiver is WR14/27 on DraftKings but lands as WR16/17 on FanDuel, where he is less expensive relative to the cap.
Tier 2:
Courtland Sutton has been extremely limited despite leading the team in routes run by almost five opportunities per game. Sutton draws 5.3 targets each week, an 18.4% rate on routes run, but has seen just a 56.25% catchable target rate from Nix and has managed to catch just 2.7 passes for 27.3 yards per game, with no touchdowns. The receiver still works downfield for this offense, turning in a 9.6-yard average depth of target and pushing his air yards share to a healthy 29.75%, but if the quarterback can’t get the ball to him accurately in that spot, those air yards are less than meaningless. Sutton is WR26/31 and WR27/32 across sites given the game environment, but he could believably rank down even further.
Evan Engram is an involved tight end with game-breaking abilities, but he needs to break something to create true scoring potential. Engram works at a limiting 4.5-yard average depth of target and sees just 2.7 targets per game. He has a touchdown on the board this season but has gained just 0.98 yards per route run on 20.3 weekly routes. Evan Engram is TE18 by points but TE12 by value at a fair price on DraftKings. He is TE19/20 on FanDuel where he seems less interesting.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Pat Bryant draws just 3.0 targets per game but gains 1.23 yards per route run on his 23.3 weekly routes. The receiver has a touchdown catch in the books already this season, coming on one of his two catches for 44 yards in Week 3. Bryant caught four of six targets for 42 yards but did not score in Week 1, and went without a catch despite playing 41 snaps and running 22 routes in Week 2. There is only limited potential given the volume, but if the game happens to catch and shoot out somewhat, the rising tide could lift Bryant to a healthier share than his current WR47/46 and WR48/WR45 rankings.
Troy Franklin’s appeal comes from his extreme downfield nature, given an 18.0-yard average depth of target on a whopping four targets over three games. Franklin is barely involved in the offense, but when his number is called it is almost always for a big shot. The receiver is no more than a wildcard option for one big scoring play, but the potential is there. Franklin has exactly one catch in each of the past two games, but has put up 20+ yards in each performance and could break for the end zone on any given slate.
Marvin Mims Jr. has been back to practice and is expected to suit up after missing Weeks 2 and 3 and playing just nine snaps in Week 1. Mims is another downfield weapon; he worked to a 9.2-yard ADOT last year and caught 37 passes for 322 yards and a single score. Mims had his best season to date in 2024, his second year in the league, when he caught 39 of 52 targets for 503 yards and six touchdowns. Mims is in a similar boat as Franklin, a low-volume dart throw at a big play and not much more. He is WR83/90 and WR88/92 across sites.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 20 points / 19 value; FanDuel: 20 points / 22 value
Best Stacking Options: Nix-Waddle-Sutton +/- Engram +/- Harvey
Best One-off: Jaylen Waddle
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Courtland Sutton
Wildcard: RJ Harvey
Green Bay Packers
Game Total: 38.5 (GB -3.5 / 21.0)
Offense: 3.0 ypa rush (26.67%) / 6.8 ypa pass (73.33%) / 18.7 ppg
oppDEF: 3.1 ypa rush / 6.2 nypa pass / 21.70% pressure / 6.0% sack / 2.13% int / 26.3 ppg
Key Player: Jordan Love
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Christian Watson, Matthew Golden, Tucker Kraft, MarShawn Lloyd (on/off), Kaleb Johnson (on/off), Chris Brooks (on/off), Skyy Moore (large field), Jonnu Smith (on/off)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Bucky Irving, Emeka Egbuka, Chris Godwin Jr., Cade Otton, Kenny Gainwell (on/off), Ted Hurst III
Game Notes:
Quarterback
The Packers are 3.5-point favorites in a game with just a 38.5-point total (39.5 overnight Saturday), leading to a 21.0-point implied team total that does not explode off the page. Much of that lack of quality comes from the absence of the opposing team’s starting quarterback; little of it has to do with the Packers, who check in with a bit of weekly DFS appeal given their propensity to fire the pigskin through the air. Jordan Love’s 41.33 pass attempts per game in 2026 lead the group of regular starters on this slate. The volume is the big appeal; Love has six touchdown passes against two interceptions in three games while gaining 6.8 yards on 8.8 intended air yards per attempt, but his woeful 52.0% completion rate is a shocking 9.0 points below expectation on the season. Love has a good connection with capable receivers who can get downfield in a hurry, creating big scoring potential for NFL DFS purposes, but it is fair to wonder if the best approach is simply rostering one-off shares of Packers pass-catchers, rather than chasing the full stack. Love is just QB12 by points on DraftKings, where he is QB8 by value. He is QB9 by points and QB10 by value on FanDuel in Week 4. Both his lack of reliability and the ugly game environment are limiting factors, but the passing volume is always worth at least a look, and should be played in a large portfolio of lineups.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Kaleb Johnson has a chance to seize this role with a good game in Week 4. To date, Johnson is sitting at just 3.2 yards per rush attempt on 4.0 carries per game as the understudy to nominal starter MarShawn Lloyd, who gains 3.0 yards per attempt on 7.7 chances. Lloyd has the lone touchdown between the two. Neither of the running backs offers much appeal with the team taking to the air with such frequency; Johnson is just RB29/29 and RB28/29 across sites while Lloyd is RB36/37 and RB35/37.
Chris Brooks carries the ball 3.7 times per game for 3.6 yards per rush attempt, gaining very little ground on the other two running backs. Brooks played 27 snaps with the offense in Week 3 but did not carry the ball. He did catch one pass for four yards, and he carried the ball 11 times combined over Weeks 1 and 2. There is basically no appeal on the ground for Green Bay until Josh Jacobs returns.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
Christian Watson has been a high-quality NFL DFS option over the first three weeks of the 2026 season. The receiver has a knack for big plays while operating at a 10.5-yard ADOT on the season, picking up a quality 28.89% air yards share and putting the ball in the end zone four times in three games. Watson leads this group with 2.51 yards per route run on 37.7 routes per game, and he has found quality despite just a 65.52% catchable target rate from the erratic quarterback. If Love has a day, it is highly likely that Watson will be along for the ride. The talented receiver is WR12/17 on DraftKings and he shows quality as WR9 by points and WR6 by value on FanDuel, where big scoring plays matter more than racking up catches.
The primary difference between Watson and Matthew Golden this season has been touchdown scoring, an admittedly important factor. In every other way, Golden has rivaled the team’s top receiver, who is sure to be more popular at a much higher price. Watson is $1,300 more than Golden on DraftKings and $1,100 more on FanDuel. The less expensive second-year wideout draws nearly identical action; his 10.0 targets per game are technically more than Watson’s 9.7, they have run a matching 37.7 routes per game, and Golden draws his targets on a 13.5-yard average depth that pushes him beyond Watson’s mark with a massive 40.21% air yards share. Golden has only found the end zone once in 2026, but he has major appeal as a low-cost, high-quality receiver who is a well-kept secret for both the volume and shape of his targeting. Golden is a sneaky WR16 by points and WR14 by value on DraftKings, he is WR14 by points and WR10 by value on FanDuel.
Tucker Kraft slots in as an interesting option at his position as well, though the game total suggests that only one of these top-tier options will be truly viable unless things go sideways against the Vegas expectations. Kraft works the mid-range with a 7.6-yard average depth of target that is good for the position but lighter than the team’s bomber wide receivers. The tight end gains 1.16 yards per route run on 30.3 routes per game, and he has seen a team-leading 76.47% catchable target rate on the shorter chances. Kraft is a very playable piece who can provide quality both in and out of stacks in Week 4, he is TE7 by points and TE10 by value on DraftKings and rates as TE8/10 on FanDuel.
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Skyy Moore has seen a growing role in the Packers’ offense. The receiver played just four snaps in Week 1, failing to catch his lone target on three routes run. He went up to 21 snaps and 16 routes in Week 2, hauling in two of his three targets but gaining just six yards. Moore saw his heaviest involvement yet in Week 3, playing 34 snaps with the offense and running 26 routes while picking up a surprising seven targets in the high-volume passing game. He turned that action into three catches for 31 yards. To this point, Moore has operated as a short-yardage safety valve who would need after-the-catch gains to provide NFL DFS upside unless he happened to land in the end zone. He is ranked outside of the top-75 receivers despite landing as the third man on the receiver depth chart for this team.
Bo Melton also crept up in opportunities last week, playing 21 snaps and running 17 routes after being limited to a combined 17 snaps and 11 routes over Weeks 1 and 2. Melton has one catch for 10 yards on three targets all season and it did not come in last week’s game, instead coming on his lone chance in Week 1. Melton is a downfield target with a 16.0-yard ADOT in his limited action in 2026, a nearly identical mark to each of his past two seasons. The fourth-year player has two touchdowns and 39 catches for his NFL career to date; 16 of those catches and one of the touchdowns came in five games in 2023 as a rookie; he has 13 catches in 36 games since.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 13 points / 7 value; FanDuel: 13 points / 13 value
Best Stacking Options: Love-Watson-Golden +/- Kraft
Best One-off: Christian Watson
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Matthew Golden
Wildcard: Matthew Golden
Houston Texans
Game Total: 48.0 (HOU -3.0 / 25.5)
Offense: 3.6 ypa rush (35.15%) / 6.6 ypa pass (64.85%) / 18.0 ppg
oppDEF: 5.0 ypa rush / 7.2 ypa pass / 20.6% pressure / 2.33% sack / 0.0% int / 27.3 ppg
Key Player: CJ Stroud
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Nico Collins, Dalton Schultz, David Montgomery, Kayshon Boutte, Xavier Hutchinson, Woody Marks (on/off), Jaylin Noel, Foster Moreau (on/off), Cade Stover (on/off)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: CeeDee Lamb, George Pickens, Javonte Williams, Jake Ferguson, Ryan Flournoy, KaVontae Turpin (large field), Emari Demercado (on/off)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
The Texans are aligned for a decent day at the office against an inept Dallas defense in a game with a high-quality 48.0-point total, and with star receiver Nico Collins back in action. CJ Stroud will benefit immensely from the return of his go-to target; the duo connected for seven catches for 75 yards and a touchdown in Week 1, and Collins is coming off three straight seasons of more than 1,000 receiving yards. Stroud has had a quality start to his year for accuracy, completing passes at a 60.0% clip that sits 3.0 points above expectation while slinging 40.0 pass attempts per game. With Collins out of action, the rest of the quarterback’s production has taken a bit of a hit, he has thrown just three touchdown passes but has yet to throw an interception, and has managed just 6.6 yards per pass attempt despite 9.5 intended air yards per attempt. With Collins returning, and a bit more of a connection with his downstream options, Stroud could shine against a Dallas defense coughing up 7.2 net yards per pass attempt to sit 29th in the league. Dallas has two sacks in three games; they have done very little to get to the quarterback despite a 20.6% pressure rate, and they are yet to intercept a pass. All systems should be go for Houston as 3.0-point favorites in a 48.0-point game. CJ Stroud is QB11 by points but QB5 by value on DraftKings; he is QB13 by points but QB4 by value on FanDuel.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
David Montgomery teased the NFL DFS population with a monster game in Week 1, leading to thoughts of a renaissance year as the workhorse in his new offense. None of that has come to fruition in the two weeks that followed. Montgomery is gaining just 2.8 yards per rush attempt on 12.3 carries per game. He has the same two rushing touchdowns and one receiving touchdown that he had at the close of the Week 1 contest, and has failed to gain even 50 yards from scrimmage over the past two outings.
Montgomery shares some of his chances with Woody Marks, who gains just 3.0 yards per attempt on his 7.3 carries per game, but scored a touchdown on one of his five carries in Week 3, two of which came inside the ten-yard line. Ultimately, Marks does not see much opportunity and has not done much with it, the expectation should remain that Montgomery will be the go-to option in scoring range.
