This is a one-game Showdown slate, ARIZ @ TTU, on Saturday 10/31. DraftKings uses a $50,000 cap and a captain slot that scores 1.5x points at 1.5x salary. Lock is 12:00 p.m. ET (9:00 a.m. PT).
One caveat up front: our projections are not built for this slate, so there is no model lineup to offer. What we can pass along are the highest DraftKings averages on the board.
Noah Fifita (ARIZ, QB) leads at 27.1 and costs $11,600, the most expensive player listed. Next is J'Koby Williams (TTU, RB) at $10,800 with an average of 19.5. Isaiah Mizell (ARIZ, WR) averages 16.0 at $9,200, and Will Hammond (TTU, QB) averages 14.5 at $9,000. Fifita's average sits well clear of everyone else, which is why the captain question starts with him, though a 1.5x multiplier on $11,600 is a steep cost.
The values are thinner than the averages suggest. Tre Spivey (ARIZ, WR) shows a $1,000 salary and a 16.2 average, but he carries an OUT tag from DraftKings, so he is not a play. Among players without that tag, Kenny Johnson (TTU, WR) averages 13.3 at $6,800, Giovanni Richardson (ARIZ, WR) averages 12.2 at $5,800, and Cameron Dickey (TTU, RB) averages 11.5 at $6,200. Richardson is the cheapest of that group.
The sheet has no ownership figures, so we can't say where the crowd will land. Check the OUT tags before building anything: Ismail Mahdi, Cole Rusk, Shane King and Tre Spivey for ARIZ, and Malcolm Simmons, Jalen Jones and Donte Lee Jr. for TTU all carry them.
With no model lineup and no total salary to report, treat the averages above as a starting point rather than a projection. Lock is 12:00 p.m. ET on Saturday 10/31.
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