We have surged through four weeks of NFL action, with dozens of injuries, surprise developments, and T-Swift cutaways along the way. It has been an exciting ride and an even more lucrative stretch for us on the DFS front, in large part because we always pinpoint strong sleepers and value plays on FanDuel and DraftKings. We’ll do more of that today as we prepare you to make some money in your Week 5 daily fantasy football contests.
If you’re new here, the concept of this column is simple: Identify players we view as undervalued or overlooked by the majority of daily fantasy players. Every Tuesday, we scour DraftKings, FanDuel, and SuperDraft to pinpoint the best investments — like my mother-in-law scouring for Christmas decorations my wife and I don’t need on Oct. 1. We then write about our favorite plays for each position, explaining why each player or D/ST has a good chance of vastly outproducing their respective price point. We also review our hits from the previous week, kind of like a kid pinning positive quiz results to the refrigerator.
By capitalizing on affordable sleepers in certain DFS roster spots, we leave ourselves the budget to greatly improve other roster spots with weekly studs. Let’s face it, in order to afford a Patrick Mahomes ($8,200 on DK), you…
