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Mikey told me to draft Patrick Mahomes so I took a Kansas City Chiefs stack

DraftKings Best Ball Millionaire draft review

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It really is that simple sometimes. When the board falls just right to get you the correlations you want - and it aligns with data-backed player takes - you just have to take it.


This is team number four in my ongoing series to walk through each and every team I draft in the 2025 DraftKings Best Ball Millionaire draft. Let's get to it!




The team, position by position

  • 2 QBs

  • 6 RBs

  • 9 WRs

  • 3 TEs


I actually had zero intention of taking a third TE on this team (spoiler alert: Trey McBride is my TE1), but I ended up with a massive value at the RB6 spot with Rico Dowdle falling 20 spots past ADP, so I lost the need to take an RB7 and taking 10 wide receivers would've been fine but not necessary. (Of course, had I known at the time that Mike Williams was going to retire, then I might have done just that...)




The stacks


Kansas City Chiefs stack

  • QB Patrick Mahomes (pick 72)

  • WR Xavier Worthy (pick 48)

  • WR Marquise "Hollywood" Brown (pick 145)


This draft looks a lot better now that Rashee Rice is back to facing a suspension this season.


Xavier Worthy is likely to showcase huge upside weeks on this offense as their main deep threat. As Mikey notes in his Draft Dominator tool, the type of upside production and volume Worthy was able to achieve last season (19+ PPR points in 25% of his games) can lead to WR1 spike weeks even with Rashee Rice on the field - and when he's off it, it's wheels up. Similarly, Marquise Brown is going to get the rest of the upside on this offense now that he's healthy, and he's shown a propensity to be a target machine when he was with Arizona.


For more details on the Chiefs passing game overall, and why I thought it was important to have a Chiefs stack in this tournament, check out Mikey's write-up here or watch him draft a Mahomes/Kelce team and get pick-by-pick analysis of his Drafters draft.




Arizona Cardinals stack

  • QB Kyler Murray (pick 96)

  • WR Michael Wilson (pick 169)

  • TE Trey McBride (pick 24)


Getting an elite TE build into this tournament is something I knew I wanted in my portfolio, and this team felt like the perfect opportunity to do it.


Drafting out of the 1st spot, I naturally took Ja'Marr Chase. Now most people here will ensure that Tee Higgins, who was available for me at the 2-3 turn, is one of the their next picks, but because that combination is likely super high owned together - resulting in a lot of teams that look really similar - I passed on it, instead grabbing McBride (who himself is likely highly owned to Ja'Marr) and a different wide receiver.


Doing this, even with Ja'Marr and McBride likely owned a lot together, opens up the avenue for me to pass on Joe Burrow and instead take Kyler Murray later in the draft. This is where that uniqueness comes in - it's unlikely that someone who went Chase-Tee-McBride-Burrow in the first four rounds is also adding Kyler Murray to their team, so it opens up access to a unique lane where I can capture some of that Bengals upside and rely on the Cardinals side to carry me onward.


Michael Wilson is fine, there's nothing really to add there. He's going to play and be the #3 target guy probably!




Playoff correlations


Well, I had one with Mike Williams, but alas. Fortunately I have others!

  • TE Chig Okonkwo (pick 192) plays the Chiefs in week 16

  • RB Tyler Allgeier (pick 168) plays the Cardinals in week 16

  • RB JK Dobbins (pick 121) plays the Chiefs in week 17

  • And as part of the reason why Ja'Marr and McBride are so correlated together, Ja'Marr Chase (pick 1) plays the Cardinals in week 17.




The resources


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