Saturday's late-night DraftKings classic slate covers five games: TTU @ OKST, UTST @ SDSU, WYO @ UTEP, CSU @ WSU and NDSU @ HAW. Lock is 9:30 p.m. ET (6:30 p.m. PT) on Sat 11/14, with a $50,000 salary cap.
One note up front: our model has no projections built for this slate, so there is no model lineup to offer. The numbers below are DraftKings averages, not our projections.
OKST dominates the top of the board. Drew Mestemaker (OKST, QB) is priced at $10,000 with a DraftKings average of 33.3, the highest on the slate. Caleb Hawkins (OKST, RB) costs $9,800 and averages 29.4. Justin Bowick (OKST, WR) is $8,000 at 21.6, and Wyatt Young (OKST, WR) is $7,800 at 20.1. That is four of the eight top averages from a single offense. J'Koby Williams (TTU, RB), on the other side of that game, is $8,800 with a 21.9 average.
The best value on the sheet is Hauss Hejny (CSU, QB), who sits at $7,900 with a 29.9 average. That is a cheaper route to a big number than Mestemaker at $10,000. Tyler Hughes (WYO, QB) is the cheapest name in the group at $5,100 with a 19.2 average. He carries a D tag from DraftKings, and his teammate Taylor Hasselbeck is tagged OUT, so check the status before locking him in. Owen Eshelman (WSU, QB) rounds out the group at $7,700 with a 19.9 average.
Several players carry a Q tag: Pofele Ashlock (HAW), Durell Robinson (CSU), Eli Wood (UTST), Jayden Denegal (SDSU), Cameron Dickey (TTU) and Nyeoti Punni (NDSU). Dickey and Robinson sit in games with fantasy-relevant names, so their status is worth a look.
Ownership figures are not available for this slate, so we cannot say where the crowd will land. With four OKST pieces among the top averages, though, that game is the obvious place to start building.
Lock is 9:30 p.m. ET.
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