Hittin' The Nuts - SquirrelPatrol's NFL DFS Lineup Advice: Week 7 (Monday Night Football)
Want to hit the nuts and take down 1st place in these massive contests posted by FanDuel and DraftKings? Who better to walk you through their favorite NFL DFS picks than SquirrelPatrol! Undoubtedly one of the best DFS players in the game today, SquirrelPatrol has accumulated 100+ Live Final seats, took 2nd place in the 2023 DraftKings Fantasy Baseball World Championship for a $600,000 prize, and most recently, took down the NFL Milly Maker in Week 2 of last season.
Our NFL Week 7 concludes with a Monday Night Football doubleheader, with the Ravens visiting Tampa Bay (Ravens -3.5, 50 total) starting at 8:15 PM ET, followed shortly by the Chargers against the Cardinals (Chargers -1, 44 total) kicking off at 9:00 PM ET. It’s our third MNF doubleheader of the season, and these slates are a favorite of mine, combining some of the elements of Showdown contests within a Classic slate format.
In Week 4, we had a solo winner for $500,000 in the featured DraftKings large-field contest, with 0.3% owned AJ Barner being the differentiator at the TE position. In the Week 3 MNF doubleheader, 15 lineups tied for 1st place, with Andrei Iosivas being the lowest-owned player in that lineup (11.1%). Even though it’s just 2 games, we’ve got full NFL DFS projections ready to go and Expert tags & analysis in our NFL DFS optimizer, LineupHQ.
Let’s sort through the positions and figure out what to do with our DFS lineups.
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NFL DFS Picks: Lineup Advice for SquirrelPatrol’s ‘Hittin’ The Nuts’ (Week 7 – Monday Night Football)
Running Raven at QB
A 2-game slate means we only have four QBs to choose from, and one QB is dominating pOWN%. Lamar Jackson is currently projected to be on 46.21% of DraftKings rosters, and this is difficult chalk to argue with. The Ravens are facing a Tampa Bay defense that has allowed the 4th-most passing yards per game this season, and the Ravens are favored in the higher-total game, giving them a 26.75 implied team total (the highest on the slate). The Ravens QB is averaging more rushing yards per game than he has since 2019, and he is averaging a career-high 254.8 passing yards per game at a time when the NFL is seeing it’s fewest passing yards per game since 2006. For cash games and smaller-field formats, Jackson deserves to be the first QB we look to get into our rosters.
But for large-field tournaments, does Lamar deserve to have almost as much pOWN% as the other three QBs combined?
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