Bengals vs. Rams Week 3 Showdown NFL DFS Lineup Advice for DraftKings & FanDuel

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Sunday’s games have finished up with some wild blowouts in Week 3 of the NFL. For the second straight week, we have 2 games on tap for Monday night, adding a main slate to both FanDuel and DraftKings. With the addition of both Week 3 showdown slates, there are plenty of options for a fruitful Monday of NFL DFS. Thankfully, I’ll be providing NFL DFS lineup advice for every Sunday Night Football Showdown slate, and I’m back for the Week 3 Monday Night Football showdown matchup with the Bengals vs. Rams as well.

The Bengals have struggled mightily throughout the first two weeks of the season. To make things worse, Joe Burrow continues to struggle with his calf injury, putting his status for the Week 3 showdown slate in doubt. However, the Bengals have expressed optimism he’s going to play. The Bengals look to bounce back at home against a porous Rams defense as Los Angeles looks to keep their surprising offensive prowess rolling.

Bengals vs. Rams Week 3 Showdown Lineup Advice

DraftKings Strategy

The biggest standout on DraftKings for the Bengals vs. Rams Monday Night Football showdown matchup is easily Kyren Williams at only 9K. Cam Akers is gone and Williams is the clear number-one back in the Rams offense. He’s too cheap, especially for a point-per-reception site like DraftKings. He received a whopping 10 targets last game and although we probably can’t expect quite that same output, he’s still severely underpriced. I’ll likely have 100% Kyren Williams in some capacity tonight, playing a ton of him in the flex and getting significantly overweight on him in the CPT position as well. He correlates well with any game-script as he will likely be heavily involved regardless of whether they’re in the lead or coming from behind.

To fill out the rest of my lineups, I’ll continue to focus on Matthew Stafford, Puka Nacua and Tutu Atwell for the Rams while mixing and matching a ton of different Bengals. Cincinnati is a tough team to read this year. They were expected to be contenders with a high-powered offense and have looked dreadful through two weeks. Burrow’s calf injury has reportedly only gotten worse, but this is still one of the best Quarterbacks in football. I plan to make sure I’m telling a story in LineupHQ when I’m building my lineups. I’ll either build the lineups for the Bengals to struggle, adding in the Rams’ defense and one of Chase, Higgins, Boyd, or even a cheap Drew Sample as a run back. I’ll also have some lineups where Burrow and the Bengals offense looks back to normal, with Burrow/Chase in the CPT position with some full Bengals stacks. I’ll ensure that each and every team in the lineup optimizer features Kyren Williams regardless of the build and I’ll likely have very little Joe Burrow unless he or one of his pass-catchers are in the CPT position.

Favorite Large-Field CPTs: Kyren Williams, Matthew Stafford, Tutu Atwell

Favorite Large-Field GPP Shots: Drew Sample, Mitchell Wilcox

FanDuel Strategy

The builds on the two sites are very similar tonight, with FanDuel underpricing Kyren Williams as well. He doesn’t have quite the same upside as he does on DraftKings due to the lack of a point-per-reception scoring system, but he still has plenty of touchdown equity and is my favorite play on the Week 3 showdown slate between the Bengals vs. Rams.

He’s going to get the lock button for me on FanDuel, playing him either in the Flex or MVP. Williams currently projects at only 8% in the MVP position in LineupHQ early in the day, the 5th highest of any player. I’ll have more of him at MVP than anyone else and be significantly underweight on Joe Burrow in that spot. I’ll be more willing to use Burrow in the flex on FanDuel than I am on DraftKings due to how highly owned he is projecting in the RotoGridners lineup optimizer early in the day. However, FanDuel presents a unique opportunity to fade Burrow completely.

While it’s entirely possible he plays a great game because he’s an incredible Quarterback, he’s struggling with injury and hasn’t looked like himself. Early projected ownership suggests the field is playing Burrow as though he’s 100%, and getting underweight is a unique strategy I plan to be all over tonight. The Rams’ offense has looked incredible so far, and although I typically don’t like feeding into recency bias, the field projects to be on the totally other side of this game. Kyren Williams, Puka Nacua, Tutu Atwell and Matthew Stafford will be my priorities tonight with multiple lineup builds only including 1-2 Bengals.

Favorite Large-Field MVPs: Kyren Williams, Matthew Stafford, Tee Higgins

Favorite Large-Field GPP Shots: Drew Sample, Mitchell Wilcox

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TJ Zwarych (tjzwarych1)

TJ Zwarych is a longtime RotoGrinders member and has been rising up the DFS rankings. He has been producing content for a long time, previously contributing to sites like Bleacher Report, and he is also the Editor-In-Chief of Agents Of Fandom. TJ has multiple 6-figure DFS wins in his career and most recently finished in 13th place at the 2022 FanDuel MLB Live Final. Follow TJ on Twitter – @TJ_Zwarych5