Week 4 DFS Picks: Tournament Plays

Every Sunday in the weekly fantasy chats, I get asked about my favorite plays of the week or who is in my player pool that weekend for DFS.

This article series covers exactly that.

Every week, I will go through the players I am targeting to play in DFS for all games, tournaments, and game stacks.

The idea is that this will paint a clearer picture of framing lineups.

Week 4 DFS Content:

It is not that all tournament players cannot be used in cash games.

If a player here works out for your team structure in cash games surrounding your primary core, use them.

These are just the players that come with some element of inherent risk but are the primary players that I still want to be ahead of the field compared to the percentage of rosters they are projected to make this weekend.

I will analyze the player selections and game writeups, but for a detailed breakdown of the players and games, check out the Week 4 Worksheet.

Quarterback

Joe Burrow ($6,600 DraftKings/$8,000 FanDuel)

After a down Week 1 outing again (QB27), Burrow has bounced back with QB9 (17.2 points) and QB7 (25.4 points) the past two weeks.

He took advantage of a soft Washington defense on Monday Night, setting season highs in completions (29), yards (324), and touchdowns (3).

Burrow leads the NFL with a 131.0 rating when pressured, connecting on 13-of-20 (65.0%) of those passes for 9.9 yards per pass attempt and 2 touchdowns.

That should not be a significant factor here, as Carolina's pressure rate is 28th (28.0%).

That has been relevant because when Carolina has not pressured the opposing passer, they have allowed a 117.4 rating (29th), surrendering 7.6 yards per pass attempt (20th) and 5 touchdowns (29th).

With Andy Dalton starting for Carolina, the Bengals should get pushback while the Bengals are once again pass-heavy, sporting a pass rate 7% over expectations to open the year.

Justin Fields ($5,500/$6,800)

Fields has yet to deliver a QB1 scoring week to open the season, but he was close last week at QB13 (18.4 points).

I am betting that he will deliver another good score this weekend.

Teams facing the Colts are running an exuberant number of plays.

Every team that has faced the Colts has run the most plays they have in a game this season in that matchup.

Even when the Packers faced the Colts with a run-first game plan and controlled the clock, they ran a season-high 67 plays.

The Colts allow 14.9 passing points per game (26^th) when Fields does have to throw.

Caleb Williams ($5,600/$7,100)

Williams is coming off the best fantasy game of his early career, ending last week as QB14 (17.3 points).

Williams needed 52 pass attempts to get there, but he has made steps forward each week of the season.

His completion rate and yards per pass attempt have gone up each game.

The Bears may not be able to run the ball, and this matchup is ripe for quarterback production.

With all their injuries, the Rams' pass defense has been non-existent these past two weeks.

The Rams allow a league-high 0.722 passing points per attempt and 19.0 passing points per game (31st).

Passers have completed 72.2% of their passes against Los Angeles (28th) for a league-high 9.8 yards per pass attempt and 8.9% touchdown rate (31st).

Quarterbacks are doing damage against the Rams downfield.

On throws 10 yards or further downfield, the Rams have allowed 21 completions (30th), a 65.6% completion rate (31st), 16.3 yards per attempt (32nd), and a league-high 6 touchdowns.

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