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Week 2 DraftKings DFS Picks & Fades (2025 season)

Updated: Sep 25

DraftKings DFS picks

NOTE: This content is for a previous week of fantasy football. But don't fear!


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It's time to see how much the public overreacts to the first week of the regular season.


Week 2 is historically my favorite week to play in tournaments, because, in many cases, people take week 1 as gospel for what's going to happen for the rest of the season. I aim to take advantage of that in tournament play and find players in good spots who could easily regress to the mean against priors - while avoiding some of the possible warnings that week 1 could signal, too.


Here are my week 2 DraftKings DFS picks & fades that I'm considering for my lineups.




Week 1 DraftKings DFS Stack of the Week


Dallas Cowboys - QB Dak Prescott ($5,900) + WR CeeDee Lamb ($7,800) + TE Jake Ferguson ($3,800). Total stack cost: $17,500.


There's no getting around the fact that the Cowboys pass offense dudded in the box score - and I've seen a bunch of panic questions surrounding Dak specifically in our Basement Brewed Fantasy Football Discord server. But assuming that takes a lot of things out of context. The Eagles still have a good defense. There were a couple crucial drops that would've made this look a lot better if they were caught. All of the touchdowns happened to come on the ground.


Now they're heading home, in the dome, in a perfect bounce-back spot against the New York Giants. With the Cowboys being favorites, a middle-of-the-pack game total, and the wide receivers you want to play being expensive on both sides of the game, I can't imagine that this game becomes highly owned. But it absolutely has the pieces in place to be the game you need.



Week 1 DraftKings DFS Picks


RB Kyren Williams, Los Angeles Rams ($6,300)


For all intents and purposes, there is no RB2 for the Los Angeles Rams. Kyren Williams handled around 90% of the Rams' backfield touches against a solid Texans defense last week, and if it wasn't for the touchdown score, it would've looked a lot worse. Now that rushing volume heads into a matchup against the Titans where the Rams are, as of writing, 5.5 point favorites on the road.


Priced as just the 10th highest RB, if you're getting a guy who's getting 18-20 touches in a favored spot who can catch passes when called upon to do that, he has to be in your player pool.


WR Brian Thomas Jr., Jacksonville Jaguars ($6,700)


I said last week that the Bengals defense might be one of the worst pass defenses in football this season, and there was nothing in week one that made me think otherwise. BTJ was among the many elite WRs that disappointed in week one relative to expectations, catching only one of seven targets and being bailed out by a rushing touchdown of all things. That being said, this game environment against the Bengals screams shootout, so I wouldn't expect low ownership here. Regardless, this is the best opportunity for a get-right spot, so including BTJ in your player pool is a must consider.


TE Harold Fannin Jr., Cleveland Browns ($3,100)


Last week wasn't a fluke.


Harold Fannin Jr. will probably be talked up everywhere, but I'm not convinced that the general public will fully pump his ownership to the levels where we can start asking "are we seriously going to play Cleveland Browns players as the highest owned players on the slate?" The Browns played Harold Fannin Jr. all over the field, including as their WR3, putting him in prime positions to act as the same playmaker he was in college.


I'll be the first to admit that I didn't expect his involvement to happen this soon (my going-into-the-season instinct was that they'd feature Njoku, then trade him before the deadline), but it's here, and we need to recognize it. The price is just too cheap for the involvement.




Week 1 DraftKings DFS Fades


RB Jonathan Taylor, Indianapolis Colts ($6,700)


This is basically Kyren Williams from above, but matchup-based flipping.


Despite the game being at home, in the dome, the Colts are slight underdogs to the Denver Broncos, who boast an elite defense that just held the Titans to 71 total rushing yards on 21 attempts as a team. Jonathan Taylor is obviously more talented than Tony Pollard, but I suspect the Broncos' defensive gameplan will focus on making Daniel Jones beat them.


With not much of a pass-catching role to help boost his outlook, I'd rather look elsewhere at his price as the seventh highest RB.


WR Cooper Kupp, Seattle Seahawks ($5,000)


I don't believe Cooper Kupp is cooked like everyone else does after seeing just three targets last week. After all, the Seahawks only threw the ball 22 times, and Jaxon Smith-Njigba is him in that offense.


But is that going to change this week against a Pittsburgh Steelers defense that is still good despite the what the heck happened game last week? I don't think so. Aaron Rodgers still plays slow, and the Seahawks will try to establish the ground game.


Another low passing total is likely here, so even if the stat line looks better than last week for Cooper Kupp, I'm not sure what the ceiling outcomes is at this price.


TE Mike Gesicki, Cincinnati Bengals ($3,400)


Noah Fant outperformed him last week, but it's deeper than that - Mike Gesicki finished third in snaps among the TE room last week. Some of that is the fact that they ran the ball a billion times and Mike Gesicki is not out there to run block. But 16 total snaps? Are we really wanting to bank on passing production from that little opportunity? I'm not, despite the game environment. I'd rather just pass on the tight end room altogether until we get some more clarity, depsite the awesome game environment.




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