DFS Stacks: Week 8 Winners

DFS stacks are necessary when building a slate-winning DFS lineup.  Every NFL DFS main slate for the remainder of the season is going to be absolutely loaded with strong plays across the salary spectrum. If you are building lineups for tournaments, GPPs, or large contests, it is absolutely imperative that you practice the art of stacking.

Whether it’s a game stack or pure team stack, having multiple pieces of the most fantasy-friendly games on the slate is the way to separate you from the pack and push your roster to the top. Here are my favorite stacks to target this week in DFS Stacks: Week 8 Winners.

With that in mind, here are some of the top stacks for the Week 8 main slate on DraftKings and FanDuel.  I will also throw in a contrarian option for each stack in case these plays prove to be too chalky. So fire up the Soulja Boy, because we’re about to dive into some stacks on stacks on stacks.

Buccaneers-Saints DFS Stacks: Tom Brady + Chris Godwin + Alvin Kamara

There are three factors in play that make this the most obvious (and likely most popular) stack from this game with a slate-high 51.5 implied total.

First, with Antonio Brown out and Chris Godwin‘s salary reasonable on both sites ($6,400 on DK, $7,200 on FD), he becomes an autoplay as we saw last week against the Chicago Bears. Second, there has been plenty of digital ink spilled this week on the Mike Evans–Marshon Lattimore matchup over the past couple of years. Needless to say, it has not been pretty for Evans, which is more evidence for locking in Godwin.

The third factor locking in this stack is the simple fact that Alvin Kamara is the beginning and end of the Saints’ offense. We saw it on Monday night when he had 20 rush attempts (out of 31 total) and 10 receptions (out of 19 completions) against the Saints. He should get close to 30 opportunities again in this game, especially high-leverage targets.

Considering Jameis Winston‘s play last week, I thought this game would have a larger spread, but it sits at only 4.5 favorites for Tampa Bay and both offenses should be humming on the track field that is the Saint’s dome stadium.

My favorite stat entering this game: The Buccaneers allow the second-most receptions to running-backs this year (52). We know Tampa is going to score, and so the Saints are going to have to utilize Kamara in every situation to stay competitive. And no, I’m not worried one bit about Mark Ingram.

Contrarian Stack: Tom Brady + Mike Evans + Marquez Callaway

Bills-Dolphins DFS Stacks: Josh Allen + Stefon Diggs + Jaylen Waddle/Mike Gesicki

I’m not exactly sure what happened with Stefon Diggs‘ salary on FanDuel, but it dropped down to $7,300 on that site despite 11 targets, nine catches, 89 yards, and a score in his last game. He is $800 higher on DraftKings which is almost unheard of.

Diggs will be wildly popular on FD, but it looks like chalk you may just have to be comfortable eating at that salary. DK is going to make you think about it. His salary went up $800 during the bye over there, but the upside with Allen in this game against the Dolphins may be too much to ignore.

After Matt Ryan thrashed them last week, the Dolphins now allow the third-most points to the wide receiver position and the seventh-most quarterbacks. Miami also allows the seventh-highest yards per pass attempt to opponents which is bad news when facing the Allen-Diggs double whammy.

For the Dolphins, both Waddle and Gesicki have become the favorite toys for Tua Tagovailoa to play with. Since Week 3, they both average more than eight targets per game, both have target shares over 20%, and they have the two highest air yards totals on the team.

Buffalo has one of the stingiest pass defenses in the league, but in a game in which they project to win by 14 points, the Dolphins should be throwing early and often.

Contrarian Stack: Zack Moss + BUF DST + Waddle/Gesicki

Falcons-Panthers DFS Stacks: Matt Ryan + Calvin Ridley + Kyle Pitts + D.J. Moore

The Falcons are now approaching a pass/run ratio of 2/1 on the season as they abandon the Mike Davis experiment. Through seven weeks, they are throwing the ball almost 64% of the time, and have also crept up to 10th in passing yards per game on the season. Both Calvin Ridley and Kyle Pitts are seeing elite usage and opportunity and, combined with Cordarrelle Patterson, make up the entirety of the offense.

On the Panthers’ side of the ball, it’s simple. Moore gets the roster spot due to simple self-elimination from his teammates.

Sam Darnold looks like he is on the Jets again, Chuba Hubbard has disappointed despite strong opportunity in recent weeks and Robby Anderson has somehow turned 27 targets and 272 air yards into just 55 receiving yards the last three weeks. Unreal. Moore ranks top-five in both target share and air yards in the NFL, so he is the clear correlation play.

Much like the Tampa Bay/New Orleans game, these NFC South games always turn into shoot outs and this game in the dome at Mercedes Benz Stadium should be no different. If we can just get a semi-competent version of Darnold in this one, it should fly past its current 46.5 implied total.

Contrarian Stack: Matt Ryan + Cordarrelle Patterson + Robby Anderson

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Other Interesting DFS Stacks

Carson Wentz + Michael Pittman + AJ Brown

Throw Derrick Henry if you want to as well, he’s just harder to fit in at $8,900 on DK and $10,500 on FD. This game sneakily has the second-highest total on the slate at 51 points (bet up from 50) and certainly has plenty of stackable parts. Since Week 2, Michael Pittman is 12th among all wide receivers with 38.3% of his team’s air yards and is the clear leader in targets (7.7) per game.

Tennessee allows the most fantasy points to wide receivers on the season (31.7 per game) and it’s almost just as bad on the other side. The Colts allow the eighth-most points to the position. And with Julio Jones constantly battling injuries, this looks like another smash spot for A.J. Brown.

Darrell Henderson + LAR DST + Brandin Cooks

Henderson let the whole DFS community down last week with just 9.4 DK points and 7.9 FD points against the Lions. But now he gets seemingly a carbon copy of that game, as the Rams come back home as 14.5 point favorites against the lowly Houston Texans.

I love the correlation play between Henderson and his defense this week since Houston now allows the sixth-most fantasy points to running backs and has also allowed 45 pressures to Davis Mills in his six games at quarterback. Brandin Cooks is third in the NFL in target share and is the only logical bring-back in this game and should get a mild boost with Tyrod Taylor back under center.

Jalen Hurts + Dallas Goedert + D’Andre Swift

The Swift and Hurts pieces of this stack are the easy parts. They are the only consistent fantasy-friendly options on their respective teams and neither saw a price increase on DK after both scoring more than 24 fantasy points last week and now walking into this defense-optional matchup in Detroit.

You can surely double-stack Hurts with Goedert and DeVonta Smith, but the Eagles’ passing offense hasn’t seemed capable of sustaining two pass-catchers in recent weeks. A Hurts-Kenneth Gainwell stack might also be in play to monopolize all Philadelphia touchdowns.

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