{"id":158159,"date":"2024-01-11T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=158159"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:14:26","slug":"bargain-draftkings-dfs-eagles-at-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/01\/11\/bargain-draftkings-dfs-eagles-at-buccaneers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bargain DraftKings DFS Picks, Super Wildcard Weekend: Eagles at Buccaneers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing makes choosing DraftKings DFS bargain picks more difficult than a clunky offense with injuries. And a clunky Eagles offense against a Buccaneers defense that seems to be finding good form is giving upset vibes. And the injuries the Eagles picked up last week don\u2019t seem to help them at all. Jalen Hurts dislocated finger shouldn\u2019t stop him from playing or throwing the ball, but it\u2019ll be annoying at the very least. Losing to the Cardinals probably focused the Eagles\u2019 minds but how are those bodies going to hold up? That\u2019s the important question. They had 12 players on the Week 18 injury report and AJ Brown joined Hurts in the treatment room in their game against Arizona.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Buccaneers only had 14 players on Week 18\u2019s injury report and they sailed through their game in Carolina relatively serenely. The offense was a bit drab (they only scored 9 points), but they held the desperate Panthers to 0 points. They sacked poor Bryce Young 3 times and created 2 turnovers, if they can do that this week, it should be a close game.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Super Wildcard Weekend DraftKings DFS Bargains For Eagles at Buccaneers<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Victim Of Philadelphia’s Lack Of Ambition Pick – Quez Watkins\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Eagles’ offense has been incredibly vanilla this season and they\u2019ve barely passed to anyone not named Brown, Smith, or Goedert. But Watkins<\/a> saw 11 targets last week and he costs just $3,000 on this DraftKings DFS Captains Showdown slate. It is almost impossible to project anything from what happened in Philadelphia last week, but maybe, just maybe the penny has dropped for the Eagles.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Watkins is averaging 9.5 yards per touch in 2023. But he\u2019s only had 15 touches! If the Eagles decide to use Watkins in this game (and if Brown\u2019s knee injury lingers, they may have no choice) he\u2019ll be lined up opposite Jamel Dean. Dean is one of the Buccaneers\u2019 more physical DBs, he\u2019s only missed 2 tackles all season. And he\u2019s allowing just 66.1% of passes to be completed when they come his way. But he is allowing 13.1 yards per completion, and he\u2019s conceded 3 touchdowns. Only 7 teams conceded more DraftKings DFS points than the Buccaneers during the regular season and they allowed 13.5 yards per completion. So, Watkins will have opportunities if the Eagles let him.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ubiquitous DraftKings DFS Pick – Jake Elliott <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

$5,000 for a kicker who has kicked a 61-yarder this season and who has only 2 of the 40 kicks he\u2019s attempted in playoff games is an absolute bargain. That\u2019s it. No Notes.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rookie Redzone Threat DraftKings DFS Pick – Trey Palmer <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Buccaneers’ rookie Palmer clocked a 4.33 40-yard dash at the NFL combine. So, he doesn\u2019t need much opportunity to gobble up the yards. And he only costs $2,800 on the DraftKings DFS Captains Showdown slate this week.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019s averaging 9.7 yards per touch this season and he\u2019s caught 3 <\/span>touchdowns<\/span><\/a>. And oddly they\u2019ve all been red zone plays, he\u2019s yet to score a touchdown on a deep pass. They\u2019ve all been impressive catches either in traffic or when he\u2019s lost the defender covering him in the endzone. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This week he should be covered by Avonte Maddox. Maddox allows 83.3% of passes to be completed. And those completions are going for 13.5 yards on average. He\u2019s yet to concede a touchdown though, Palmer will be looking to change that. No team allowed more DraftKings DFS points to wide receivers than the Eagles did during the regular season. And only the Commanders conceded more touchdown receptions. The Buccaneers will be looking to exploit that.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Playoff Specialist DraftKings DFS Pick – Kenneth Gainwell <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

If D\u2019Andre Swift is carrying an injury (and he hasn\u2019t had a 100-yard from scrimmage game since Week 11. And he had 4 in the previous 9 games before that) Gainwell is going to be important. And he only costs $4,200 on this week\u2019s DraftKings DFS Captains Showdown slate.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Gainwell\u2019s 4.8 yards per touch is 0.1 yards better than Swift\u2019s average during the regular season. During his previous playoff campaigns, Gainwell averaged 6.3 yards per touch. Even if Swift is fully fit, he should still have a significant role in this game. The Buccaneers allowed 3.94 yards per carry to running backs during the regular season and 5.9 yards per catch. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Trending Upward Pick – Buccaneers D\/ST<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Buccaneers defense has created 10 turnovers in their last 7 games. And they\u2019ve conceded an average of 17.9 points in those games. And they\u2019ve made 18 sacks in those 7 games. They also scored a defensive touchdown and recorded a safety in 2023.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But better than all of that they only cost $4,000 in this week\u2019s DraftKings DFS Captains Showdown slate. That\u2019s $400 cheaper than Chase Edmonds and he averages 4.8 fewer DraftKings DFS points per game!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Main Photo: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Eagles offense is banged up and not very smooth, the Bucs defense actually looks good, but who are the DraftKings DFS bargains?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1277,"featured_media":158164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,32632,21,29],"tags":[4316,111,110,294,3203,7959,970,6676],"class_list":["post-158159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fantasy","category-dfs","category-eagles","category-buccaneers","tag-daily-fantasy-sports","tag-dfs","tag-draftkings","tag-fantasy-football","tag-jake-elliott","tag-kenneth-gainwell","tag-nfl-playoffs","tag-quez-watkins"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248576,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158159\/revisions\/248576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}