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Stack THESE Games For Best Ball

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17 min
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May 22, 2026
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Fri, May 22, 2026
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A.T. PerryAmon-Ra St. BrownBijan RobinsonBrian Thomas Jr.Cade OttonCaleb WilliamsCeeDee LambChris OlaveChristian KirkCole KmetColston LovelandD'Andre SwiftDak PrescottDallas Goedert
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A.T. Perry

NegativeValue4:06

A.T. Perry is only a consideration in deep 20-round best ball drafts on DraftKings; Davis Mattek does not recommend him for standard best ball stacks, indicating limited appeal in typical formats.

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Amon-Ra St. Brown

PositiveValue4:00

Amon-Ra St. Brown is a primary draftable piece in the Lions' best ball stack with a 24-point implied total in the Detroit-Chicago game. Davis Mattek identifies him alongside David Montgomery (Gibbs) and Sam LaPorta as the core Lions stack, rating this as the number one overall game for stacking if played in Detroit.

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Bijan Robinson

PositiveValue0:19

Bijan Robinson is an absolute fantasy stud on the Falcons side in the S-tier Saints-Falcons Week 17 game. Despite the game having only a 44-point total, Davis Mattek highlights Robinson as a key player to target in this best ball stack, explicitly recommending drafting him alongside Drake London as core pieces of the Falcons offense.

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Brian Thomas Jr.

PositiveValue0:35

Brian Thomas Jr. (BTJ) is a core piece of the Jaguars offense in the S-tier Commanders-Jaguars Week 17 game. Davis Mattek states 'I think they could be like a top five offense in the NFL' and explicitly lists BTJ as a player you should be drafting in this stack, with the game expected to be competitive and not a blowout.

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Cade Otton

PositiveValue4:57

Cade Otton is a stack target for the Buccaneers in a 48.5-point total game against the Rams; Davis Mattek absolutely loves this matchup and notes the quarterback is optional in this stack. Otton is identified as a secondary piece alongside Davante Adams and Kenneth Gainwell.

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Caleb Williams

PositiveValue4:04

Caleb Williams is a primary draftable piece in Davis Mattek's Bears best ball stack in the Detroit-Chicago game (25.5-point implied total); Mattek identifies him as the quarterback anchor alongside Rome Odunze, Colston Loveland, D'Andre Swift, and Cole Kmet as the core Bears stack, noting the offense is very condensed with no other draftable players after this core group.

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CeeDee Lamb

PositiveValue0:49

CeeDee Lamb is a core piece of the Cowboys offense in the Giants-Cowboys S-tier Week 17 game. Davis Mattek notes it is tougher to get Lamb and George Pickens together but can be done. The Lamb-Dak stack is 'basically like the highest projected week 17 stack that you can get every single time that is in a dome' with the Cowboys at a 27-point implied team total.

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Chris Olave

PositiveValue3:56

Chris Olave is a primary draftable pass catcher in the Saints' best ball stack. Davis Mattek identifies the Saints offense as 'your favorite best ball drafters favorite best ball draft stack' with Olave listed alongside Taysom Hill, Shaquille Leonard, and Juwan Johnson as the condensed receiving corps.

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Christian Kirk

PositiveValue9:14

Christian Kirk is among the draftable options from the Eagles-49ers game stack, which projects as a 45.5-point total with potential for shootout upside if the 49ers defense regresses.

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Cole Kmet

PositiveRole4:18

Kmet (referred to as Loveland in the transcript, likely a transcription error for the Bears tight end) is a core stack piece in the Bears offense alongside Burden, Swift, and Williams; the source identifies the Bears as a second-favorite or favorite stack in best ball, with Kmet as a primary draftable asset in a very condensed offense.

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Colston Loveland

PositiveValue4:04

Colston Loveland is a primary draftable piece in Davis Mattek's Bears best ball stack in the Detroit-Chicago game (25.5-point implied total); Mattek identifies him alongside Rome Odunze, D'Andre Swift, Cole Kmet, and Caleb Williams as the core Bears stack, noting the offense is very condensed with no other draftable players after this core group.

