Thirteen games, 1:00 lock. Bryce Young is $5,600 and he's been a 30-point quarterback. He's how I get Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Kenneth Walker into the same lineup, and that's the build.
Smith-Njigba is the most expensive receiver on the board at $8,600, and he's earned it. He has 17 catches on 22 targets for 277 yards and four touchdowns, with Drew Lock throwing to him. Nobody else in Seattle has more than four catches. There's no second option in that offense taking targets from him, and that's why he's worth $8,600.
Walker is the running back, $7,400 and 32 a game in Kansas City. He has 47 carries for 290 yards in two games, and 16 targets on top of that. That's workhorse usage. Jahmyr Gibbs costs $1,400 more for less, and Jonathan Taylor ($7,600, four rushing scores already) and Derrick Henry ($7,700, also four) are both fine, but Walker's the one I'm clicking first.
Now the quarterback. Josh Allen is $8,000 and 39.7 a game, with four rushing touchdowns on top of five through the air. You can play him. I'd rather have Young at $5,600. He's 46 of 73 for 648 yards, six touchdowns and one pick, so the average isn't one fluky game. He plays at Cleveland. Jalen Coker, his best receiver so far (16 catches, 204 yards, two scores, $5,500), is questionable with the ankle, per ESPN's injury report. If Coker's active, he's the stack. If he isn't, Tetairoa McMillan at $6,000 has 18 targets and no touchdowns, and I'd still run Young naked before I paid up elsewhere at quarterback.
Tight end is Travis Kelce at $4,500: 12 catches, 172 yards, a score. Dalton Schultz at $4,200 is the other one. Nico Collins is out for Houston, and Schultz already has 16 catches on 22 targets. Dalton Kincaid at $5,500 is the best tight end on paper. He's also $1,000 more than Kelce for about the same job.
The afternoon games are where the questions are. Zay Flowers is questionable with the hamstring after a limited walkthrough in Rio ([Jamison Hensley, Sept. 25](https://x.com/jamisonhensley/status/2103575840013643794)), and Jonas Shaffer said earlier that day it "still seems unlikely he'll play" ([Sept. 25](https://x.com/jonas_shaffer/status/2103545388204442039)). Jesse Minter sounded more optimistic about him later that day ([Jeff Zrebiec, Sept. 25](https://x.com/jeffzrebiec/status/2103561938706006148)), but his 29-point average is one game, 150 yards on five catches. That's why the number looks so good. I'm not building a 1:00 lineup around a 4:25 hamstring. Brock Bowers is questionable too and hasn't played yet this year. Mike Evans is questionable for San Francisco. None of the three is in my main build.
Jayden Daniels is out for Washington. Jaxson Dart is on IR for the Giants. Rico Dowdle is out in Pittsburgh and Jaylen Warren is questionable with the shoulder. That backfield is a guess I don't need to make.
At defense I'm on the Patriots at $2,700. They've scored 13.5 a game, and only the Bengals have scored more, at $200 more.
## Milly Maker, built from this page
The main slate page lists every priced player with a Ranking and a floor–ceiling bar. The right end of the bar is the ceiling; a Milly Maker lineup is nine ceilings that can land on the same Sunday, not nine safe floors.
1. Sort by Ranking and read the top of the ceiling column first. Today the longest bars are Gibbs (36.1, $8,800), Allen (34.3, $8,000), Smith-Njigba (33.1, $8,600), Henry (31.1, $7,700), Jonathan Taylor (30.4, $7,600), Walker (30.4, $7,400) and Purdy (30.4, $6,500). 2. Quarterback: take the cheapest one whose ceiling sits with the expensive ones. Young at $5,600 or Purdy at $6,500 both do; Allen costs $2,400 more for four extra ceiling points. 3. Stack him. One or two pass catchers from his team, then one player from the other side of that game as the bring-back. Young means Smith-Njigba is not in the stack, so pair Young with a Panthers receiver and bring back a Brown. 4. Running backs: one from the top-four ceiling list, one under $6,000 with a wide bar. Wide bar means the floor end is low and the ceiling end is high, which is what a tournament wants. 5. Receivers and flex: the widest bars under $5,000. Nabers at $6,500 is the one long bar nobody is on; that is what leverage looks like on this page. 6. Tight end and defense are the last dollars: Kelce $4,500 or Schultz $4,200, Patriots $2,700. 7. Spend it. Leave $500 or less. A lineup with $2,000 unspent was built from floors. 8. Inactives post at 8:30 PT. Anyone showing a dash in DraftKings gets swapped before the 10:00 lock, ceiling be damned.
That is one lineup. If you are entering more than one, stop repeating the same three players; the field already has them.
Young, Smith-Njigba, Walker, Kelce. Fill the rest with whatever's left. @numeric_dfs
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