Saturday's single-game DraftKings slate features OSU @ USC, with a $50,000 cap and a captain slot that scores 1.5x points at 1.5x salary. The slate locks Sat 10/31 at 7:30 p.m. ET (4:30 p.m. PT).
Jeremiah Smith (OSU) sits at the top of our model's board at $11,000, with a projection of 28.5 and a ceiling of 48.2. No other player on the slate has a ceiling above 29.2, and his DraftKings average is 33.6. Behind him, Bo Jackson (OSU) projects at 19.8 for $8,800, while Luke Fahey (OSU) is at 18.0 for $9,600. On the USC side, Jayden Maiava projects at 17.8 for $10,000 and Trent Mosley at 16.9 for $8,400.
Cooper Peterson (OSU) is the mid-tier play to note. At $5,200, our model gives him a projection of 11.1 and a ceiling of 23.1. That is a lot of upside for the price.
At the bottom of the salary scale, three players cost $1,000: Carson Tabaracci (USC) at 2.4 projected points, plus Favour Akih and De'Zie Jones (both OSU) at 2.2 each. Tabaracci leads that group at 2.4 points per $1,000. They won't win a slate on their own, but they free up cap room for the stars.
Several players carry DraftKings status tags. Shahn Alston and Mark Bowman (USC) and Brandon Inniss (OSU) are tagged Q, while Julian Sayin, Ja'Kobi Jackson and Brock Boyd (OSU) and Corey Simms and Terrell Anderson (USC) are tagged OUT.
Our model's top lineup uses $49,900 of the $50,000 cap. It puts Jeremiah Smith at captain for $16,500, then adds Bo Jackson at $8,800, King Miller at $7,600, Kayden Dixon-Wyatt at $6,800, Connor Hawkins at $5,200 and Devin McCuin at $5,000. Lock is Sat 10/31 at 7:30 p.m. ET.
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