Tuttle's Take: Week 7

by Dan Gaspar (MrTuttle05) Last Updated 2018-10-21 00:08:16 Premium Content Part of the product SimLabs+

Having qualified for countless live finals, Dan Gaspar (MrTuttle05) knows what it takes to win in DFS. In this space each week, he’ll guide you through the lineup building process for both cash games and tournaments by going in-depth and giving out his “Tuttle’s Take” for every game on the main slate.

Week 7

New England Patriots @ Chicago Bears (+3) 49.5

Notes:

• New England Patriots target totals (market share air yards) through six weeks: James White 48 (10.6%), Rob Gronkowski 35 (25.4%), Phillip Dorsett 29 (13.9%), Chris Hogan 23 (14.8%), Julian Edelman 16 (6.4%), Josh Gordon 15 (10.2%), Cordarrelle Patterson 13 (1.7%)
• New England Patriots target totals (market share air yards) last two weeks with Julian Edelman back: James White 21 (13.8%), Julian Edelman 16
  (18.3%), Josh Gordon 13 (26.5%), Rob Gronkowski 11 (21.5%), Chris Hogan 8 (17.4%)
• Chicago Bears target totals (market share air yards) through six weeks: Allen Robinson 38 (34.2%), Taylor Gabriel 33 (29.3%), Tarik Cohen 25 (8.1%),
  Trey Burton 22 (13.1%), Anthony Miller 15 (11%), Jordan Howard 13 (1.1%)

Tuttle’s Take:

It’s time. We have been waiting for it and the time has finally come – full playing time for Josh Gordon. After back-to-back weeks of logging just 18 snaps with the Patriots, Gordon was on the field for 63 of the Patriots 78 offensive snaps and ran a route on 39 of Tom Brady’s 41 dropbacks. Gordon only caught five balls for 42 yards, but was targeted nine times and had a 27.9% market share of the Patriots air yards in Week 6. This isn’t an ideal spot for Gordon, but his price tag is certainly too low if he carries over the workload he saw in Week 6. Gordon isn’t a cash game option, but he’s a guy that I want to be overweight on in GPPs.

Rob Gronkowski is down all the way to $6,000 on DraftKings and I’m still not overly interested in playing Gronk in anything other than GPPs. Even in GPPs, Gronk’s upside appears limited as he’s not commanding a ton of targets and isn’t being used heavily as a red zone target as we’ve seen in the past. I’ll have some exposure to Gronk in GPPs, but don’t feel great about it.