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D'Andre Swift

PositiveValue4:04

D'Andre Swift is a primary draftable piece in Davis Mattek's Bears best ball stack in the Detroit-Chicago game (25.5-point implied total); Mattek identifies him alongside Rome Odunze, Colston Loveland, Cole Kmet, and Caleb Williams as the core Bears stack, noting the offense is very condensed with no other draftable players after this core group.

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Dak Prescott

PositiveProjection0:57

Dak Prescott anchors the highest-projected Week 17 dome stack. Davis Mattek states 'The Lamb-Dak stack is, I mean, basically like the highest projected week 17 stack that you can get every single time that is in a dome' with the Cowboys at a 27-point implied team total.

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Dallas Goedert

PositiveValue9:14

Goedert is among the draftable options from the Eagles-49ers game stack, which projects as a 45.5-point total with potential for shootout upside if the 49ers defense regresses year-over-year.

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Daniel Jones

PositiveProjection10:00

Davis Mattek is 'really really really really really hoping' for a good version of Daniel Jones returning from an Achilles injury in the Colts-Browns game; quarterbacks are very cheap in this stack, making Jones easy to correlate with Josh Downs and Concepcion if there is a significant lean on his starting status later in the season.

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Davante Adams

PositiveValue4:57

Davante Adams is a primary stack target for the Rams in a 48.5-point total game against Tampa Bay; Davis Mattek absolutely loves this matchup and notes the quarterback is optional in this stack. Adams is identified as a core piece alongside Kenneth Gainwell and Cade Otton.

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David Montgomery

PositiveValue4:00

David Montgomery (Gibbs) is a primary draftable piece in the Lions' best ball stack with a 24-point implied total in the Detroit-Chicago game. Davis Mattek identifies him alongside Amon-Ra St. Brown and Sam LaPorta as the core Lions stack. Additionally, the cold weather environment in Green Bay during Week 17 makes Mattek like Montgomery 'a little bit more' for stacking purposes, as the Texans-Packers game is expected to feature high rush attempts and low volume passing.

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Eli Stowers

PositiveValue9:14

Stowers is among the draftable options from the Eagles-49ers game stack, which projects as a 45.5-point total with potential for shootout upside if the 49ers defense regresses year-over-year.

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Emari Demercado

NegativeRole6:30

The source suggests Amari Demercado is not a necessary inclusion in Chiefs best ball stacks; the Chiefs offense is tier-1 but Demercado is not a priority target.

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Greg Dulcich

NegativeRole6:12

The source suggests Greg Dulcich is not a necessary inclusion in Bills best ball stacks; the Bills offense is tier-1 but Dulcich is not a priority target.

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Jacory Croskey-Merritt

PositiveValue0:21

Jacory Croskey-Merritt is a core piece of the Commanders offense in the S-tier Commanders-Jaguars Week 17 game. Davis Mattek explicitly states 'I love drafting Jacory Croskey-Merritt' as part of the Commanders stack, with the expectation that Daniels playing from behind will create favorable volume opportunities.

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Jalen Nailor

PositiveProjection12:00

Jaylen Nailor is positioned to benefit if the Raiders-Cardinals game becomes a fantasy bonanza, assuming the Raiders do not sign a wide receiver free agent over the next couple of weeks; the source identifies this as the leading candidate for a 'who cares bowl' that goes insane with yards and touchdowns.

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James Cook

PositiveRole5:51

James Cook is identified as a core stack target for the Bills in a game with a massive team total; Davis Mattek emphasizes the Bills' scoring potential and the need to include them in stacks due to their high implied total, noting they could score 40 points without breaking a sweat.

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Jaxon Smith-Njigba

PositiveMatchup13:00

Jaxon Smith-Njigba is expected to face 'basically no resistance' in the week 17 game against Carolina; positioned as a beneficiary of a favorable matchup where the Panthers are projected for an 18.5-point implied team total and the source expects Seattle to dominate.