Montgomery is RB16/15 and RB17/14 across sites, while Marks is RB27/25 and RB27/27.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
Nico Collins had a big game in Week 1 and has had three straight years of more than 1,000 receiving yards, despite missing games on a yearly basis. The oft-injured star receiver played 15 times last year, posting 1,117 yards and six touchdowns on 71-of-120 receptions; the target total was a career-high. Collins caught 68 balls for 1,006 yards and seven scores in just 12 games in 2024, and had a career-high 1,297 yards and eight touchdowns in 15 games in 2023. Collins regularly works well downfield; his average ADOT over a six-year career is 11.23 yards, including a career-best 12.4 last season. Collins is an elite weapon in the offense; he put up 2.03 yards per route run in Week 1 and has potential to go higher against this defense. Nico Collins is an easy-to-reach WR9 by points but WR23 by value on DraftKings; he is WR10/11 on FanDuel.
Tier 2:
Tight end Dalton Schultz stepped up in one of the two games that Collins missed, but he is likely to remain more of a role player in Week 4 with his teammate returning to action. The capable pass-catcher ran 43 routes on 54 snaps and drew 14 targets, catching a dozen of them for 140 yards in Week 2 against Cincinnati; his output was lighter in Week 3 with 20 routes over 29 snaps and just three targets turning into three catches for 30 yards in what was a limited performance by this offense overall. Over three games, Schultz is averaging 34.3 routes per game and returning 1.99 yards per route run on a 6.3-yard average depth of target for a 14.41% air yards share. The tight end has yet to find the end zone in 2026; he has 10 touchdown catches over the past three seasons combined.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Xavier Hutchinson slides down the board with Collins back in action. Hutchinson caught exactly three passes in each of the first three games but has not scored in 2026. He ran a season-high 51 routes and was targeted nine times in Week 2 but gained only 37 yards. Hutchinson led the team with 51 receiving yards in a low-end Week 3. He is WR52/60 and WR52/56 across sites in Week 4 but does offer an appealing 13.8-yard ADOT and 28.09% air yards share that could lead to one big play as a far less popular and less costly option than his elite teammate.
Kayshon Boutte ranks around WR50 across the board on both sites this week. Boutte is gaining just 0.77 yards per route run over 34.3 routes per game with his new team. The receiver works to a quality 12.6-yard ADOT that leaves him in big play range, and he could break an opportunity or two against the bad Dallas defense in this matchup, but there is “possible,” and there is “probable,” and we are more in the probability business. Boutte is fine as a depth play in an abundance of Texans stacks; he can even play a role as a low-owned bring-back or one-off play in other lineups, but expectations should be limited on the whole for a receiver who has never gained 600 yards in a season. Boutte’s six touchdown catches in 2025 were double what he put up on 10 more targets in 2024, speaking to the erratic nature of that production.
Jaylin Noel joins the team’s depth tight ends as a low-volume play with limited appeal. Noel played 14 snaps in Week 3, running 11 routes and catching both of his targets for 17 yards. He had more of a chance in a better game environment in Week 2 when he ran 39 routes over 48 snaps, but he caught just one of his five targets, albeit for 31 yards while adding another 13 scrimmage yards on his lone carry on the ground. Noel ranks outside of the top-55 receivers on this slate.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 11 points / 11 value; FanDuel: 11 points / 7 value
Best Stacking Options: Stroud-Collins-Schultz
Best One-off: Nico Collins
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: CJ Stroud
Wildcard: Dalton Schultz
Jacksonville Jaguars
Game Total: 51.0 (JAC +2.5 / 24.25)
Offense: 4.2 ypa rush (50.29%) / 7.6 ypa pass (49.71%) / 27.3 ppg
oppDEF: 4.7 ypa rush / 6.1 nypa pass / 27.9% pressure / 7.81% sack / 0.85% int / 21.0 ppg
Key Player: Trevor Lawrence
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Parker Washington, Jakobi Meyers, Brenton Strange, Brian Thomas Jr., Chris Rodriguez Jr. (on/off), Travis Hunter (large field), Josh Cameron (large field), Nate Boerkircher (on/off; very large field)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Ja’Marr Chase, Tee Higgins, Chase Brown, Mike Gesicki, Dohnte Meyers, Samaje Perine (on/off)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
Trevor Lawrence joins the Week 4 slate looking like a tremendous option as QB2 by points and value on DraftKings, and QB2 by points and QB3 by value on the FanDuel slate. The Jaguars’ signal-caller has thrown seven touchdown passes against just two interceptions on the season and would have a rushing touchdown on the board had he not needlessly taken a knee at the one-yard line with a frustrating nine-plus minutes remaining in last week’s game. Lawrence has become a premium passer with quality weapons; his 67.0% completion rate sits a solid 7.1 points above expectation on 27.0 pass attempts per game, and he delivers a quality ball on his way to 7.6 yards per attempt over 8.9 intended air yards. Lawrence his receivers all over the field, with a variety of options across skill positions, including emergent Parker Washington, his number one, who operates at a 14.3-yard ADOT for a 43.8% air yards share. The high-flying tandem has major potential in the 51-point game of the week, and taking up arms with the Jaguars side of the coin, instead of using the Bengals as the primary, is a quality approach to the Week 4 slate. The Jaguars have easily visible slate-winning potential as a stack or as a collection of potential one-offs with strong value markers on the Week 4 board on both sites.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
Quality running back Bhayshul Tuten would probably be a Tier 1 option at the position, were he carrying the ball slightly more often or seeing better involvement in the passing game. With only around 15 potential touches each week early in the season, Tuten’s 4.7 yards per rush attempt is more of a playable option than a priority. The running back has a pair of rushing touchdowns on the board in 2026, but has only one carry inside the 10-yard line on the season on a team that prefers to throw it on their scoring plays. Tuten is RB14 by points but leaps to RB7 on value on the DraftKings slate. On FanDuel, the running back is RB14 by points and RB12 by value.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a low-probability option who carries the ball 6.7 times per game. Rodriguez gains just 3.7 yards per rush attempt; he has a cheap rushing touchdown on the board but is not truly much of an option as RB42/44 and RB41/44 across sites.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
Parker Washington has been an elite option in recent games for Jacksonville, stretching back to the end of last season when he put up three games of more than 100 receiving yards in the team’s final four contests, including a playoff game. Washington scored three touchdowns in those four games and had a career-high five with 58 catches for 847 yards over 16 games last year. He already has 15 catches for 221 yards and two touchdowns in 2026 and is easily on pace to obliterate his previous highs, if all goes to plan. Washington pulls a huge 43.8% air yards share and has put up 2.91 yards per route run over 25.3 routes per game, despite seeing just a 65.22% catchable target rate from his quarterback on the deep looks. There is major scoring potential between Washington and Lawrence; the receiver is the top priority in stacks of Jaguars, and he makes for an elite bring-back play in Bengals stacks or a top-tier one-off in any lineup. Parker Washington is WR11 by points and WR12 by value on DraftKings; he is WR8 by points and WR5 by value on FanDuel, where his big-play nature truly pops against the lackluster average route-running numbers.
Tier 2:
Brenton Strange is TE15 by points but soars to TE2 by value for an inexplicable $3,200 price tag on DraftKings. The talented tight end is TE14/14 on the FanDuel slate for $5,100, a wildly different price relative to the cap. Strange runs 22.0 routes and draws 3.3 targets per game, with an uptick to five targets last week. Strange has one touchdown catch on the season and sees a fair 70.0% catchable target rate while working at a quality 8.3-yard average depth of target. The tight end has not posted big yardage gains on the season, but he had quality games in that department last year, with five games of more than 50 yards in just 12 contests, totaling 540 yards and three touchdown catches. If he stays on the field all season, Strange is a strong bet to exceed those marks in 2026.
Jakobi Meyers is WR22/15 and WR21/16 across sites, providing a high-quality value play in a go-to offense. Meyers is unlikely to be as popular as the three higher-caliber receivers in this game (Chase, Higgins, and Washington), and he could deliver huge gains given the success he has found since joining the Jaguars. Meyers has already found paydirt twice this season; he sees a 14.3% target rate on routes run over his 26 routes per game and leads the team in quality chances, given a 90.91% on-target rate from Lawrence at his 10.7-yard ADOT. Meyers is an appealing pivot-point in a premium stack in Week 4, he is highly useful in bring-back shares against Bengals stacks, and has plenty of one-off appeal for value and ceiling in any lineup.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Brian Thomas Jr. is just WR37/35 and WR42/40 across sites, but he makes for an interesting ownership angle in a premium stack, and could provide plenty of upside at his price as the second option tied to Lawrence in a deep build. Despite rumors of his total demise, Thomas is quietly gaining a quality 1.69 yards per route run; his opportunities have just been somewhat limited with only 17.3 routes per game, a problem that has been compounded by a 61.54% catchable target rate from Lawrence. Thomas has more quality than we are seeing; the receiver works at a premium 10.9-yard ADOT and garners a 24.1% air yards share even in the limited role. He is clearly third, at best, in the pecking order behind Washington and Meyers, but simply oozes with talent that led to 1,282 yards and 10 touchdowns as a rookie just two seasons ago. Thomas had a pedestrian 707 yards with only two touchdowns on 48 catches and 91 targets over 14 games while dealing with a mix of injuries last year, and has been held to 88 yards and seven catches in three games this season, but there is plenty of any given slate potential here.
Josh Cameron has two oddball touchdowns on the season despite running just 18 routes over three games combined. The receiver happened to be in the right place at the right time; there is very little to suggest that much ongoing appeal exists, though he did play a season-high 23 snaps in Week 3. Cameron ranks outside of the top-75 receivers across sites.
Travis Hunter has seen one target, which he caught for eight yards, on eight routes run across three weeks combined; he is not truly on the board.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 9 points / 3 value; FanDuel: 8 points / 4 value
Best Stacking Options: Lawrence-Washington-Meyers +/- Strange
Best One-off: Parker Washington
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Jakobi Meyers
Wildcard: Brian Thomas Jr.
Kansas City Chiefs
Game Total: 48.0 (KC -4.0 / 26.0)
Offense: 5.0 ypa rush (47.42%) / 8.3 ypa pass (52.58%) / 29.3 ppg
oppDEF: 4.5 ypa rush / 5.7 nypa pass / 36.3% pressure / 9.43% sack / 4.17% int / 18.0 ppg
Key Player: Patrick Mahomes
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Kenneth Walker, Rashee Rice, Travis Kelce, Xavier Worthy, Tyquan Thornton, Emmet Johnson (on/off), Noah Gray, Cyrus Allen (large field), Jalen Royals (very large field)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Ahston Jeanty, Brock Bowers, Tre Tucker, Jalen Nailor, Michael Mayer (on/off), Malik Benson, Cody White
Game Notes:
Quarterback
Patrick Mahomes rates in the middle of the top-10 positionally across sites this week against a Raiders defense that has shown quality over three weeks. Las Vegas is allowing just 18.0 points per game while yielding just 5.7 net yards per pass attempt, fifth best in the league, and posting solid sack and interception rates while igniting the fire with a 36.3% pressure rate. Mahomes will be forced to make quick decisions and work while potentially fleeing the pocket; unfortunately for Las Vegas, that is exactly what the star quarterback would probably choose if asked. Mahomes excels in those situations, and he is putting up quality numbers to begin his 2026 resurgence, with seven touchdown passes against just two interceptions over three games. The quarterback is slightly below expectation, but only by .1 percentage points at his 68.0% completion rate, while passing for 8.3 yards per attempt. Mahomes benefits greatly from skill players making things happen after the catch; his high-quality YPA mark comes against just 5.6 intended air yards per attempt. The quarterback has gotten tight end Travis Kelce going and has a premium running back on his side this season, putting the Chiefs in a strong position to deliver on their excellent Stack 2/5 and Stack 3/2 rankings across sites this week. Mahomes himself is QB6 by points but QB15 by value on DraftKings and QB6/QB8 on FanDuel.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
Kenneth Walker III is gaining a fantastic 5.5 yards per rush attempt on tremendous volume with 21.7 carries per game over three weeks. The running back is also involved in the passing attack, drawing an average of six weekly targets to push him into truly elite range with nearly 28 potential touches. Walker gains 2.0 yards before and 3.5 yards after contact with a 15.38% broken tackle rate; he is one of the league’s top running backs by any measure. Walker has a pair of rushing touchdowns and a matching set of receiving touchdowns already over just three games, and lands as one of the go-to running backs on the Week 4 slate on both sites. Kenneth Walker III is RB2 by points and RB6 by value on DraftKings and looks even better as RB2 by points and RB1 by value on FanDuel.
