FanDuel Tournament Lineup Week 14

Assembling a DFS lineup each week helps keep that draft-day feeling alive. Consult our FanDuel tournament lineup for Week 14 for ideas on who to start during the main slate on Sunday. Follow Justin on Twitter @justinsablich and @5thDownFantasy.

Last week, my optimism in Kirk Cousins proved erroneous. But I made up for it with a few other spot-on calls (Travis Kelce, Tarik Cohen) that lifted my team to a 146.98-point performance. Yeah, I turned $5 into $12. That gives me an extra $7 to throw away in Week 14!

This week, my strategy was to take advantage of a few bargain players that I think will more than pay off (Justin Jackson, Curtis Samuel) in order to lock in some stud performers (Christian McCaffrey, Devante Adams).

Projected ownership percentage courtesy of FantasyPros.com.

QB — Dak Prescott — $7,400 (Proj. Own: 0.8%)

I’m taking the advice of our Elliot Berk, who is advocating for a Dak Prescott and Amari Cooper stack this week (and a bargain one at that). He points out that with the Eagles’ front-seven being as strong as it is against the run, Prescott could be looking Cooper’s way quite a bit. The Eagles rank 25th against the pass and 10th versus the run. Prescott has topped 20 FanDuel points in two of his last four games.

RB — Christian McCaffrey — $9,100 (Proj. Own:

I won’t waste too much of your time here. Christian McCaffrey has at least 30 FanDuel points in three of the last five games, averaging 29.3 over this five-game span. He plays the Browns this week. Next!

RB — Justin Jackson — $4,500 (Proj. Own:

Melvin Gordon has officially been ruled out, leaving the run game to Justin Jackson and Austin Ekler. Both are tempting here, but Jackson will save you $2,200. Coach Anthony Lynn hinted on Tuesday that Jackson could see even more work because Ekler is starting to tire from accumulating snaps on both special teams and offense.

WR — Davante Adams  — $8,700 (Proj. Own:

He’s well worth his price tag, as he’s about the safest play you can make at receiver. He hasn’t fallen under 15 FanDuel points over the last 8 games, and his ceiling has been much higher than that. A great matchup is on deck in the Falcons and Vegas has this game as one of the highest-scoring of the week at over 50 points.

WR — Amari Cooper — $6,900 (Proj. Own:

The other half of my stack, Cooper is under $7,000 despite a recent stretch where he’s caught 16 of 17 targets over the last two games. He did fall under 10 FanDuel points last week with no touchdowns, but the week before he put up a big fat 34 on the board against the Redskins.

WR — Curtis Samuel — $5,700 (Proj. Own:

With Greg Olsen out, Curtis Samuel will see a healthy dose of targets, as he did last week after Olsen went down. As RotoWire points out, has a touchdown or 96 scrimmage yards in four of his last five games. Devin Funchess is playing, but he only saw three targets last week and is not yet back to 100 percent.

TE — Eric Ebron — $6,400 (Proj. Own:

Our third ranked tight end in both PPR and standard scoring this week is Eric Ebron. T.Y. Hilton will play this week but there’s plenty of action for Ebron to be had regardless, as he’s averaged 11 targets per game since Jack Doyle went away. The matchup leans toward favorable, though it’s not the main factor here. Volume, a potentially limited Hilton and no Dontrelle Inman has me high on Ebron.

FLEX — Mike Evans — $7,700 (Proj. Own:

When you lock in some key bargains, you’re able to work in a guy like Mike Evans at your flex when he’s at a rare bargain price for an WR1. This too when he’s playing in what Vegas likes as the highest scoring matchup of the week in the Buccaneers-Saints. Writing that makes me think I should have more exposure to this game, but I’m not going to mess with it at this point, I really like how the pieces fell into place. Anyway, Evans tore up the Saints in Week 1 and I am hoping for that again despite his inconsistent performance of late.

DEF — Giants — $3,500 (Proj. Own:

As I did last week, I turn it over to Mike Kremer for analysis of my pick at defense:

“Last week, the Giants faced a backup quarterback and capitalized off of his mistakes. This week, they have the infamous quarterback whose turnovers are more talked about than his successes (butt fumble). The Giants again will face a mistake prone quarterback, one that has only started in 10 games since 2013, and eight of those games came in 2014. It is now 2018 and he will be very rusty. Look for the Giants to repeat the elite performance of last week.”