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Jayden Daniels

PositiveValue0:21

Jayden Daniels is a core piece of the Commanders offense in the S-tier Commanders-Jaguars Week 17 game. Davis Mattek states 'I love drafting Jayden Daniels' and emphasizes that Daniels playing from behind against the Jaguars' defense is 'absolutely what we want' in best ball, as the Commanders are expected to have a god-awful defense and need to win the game, creating favorable game script for passing volume.

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Jaylen Waddle

NegativeMatchup12:20

Jaylen Waddle is a player the source has been drafting heavily, but the Broncos-Patriots Week 17 matchup makes him less attractive; the source expects a lot of running in this game based on the teams' previous playoff meeting, which was a horrible, unwatchable, sloppy mess outdoors; the poor game environment reduces his appeal despite his overall quality.

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Jeremiyah Love

PositiveValue10:54

Jeremiah Love is a high-end fantasy option in the Raiders-Cardinals dome game stack with two very bad defenses; Davis Mattek wanted to rank this game higher but was held back by quarterback uncertainty.

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Jonathan Taylor

NegativeValue10:00

Jonathan Taylor is the primary expensive player in the Colts-Browns stack; outside of him, everyone else is quite cheap, making the stack easy to correlate with Josh Downs and Concepcion.

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Jonathon Brooks

NegativeMatchup13:00

Even if Brooks is the starting running back for the Panthers in week 17, the source does not expect him to perform well given the unfavorable Seattle-Carolina matchup; the Panthers are projected for an 18.5-point implied team total and the source expects the game to 'suck,' with Seattle expected to 'get ran roughshod over' Carolina.

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Josh Allen

PositiveProjection5:51

Allen could score 40 fantasy points in the Bills-Dolphins matchup if the Dolphins show offensive firepower, which would compel the Bills to perform better than expected. The source cites the Dolphins' weak defense as a key factor elevating Allen's ceiling; the Bills' massive team total makes them a tier-1 stacking option in best ball.

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Kenneth Gainwell

PositiveValue4:57

Kenneth Gainwell is a stack target for the Rams in a 48.5-point total game against Tampa Bay; Davis Mattek absolutely loves this matchup and notes the quarterback is optional in this stack. Gainwell is identified as a secondary piece alongside Davante Adams and Cade Otton.

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Kyren Williams

PositiveProjection5:13

Davis Mattek is higher on Kyren Williams' offensive production than the market in the Rams-Buccaneers game (48.5-point total); this bullish positioning suggests upside relative to expectations in a high-total matchup.

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Malik Nabers

PositiveValue0:29

Malik Nabers is part of a concentrated Giants offense with condensed ADP in the S-tier Giants-Cowboys Week 17 game. Davis Mattek notes it is very easy to get Nabers, Kam Skadowbo, and Jackson Dart all on the same team in best ball drafting with no secondary players required, making the Giants a highly stackable offense.

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Malik Washington

NegativeRole6:12

The source suggests Malik Washington is not a necessary inclusion in Bills best ball stacks; the Bills offense is tier-1 but Washington is not a priority target.

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Marvin Harrison Jr.

PositiveProjection12:00

Marvin Harrison Jr. is positioned to benefit if the Raiders-Cardinals game becomes a fantasy bonanza; the source identifies this as the leading candidate for a 'who cares bowl' that goes insane with yards and touchdowns, given both teams' low projected win totals and poor defenses.

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Michael Wilson

PositiveProjection12:00

Michael Wilson is positioned to benefit if the Raiders-Cardinals game becomes a fantasy bonanza; the source identifies this as the leading candidate for a 'who cares bowl' that goes insane with yards and touchdowns, given both teams' low projected win totals and poor defenses.

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Rashid Shaheed

PositiveMatchup13:00

Davis Mattek names Shaheed as a Seattle player expected to face 'basically no resistance' in the week 17 game against Carolina, where the Panthers are projected for an 18.5-point implied team total. Shaheed is positioned as a beneficiary of a dominant matchup environment.

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Rome Odunze

PositiveValue4:04

Rome Odunze (referred to as Burden in the transcript) is a primary draftable piece in Davis Mattek's Bears best ball stack in the Detroit-Chicago game (25.5-point implied total); Mattek identifies him alongside Colston Loveland, D'Andre Swift, Cole Kmet, and Caleb Williams as the core Bears stack, noting the offense is very condensed with no other draftable players after this core group.

