First off, Black Friday just isn’t a vacation and celebrating it with an NFL recreation on a Friday night time is simply unsuitable, however I like soccer, so right here we go! For this season’s one Friday night time recreation, we get the Chicago Bears taking over the Eagles in Philadelphia. The Eagles are 7-point favorites, however haven’t been their Tremendous Bowl champion selves of late. The Bears preserve successful, however make issues look actually robust towards not nice groups.
The Eagles nonetheless look to be the superior group and can play at house, so the 7-point unfold is smart, however there isn’t a motive to consider the Eagles have this one wrapped up earlier than setting cleats to area.
The Bears protection is hurting and hasn’t performed nicely this season. They’ve allowed 26.5 factors per recreation to rank twenty sixth within the league, whereas the Eagles have allowed 20.5 factors per recreation to rank eighth. Each groups have allowed greater than the typical quantity of yards per play, with the Bears ranked thirtieth at 6.1 ypp, whereas the Eagles rank seventeenth at 5.4 yards per play. However total, the Eagles aren’t permitting a lot in the best way of fantasy factors to their opponents, whereas the Bears are.
The Eagles focus their touches very narrowly between Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley, A.J. Brown, Devonta Smith, and generally Dallas Goedert. The Bears unfold issues out extra, as Caleb Williams, D’Andre Swift, Kyle Monangai, Rome Odunze, DJ Moore, Luther Burden, and Colston Loveland all have sufficient fantasy upside to be helpful to your fake groups.
Under we are going to check out one of the best DFS performs for this Black Friday showdown.
Jalen Hurts, QB, Eagles (FLEX $13,000, CPT $19,500)
With Saquon Barkley in a little bit of a funk (i.e. his offensive line isn’t pretty much as good because it was final yr), Hurts generally must take over as a runner. We noticed that final week as he rushed for 2 touchdowns towards the Cowboys. Since he’s not serving to different gamers rating, his speeding touchdowns coupled with no matter he can get by means of the air, make him a helpful captain’s choose most weeks.
Caleb Williams, QB, Bears (FLEX $12,600, CPT $18,900)
I often don’t love utilizing quarterbacks who aren’t constantly placing up good speeding touchdowns within the captain’s slot, however Williams does have a whole lot of speeding upside, together with three touchdowns, and the Eagles have had bother with speeding quarterbacks this season, permitting the third-most speeding touchdowns to quarterbacks this season.
AJ Brown, WR, Eagles (FLEX $11,600, CPT $17,400)
Choosing between AJ Brown and Smith is at all times robust. Brown has been seeing a bunch of labor after he complained about his utilization, whereas Smith is somewhat banged up. Each have nice upside and I might see taking part in each if you may make it work. Brown does lead the group in redzone targets and possibly has the upper upside on account of that truth.
Luther Burden, WR, Bears (FLEX $4,200, CPT $6,300)
Burden has seen a very good uptick in utilization during the last two video games, however his worth to roster him on FanDuel continues to be fairly low. I anticipate he’ll be rostered at an enormous share because of the lack of low-cost performs on this matchup, however he’s somebody with such good upside coupled by worth and up to date enhance in snaps, that I believe you must play him.
Colston Loveland, TE, Bears (FLEX $5,800, CPT $8,700)
Loveland, like Burden, has seen his utilization enhance of late and he’s turned that elevated work into fantasy factors. The Eagles have been stout towards tight ends, however once more, this recreation has only a few worth performs and Loveland has extensive receiver capability that makes him more durable to cowl than your regular tight finish.
Dallas Goedert, TE, Eagles (FLEX $7,000, CPT $10,500)
Goedert hasn’t had a crimson zone goal over his final three video games, however he’s been a landing machine prior. The Bears have been weak towards tight ends this season, rating seventh-worst in schedule adjusted fantasy factors allowed to the place. I believe he will get again on the landing practice this week.