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Emmet Johnson gains 3.5 yards per attempt on just 5.3 carries per game and has seen only a few chances over three games in the passing attack; there is simply not enough opportunity for the rookie with Walker vacuuming up every potential touch, but Johnson is a quality player who would take on a massive role were the worst to happen above him on the depth chart. For now, he is simply RB35/32 and RB32/30, and is unlikely to contribute much in Week 4.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
Travis Kelce has two touchdown catches in three games and has gained a tremendous 2.54 yards per route run so far in 2026. The rejuvenated Kelce sees a 19.8% target rate on those routes, leading the team in the category while also drawing a team-leading 22.34% air yards share. Kelce has broken a few big plays already; his robust 11.1 yards after the catch per reception will clearly come down as the season continues, unless we truly expect a 36-year-old tight end to maintain 4.1 yards above expectation after the catch per reception. Given the volume and the trust in this offense, Kelce is a weekly play in Chiefs stacks. Given his overall quality so far in 2026, he is also an easy positional one-off as TE4 by points on both sites. Kelce is TE8 by value on DraftKings, tarnishing the quality of the play only slightly; he is TE3 on FanDuel, where his $5,500 price tag is a bit cheap.
Tier 2:
Rashee Rice works in the mid-range with a 6.4-yard average depth of target that pulls him up shorter than Kelce’s average route, but a tenth of a yard beyond the average depth of Xavier Worthy. The Chiefs work a short pass game that leads to explosive plays after the catch by design; Rice is a part of that with an average of 9.3 yards after the catch per reception, good for 1.9 yards over expectation after the catch per catch. Rice has one touchdown on the season while seeing 5.7 targets per game and a 22.16% air yards share. The wideout is WR8 by points and WR6 by value on DraftKings, he slips to just WR11/14 on the FanDuel slate, where volume and short yardage can be less valuable.
Xavier Worthy does almost exactly the same thing as Rice, working at a 6.3-yard ADOT with 5.0 targets per game that puts him at a 19.58% air yards share. Worthy gains 4.2 yards after the catch per reception, slotting in at a low mark of -0.6 yards against expectation per reception after the catch. Still, a big play or two will change that equation in a hurry. Worthy has game-breaking ability in this role, he has a touchdown on the board and runs a team-leading 33.0 routes per game, though his 0.64 yards per route run this season leaves much to be desired. Worthy is WR34/34 and WR33/36, he is playable but is offset in quality from Kelce and Rice by a fair margin.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Tyquan Thornton must get lonely at his 20.1-yard average depth of target, running about 14 yards further downfield than any of his teammates for his average target. The bomber has a bit of big play potential in here-and-there shares across an abundance of Kansas City stacks, but he is a true dart throw with limited chances. Thornton sees just 2.3 targets per game but he has responded with 1.42 yards per route run on his 25.3 routes per game, and is carrying a 33.3% explosive play rate on receptions into action in Week 4, though he has not found paint yet this season.
Cyrus Allen and Jalen Royals are pure low-volume darts at cheap touchdowns in this stack; their appeal is limited, with both receivers ranking outside of the top-80 across the board on both sites. Royals has the lone touchdown between the two, but runs just 3.0 routes per game. Allen suited up for all three games but played just five snaps and drew one target to date.
Noah Gray, the team’s secondary tight end, sees limited targeting but does draw the infrequent look in the red zone, giving him a sliver of touchdown-dependent potential as a total wildcard play. Gray is much more valuable in Showdown formats than on full slates, he is just TE30/32 and TE33/33 across sites.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 2 points / 5 value; FanDuel: 3 points / 2 value
Best Stacking Options: Mahomes-Walker-Kelce +/- Rice +/- Worthy
Best One-off: Kenneth Walker III
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Travis Kelce
Wildcard: Tyquan Thornton
Las Vegas Raiders
Game Total: 48.0 (LV +4.0 / 22.0)
Offense: 3.2 ypa rush (48.95%) / 7.2 ypa pass (51.05%) / 29.3 ppg
oppDEF: 3.8 ypa rush / 5.4 nypa pass / 20.2% pressure / 4.04% sack / 3.16% int / 16.7 ppg
Key Player: Kirk Cousins
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Ahston Jeanty, Brock Bowers, Tre Tucker, Jalen Nailor, Michael Mayer (on/off), Malik Benson, Cody White
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Kenneth Walker, Rashee Rice, Travis Kelce, Xavier Worthy, Tyquan Thornton, Emmet Johnson (on/off), Noah Gray, Cyrus Allen (large field), Jalen Royals (very large field)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
Using the Clark Griswold “head sewn to the carpet” quote earlier in this article may have been a mistake, as there are few things about the 2026 NFL season that are more surprising than Kirk Cousins’ league-leading (tie) nine touchdown passes over three weeks. The veteran signal-caller last played a complete season back in 2022 in Minnesota as a 33-year-old, managing 32 appearances over the next three seasons combined, including just 10 last year. Cousins threw just 10 touchdown passes against five interceptions in those 10 games with Atlanta last season; he is nearly over both of those marks in just three appearances with his new squad. The veteran will eventually cede control to the team’s top draft pick, but until then there is a wave to be ridden for NFL DFS production. Cousins has thrown exactly three touchdown passes in each game so far, and put up 253 and 248 yards in the last two games. Making the output even more surprising is the fact that the Raiders were without their star tight end for two of those games, though Cousins connected with Brock Bowers for a touchdown in his return to action in Week 3. Kirk Cousins checks into a 48-point game as a four-point underdog, but there is good reason to believe that the Raiders will play competitive football and hang with the Chiefs throughout, pushing the quarterback to QB17 by points but QB6 by value on DraftKings; he is just QB17/16 on the FanDuel slate for a hefty $7,300 salary.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
Ashton Jeanty is a good play for volume; he is currently drawing 26.3 potential touches per game with 21.0 on the ground and another 5.3 in the passing attack each week, but his production has been questionable at best. Jeanty gains just 3.3 yards per rush attempt, 0.3 below expectation per attempt, though he draws first contact just 1.6 yards into the average run. Jeanty does not inspire after first contact, putting up just 1.7 yards after contact per attempt and breaking tackles at a 6.35% rate while failing to punch the ball into the end zone on the ground over three games. He does have a pair of touchdown receptions, and his volume in the passing attack is truly appealing, particularly where it adds a full point per reception. Jeanty has been targeted in the red zone four times this season and gains a quality 6.1 yards per target overall. This is RB4 by points and value on DraftKings, and RB4/6 on the FanDuel slate, but he draws a Chiefs defense that has held opponents to just 3.8 yards per rush attempt overall. Jeanty’s quality is likely to come through the air again in Week 4, making him a better fit in Raiders stacks than as a standalone option.
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Mike Washington Jr. has the team’s lone rushing touchdown this season, though he carries the ball just five times per game. Washington has put up a healthy 6.8 yards per rush attempt but has so far been held below 15 snaps, peaking at 13 in Week 1. The running back broke out for 54 yards and his rushing touchdown on just five carries over 11 snaps in Week 3, breaking a big gain to get there, but he is an unlikely contributor and not much more than a touchdown-dependent wildcard.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
Brock Bowers missed two weeks but returned without missing a beat, delivering a monster performance in Week 3 with 10 catches on 14 targets for 116 yards and a touchdown. Bowers was very quick to remind the league why he is the top option at his position on a near-weekly basis, though he drops in as TE2 by points and TE9 by value on DraftKings this week; he is TE1 across the board on the FanDuel slate where his $7,200 price tag is within reach if one saves at either running back or wide receiver in just one lineup spot. Bowers played 12 games last year, racking up 680 yards and seven touchdowns on 64 catches, a far cry from the outrageous 1,194 yards on 112 catches that he posted as a rookie, though he only scored five times in 2024. If things continue like they have been going in the Las Vegas passing game this season, even with two missed games, Bowers could set new highs for yards and, most importantly, touchdown catches.
Tier 2:
While there has been plenty of production downstream in this passing game, the Raiders truly lack a top option at the wide receiver position. Tre Tucker is the closest this group gets; he runs 26.3 routes per game and is currently delivering a premium 2.39 yards per route run on five targets per game. Cousins has hit Tucker’s 15.2-yard average depth of target with reasonable reliability, delivering a 73.3% catchable target rate over a 16.9% target rate on those routes. Tucker only has one touchdown catch on the season but has dominated the air yards with a 27.68% share. There are targets going to the running back and tight end with more frequency than the wide receiver position in this offense, but Tucker is the “safe” play for a few looks and some production as WR38/50 and WR39/46, assuming someone forces you to play a Raiders wideout.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Jalen Nailor runs 21.7 routes per game but delivers a mere 0.80 yards per route run on 3.7 weekly targets. He has failed to catch a touchdown pass amidst all of the production, despite seeing his looks at a 12.3-yard average depth of target and landing second in the receiver room with a 17.45% air yards share. Nailor is a low-quality play who ranks outside of the top-50 by points but slips inside the top-40 by value on both sites.
Michael Mayer lost most of his appeal with Bowers returning to action last week. The tight end’s snap count and routes total did not take a hit, but his targets dipped from seven in Week 1 and four in Week 2 to just three last week, though he caught all three for 32 yards and a touchdown. Overall, the secondary role renders Mayer as a touchdown-dependent dart throw along the lines of a Dawson Knox or Noah Gray, but with more routes involved and possibly an extra target by comparison. He is TE23/26 and TE24/24 across sites.
Cody White somehow has a team-leading three touchdown catches on the season and is filling a slightly enhanced role with options like Jack Bech out of action. White’s three touchdowns come on just 17 routes run total this season. He ran five and failed to catch his one target over 11 snaps in Week 1. He then played just seven snaps in Week 2 but caught both of his targets on six routes, with both going for touchdowns. He totaled 24 yards in that game but provided cheap slate-bending upside. White was back at it in Week 3, playing 13 snaps and running six more routes, with three targets leading to one catch for a four-yard touchdown. There is zero reliability in play here, White may not see the end zone again all year, but he might continue drawing oddball red zone action as a 6’3″ 227lbs target for the veteran quarterback who seems to like him.