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Sam LaPorta

PositiveValue4:00

Sam LaPorta is a primary draftable piece in the Lions' best ball stack against Chicago; the Lions carry a 24-point implied total in this game, which Davis Mattek rates as the number one overall game for stacking if played in Detroit. LaPorta is identified as a core stack piece alongside David Gibbs Jr. and Amon-Ra St. Brown, with no other draftable players after this trio.

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Ted Hurst

PositiveValue5:27

Ted Hurst is identified as Davis Mattek's favorite later-round wide receiver target for the Buccaneers in the Rams-Buccaneers game (48.5-point total); this suggests strong value and upside potential in a high-total matchup.

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Terrance Ferguson

PositiveProjection5:13

Davis Mattek is definitely higher on Terrance Ferguson's offensive production than the market in the Rams-Buccaneers game (48.5-point total); this bullish positioning suggests upside relative to expectations in a high-total matchup.

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Travis Hunter

PositiveValue0:35

Travis Hunter Jr. is a core piece of the Jaguars offense in the S-tier Commanders-Jaguars Week 17 game. Davis Mattek explicitly lists Hunter as a player you should be drafting in this stack, with the game expected to be competitive and not a blowout, and the Jaguars projected as a top-five offense.

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Tre Tucker

PositiveProjection12:00

Trey Tucker is positioned to benefit if the Raiders-Cardinals game becomes a fantasy bonanza, assuming the Raiders do not sign a wide receiver free agent over the next couple of weeks; the source identifies this as the leading candidate for a 'who cares bowl' that goes insane with yards and touchdowns.

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Trevor Lawrence

PositiveValue0:35

Trevor Lawrence is a core piece of the Jaguars offense in the S-tier Commanders-Jaguars Week 17 game. Davis Mattek states 'I think they could be like a top five offense in the NFL' and explicitly lists Lawrence as a player you should be drafting in this stack, with the game expected to be competitive and not a blowout.

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Trey McBride

PositiveValue10:54

Trey McBride is a high-end fantasy option in the Raiders-Cardinals dome game stack with two very bad defenses; the synchronicity between the high-end running back (Jeremiah Love) and high-end tight end (McBride) is notable.

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Tutu Atwell

PositiveValue0:35

Tutu Atwell is a core piece of the Jaguars offense in the S-tier Commanders-Jaguars Week 17 game. Davis Mattek states 'I think they could be like a top five offense in the NFL' and explicitly lists Atwell as a player you should be drafting in this stack, with the game expected to be competitive and not a blowout.

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Zach Charbonnet

PositiveMatchup13:00

Davis Mattek expects Charbonnet to face 'basically no resistance' in the week 17 Seattle-Carolina matchup. If he returns from his ACL tear and wins the starting role, Mattek views him as 'really undervalued' because Carolina will 'get ran roughshod over' by Seattle, creating a favorable rushing environment for the Seahawks offense.

