Papy’s Pieces 3.24

Papy is a full-time DFS player, with a focus on high-stakes tourneys, and with hundreds of thousands in lifetime profit

The Board

• There are two stand-out games this week. Phi/NO and Det/AZ both have totals above 49.
• There are two upper-middle-tier games. Hou/Min and Bal/Dal check in with totals just below 48.
• There are three lower middle-tier games. Chi/Ind, Mia/Sea, and SF/LAR all have totals between 42-44.
• The bottom tier is made up of Den/TB, GB/Ten, LAC/Pit, Car/LV, and NYG/Cle.  All five games have totals below 42.

Pawn – RB Cam Akers ($4,700)

Joe Mixon missed practice all week with an ankle injury. When a guy is DNP every day during the week, that usually means he’s not playing on Sunday. Dameon Pierce was also DNP every day during the week with a hammy. That leaves Cam Akers. Akers is priced below $5,000 and is slated to be the lead back for a potent offense in a good game environment. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that he’s as close to a “must play” as we see in DFS. I suspect he will be around 50% owned, maybe higher, but sometimes you must eat the chalk. It’s tough find reasons to avoid Akers other than an ownership fade, which you can do in large tournaments, but in smaller field stuff it’s hard to stay off Akers as a free square.

Knight – RB Zach Charbonnet ($6,000)