Malik Benson and Dareke Young have all of the limitations that have come with White in terms of routes and snap counts, while adding none of the touchdown-scoring upside. Either could convert the odd low-volume scoring play, but there is nothing to suggest that they should be utilized in DFS lineups.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 10 points / 12 value; FanDuel: 10 points / 11 value
Best Stacking Options: Cousins-Bowers-Jeanty +/- Tucker
Best One-off: Brock Bowers
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Ashton Jeanty
Wildcard: Cody White
Los Angeles Chargers
Game Total: 43.0 (LAC +7.5 / 17.75)
Offense: 4.2 ypa rush (45.76%) / 7.1 ypa pass (54.24%) / 14.7 ppg
oppDEF: 3.3 ypa rush / 4.3 nypa pass / 30.6% pressure / 7.07% sack / 4.35% int / 16.7 ppg
Key Player: Justin Herbert
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Omarion Hampton, Ladd McConkey, Quentin Johnston, Tre’ Harris, Oronde Gadsden II, Keaton Mitchell (on/off)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Rashid Shaheed, Jadarian Price, AJ Barner, Cooper Kupp, Emanuel Wilson (on/off), George Holani (on/off), Tory Horton (large field)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
Justin Herbert has not gotten anything going in 2026 and now faces the NFL’s top defense by net yards allowed per pass attempt (4.3) and yards allowed per rush attempt (3.3), which is not creating a good situation for the 7.5-point underdogs. Herbert is throwing 29.3 passes per game and completing them at just a 59.0% clip, 3.8 points below expectation, while throwing for 209 yards per game with three touchdowns against four interceptions over the first three weeks of the season. The Chargers have mustered just 14.7 points per game with their limited weapons; there is not much appeal up and down the board in Chargers stacks, and Herbert is just QB20/22 on both sites.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
Omarion Hampton gains a lowly 3.9 yards per rush attempt while carrying the ball 16.7 times per game, nearly a half-yard below expectation per attempt. Hampton does have a pair of rushing touchdowns on the board and has broken tackles at a solid 14.0% rate, gaining 2.0 yards before and 1.9 yards after contact per attempt. The running back is almost entirely absent in the passing game, though, limiting his potential to just the rushing attempts when it comes to potential touches, and knocking him down the board to just RB18/21 and RB18/23 in a bad spot against a good defense this week.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Keaton Mitchell gains a quality 5.7 yards per rush attempt but carries the ball just five times per game while getting involved in the passing game in limited ways. Mitchell sees 1.3 targets per game and has a touchdown catch on the board, but the opportunities are few and far between and he rates as just RB32/28 and RB33/31 across sites in Week 4.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
Ladd McConkey is WR21/33 and WR20/23 across sites. The receiver draws five targets per game and has delivered a sturdy 2.54 yards per route run, but has run just 24 weekly routes and only has one touchdown on the board. McConkey is questionable to play but did practice through a foot injury at the end of the week and should suit up. He had four catches for 66 yards on 33 routes run, a season-high, in Week 3 and is the team’s clear-cut number one option. The receiver has big play potential at an average depth of 13.9 yards and a 25.48% air yards share, and Herbert delivers an 86.67% catchable target rate to his favorite option, but this is simply a bad overall spot to expect much production from thie Chargers offense on the whole.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Quentin Johnston is WR41/48 and WR40/38 across sites in Week 4. The receiver has not caught a touchdown in 2026, nor has he caught more than three passes in a game or gained more than 40 yards. Johnston’s last touchdown came in Week 16 of last season, the same week as his last 100-yard game, the only one he posted in 2025. Johnston has gobs of talent, but the reliability is severely lacking. He is working at a slightly shorter ADOT so far this season, but that may be the product of the sample size more than anything. Johnston is still the number two option in this passing game, but that does not mean much in a bad spot.
Tre’ Harris draws chances at a 10.1-yard ADOT for a 19.31% air yards share that compares favorably with the top-two options on the squad, giving him as much or more value at lower prices across sites. Tucker has zero touchdown catches on the season while picking up 5.3 targets per game, but his 1.96 yards per route run over 25.3 routes per game far exceeds the lowly 0.77 that Johnston has provided over three weeks.
Oronde Gadsden II is TE19/23 and TE20/21 across sites. With one touchdown catch in the books and 1.04 yards per route run over 16.0 routes per game, Gadsden has delivered limited output and quality for those rostering him for NFL DFS play. The tight end is a low-end dart throw at a cheap, unpopular touchdown, and not much more.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 21 points / 24 value; FanDuel: 24 points / 24 value
Best Stacking Options: Herbert-McConkey-Harris +/- Johnston
Best One-off: Ladd McConkey
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Tre’ Harris
Wildcard: Quentin Johnston
Los Angeles Rams
Game Total: 43.5 (LAR -3.5 / 23.5)
Offense: 5.0 ypa rush (40.2%) / 7.8 ypa pass (59.8%) / 20.3 ppg
oppDEF: 4.0 ypa rush / 6.4 nypa pass / 17.5% pressure / 3.3% sack / 0.0% int / 23.0 ppg
Key Player: Matthew Stafford
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Puka Nacua, Davante Adams, Kyren Williams, Blake Corum, Tyler Higbee (on/off), Colby Parkinson (on/off), Konata Mumpfield, Davis Allen (on/off), Tutu Atwell (large field), Jordan Whittington (large field)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Saquon Barkley, Dontayvion Wicks, Makai Lemon, Zach Ertz, Tank Bigsby (on/off), Will Shipley (on/off), Elijah Moore (large field), Darius Cooper (large field)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
The Rams heavily-concentrated high-quality offense slots in as Stack 4 by points on DraftKings and Stack 2 by points on FanDuel, despite a limited 43.5-point game total. Los Angeles sees major production from their top-three skill players and quarterback, making them a frequent go-to stack even in difficult matchups or when the Vegas total may seem less than ideal; after all, the goal is fantasy points collection. Quarterback Matthew Stafford leads his team into action with a 60.0% completion rate on 37.0 pass attempts per game, a high-volume number among the slate’s options. Stafford’s completion rate is slightly above expectation while gaining 7.9 yards per pass attempt on 9.7 intended air yards per attempt. The veteran has thrown six touchdown passes against four interceptions this season, but only had Puka Nacua on the field in Week 1. With Nacua back in action, the sky is the limit for production for the elite quarterback, but most of his value is captured through the stack more than individually; Stafford is QB14/19 and QB12/14 across sites but his correlated skill players rank more highly, floating the overall potential.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
Kyren Williams is a playable RB10 by points and RB5 by value on DraftKings; he slips the other way on FanDuel as RB10 by points but RB15 by value for a $7,900 price tag. Williams has been excellent to start 2026, putting up 5.6 yards per rush attempt on just 12.7 carries per game, good for 1.6 yards over expectation per attempt. Williams gains 3.5 yards before contact and 2.2 yards after it, but has only found the end zone once this season, with teams gearing up slightly more for the run with Nacua out of action. The running back has seen four targets per game on mostly short-yardage opportunities; he has a touchdown catch on the board as well. Williams will likely cede opportunities in the passing game with Nacua back in action; he is typically seen more as a volume-and-touchdown-based running back, he was targeted just 50 times overall out of the backfield last season, catching 36 passes for 281 yards and three touchdowns, adding to his robust total of 10 rushing touchdowns in 17 games. Williams has three straight seasons of more than 1,110 yards and double-digit touchdowns, including back-to-back 1,200-yard seasons. Williams is in play both in and out of stacks, though he may have more standalone appeal as we look to stack the pass-catchers from this offense.
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Blake Corum gains 5.3 yards per rush attempt on 9.3 carries per game; he is an involved backup who draws 1.7 targets to pad his potential touches slightly. The running back has not scored in 2026, but he offers cheap upside as a pivot point in standalone shares, given the steady stream of chances.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
Puka Nacua returns to action after missing two games with a hip issue. Nacua is free from injury designation and reportedly ready to roll in Week 4, with designs on a return to the form that saw him gain a massive 1,715 yards with 10 touchdown catches in 16 games last year. The receiver is elite; he averaged 9.3 yards per target over both of his first two seasons and spiked to 10.3 last year, and has 19 touchdown catches in 44 career games. Nacua typically works in the mid-range; he had a 12.8-yard ADOT in the first game of the year, but that came on only a handful of targets. He typically works in the 8-9 yard range and makes explosive plays after the catch. Nacua is WR4 by points on both sites; he is WR7 by value on DraftKings but falls slightly as WR15 by value on the FanDuel slate at a star’s price of $9,000, of which he is worth every single penny.
Do not sleep on Davante Adams’ potential for touchdown scoring even with Nacua back in action. The veteran star caught 14 touchdown passes in 14 games alongside Nacua last year, giving him plenty of fantasy scoring potential despite just 789 yards on 60 catches from his 114 targets. Adams showed just how much is left in the tank with two big games in Nacua’s absence, putting up 195 yards and two touchdown catches on 8-of-10 receptions in Week 2 against the Giants and seven catches for 137 yards but no touchdowns in last week’s game at Denver. Adams is operating at a 17.2-yard average depth of target, with Stafford managing just a 65.52% on-target rate on his chances; he could have even more on the board right now with more accurate passing. The receiver garners a 43.46% air yards share, but that will come down with primary targeting shifting back to Nacua. With all eyes looking the other way, there is major potential for a lower-owned touchdown or more from Davante Adams as WR7 by points and WR16 by value on DraftKings, and WR6/12 on FanDuel in Week 4.
Tier 2:
Tyler Higbee leads a highly involved, busy tight end room as TE22/21 and TE18/18 across sites in Week 4, but the Rams are getting everyone at the position involved to some degree, with their league-leading use of 13 personnel sets. Higbee sees 4.3 targets per game, but that number was skewed by a huge spike to 11 in last week’s contest, gaining 1.32 yards per route run over 18.7 routes per game overall in three games, with his lone touchdown coming in last week’s breakout performance.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Colby Parkinson is questionable to play as he recovers from multiple injuries. Parkinson draws just 1.7 targets per game and has run 18, 10, and 12 routes from Week 1 through 3. With the declining rate of route-running and targeting, and multiple mouths to feed, there is no truly reliable option, and Parkinson is simply in the mix as TE25/24 and TE26/28.
Davis Allen is TE34/33 and TE30/29, he ran a season-high 10 routes last week, picking up three targets and catching a pair of them for 19 yards. Allen is infrequently targted despite playing more than 30 snaps in back-to-back games, he is a less-likely but not entirely absent option at the position.
Jordan Whittington ran 14 routes over 21 snaps with the offense in Week 3 after missing the Week 2 game, but failed to draw a target. He was targeted one time over 13 routes and 25 snaps in Week 1, catching the pass for an eight-yard gain. The team is simply out of opportunities by the time they get to Whittington; there is too much concentration of volume at the top of the depth chart for the Rams for there to be a reliable depth play in this receiver room, and Whittington lacks appeal on shorter chances than teammate Konata Mumpfield, who is ranked slightly higher on the back of 3.7 targets per game, including eight last week, and 1.36 yards per route run over an average of 25.7 routes per game. Between the two, Mumpfield is the slightly more desirable receiver as he also offers big play potential at a 16.4-yard ADOT, good for 16.08% of the air yards. Neither of the two options is a particularly good play in Week 4.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 4 points / 9 value; FanDuel: 2 points / 15 value
Best Stacking Options: Stafford-Nacua-Adams +/- Williams
Best One-off: Puka Nacua
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Davante Adams
Wildcard: Konata Mumpfield
Miami Dolphins
Game Total: 38.5 (MIA +10.5 / 14.0)
Offense: 3.8 ypa rush (45.09%) / 7.3 ypa pass (54.91%) / 12.0 ppg
oppDEF: 3.5 ypa rush / 5.5 nypa pass / 40.3% pressure / 10.94% sack / 3.51% int / 13.7 ppg
Key Player: Malik Willis
Setting: exactly one / exactly two
Team Group: Malik Washington, Ollie Gordon (on/off), Jaylen Wright (on/off), Chris Bell, Greg Dulcich, Jalen Tolbert, Will Kacmarek (on/off; large field)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Jordan Addison, Aaron Jones Sr., TJ Hockenson, Jauan Jennings, Demond Claiborne (on/off), Tai Felton, Myles Price
Game Notes:
Quarterback
Nope. That should be the one word lingering in any NFL DFS gamer’s head as they consider rostering anything coming out of the Miami offense in a terrible spot in Week 4. The team has been awful on offense over three weeks and is now without their star running back for the remainder of the season. Miami draws an elite Minnesota defense that pressures the quarterback at a 40.3% rate with a 10.94% sack rate (14) and 3.51% interception rate (4) in three games. The Vikings are allowing just 3.5 yards per rush attempt, fourth in football, and 5.5 net yards per pass, good for fifth-best in the league. Miami simply will not hold up to this pressure, and quarterback Malik Willis is going to be in trouble all game. The best play to come out of this game is probably Minnesota’s DST, potentially followed by Miami’s DST as a value play. Overall, Willis has a 57.0% completion rate, sitting 2.7 points below expectation for the year, while throwing for 209 yards per game with one touchdown pass and two interceptions in three games; these are not NFL-caliber numbers. Willis has been OK on the ground, gaining 5.9 yards per rush attempt on 5.7 carries per game and scoring a rushing touchdown, but that is not going to be enough by a long shot in Week 4. Willis is QB21 by points and QB16 by value on DraftKings; he rates as QB21/18 on FanDuel.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Ollie Gordon II was a popular waiver wire pickup after carrying the ball 17 times for 41 yards and a touchdown, with another 14 yards gained on 3-of-3 receptions filling in after the devastating injury to De’Von Achane at the outset of Week 3’s contest. Gordon will share the opportunity with Jaylen Wright, who is technically above him on the depth chart but is nursing an injury of his own. Wright was out of action entirely in Week 3 but is expected to play in Week 4. Gordon played 15 snaps across the first two weeks of the season, carrying the ball three times total and going untargeted over seven routes run. Wright played in Weeks 1 and 2, seeing a total of seven snaps with the offense and carrying the ball three times while also going untargeted over three routes run. Neither of these is a good option; they rate as: Gordon – RB25/27 and RB22/22; Wright – RB39/45 and RB37/46.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
Malik Washington is WR30/20 and WR25/22 across sites; he is the best of a bad bunch of options in the Miami offense. The receiver leads the team with 32.3 routes run per game and 1.57 yards per route run, working to a 12.0-yard ADOT for a 28.03% air yards share, but he has failed to score and sees just a 60.87% catchable target rate from the team’s low-end signal-caller. Washington is not much more than a dart throw, but someone has to hit at least Tier 2 in this offense.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Chris Bell has a 17.6-yard average depth of target for a 21.87% air yards share over 3.7 targets per game; he saw an uplift to eight targets in the Week 3 contest, catching four of them for 67 yards but did not score. The rookie third-rounder was taken 94th overall out of Louisville; he is a big-bodied 6’2″ 220lbs target who could see a chance or two in the red zone… in the fictional universe in which this team gets to the red zone against a good defense in Week 4. Bell is WR48/29 and WR41/26 but is ultimately just inexpensive in a bad spot.