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Episode Transcript

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0:00The definitive week 17 best ball game stacking tier list is here. I've got every game, all the relevant information for the week 17 games. We're going to go
0:07from the best game to the worst game and how it is going to influence our best ball drafting strategy in 2026. To me, I
0:14think there are three clear S-tier games. The New York Giants traveling to play at the Dallas Cowboys, the Washington Commanders traveling to play
0:22against the Jacksonville Jaguars, and perhaps controversially, the New Orleans Saints playing in the dome against the Atlanta Falcons. I think it's pretty
0:29clear why the Giants and Dallas game is so great. A very concentrated offense for the Giants. You can see the condensed ADPs here. It is very easy to
0:38get Malik Nabers, Kam Skadowbo, Jackson Dart all on the same team. There are no secondary players that you have to have.
0:44I don't think you have to get Darnell Mooney. I don't think you have to get Malachi Fields, but you can certainly
0:49tack them on. Same deal for the Dallas Cowboys. A little bit tougher to get CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens together, but it can be done. Lamb and Javonte
0:57Williams line up quite nicely on the right side of the board over there on Underdog Fantasy. The Lamb-Dak stack is, I mean, basically like the highest
1:05projected week 17 stack that you can get every single time that is in a dome.
1:09You've got Jake Ferguson. You can add in Flournoy if you want, but this is just a very easy game to stack. The Cowboys
1:16have an implied team total of 27 points.
1:18It's a game in a dome.
1:21I think a lot of people probably would not have the Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars in their top tier.
1:27I love these offenses. Well, I guess I should say I love drafting Jayden Daniels. I love drafting Jacory Croskey-Merritt. I think the Jaguars are
1:35a sneaky, like, I mean, I think they could be like a top five offense in the NFL. And I think there's reason that you
1:42should be drafting BTJ. You should be drafting Tutu. You should be drafting Lawrence. You should be drafting Britain Strange. You should be also drafting
1:49Travis Hunter Jr. I don't expect this game to be a blowout. I expect both the Commanders and the Jaguars to need to
1:55win this game. You know, that is very important. Some of these week 17 games could be better fantasy football games, but they are not overall going to be
2:03important enough competitively for us to be completely locked in and guaranteed that the starters are playing. Uh the Commanders are going to have a god-awful
2:10defense. The Jaguars are probably going to have a quite solid one, but Jayden Daniels playing from behind is absolutely what we want.
2:19And then again, another relatively controversial one, only a 44-point total for the New Orleans Saints against the Atlanta Falcons, but you have got
2:27absolute fantasy studs on the Falcons side in Bijan and Drake London. I don't think you have to include Michael Penix Jr. or Tua Tagovailoa in these stacks at
2:36all. And then the Saints offense is your favorite best ball drafters favorite best ball draft stack, right? You've got Olave, you've got Taysom, you've got
2:45Shaquille, you've got Juwan Johnson.
2:46There's no other pass catcher really draftable there. I'm not taking Devon Achane, I'm not taking Bub Means. I mean, maybe in a 20-round draft on Draft
2:54Kings I would take A.T. Perry, you've got Etienne. We've got recent comments from the coaching staff that uh we think Alvin Kamara might not be on the team.
3:02It's a very weird quote from Mickey Loomis there at the end of May where he was like, "Yeah, you know, we're trying
3:07to see financially what we can do with Alvin Kamara." Again, the NFC South, we're going to be going to be competitive until the very end. I think
3:14we're going to feel very good about the Saints and the Falcons both needing to win this game. And if I'm making another
3:20bet, this is another bet I would be making with all of you guys. I'll bet whatever you want that the implied team total for the New
3:27Orleans Saints is much higher than 21 and 1/2 6 months from now when we when we actually get there. The Saints
3:32offense, I expect going to be solidly in the top half of the league. These games are going to be in a dome. They're I
3:38think they're going to be known as like a fast-paced, quite good offense. Kellen Moore has a lot of weapons to deploy
3:44now. I mean, he's got three tight ends that I think he's comfortable with, Juwan, Delp, and Fant. I think that will
3:48be very helpful for him. So, my S tier is the New York Giants, Dallas Cowboys, the Commanders, Jaguars, the New Orleans
3:55Saints, and the Atlanta Falcons. In my A-tier, these are all still very strong games, but they do have some drawbacks.
4:01The first one is Detroit-Chicago.
