Saturday's DraftKings slate is a single game, NEB @ PROV, built as a captain showdown. The captain slot scores 1.5x points at 1.5x salary, and lineups work under a $50,000 cap. Lock is Sat 11/7 at 7:00 p.m. ET (4:00 p.m. PT).
The sheet gives us ceilings and DraftKings averages rather than point projections, so those are what we have to work with. Devin Vanterpool of PROV has the highest ceiling among our model's top-ranked plays at 58.7, with a DraftKings average of 31.9 at $5,400. He carries a Q tag, so that is worth weighing before lock. Ryan Sabol of PROV is close behind with a 55.6 ceiling and a 30.2 average. On the NEB side, Damon Wilkinson posts a 46.9 ceiling and a 25.5 average, while Braden Frager has a 40.1 ceiling and a 20.0 average.
The value plays are where the salary math gets interesting. Sabol costs just $3,000 for that 55.6 ceiling, and Wilkinson sits at $3,400. Down at the minimum, Elijah Saunders of PROV is $1,000 with a 36.5 ceiling and a 17.7 average. Cale Jacobsen of NEB runs $2,200 with a 37.6 ceiling and a 12.7 average. Those salaries leave real room to spend elsewhere.
The sheet doesn't include ownership figures, so we can't say where the crowd will land. The three Q tags, on Vanterpool, Sam Orme and Arrinten Page, are the main thing to keep an eye on as the lineup picture firms up.
Our model's top lineup uses $49,600 of the $50,000 cap. Trevan Leonhardt sits in the captain slot at $12,600, joined by Braden Frager at $7,000, Ryan Sabol at $3,000, Malik Mack at $8,600, Pryce Sandfort at $10,800 and Ryan Mela at $7,600. Frager and Sabol give the build a pair of cheaper anchors, which makes room for the expensive names around them.
Get your lineups set before lock at 7:00 p.m. ET.
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