Greg Dulcich is a low-end TE20/20 and TE22/19 who draws four targets per game over his 25.7 weekly routes, delivering just 1.17 yards per route run overall. Dulcich has not scored and garners just an 8.25% air yards share on his limited 5.7-yard ADOT.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 24 points / 22 value; FanDuel: 23 points / 20 value
Best Stacking Options: Don’t. (Willis-Washington-Gordon)
Best One-off: Malik Washington
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Chris Bell
Wildcard: Chris Bell
Minnesota Vikings
Game Total: 38.5 (MIA +10.5 / 14.0)
Offense: 3.6 ypa rush (50.9%) / 6.3 ypa pass (49.1%) / 23.7 ppg
oppDEF: 3.5 ypa rush / 9.1 nypa pass / 17.3% pressure / 0.0% sack / 3.95% int / 28.7 ppg
Key Player: Kyler Murray
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Jordan Addison, Aaron Jones Sr., TJ Hockenson, Jauan Jennings, Demond Claiborne (on/off), Tai Felton, Myles Price
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Malik Washington, Ollie Gordon (on/off), Jaylen Wright (on/off), Chris Bell, Greg Dulcich, Jalen Tolbert, Will Kacmarek (on/off; large field)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
Kyler Murray returned from an early Week 1 concussion in last weekend’s game but failed to get much going, completing just 15 of 29 pass attempts for 168 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Murray threw an interception in Week 1 despite playing only 11 snaps before getting knocked out of the game, and is now multiple seasons removed from any semblance of regular high-quality performances. The quarterback benefits from facing a terrible Miami pass defense that allows a league-worst 9.1 yards per pass attempt and has yet to sack a quarterback, but the Dolphins do have three interceptions to their credit in three games, and Murray could feed them chances for more. Miami’s defense has actually been somewhat stout against the run, limiting opponents to just 3.5 yards per rush attempt, good for 12th in football. The Dolphins will try to dare Murray to beat them through the air, not a challenge they would typically throw at the feet of more capable quarterbacks. Murray will be without superstar Justin Jefferson, instead relying on Jordan Addison as his top option in Week 4. The quarterback sees a strong value marker against the bad pass defense, he is QB10 by points and QB3 by value on DraftKings and QB11/5 on FanDuel.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
Aaron Jones Sr. is RB11/9 on DraftKings and RB11/5 on FanDuel but could take a bit of a hit in the morning projections update. Jones gains 3.9 yards per rush attempt on 17.3 carries per game for the season, 2.6 yards before contact and 1.3 after, with a 1.92% broken tackle rate and one touchdown on the year. Given the massive slant in the Vegas line against a bad Dolphins team, Jones sees a bit of natural uptick in his projection and ranking, but he should be considered a lower-end player who is very much on the potential bust list, particularly if he fails to make his way into the end zone.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Demond Claiborne and DeeJay Dallas are limited backup options who have barely touched the ball this season. Neither has actual NFL DFS appeal, but if forced, we would lean toward Dallas.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
Jordan Addison sees a bit of a spike in quality both from the opposing defense and from the absence of his superstar teammate. Addison had his best game of 2026 after Justin Jefferson exited the Week 3 contest in the first half, posting five catches for 90 yards and a touchdown on nine targets over 34 routes run. The receiver had run just 25 and 23 routes over Weeks 1 and 2, and had produced nothing in the passing game. After the 90-yard performance, Addison now has 111 yards on seven catches total for the season. The receiver has been a far cry from the player who scored 10 times as a rookie in 2023 and nine more times in his sophomore campaign in 2024. Addison dropped off the map as the team’s quarterback play fell apart in 2025, putting up just three touchdowns and 610 yards on 42 catches over 14 outings. Addison still works in big play territory with a strong 13.8-yard ADOT and a 40.26% air yards share, a likely culprit for the low-end production to date is the 43.75% catchable target rate he has seen from the team’s quarterbacks. As the top option in a limited passing attack, it will be interesting to see if Addison can return to form and continue last week’s success; he is the top option in a bad offense in a good spot in Week 4; something has to give in one direction or the other.
Tier 2:
TJ Hockenson is TE10 by points but TE1 by value on DraftKings; he rates as TE9/TE5 on the FanDuel slate. Hockenson sees 4.3 targets per game, gaining 1.25 yards per route run over 20.3 routes per game, and has scored once this season. The tight end draws a 7.2-yard average depth of target for a 15.22% air yards share. Hockenson has been limited by a 69.23% catchable target rate, though that is nowhere near as bad as what Addison has dealt with. Ultimately, Hockenson has not caught more than four passes in a game or gained more than 36 yards this season, and the last time he caught more than six passes or gained more than 100 yards was in Week 12… of 2024.
Jauan Jennings has more than enough talent to shine in a sneaky spot as everyone focuses on Addison or Hockenson in drawing shares against the Dolphins, but he has yet to deliver in two games played for his new team. Jennings played 30 snaps in Week 1, running 17 routes but failing to catch his lone target. The receiver missed Week 2 but was in action in Week 3 with Jefferson coming off the board. He played 47 snaps and ran 24 routes but managed to catch just one pass for one yard, disappointing output for a player who made significant plays for several seasons in San Francisco. Jennings caught 55 balls for 643 yards and nine touchdowns just last year and had a career-high 77 catches for 975 yards and six scores the season before. As WR46/32 and WR46/44, there is not a ton of visible potential, but if Murray happens to get in gear against this defense, Jennings could come along for the ride as a surprise instead of Addison.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Tai Felton ranks outside of the top-70 receivers; he ran 23 routes and was targeted twice over 32 snaps in Week 3, and his next catch will be his fourth in the NFL after 20 games, and first of this season.
Myles Price also rates poorly across the board, approaching WR100 after running just three routes last week. He did run 17 routes and drew one target on 26 snaps in Week 2 but there has been zero production and there is little-to-no reason to expect it to begin in Week 4.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 15 points / 20 value; FanDuel: 16 points / 8 value
Best Stacking Options: Murray-Addison-Jennings +/- Hockenson
Best One-off: Jordan Addison
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Jauan Jennings
Wildcard: Jauan Jennings
New England Patriots
Game Total: 49.5 (NE +7.0 / 21.25)
Offense: 3.9 ypa rush (47.22%) / 7.3 ypa pass (52.78%) / 12.0 ppg
oppDEF: 4.0 ypa rush / 6.4 nypa pass / 29.0% pressure / 7.56% sack / 0.91% int / 26.0 ppg
Key Player: Drake Maye
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: TreVeyon Henderson (on/off), Rhamondre Stevenson (on/off), Romeo Doubs, Hunter Henry, Mack Hollins, DeMario Douglas, Kyle Williams
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: James Cook III, DJ Moore, Dalton Kincaid, Khalil Shakir, Keon Coleman, Dawson Knox (on/off), Joshua Palmer (large field)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
Drake Maye’s total implosion has been a massive problem for New England’s start to the season. The quarterback has thrown just one touchdown pass in three games and, even worse, has thrown away six interceptions. Maye does have a 64.0% completion rate, good for 2.4 points above expectation on the balls that end up with his receivers, but the total lack of production and the giveaways have hurt NFL DFS gamers as badly as they have impacted the Patriots. Maye was terrific in 2025, his second season in the NFL, throwing for 4,394 yards with 31 touchdowns against just eight interceptions, with another 450 yards and four rushing touchdowns to his credit. Maye has not found the end zone on the ground in 2026 either; his 82 yards on 15 rushing attempts have been empty, and now he faces a Buffalo defense that can get to the quarterback. The Bills have a 29.0% pressure rate and 7.56% sack rate (9) in three games, and they are rendering their division rivals as seven-point underdogs. Maye has a chance to get back on track as the season goes along, and we will surely uncover good-looking spots to play him, but this does not look like one. The quarterback is QB8 by points but QB11 by value on DraftKings and QB8/7 on the FanDuel board.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
TreVeyon Henderson and Rhamondre Stevenson share opportunities in the backfield, but Henderson puts up the higher-quality rushing attempts with 4.1 yards per attempt this season. Henderson missed Week 1 and Stevenson ended up carrying the ball 18 times for 51 yards and catching another five passes on six targets. With Henderson back in action in Weeks 2 and 3, Stevenson has carried the ball just 13 times and caught four passes combined, while the younger running back saw 24 carries but just one catch across the two games. The best running back performance on this team belongs to Henderson in Week 2, he put up 76 yards on 16 carries with a rushing touchdown, but ultimately the volume is lacking, the offense has been bad, and there is only limited touchdown-based appeal.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
n/a
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
Romeo Doubs is the Patriots’ top receiver, and that could be part of the problem for Drake Maye. Doubs was a productive member of a group of receivers in Green Bay, putting up 724 yards and six touchdowns over six games last season, but he is not a true number one. The receiver has been held to just six catches across three games in 2026, and has failed to score, though he did go for 96 yards in Week 2. Doubs gains 1.84 yards per route run over 26.3 routes per game and operates on a huge 18.4-yard ADOT that puts him in scoring territory with ease; he is still the top pairing with Maye shares, but this is a bottom-third stack in Week 4. Doubs is WR29/28 and WR28/25 across sites.
