NFL PrizePicks Predictions Week 8: Cousins, Diggs, Odunze Make Top Plays

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In this space, we’ll look at exciting offers on the PrizePicks board for Week 8 of the NFL season and try to make some predictions based on projections, trends, and the market.

PrizePicks, one of the best DFS sites for NFL pick’em, lays out player projections for us, which we stack to create entries that pay real money. They prompt us with a statistical projection for a player, and we get to pick whether or not the player will get More or Less than the line offered. There are hundreds of players from whom to choose, and we only have to make at least two picks to create an entry. Use the PrizePicks promo codeGRINDERS” to get $50 on a $5 entry if you haven’t signed up already!

For Week 8, we’ll look at the board and see what usage, game flow, oddsmakers, and — of course — our projections can tell us about how players are likely to produce. We’ll look at passing, rushing, and receiving categories most weeks. For the best ways to attack standard projections as the base for our tickets, use our fantasy pick’em tool to get more PrizePicks picks today. We’ll also look at DEMON projections to boost our payouts.

This is a tough week on the PrizePicks streets, I’m not gonna lie. The DEMONS are pretty efficient, so we should be heavily leaning upon the pick’em tool for a high volume of lower-ROI contests. That said, we’re here to have fun, and what’s fun without DEMON boosters? RotoGrinders projections pretty much hate all of the DEMONS, so we’ll have to get a little nuts.

PrizePicks Top Plays for NFL Week 8

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Falcons vs. Buccaneers PrizePicks Predictions

Kirk Cousins MORE/LESS 274.5 Pass Yards (DEMON)

Conventional wisdom says that the second time around favors the defense, but the Bucs gave up over 500 pass yards to Kirk Cousins a handful of weeks ago, and it wasn’t a fluke. Tampa has given up the 4th-most passing yards per game this season. Cousins’ 509-yard explosion was his only week with more than 241 yards this season, but Vegas is telling us that this won’t be a game where Atlanta can deflate the ball with the run game, as they are only 3-point favorites. With trusted weapons like Drake London, Darnell Mooney, Bijan Robinson, and Kyle Pitts, we should expect Cousins to air it out again against this nearly pass-funnel defense for 4 full quarters. We should like Cousins’ volume, and with it, his yardage.

Without great DEMONS on this slate, correlating Cousins with London or Mooney in places where we’re playing heavier volume is legitimate. But we’re talking about exposure in 1 or 2 out of 8-10 contests.

Colts vs. Texans PrizePicks Predictions

Stefon Diggs MORE/LESS 89.5 Receiving Yards (DEMON)

Stefon Diggs is the #1 Texans target. He’s had 7, 7, 8, 9, and 12 balls thrown his way in each of the last 5 weeks from a great passer, and the Colts are a below-average pass defense with a below-average sack rate. Expecting C.J. Stroud to have time to pass against a non-threatening defense, we should like Stroud to do whatever he wants, meaning that Diggs should get fed often. Diggs has only hit the 90-yard mark once this season, but this is a great spot to hit it again. The only thing that should get in his way is a blowout in which Joe Mixon hogs the ball.

Bears vs. Commanders PrizePicks Predictions

Rome Odunze MORE/LESS 49.5 Receiving Yards (DEMON)

I told you that we’re gonna get a little nuts here. Rome Odunze hasn’t blown up with Keenan Allen on the field, but this could change against a Commanders bunch that gave up a ton of big plays in 2023, surrendering an 8.2 aDOT. This season, their aDOT allowed is down to 6.9. This is probably because of heavy blitzing forcing the ball out quicker, but their QB knockdown rate is only 7.3% on a 29.3% blitz rate. This is important because the only way to really to get to Caleb Williams is to physically get to him, and Odunze has a 13.8 aDOT to start the season. He doesn’t need a lot of targets to get to 50 receiving yards; he just need to get downfield in time, and I kinda like that he isn’t the primary target because D.J. Moore and Keenan Allen command so much attention with Cole Kmet.

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Alex Sonty is a professional DFS and poker player and also serves as a part-time political science professor in Chicago, IL. He’s been playing fantasy sports since 1996 and entered the DFS realm in 2014, pivoting from high-stakes cash games to mid-stakes MLB and NFL tournaments in recent years. He is a Chicago Tribune, SB Nation, and FanGraphs alum, while holding a J.D./M.A. and L.L.M. from DePaul University. Follow Sonty on Twitter – @AlexSonty