Daily Fantasy Football 2022: Week 1 primer and lineup picks
Whether you've played Daily Fantasy on Yahoo before or are giving it a try for the first time, this weekly column will take an early look at the DFS landscape,
revealing whom I like building lineups around, stars to fade, undervalued plays and bargain bin options to help you construct a better team.
While not quite as valuable in 0.5 PPR, McCaffrey remains in a fantasy class all by himself compared to all other players —
when he’s on the field. CMC enters 2022 fully healthy and not recovering from any serious offseason surgery.
He’ll also get a big upgrade at QB, going from bottom-three-type production to somewhere around the league average with Baker Mayfield taking over.
Playing at home with fresh legs, McCaffrey's salary is somehow $3 cheaper than two other Week 1 running backs, making him a no-brainer building block.
Lamb is set to see a ton of targets with Amari Cooper, Michael Gallup, James Washington and Blake Jarwin all gone or unlikely to play Week 1;
Noah Brown enters the season as Dallas’ WR2. With big splits with Cooper off the field and playing at home against a Bucs defense that’s sure to stuff Ezekiel Elliott
and the Cowboys run game without LT Tyron Smith, it would be an upset if Lamb doesn’t see at least a dozen targets in Week 1. Six other receivers, however, somehow have a higher salary.