This week will be the beginning of my foray into daily fantasy, as DraftKings is offering contests for the NFL preseason. For week 1, the starters will be playing at most a series or two, so it is useless to project based off of statistics from last year. I will mostly be looking at second or third-string players and picking the players who have the greatest opportunity to play. This guy did preseason predictions last year; a few of his posts on be found on his blog: https://rotogrinders.com/profiles/sethayates/blog-posts.
I will be targeting players who have the most opportunities to play based on injuries to other players. We will assume the non-injured/suspended player highest on the depth chart will get the first-team snaps and not bother with rostering them.
Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Green Bay, New England, New Orleans, Baltimore, New York Jets, Detroit, Miami, Chicago, Washington, Cleveland, Dallas, and San Diego are the teams playing this week.
Looking at depth charts from FootballGuys (http://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/depthchart.php), Ourlads (http://www.ourlads.com/nfldepthcharts/), and RotoWorld (http://www.rotoworld.com/teams/depth-charts/NFL.aspx), we see that the following teams stand out for their lack of depth in certain positions:
QBs: Pittsburgh (Landry Jones), Patriots (Jimmy Garrappolo), Jets (Bryce Petty), Browns (Manziel), Packers (Tolzein), Jimmy Clausen
RBs: Dallas (Gus Johnson), Cleveland RB: Isaiah Crowell, New England (), New York Jets (), New Orleans
WRs: Miami (Matt Hazel, Rishard Matthews), Baltimore: DeAndre Carter, Michael Campanaro, New England (Josh Boyce, Aaron Dobson), Cleveland (), Green Bay (), Lucky Whitehead, Josh Lenz, Ty Montgomery
TEs: New Orleans (Jack Tabb and Kevin Brock), Washington (Chase Dixon)
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