Tuesday's Madden showdown on DraftKings is a single game, NE @ ATL, with a $50,000 cap and a captain slot that scores 1.5x points at 1.5x salary. The slate locks Tue 11/10 at 4:00 p.m. ET (1:00 p.m. PT).
Bijan Robinson of ATL is the top play on our model's board. He costs $11,400 and carries a ceiling of 42.8, the highest of any player on the sheet, against a DraftKings average of 23.3. Tua Tagovailoa (ATL, $9,200) follows with a 34.1 ceiling, and Drake Maye (NE, $10,000) is right behind at 34.0. A.J. Brown (NE, $10,400) has a ceiling of 24.2, which looks thin for his price.
The value plays sit lower on the salary scale. Jahan Dotson (ATL) costs $6,200 with a ceiling of 23.5, well above his 12.2 DraftKings average. Kyle Pitts Sr. (ATL) is $7,000 with a 21.7 ceiling, and Hunter Henry (NE) is $6,400 with a 19.8 ceiling against a 7.5 average. Drake London (ATL, $8,200) has the lowest ceiling of the group at 15.4, so he is hard to justify at his price.
The crowd is heading toward the quarterbacks. Tagovailoa is projected at 67% ownership and Maye at 54%, with Robinson at 47%. Brown also sits at 47%, and London is at 38%. Dotson at 30% and Henry at 20% are cheaper ways to differ from the field.
Our model's top lineup uses $49,800 of the $50,000 cap. It puts Tagovailoa in the captain slot at $13,800, then fills the FLEX spots with Robinson ($11,400), Pitts ($7,000), Romeo Doubs ($6,600), Dotson ($6,200) and Olamide Zaccheaus ($4,800). That leans on ATL while leaving room for the cheaper pieces.
Lineups lock Tue 11/10 at 4:00 p.m. ET.
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