NFL DFS Hot Takes for Week 18

Week 18 of the NFL season presents a unique challenge, but at the end of the day, it’s just a DFS slate and all of the usual principles like correlation and leverage still apply. The difference, at least in my eyes, is that we have fewer spots to choose from than usual despite the big slate. So many of these offenses are going to struggle that we’re forced to choose from a limited pool, and many of the good spots to choose from are consequently super popular. The Hot Takes all focus on leveraging the popular plays or finding the few good spots people aren’t interested in.

Week 18 NFL DFS Hot Takes

This slate’s plays can be split into two categories — the expensive guys people can’t wait to play and the cheap guys people are using so that they can use the expensive guys. The spend-ups are:

Bijan Robinson
Bucky Irving
Mike Evans

The cheapies people are using to fit these guys are: