Tuesday's main slate is a three-game card: WMU @ AKR, KENT @ BGSU and OHIO @ MIAOH. Lineups lock at 7:00 p.m. ET (4:00 p.m. PT) on a $50,000 DraftKings classic cap.
Our model's top projection belongs to Jalen Buckley of WMU. At $7,300 he projects for 25.0 with a 36.4 ceiling, well clear of the field and well above his DraftKings average of 16.3. KENT supplies two more big names: Dru DeShields at $7,200 (18.1 projected, 33.5 ceiling) and Wayne Harris at $7,500 (15.6, 35.2). Among quarterbacks, Nick Poulos of OHIO projects for 20.0 at $7,800, and Broc Lowry of WMU for 18.8 at $8,000. Caleb Heavner of MIAOH is the cheapest of the group at $6,600 and projects for 17.2.
Value is thin at the bottom, but three receivers under $4,300 stand out. Brendyn Smith of KENT costs $3,700 and projects for 8.3 (2.2 points per $1,000). Damarion Witten of MIAOH is $3,900 for the same 8.3, with a 14.1 ceiling. Eli Jacon-Duffy of BGSU is $3,600 and projects for 7.5. Any of them frees up salary for the pricier stars.
Ownership figures are not available for this slate, so we can't say where the crowd will land. Check the status tags before locking anything in. DraftKings lists WMU's Aveion Chenault as Q, while WMU's Trey Petty and Lolo Mataele are OUT. BGSU has Jay Kastantin, Austyn Dendy and Winn Sharp OUT, and MIAOH has Thomas Gotkowski and David McComb OUT.
Our model's top lineup uses $49,700 of the $50,000 cap. It pairs DeShields at QB with Buckley and Nakai Amachree ($5,600) at RB. Harris, Dom Dorwart ($5,900) and Riley Neer ($6,200) fill the WR spots, Lynel Billups-Williams ($3,400) takes the FLEX, and Heavner closes it out at S-FLEX.
Get your lineups set before 7:00 p.m. ET.
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