4:04Now, if this game was being played in Detroit, this would be my number one overall game. You've got the Lions with
4:09a 24-point implied total, the Bears 25 and 1/2, Gibbs, St. Brown, LaPorta, Goff. No one really after that. I mean, you can take Tesla if you want. The
4:18Bears, basically my second favorite or favorite stack in all of baseball.
4:21Burden, Loveland, Swift, Adebayo, Caleb Williams. Again, no one really draftable after that. Very condensed offense this year. I mean, you can take Manhunga if
4:29you want. I'm not a huge Manhunga guy.
4:32However, Jared Goff outdoors, man. I mean, the the history of Jared Goff home and road, the the history of Jared Goff in and
4:40out. He's a California guy with small hands. I'm I'm marginally worried. I'm marginally worried enough to take this from the S-tier to the A-tier just
4:48because it could be, you know, it's outdoors in Chicago in January. You know, very, very late in the year. Like, this is going to be a cold game. There's
4:55definitely a chance for bad weather.
4:57But, 49 and 1/2 point total, two offenses we really like. I absolutely love that one. I also absolutely love the 48 and 1/2 point total with the Rams
5:05and the Buccaneers. Again, this is one I don't think you have to include the quarterbacks in. You can definitely do, you know, Davante Adams and then Kenneth
5:15Gainwell and Cade Otton if you want. I don't think you have to include the quarterbacks here. These are two teams that I'm probably a little bit higher on
5:21their offenses on than the market. I'm a little bit higher on Kyren. I'm definitely higher on Terrance Ferguson.
5:27Ted Hurst for the Tampa Buccaneers is currently my favorite, you know, later round wide receiver click. This is another game that I think we should
5:35expect. It's I'd be better if it was at SoFi. Right, it'd be better if it was a Rams game, but we expect the weather to
5:40be nice in a time where, you know, a lot of the times these January-December games, the weather is not very nice. So,
5:46big fan of Rams-Buccaneers. I expect that one to be strong.
5:51Buffalo, I think you just have to include them cuz their team total is so massive. They could score 40 points in
5:57this game without breaking a sweat.
5:58James Cook, Josh Allen. One thing I will say, which would be quite nice, is if the Dolphins show any fight at all. If
6:05there is any offensive firepower here from the Dolphin side, that is going to compel the Bills to be so much better
6:12than they have any right to be in this game. Like we we could actually see, you know, Josh Allen go for 40. And we just know
6:19the Dolphins defense is going to suck.
6:21So, I I do really like that. And I mean, it doesn't Do you need to be taking Malik Washington or Greg Dulcich with
6:25your Bills teams? I don't think you do, but an offense like the Bills we do have to include in the first two tiers. And
6:30then, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers playing in a dome. We have a hopefully resurgent Kansas City Chiefs offense. Walker, Rice, Mahomes,
6:39Worthy, Kelce. You don't really need to concern yourself with Emeka Emezieke or Amari Demercado or whoever, but you can.
6:46The Chargers have a load of draftable guys. Hamler, Jeudy, Herbert, QJ, Gadsden. You got Brandon Thompson. You got my guy Keaton Mitchell. Again, this
6:54game could be for the division. This game could be I mean, honestly, if the Broncos run away from this division, this game could be for a playoff spot.
7:00This could be a win-in-you're-in game for both of these teams. I obviously am higher than the market on the Chiefs offense. And I think Mike McDaniel is
7:08going to do a great job with the Los Angeles Chargers. I expect their offense to again be top 10 in the league. If the
7:14offensive line stays healthy, the implied total for this game could rise quite a bit. By the time we get to January, by the time we get to that last
7:21week of December, this could be the highest total game on the slate.
7:25If both these teams offenses are kind of what I think they can be, I think there there definitely is a chance that this
7:30ends up being an A-tier game. I would love for Baltimore and Cincinnati to be an A-tier game, but they are down here
7:38in the B-tier after Detroit-Chicago, Rams-Buccaneers, Dolphins-Bills, and Chiefs, Chargers. The B tier is going to be Baltimore, Cincinnati, Philadelphia,
7:48San Francisco, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and the Las Vegas Raiders, and the Arizona Cardinals. I do really like stacking Lamar Jackson and Mark Andrews.
7:56You kind of run out of options after that. Everyone knows about the Bengals stacks. They're going to have four of the best players in fantasy football. My
8:02concerns here are twofold. One would be weather. Two would be volume based, like if if the Ravens are just kind of
8:09smashing this season. If the Ravens I if the total is 51 and a half, which feels sort of insane to me, given what we have