Hunter Henry sees 3.3 targets per week, gaining 1.01 yards per route run over 23.3 routes per game. Henry has not scored this season; the lone passing touchdown went to his rookie backup, Eli Raridon, who is barely relevant for DFS purposes. Henry caught three passes in each of the first two games but dipped to just one catch for five yards in Week 3; his last touchdown came in the Wildcard round last season. Henry is TE13 by points but TE7 by value on DraftKings; he is TE15/12 on the FanDuel slate.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Mack Hollins and DeMario Douglas rate as little more than depth plays in Week 4, with Hollins looking more appealing as WR42/30 and WR32/35 across sites. The receiver still has big play potential at his 12.1-yard ADOT, and he has gained 2.17 yards per route run over 24.0 routes per game this season, but has failed to score. Hollins caught just two touchdown passes last year, catching 46 balls for 550 yards total, and had five touchdowns but only 378 yards on 31 catches the season before. Douglas, meanwhile, has just one catch in each of the last two games but did catch five passes for a whopping 20 yards in Week 1. The receiver had three touchdown catches in each of the last two seasons, but has never gained even 650 yards in a year in the NFL.
Kyle Williams is another dart throw at one big scoring play. Williams works at a 15.2-yard average depth of target but has seen just 1.7 chances per game this season and has put up a mere 1.38 yards per route run on 10.7 routes per game. All of the team’s receivers need a bounceback performance from their quarterback, but Williams would need something else to happen to someone above him on the depth chart, or one big chance, to make any Week 4 waves.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 19 points / 18 value; FanDuel: 18 points / 16 value
Best Stacking Options: Maye-Doubs-Henry
Best One-off: TreVeyon Henderson
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Romeo Doubs
Wildcard: Hunter Henry
New York Giants
Game Total: 44.5 (NYG +2.5 / 21.0)
Offense: 3.9 ypa rush (50.28%) / 5.8 ypa pass (49.72%) / 15.3 ppg
oppDEF: 4.6 ypa rush / 8.4 nypa pass / 22.2% pressure / 4.76% sack / 1.25% int / 27.0 ppg
Key Player: Jameis Winston
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Cam Skattebo, Malik Nabers, Isaiah Likely, Malachi Fields, Darnell Mooney, Najee Hariss (on/off)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Trey McBride, Jeremiyah Love, Michael Wilson, Marvin Harrison Jr., Tyler Allgeier (on/off), Kendrick Bourne, Elijah Higgins (on/off)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
Not even a matchup against the low-end Cardinals defense seems likely to spark much of a fire in the Giants’ lackluster passing game. Veteran Jameis Winston remains at the helm in Week 4, despite the team’s acquisition of JJ McCarthy, a situation that could change at any moment during Sunday’s contest, sucking any potential out of a wildcard Winston share. The quarterback was lousy in a winning effort last week; the Giants kicked four field goals and beat a bad Titans team, but Winston managed to complete just 14 of 22 passes for 118 yards on the heels of a Week 2 game that saw him throw for 111 yards with an interception on 11-of-27 passing. Overall, the quarterback has managed just 4.7 yards per pass attempt in his two outings, with zero touchdown passes and an interception; there is no reason to believe, unless one wants to count the fact that the amiable Winston is the league’s most popular nice guy.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
Cam Skattebo is the Giants’ best option purely by default. The hard-headed battering ram gains just 3.5 yards per rush attempt on 16.7 carries per game and runs headlong into walls with a limiting 1.3 yards before contact per rush attempt. Skattebo will find touchdowns here and there, even in the low-end offense, if he manages to stay on the field, but he is not a premium running back by any measure, and he has only limited potential in the passing game with 2.7 weekly targets. Skattebo has one rushing touchdown over three games; he is RB12/10 and RB12/11 but can play down from that point in a terrible offense that will not put him in position to succeed, even against one of the worst defenses in football.
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Najee Harris gains 4.5 yards per rush attempt on 6.5 carries per game, but he has very little going for him as RB40/41 and RB39/38.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
Malik Nabers is gaining 1.33 yards per route run over 24.0 routes per game, picking up a 23.2% target share with three of those looks coming in the red zone, but zero touchdowns and just 32.0 yards per game in the broken passing attack. Nabers is playing tentative football; he lacks the upside that was overflowing prior to his career-changing injury, and he simply may never get it back. The receiver is still the top option in this passing game, but that does not put him in much better position than you, the reader of this article. As WR20 by points but WR36 by value, the receiver is also now mispriced on DraftKings and does not land any better as WR23/30 on the FanDuel board. Nabers caught six passes on 25 routes and nine targets in Week 1, putting up a season-high 69 yards. He caught one pass for a yard in Week 2, and was held to just 26 yards despite catching five of his six Week 3 targets. Nabers does have a 26.49% air yards share on a 10.1-yard ADOT that Winston can hit from time to time, and he is facing a compliant defense that is yielding 8.4 net yards per pass on the season, 30th in the league, but there is not a lot of there there, in this lousy Giants offense.
Isaiah Likely is the team’s next-best target; he had a big Week 1 and looked primed for a strong season before Winston’s takeover, gaining 78 yards and scoring twice on eight catches from the team’s original starter. With Winston at the helm the last two weeks, Likely has managed to put up just 46 yards on seven catches combined, and has not seen the end zone. He is TE11/15 on DraftKings and sees only slightly more value as TE10/9 on the FanDuel board. Likely is a talented pass-catcher who can draw wildcard shares as a standalone option here and there across a large portolio of lineups in large field contests, the opposing defense is very bad and he has a nose for the end zone, but the opportunity is thin and utilization should be conservative.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Malachi Fields slots into the number two receiver role, which in this offense amounts to four weekly targets on 22.3 routes per game. Fields has been lousy with just 1.1 yards per route run in early returns, but his 17.8-yard average depth of target and 29.05% air yards share are both team-leading marks, and he is essentially invisible to the NFL DFS public as a total lottery ticket receiver for one big scoring play. Fields is a $4,000 DraftKings option and a $5,100 FanDuel receiver, landing him at just WR53/59 and WR55/53 across sites in Week 4.
Darnell Mooney is on this team, but one could be forgiven for forgetting that fact, given his six total catches for 95 total yards over three games. Mooney is a veteran receiver who was last relevant in Atlanta in 2024, putting up 992 yards and five touchdown catches on 64-0f-106 receiving. His lone 1,000-yard season came way back in 2021, his second year in the league, and he has never had a season of more than five touchdown catches. Mooney is WR56/61 and WR58/59.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 18 points / 17 value; FanDuel: 19 points / 19 value
Best Stacking Options: Don’t. (Winston-Nabers-Likely +/- Fields)
Best One-off: Cam Skattebo
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Isaiah Likely
Wildcard: Malachi Fields
New York Jets
Game Total: 43.0 (NYJ +3.5 / 19.75)
Offense: 3.3 ypa rush (43.37%) / 7.7 ypa pass (56.63%) / 21.3 ppg
oppDEF: 5.1 ypa rush / 6.8 ypa pass / 32.7% pressure / 7.69% sack / 3.57% int / 17.7 ppg
Key Player: Geno Smith
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Garrett Wilson, Braelon Allen, Kenyon Sadiq, Isaiah Williams, Jeremy Ruckert (on/off), Sterling Shepard, Malik McClain
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: D’Andre Swift, Luther Burden III, Colston Loveland, Rome Odunze, Kyle Monangai (on/off), Kalif Raymond, Cole Kmet (on/off), Jahade Walker (very large field), Zavion Thomas (very large field)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
While quarterback Geno Smith does not rate particularly well as an individual, he is at the helm of a loosely interesting value stack that has found moderate success in the passing game in 2026. Smith has delivered 261.0 yards per game while completing passes at a fantastic 12.9 points above expectation for a 75.0% completion rate, throwing four touchdowns and zero interceptions in three games. Smith has led the Jets to 7.7 yards per pass attempt on 7.3 intended air yards per attempt, and he has a few high-quality targets to work with in Week 4. Oddly, years after he was originally drafted, Geno Smith has become the best quarterback in New York City. He is just QB19/17 on both sites, but the Jets rate as Stack 14 by points and Stack 6 by value on DraftKings, and sit as Stack 15 by points and Stack 10 by value on FanDuel.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
Braelon Allen was a popular pickup in season-long formats this week, with Breece Hall out of commission with a quad injury. Allen is a talented backup who could put up strong numbers in the starting job, though his 3.2 yards per rush attempt this season fail to inspire. The running back picked up 3.6 yards per attempt on 92 carries for 334 yards and a pair of touchdowns back in 2024 as a rookie, and pushed that mark to 4.2 yards per attempt over limited action in just four games last year. Allen has four NFL touchdowns to his credit, including one on his 19 carries this year. The running back should see steady volume with only Isaiah Davis competing for carries; he is RB17 by points but RB8 by value on DraftKings and lands as RB15 by points and RB3 by value on FanDuel in Week 4. Allen and his teammates face a Bears defense that has yielded 5.1 yards per rush attempt this season, worse than all but one team in football. Allen has a clear path to value, he is likely to be a popular play from the discounted price point.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Isaiah Davis has played exclusively on special teams so far this year, a firm reason to believe that the lead job is Allen’s to carry. Davis did get into action as the backup last year, suiting up for 16 games and carrying the ball a total of 43 times for 236 yards and a touchdown. The steady gains and a bit of acumen in the passing attack could put him on the field in a secondary role, but Davis is just RB41/39 and RB38/36 across sites in Week 4 and would need a guarantee of a touchdown to truly provide impactful value.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
Garrett Wilson is the team’s top talent and a beneficiary of the accurate passing streak that Smith has brought to the table over three games. Wilson has returned to form early in 2026, posting 2.27 yards per route run over 35.7 routes per contest, and scoring twice. The receiver picks up a significant 38.35% air yards share on a 10.5-yard average depth of target and his team-leading volume. Wilson has big play potential and has already posted a 19.05% explosive play rate on receptions for the season. The fourth-year talent put up 1,000+ receiving yards in each of his first three seasons before missing more than half of last year and posting just 395 yards and four touchdown catches. Wilson caught his first touchdown of the season in Week 2, a five-catch 57-yard performance, and he nearly doubled those marks with 10 catches for 107 yards in Week 3, with number two option Adonai Mitchell out of action. Wilson should see similar opportunities this week in the absence of both Mitchell and running back Breece Hall; he was targeted 13 times last week and may see even more against a pass defense allowing 6.8 net yards per pass attempt to sit 26th in the league. Wilson is WR5 by points and WR2 by value on DraftKings; he is WR5/WR4 on the FanDuel board.
Tier 2:
Kenyon Sadiq is an interesting rookie tight end who was the position’s sole first-round pick this year. Sadiq is providing strong early returns for his team; he scored on a rushing play in Week 1 and picked up his second touchdown in a huge Week 3 performance that saw him catch seven of eight targets for 105 yards and a touchdown. Sadiq is questionable with a back issue that he was able to practice through earlier in the week, he should suit up but this position takes a big hit if he does not, as Mason Taylor is also out for Week 4.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Isaiah Williams is ranked outside of the top-55 receivers after catching just one pass for 21 yards on two targets over 41 routes in Week 3. Williams had a better game against Green Bay in Week 2, catching six of six targets on 40 routes run, but he gained just 34 yards in the process and is entirely unaquainted with NFL end zones despite three seasons in the league already in the books.
Sterling Shepard, Malik McClain, and Jamaal Pritchett offer little-to-no reliable value, they have one target and one catch over a combined 35 routes in Week 3 (Shepard 1-1 for three yards on 24 routes).
