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You can take Malik Nabers in the first round and find your best ball stacks elsewhere

DraftKings Best Ball Millionaire review

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Malik Nabers is a special talent. But his quarterback play is uncertain, not just in how good the quarterbacks will be, but even who will be throwing to him in any given week.


That leads to a lot of stacking uncertainty, and as an overall best ball community, I think that decision of "should I take Malik Nabers when I can't stack him, or should I just take someone I can stack with?" can sit in the back of our minds and lead a player like this to slide a bit further than he otherwise would.


That's not to say that his quarterback play doesn't matter, but ultimately, we should be looking to build the best team we can across all of our picks, and we may not necessarily be doing that if we keep passing on a guy who's equally as good as the players going around him just because of that variable. It leads to an uneven portfolio distribution that may not look like you want it to when all the cards are flipped over.


Anyways, that's a long-winded way of saying I took Malik Nabers in the first round of draft number six in the 2025 DraftKings Best Ball Millionaire tournament.


So what did the team end up looking like? Well, it's an interesting one - where I got sniped on a backdoor stack yet again.





The team, position by position

  • 3 QBs

  • 6 RBs

  • 9 WRs

  • 2 TEs


George Kittle is an elite tight end and deserves to be treated as such. So I kept this a two TE team and built around things that way.




The stacks


San Francisco 49ers double stack

  • QB Brock Purdy (pick 89)

  • WR Jauan Jennings (pick 65)

  • TE George Kittle (pick 41)


I was happy to see George Kittle fall to me in the fourth round here, and it made my decision pretty easy to make this team one that stacks the 49ers, especially as the price of Jauan Jennings began to fall due to his currently-injured-but-fine-for-week-one status. Absolutely love that DraftKings puts that "Questionable" tag on players - thanks for the value pick!


Houston Texans backdoor stack that's really ugly, thank you random person who sniped me!

  • QB CJ Stroud (pick 128)

  • RB Woody Marks (pick 209)

  • WR Jaylin Noel (pick 176)


Yep, this one doesn't feel good. Christian Kirk, who I believed would fall back to me at pick 137, instead went to a person who already had Jayden Higgins on their team. Of course, I did take Stroud one pick before they could've taken him...so maybe it was retaliatory? I don't know - but it certainly made their team worse, so good on them! (Then again, they ended up with an unstacked Bryce Young and an unstacked Aaron Rodgers on their team, so perhaps they just didn't know how to create good best ball teams. Sounds like they need to subscribe to Basement Brewed Fantasy Football.)


Regardless, you're still salvaging something out of this to keep structure in place, so I'll take two rookie dart throws. Woody Marks could easily step into the passing down situations out of this backfield, making him a natural what if pairing with Stroud regardless, and with Jaylin Noel, we have a rookie who's likely fourth on the depth chart but has contingent value if anyone in front of him, especially Christian Kirk or Jayden Higgins, gets hurt.


It could've been a lot worse, in hindsight.


Los Angeles Rams double stack

  • QB Matthew Stafford (pick 137)

  • WR Davante Adams (pick 32)

  • WR Tutu Atwell (pick 200)


I get the question a lot on our Basement Brewed Fantasy Football discord as to why I continue to draft Matthew Stafford given his back injury. And, to be honest, it's not something I'm seeking out to target, and I'm definitely trying to let off the gas overall on the Rams players, but when the scenario fits to do it, you don't want to remove someone from the player pool entirely on those what if scenarios. Early spoiler alert: Matthew Stafford will not make an appearance on draft number seven's writeup.




Well, did Malik Nabers make any of your playoff correlations at least?


Nope! Didn't work out on this team, but plenty of other players do correlate!


  • Cardinals RB Trey Benson plays the Texans in week 15.

  • Colts WR Adonai Mitchell plays the 49ers in week 16.

  • Seahawks RB Kenneth Walker III plays the Rams in week 16.

  • Chargers WR Ladd McConkey plays the Texans in week 17.

  • Falcons RB Tyler Allgeier plays the Rams in week 17.




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