8:16seen from the Ravens when they've been very good in the past. Now, I could be wrong about this, and you can comment
8:22down below if you think that I am wrong about this, and that I should move this up a tier. Also, this is just a very
8:27expensive stack to get. It's going to be pretty hard to get Chase, Henry, and T.
8:33Higgins, and Joe Burrow. I mean, I'm sure there are people who are going to do it, but I think it's a little bit
8:37difficult to get, which is something that I included in the rankings Philadelphia, San Francisco has a 45 and a half point total. Now, this game again
8:47could be either horrible or quite good based on how the Philadelphia Eagles season plays out. Like, it's hard for me to imagine the Eagles playing a ton of
8:54shootouts without slow and methodical their offense has been. But, if the 49ers defense is as bad as it was last year, and the 49ers have to keep pace,
9:02we could actually end up seeing a shootout between these two teams because the 49ers with as long as Purdy's healthy and
9:09Shanahan is calling the plays, they are going to be a good offense. I mean, I just don't have any shadow of a doubt
9:14about that. But, if the defense is quite poor year over year, this could be a spot where like Mekhi Leven could be the
9:20rookie wide receiver you had to have. I mean, A.J. Brown is showing in my graphic right here because I just filtered by team. We all know A.J. Brown
9:26is not going to be on the team. So, you've got Dallas Goedert, you've got Eli Stowers, you've got De'Shawn Stripling, you've got Kalen Black,
9:33you've got Christian Kirk. There are a lot of draftable guys from this game.
9:37Again, another game where we would expect the weather to be pretty decent.
9:40I mean, I I have heard rumors about the super El Nino. It's It's out there. I mean, I don't I'm not making things up.
9:46I I know I'm the boy who cried El Nino, but there there is some concern about weather later in the year here.
9:53The Indianapolis Colts at the Cleveland Browns. The Browns defense will probably be okay. The Colts defense will probably not be particularly good.
10:01I am really really really really really hoping we get a good version of Daniel Jones coming back from this Achilles injury. What makes this game so
10:08interesting to me is outside of Jonathan Taylor, everyone is quite cheap. Very easy to correlate Josh Downs, Concepcion, and Daniel Jones. Um if we
10:17know or if we have a significant lean on who the starting quarterback is going to be later on in the season, then their
10:23quarterbacks are very cheap. And something that I kind of always think, and maybe this is just more superstitious than anything else, is
10:29there's always going to be a game, always always always going to be a game that projects horribly. That's just the absolute toilet bowl. I always think
10:38about the Browns-Jets game from 2024 where or sorry, 2023 actually, where it was the worst imaginable game. Of course, the Browns are always involved
10:48in the worst imaginable game, but it is the game that ends up just being the total random shootout game. Which then
10:54brings me to the Las Vegas Raiders and the Arizona Cardinals. I wanted to put this game in the top tier. These are two
10:59very bad defenses that are playing in a dome. You've got no one who's expensive on the Raiders. You do have some very
11:06very high-end fantasy options in Gentty, Bowers, Jeremiah Love, and Trey McBride.
11:11The synchronicity there between the high-end running back and the high-end tight end is not escaped on me.
11:17The only reason I did not have this game higher in my rankings is quarterback uncertainty where do you want to be
11:24taking Mendoza? Do you want to be taking Cousins? Do you want to be taking Jacoby Brissett? Do you want to take Carson
11:29Beck? Do you want to take Gardner Minshew? I think it's very hard to say.
11:32The implied total for this game, again, I would expect to actually be much higher once we get to the game. These
11:38are offenses that the market expects to be bad, but the defenses for both of these teams are going to be pretty
11:43terrible. These are two teams that are amongst the five lowest projected win totals overall. I said this on a video last week, but this is my leading
11:51favorite to be the who cares bowl.
11:53Neither of these teams are going to be anywhere close to playoff contention here. And something that we always know, again, is at the end of the season, at
11:59least one of the who cares games is going to be a total fantasy bonanza with just like yards and touchdowns stacked
12:06on top of each other. This would probably be my favorite candidate for the who cares bowl that goes insane, which I guess means that Marvin Harrison
12:13Jr., Michael Wilson, I mean, even Jaylen Nailor and Trey Tucker, assuming that the Raiders do not sign a wide receiver free agent over the next couple weeks of
12:21the season. I mean, Deebo and Diggs are right out there for them. Uh then we have the C tier, just honestly a game I