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 14 points / 6 value; FanDuel: 15 points / 10 value
Best Stacking Options: Smith-Wilson-Sadiq +/- Allen
Best One-off: Garrett Wilson
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Braelon Allen
Wildcard: Kenyon Sadiq
Philadelphia Eagles
Game Total: 43.5 (PHI +3.5 / 20.0)
Offense: 4.4 ypa rush (44.19%) / 7.0 ypa pass (55.81%) / 18.3 ppg
oppDEF: 4.0 ypa rush / 5.0 nypa pass / 21.0% pressure / 2.91% sack / 3.00% int / 21.0 ppg
Key Player: Jalen Hurts
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Saquon Barkley, Dontayvion Wicks, Makai Lemon, Zach Ertz, Tank Bigsby (on/off), Will Shipley (on/off), Elijah Moore (large field), Darius Cooper (large field)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Puka Nacua, Davante Adams, Kyren Williams, Blake Corum, Tyler Higbee (on/off), Colby Parkinson (on/off), Konata Mumpfield, Davis Allen (on/off), Tutu Atwell (large field), Jordan Whittington (large field)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
The Rams and Eagles seem like a pairing that would warrant better than a 43.5-point game total in a week of high-scoring spots around the league. Either or both of these teams could provide more upside than might be apparent in the Vegas data; there are premium options across a variety of situations and prices on both sides, though the best angle is likely to view Eagles skill players as bring-back plays in stacks of higher-flying Rams. One reason for this is that Jalen Hurts will be without his top receiver, with DeVonta Smith out of action in Week 4. When looking to stack Eagles, Hurts is the linchpin; the quarterback offers major scoring potential as an individual, though he has just one rushing touchdown in three games, and is a capable quarterback even without Smith active. Hurts has thrown for 7.1 yards per pass attempt with five touchdowns and three interceptions on the season, acceptable but not great numbers from a talented quarterback delivering slightly below his expected completion rate at 64.0%. Hurts is QB9 by points but falls badly to QB24 by value on DraftKings; he is QB10 by points and, similarly, QB21 by value at a high FanDuel price.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
The best bet in this offense could be running back Saquon Barkley, who gains 5.1 yards per rush attempt on 11.3 carries per game and has lost a few big gains to penalties that would make his numbers even more appealing. Barkley is a superstar coming off of a down season that followed a historic one; it would be no surprise to see him dramatically exceed his 2025 numbers, even if he does not soar to the heights of the 2024 championship run. Barkley yet to score a rushing touchdown this season but sees clear field on most of his plays, gaining 2.4 yards before and 2.7 yards after first contact. The running back posted 82 yards on 15 carries in Week 3 and had a similar Week 1 performance, with a lousy Week 2 game in between. Barkley could see an uptick in targets with Smith out of action; the typically highly-involved pass catcher has been limited to exactly two targets per game over the first three contests of 2026, posting an 11.76% explosive play rate on receptions. Barkley is RB7 by points but RB12 by value on DraftKings; he is RB6/13 on the FanDuel slate but is always in play for slate-breaking performances and multiple-touchdown days.
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Tank Bigsby sees just 4.7 carries and one target per game; he does not have the volume to drive much potential, though he could continue to poach rushing touchdowns all season, a major threat to Barkley’s upside considering how frequently the team also chooses to have the quarterback punch the ball in when it comes to goal-line situations. Bigsby is just barely inside of the top-50 options at running back across the board in Week 4.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
Dontayvion Wicks should step up to the top job in the passing game in Week 4, with DeVonta Smith out of play. Wicks has been a buzzy option of late, seeing a 14.1-yard average depth of target and garnering a 31.2% air yards share in early action, and outplaying rookie Makai Lemon in the number two role. Wicks has a touchdown on the board and has delivered 2.06 yards per route run over his 29.0 routes per game this season. The downfield bomber’s best season was probably his rookie year, 2023, when he put up 581 yards on 39 catches from just 58 targets, scoring four times; he had five touchdowns the following season but just three in 17 games since. Wicks is WR24 by points but climbs all the way to WR9 on DraftKings, where he is likely to pick up popularity. The receiver is WR22/19 on FanDuel, where he is far less interesting overall.
Makai Lemon was taken in the first round, 20th overall, out of USC in this year’s draft with the idea that he would join Smith and replace AJ Brown in the offense; to say that has not come to fruition would be a dramatic understatement. Lemon is living up to the name with just 0.42 yards per route run on 30.0 routes per game as a rookie. He has delivered just 12.7 yards per game over his first three NFL outings and has not cracked even the 30-yard mark. With a big opportunity to finally hit the board in an offense that should be throwing the ball to keep pace with the Rams, Lemon could deliver on a cheap price tag, but he is not much more than a dart throw given the low-end performances to date. Lemon is WR35/24 and WR35/34 across sites.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Zach Ertz rejoined the Eagles via the practice squad and has been elevated, along with Josiah Deguara, for the Week 4 game. Ertz was active last week, playing 19 snaps and running 11 routes but drawing just a pair of targets and making one catch for nine yards in an irrelevant performance. The veteran tight end suffered a devastating knee injury last season but is reportedly fully healthy, now 35-years-old, Ertz is a mostly touchdown dependent dart throw at a few potential catches.
Darius Cooper played 31 snaps in Week 2 but only five last week and eight in Week 1, he caught two of three targets in the Week 2 outlier, including a touchdown catch. Cooper is a second-year receiver with limited appeal as WR71/72 and WR68/66 across sites.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 16 points / 14 value; FanDuel: 14 points / 18 value
Best Stacking Options: Hurts-Barkley-Wicks
Best One-off: Saquon Barkley
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Makai Lemon
Wildcard: Makai Lemon
Seattle Seahawks
Game Total: 43.0 (SEA -7.5 / 25.25)
Offense: 3.8 ypa rush (44.69%) / 8.6 ypa pass (55.31%) / 25.0 ppg
oppDEF: 3.6 ypa rush / 7.1 nypa pass / 24.5% pressure / 7.07% sack / 3.26% int / 25.3 ppg
Key Player: Sam Darnold
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Rashid Shaheed, AJ Barner, Cooper Kupp, Emanuel Wilson, George Holani (on/off), Tory Horton (large field)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Omarion Hampton, Ladd McConkey, Quentin Johnston, Tre’ Harris, Oronde Gadsden II, Keaton Mitchell (on/off)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
Sam Darnold rates better for value on DraftKings than he does in points, landing as QB15 by scoring potential but QB7 from a points-per-dollar perspective. The quarterback is just QB15/15 on the FanDuel slate, with most of his value coming from his connection with superstar Jaxon Smith-Njigba. Darnold was knocked out of the team’s Week 1 game after just five snaps, missing Week 2 but returning in Week 3 to throw for a massive 379 yards on 31-of-45 passing, with four touchdowns and a pair of interceptions against the low-end Commanders defense. Darnold is putting up 8.3 yards per pass attempt with a lot of quality coming after the catch, given just 6.6 intended air yards per attempt. Much of that quality comes from Smith-Njigba’s absurd skill set. The Seahawks are without rookie starter Jadarian Price at running back, going with a combination of Emmanuel Wilson and George Holani that simply seems likely to push them even more into throwing the ball.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Emmanuel Wilson is RB26/23 and RB23/21 across DraftKings and FanDuel and is best left for season-long formats in Week 4. The running back gains 3.4 yards per rush attempt on 10.7 carries per game in a small 2026 sample that includes a 21-carry, 92-yard performance against Arizona in Week 2. Wilson is unlikely to repeat that outing against a defense giving up just 3.8 yards per rush attempt this season. The running back carried the ball nine times for just 14 yards last week against the Commanders, adding nothing in the passing game despite running 14 routes. Wilson is the leading option by default and is a better bet than George Holani, but the Seahawks will almost certainly take to the air in Week 4.
George Holani carried the ball just three times for 10 yards last week and four times for 13 yards in Week 2, gaining 3.5 yards per rush attempt overall on the season with another 7.1 yards per target coming on 2.3 targets per game in the passing attack. Holani is unlikely to stand out unless he breaks one of those short-yardage looks or picks up a cheap opportunity in the red zone passing game. The running back is RB33/30 and RB30/28 across sites but he could see slightly more if Wilson fails ahead of him.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier S:
Jaxon Smith-Njigba has been on a tier unto himself all season, and nothing is likely to change in Week 4. The elite wide receiver has six touchdown catches in three games; other pass-catchers seem to be an afterthought when it comes to putting the ball in the end zone. “JSN” delivers a ridiculous 4.35 yards per route run over his 31.0 weekly routes, garnering a 37.9% target share on routes run, and a 54.47% air yards share over his 9.6-yard average depth of target; he is a mind-boggling talent in all the best ways and, while this matters not at all, he is a joy to have in lineups given the weekly game-breaking plays. Smith-Njigba is an elite WR1/WR3 on DraftKings and stands tall as WR1 across the board on FanDuel. And this is a week in which we are raving about Lamb, Chase, Higgins, Pickens, Wilson, and more; the Seattle receiver is simply that good at his NFL DFS job.
Tier 2:
Rashid Shaheed is drawing a surprisingly light 8.4-yard average depth of target this season, reigning in his production somewhat compared to his history and expectations coming into the year. The speed burner is typical further downfield, and his results have been lacking in shorter patterns to this point. Shaheed gains just 0.82 yards per route run on his 21.7 routes per game, and has not scored a touchdown in 2026. That could all change with one or two big plays. The entire world knows that Seattle wants to go to “JSN” again and again; eventually, this will create chances for a player as talented as Shaheed. For now, the receiver is just WR40 by points but WR21 by value on DraftKings; he is a lower-end WR43/31 on FanDuel.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Cooper Kupp rates lower than his teammate; the veteran is just WR49/45 and WR50/50 across sites in Week 4. Kupp has a touchdown catch on the board and is operating at a 9.8-yard ADOT for a 13.93% air yards share, but everything flows through Smith-Njigba.
AJ Barner is a mix-in tight end option with a bit of touchdown dependence, given the general lack of available targets. Barner is the lead play at the position with Eric Saubert and Elijah Arroyo well behind him in opportunities. Barner sees 4.0 targets per game and spiked to nine in Week 3’s matchup. Barner caught five of those nine targets for 69 yards but has not found the end zone yet in 2026 after scoring six times last year and four as a rookie in 2024. Arroyo
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 12 points / 16 value; FanDuel: 12 points / 12 value
Best Stacking Options: Darnold-“JSN”-Shaheed +/- Barner
Best One-off: Jaxon Smith-Njigba
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Rashid Shaheed
Wildcard: Cooper Kupp
San Francisco 49ers
Game Total: 48.5 (SF -2.5 / 25.5)
Offense: 5.1 ypa rush (49.08%) / 9.5 ypa pass (50.92%) / 32.7 ppg
oppDEF: 5.1 ypa rush / 6.0 nypa pass / 22.6% pressure / 6.72% sack / 3.60% int / 23.3 ppg
Key Player: Brock Purdy
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Christian McCaffrey, George Kittle, Deebo Samuel Sr., Mike Evans (Q), Jordan Watkins, Kaelon Black, Jacob Cowing (large field), KhaDarel Hodge (large field), Kyle Juszczyk (on/off; very large field)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Jaylen Waddle, Courtland Sutton, Pat Bryant, Evan Engram, JK Dobbins (on/off), RJ Harvey (on/off), Troy Franklin (large field)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
Brock Purdy is tied with Kirk Cousins for the league lead with nine touchdown passes over three games, giving the 49ers a big spark in early action. Purdy is completing passes at a 72.0% rate, 7.5 points above expectation, for 9.5 yards per pass attempt, with some of those gains coming after the catch. The quarterback has developed a strong connection with tight end George Kittle as well as newcomer Mike Evans, though the star veteran receiver may be absent as he deals with a rib injury in Week 4. Purdy adds quality with rushing upside, gaining 9.3 yards per attempt on 3.3 carries per game with a rushing touchdown in the books. The quarterback lands as QB5 by points on both sites this week, though his value is a bit limited as QB18 and QB11 in the points-per-dollar category. Purdy draws a Broncos defense that gives up just 6.0 net yards per pass attempt while getting to the quarterback and intercepting passes in early action; Denver has suffered far more against the run with 5.1 yards allowed per rush attempt. Still, Purdy has proven to be a capable NFL DFS talent with weapons in tow; he would lose a bit of quality if Evans does not play but would still be on the board. If the star receiver goes, this is an easy stack in a 48.5-point game.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
Christian McCaffrey is RB1/1 on DraftKings and RB1/2 on the FanDuel slate against a rush defense that is allowing plenty of gains on the ground in 2026. The veteran star gains 4.7 yards per rush attempt on his 11.7 carries per game and adds another 6.1 yards per target on 5.7 targets. McCaffrey has plenty of potential in every aspect of the game, and could see added targeting if Evans is out and there are opportunities up for grabs, not that they would be similarly shaped chances. The running back draws just a 2.4-yard average depth of target, but that does mean he typically sees the ball as he gets out into coverage, not behind the line of scrimmage. He has a 14.29% explosive play rate on receptions this season but has failed to score on a passing play so far. McCaffrey has three rushing touchdowns on the board in 2026 and could pad that total in Week 4.