12:27expect to be pretty bad. The Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots. We saw these two teams play in the playoffs
12:33last season. It was a horrible, unwatchable, sloppy mess outdoors. I expect a lot of running in this game.
12:40Honestly, Jaylen Waddle is a guy that I've been drafting a ton of. It makes me like Jaylen Waddle a hair less. I'm not
12:45trying to overemphasize these week 17 games because to some degree, you know, there's only so much that you can actually control in week 17. There are
12:52very few things that we have in our control, and I don't want to over index on these games. I do want to give kind
12:58of a slight boost to some of the week 17 games, but I don't want to be fading Broncos players or Patriots players. Two
13:04offenses I expect to be pretty good just because their week 17 game environment is not great.
13:10Honestly, I I will say for Seattle-Carolina, I expect this game to suck. I mean, I expect the Panthers 18 and 1/2 point implied team total to
13:18potentially be worse. I don't expect, even if Jonathan Brooks is the starting running back in week 17, I don't know how well he will do. However, on the
13:25contrary, I expect basically no resistance for JSN, Zach Charbonnet, Price, Rashid Shaheed, Sam Darnold, or Zach Charbonnet. I mean, if Charbonnet
13:33is the starting running back in this game in week 17, if he makes his way back from the ACL tear and wrests the
13:39position away from Zach Charbonnet, Price, I I think he's going to be a really undervalued guy because Carolina is just going to get ran roughshod over
13:46in this game by the Seattle Seahawks.
13:48Houston, Green Bay, two teams that just want to absolutely pound the air out of the ball. It's Green Bay in December.
13:54It's going to be cold as [ __ ] I mean, do I draft these guys? Yes. I probably makes me like David Montgomery
14:00a little bit more. Makes me like makes me like Josh Jacobs a little bit more.
14:05Makes me like, you know, the the Packers passing stacks maybe marginally less because again, these are going to be two very good defenses. That Texans
14:12defensive line against Jordan Love, they are going to be absolutely teeing off on Mr. Jordan Love.
14:19Just not a good game, right? Something I think about with these games is what do these two head coaches want? This will
14:24be like a very important game for these teams. The Texans will want to win, the Packers will want to win. This will be a
14:29high-stakes game. Both of these teams low volume, high rush attempts. Like this game is going to be done very, very quickly. And then my two bottom-tier
14:39games, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tennessee Titans. Aaron Rodgers returns for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Who knows what's going to be happening with the
14:48Tennessee Titans. I mean, just this is basically bottom of the barrel. This is the when when people are talking in May
14:53about like would do anything to watch a football game right now. This is the type of game that you were thinking of.
14:59Like I would do anything to watch Cam Ward throw incompletions against the Pittsburgh Steelers. I would do anything to watch Aaron Rodgers throw check-downs
15:07to Michael Pittman Jr. Just I mean, can you stack these teams? Of course you can.
15:12Do I expect the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tennessee Titans to come anywhere near to being an important game for fantasy football? No, I do not.
15:20And then finally, the Minnesota Vikings at get a good match up against the poor New York Jets defense. So, that's nice
15:28for us. I mean, that's big for Justin Jefferson. Do I expect any significant pushback from the Jets against the Vikings? I don't. I guess one of the
15:35saving graces here could be that the Vikings on the very, very low end could be pushing for the postseason, maybe pushing for some records for Justin
15:43Jefferson.
15:44You know, there there are a lot of individual things I could see on the Minnesota side, and I don't expect them
15:49to to get much feedback. But, only a 22-point implied total for them and 18 and 1/2 implied total for the Jets ties
15:56the Panthers for the lowest in week 17.
15:59So, that is a look at the week 17 game tier list. Um, all of this information, of course, is going to be flown into the
16:05rankings and adjusted for over on flockfantasy.com. And of course, we have got all the week 17 information loaded up in the flock overlay tool. If you
16:14guys want that, you can sign up over there using code Davis $147 for everything on the website for an entire year. I'm already 437 drafts in.
16:24Hope I have a lot of week 17 game stacks sitting there. Uh, comment down below your favorite week 17 game stack or
16:30anything that I have wrong. Make sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel, and I will be back with you
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