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Kaelon Black is a rookie understudy with talent but not much of an opportunity. Black carries the ball 8.3 times per game for 4.3 yards per attempt but is uninvoled to this point as a pass-catcher and has not scored or had his number called in the red zone. Black is ranked outside of the top-45 running backs in Week 4.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
George Kittle is TE3 by points on both sites and lands similarly for value as TE5 and TE4 in the points-per-dollar category. The tight end has three touchdown catches in three games, drawing a 23.14% air yards share on his positionally-significant 8.9-yard average depth of target. Kittle is a go-to in the red zone who has already seen four targets in scoring territory. He is putting up a massive 3.05 yards per route run over 19.0 routes per game, and is a major weapon for this offense and an NFL DFS play whether Mike Evans plays or not.
Evans will see an uptick in his projection if he is confirmed as active. The 6’5″ veteran star famously failed to reach 1,000 receiving yards for the first time in his long career in 2025, playing just eight games while dealing with the worst injury he has suffered in his tenure in the league. Evans is still elite; he has already put up two touchdown catches on 12 receptions this season while taking over as the team’s top receiver. He has a team-leading 30.34% air yards share on his 10.9-yard average depth of target that push him into big play territory regularly. Evans is in play if he is on the field, his current rankings do not reflect the true potential.
Tier 2:
Deebo Samuel Sr. will see an uptick if Evans does not play; he is currently projected upward somewhat with Evans still questionable. Samuel is more of a short-yardage and after-the-catch player who has a limted 6.0% air yards share but can always shake things up with chances in the rushing attack as well. He is currently slated as WR23/41 and WR24/37 and will only lose ground if Evans is active.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Brandin Cooks signed with the 49ers practice squad last week and was picked up fully to the active roster two days ago. The veteran receiver is far removed from his last relevant season, 2023 in Dallas, when he put up 657 yards on 54 catches with eight touchdowns. He has three touchdowns since, all of which came over 10 games with Dallas in 2024. Cooks caught five passes for 114 yards in five games for Buffalo and 19 for 165 yards in 10 games for New Orleans last season, failing to score for either team. There is very little potential in play but Cooks could operate as high as number two on the depth chart if Evans is out.
Jordan Watkins saw his first NFL action in Week 3, catching two of two targets over eight routes on 15 snaps with the offense. Meanwhile, Jacob Cowing has played in all three games but is yet to catch a pass despite running 24 routes combined. Neither player has much appeal, all of the action is likely to flow through the team’s stars, regardless of what happens with Evans, it will just be a matter of how the volume is mixed if Evans does play.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 5 points / 4 value; FanDuel: 6 points / 9 value
Best Stacking Options: Purdy-McCaffrey-Kittle +/- Evans
Best One-off: Christian McCaffrey
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Mike Evans
Wildcard: Deebo Samuel Sr.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Game Total: 38.5 (TB +3.5 / 17.5)
Offense: 4.3 ypa rush (37.08%) / 6.2 ypa pass (62.92%) / 20.7 ppg
oppDEF: 4.1 ypa rush / 6.2 nypa pass / 26.0% pressure / 7.22% sack / 2.22% int / 30.3 ppg
Key Player: Jalon Daniels
Setting: at least one / exactly two (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Team Group: Bucky Irving, Emeka Egbuka, Chris Godwin Jr., Cade Otton, Kenny Gainwell (on/off), Ted Hurst III, Tez Johnson (very large field), Sean Tucker (on/off; large field)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Christian Watson, Matthew Golden, Tucker Kraft, MarShawn Lloyd (on/off), Kaleb Johnson (on/off), Chris Brooks (on/off)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
Undrafted rookie Jalon Daniels gets the fast track to starting in the NFL for the next few weeks with starter Baker Mayfield out with a thumb injury on his throwing hand. Daniels played his college ball at Kansas, throwing for 2,531 yards with 22 touchdowns and seven interceptions over a dozen games in his final season, while adding value on the ground with 404 yards and four rushing touchdowns. He put up similar rushing numbers in 12 starts in 2024, but was bad in the passing game that season, throwing just 14 touchdown passes against 12 interceptions. Daniels took four snaps last week, going 0-3 in the passing game with an interception at the end of the game, and carrying the ball one time for nine yards. The interception should not be blamed on the quarterback but there is merely a ball of raw talent in play here; Daniels is as unproven as it gets at the position and is likely only to hit the board for value if he runs one into the end zone.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
Bucky Irving is RB15/16 and RB16/19 across sites in a bad situation against an OK defense. The Packers seem likely to stack the box and dare Irving to try to beat them, given the undrafted rookie under center. Irving gains 4.5 yards per rush attempt on his 13.3 carries per game in 2026, with a rushing touchdown on the board and steady involvement in the passing game to pad scoring. Irving sees five weekly targets and turns in 4.1 yards per target on a -2.2-yard ADOT that means he typically has to make something happen after catching the ball behind the line of scrimmage. Irving rates as merely a mid-board play with individual talent but not a lot of team-based potential, given the 17.5-point implied team total.
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Kenny Gainwell is RB34/35 and RB36/35 across sites on the back of 2.1 yards per rush attempt over 3.3 carries and another 2.2 yards per target on 3.3 targets per contest. Gainwell is just inexpensive; his scoring potential has been limited and will not get better with the rookie at the wheel.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
Emeka Egbuka dips badly compared to where he has ranked in previous weeks, mostly through no fault of his own. Egbuka draws 6.7 targets per game and has provided an adequate 1.48 yards per route run over his 31.7 weekly routes, scoring once in the process. Most of that upside, and his 12.5-yard average depth of target for a 27.6% air yards share, is likely to wash away with Daniels throwing the ball in Week 4 and beyond. Egbuka is a low-end WR28/51 and WR29/33 this week.
Chris Godwin Jr. could actually see a bit of gain in his game, given the light 4.7-yard average depth of target that has him operating in safety-valve range for the undrafted rookie quarterback. Godwin gains just 1.19 yards per route run over 31.0 routes per game and has not scored on his 5.32% air yards share this season, but his 7.1 yards after the catch per reception stand a full two yards above expectation per reception, and he could break a play or two in a bad spot in Week 4.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Cade Otton is TE17 across the board on both sites. Otton works to an 8.1-yard average depth of target for a 12.56% air yards share and could come in a bit to help the rookie quarterback. The tight end has potential in scoring territory but has only been targeted in the red zone once in three games and did not convert the chance into a scoring play. Otton is a limited dart throw in a bad situation in Week 4.
Ted Hurst III and Tez Johnson were low-end options with Mayfield at the helm; with Daniels in play, they are simply lottery tickets who rank in the bottom third of the pack at wide receiver.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 22 points / 23 value; FanDuel: 22 points / 23 value
Best Stacking Options: Don’t. (Daniels-Egbuka-Godwin Jr)
Best One-off: Bucky Irving
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Chris Godwin Jr.
Wildcard: Chris Godwin Jr.
Tennessee Titans
Game Total: 42.5 (TEN +11.5 / 15.5)
Offense: 4.2 ypa rush (40.76%) / 5.7 ypa pass (59.24%) / 12.3 ppg
oppDEF: 4.1 ypa rush / 5.8 nypa pass / 19.5% pressure / 5.41% sack / 0.95% int / 26.o ppg
Key Player: Cam Ward
Setting: exactly one
Team Group: Carnell Tate, Tony Pollard, Wan’Dale Robinson, Tyjae Spears (on/off), Gunnar Helm, Elic Ayomanor, Calvin Ridley, Chimere Dike (large field)
Opposing Setting: at most one / exactly one (these can be alternated in a variety of lineup builds)
Opposing Group: Derrick Henry, Zay Flowers (Q), Mark Andrews, Rashod Bateman, Chris Moore (Q), Devontez Walker, Justice Hill (on/off)
Game Notes:
Quarterback
There is bad, and there is “can’t score more than seven points against the Giants” bad; the 2026 Titans are the latter after an embarrassing 12-7 loss to New York’s kicker. Quarterback Cam Ward threw for 181 yards with a touchdown pass and an interception in the Week 3 loss, completing 23 of 36 pass attempts for the game. Ward has two touchdowns and one interception in three games and is yet to crack even 200 passing yards in 2026. Ward manages just 5.7 yards per pass attempt on 6.1 intended air yards per attempt and is completing passes at rate that sits 1.8 points below expectation. The Titans are a bottom-ranked stack and Ward is QB23/21 and QB23/23, providing virtually no upside against a Ravens defense that has allowed points while doing ok in limiting yards early in 2026.
Running Backs
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
n/a
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Tony Pollard gains 4.6 yards per rush attempt over his 12.7 carries per game, gaining 2.7 yards before contact per attempt and breaking tackles at a 5.26% clip to add another 1.9 yards after contact on the average carry. Pollard is yet to visit the end zone on a rushing play, and has failed to catch any of his 2.3 weekly targets into the end zone for a receiving touchdown. The running back is just RB20/20 and RB19/17 against a run defense allowing 4.1 yards per attempt on the year.
Tyjae Spears is RB30/33 and RB34/32 across sites. The understudy gains 4.5 yards per attempt on 4.3 carries per game, and adds 6.8 yards per target on two targets each week, but has not been in the end zone and is essentially without value in NFL DFS action in Week 4.
Receivers & Tight Ends
Tier 1:
n/a
Tier 2:
Rookie Carnell Tate leads the way in this group of receivers, posting 1.35 yards per route run over a team-leading 30.3 routes per game. Tate is a highly skilled player who sees his opportunities at a 10.4-yard average depth of target for a 40.44% air yards share over the first three weeks of his career. The early first-round pick has yet to catch a touchdown pass and has seen just a 65.0% catchable target rate, but the raw skills make him one of only a few appealing options from this Titans squad. Tate would be a much more valuable rookie for NFL DFS action on most of the other teams in the league, with the Titans and Cam Ward he is just WR25/26 and WR26/24 across sites in Week 4.
Wan’Dale Robinson is a volume-based PPR receiver who operates at a simple 4.7-yard average depth and sees a team-leading 88.89% catchable target rate that he turns into 1.28 yards per route run over 27.0 routes per game. Robinson has one of the team’s two touchdown catches this season, which does very little to help with Week 4 scoring, though; he is just WR39/44 and WR45/41 and has very limited appeal, even for full-PPR slates.
Reserves/Very Large Field Darts
Gunnar Helm is a low-end TE24/19 and TE23/23, he draws 3.7 targets per week and returns 0.87 yards per route run over his 22.7 routes, picking up an 11.81% air yards share on a 3.5-yard average depth. Helm is touchdown-dependent and unappealing in Week 4.
Elic Ayomanor has the team’s other touchdown catch. The receiver has been targted five times in the red zone despite running just 20.7 weekly routes, giving him some limited scoring potential as a total wildcard play with very little probability. His 1.47 yprr mark leads the regulars in this room, though, and could lead to a few more opportunities as the season goes along.
Calvin Ridley has seen just three targets all season, despite running 45 routes across three games, his appeal is almost entirely MIA as WR64/68 and WR69/72.
Stack Ranks: DraftKings: 23 points / 21 value; FanDuel: 24 points / 21 value
Best Stacking Options: Don’t (Ward-Tate-Robinson)
Best One-off: Carnell Tate
Best Value/Upside/Ownership Play: Carnell Tate
Wildcard: Elic Ayomanor
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