Shows / NFL/ Friday, September 25, 2026
From the archive. This breakdown is for the Friday, September 25 NFL slate. Salaries, weather and picks were for that day.
Latest NFL show →Zach Trivett breaks down Week 3 cash games on DraftKings and FanDuel, starting with Titans ($2,400 DraftKings, $3,100 FanDuel) as the clear defense lock against Jameis Winston. Kenneth Walker III ($7,400 DraftKings) is a cash staple with an expected 20-plus touches against Miami, and Jahmyr Gibbs is the preferred partner if salary allows. Kyler Murray, Tyler Shough and Patrick Mahomes lead the DraftKings quarterback pool; Josh Allen becomes more viable on FanDuel.
Parker Washington stands out at $6,000 on DraftKings, with cheaper receivers funding the preferred running backs. Rashod Bateman benefits if Zay Flowers sits, while Jalen Coker, Ladd McConkey and Tetairoa McMillan offer savings. FanDuel builds favor three running backs, adding Breece Hall, Jaylen Warren, Chuba Hubbard or Javonte Williams. Dalton Schultz and Mark Andrews have injury-driven appeal at tight end, with receiver and tight end decisions expected to decide cash results.
| Play | Call | The Take | At |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titans | CORE | The clear cash defense lock against Jameis Winston at $2,400 on DraftKings and $3,100 on FanDuel. | 2:54 |
| FADE | Passing on the $4,000 DraftKings quarterback because receiver, tight end and defense savings make that punt unnecessary. | 3:14 | |
| VALUE | The cheapest preferred DraftKings quarterback at $5,100 helps fit Gibbs and Walker and remains an option on FanDuel. | 3:39 | |
| VALUE | A preferred $5,400 DraftKings quarterback whose savings help fund Gibbs and Walker, with consideration on FanDuel too. | 3:39 | |
| ONE-OFF | One of three preferred DraftKings quarterbacks at $6,200 with a high team total, although a lopsided game could favor Kenneth Walker. | 3:39 | |
| CORE | A $7,400 DraftKings cash staple expected to get 20-plus touches against Miami and a preferred starting point on both sites. | 4:22 | |
| CORE | The preferred partner for Walker on both sites because of his workhorse role, provided the salary fits. | 4:22 | |
| ONE-OFF | A solid third-running-back option at $6,400 on DraftKings and $7,100 on FanDuel. | 4:42 | |
| VALUE | A strong savings option at $5,700 on DraftKings and $6,300 on FanDuel if he plays and Rico Dowdle is out. | 4:42 | |
| ONE-OFF | A preferred third-running-back option with Jonathon Brooks on injured reserve, priced at $6,700 on FanDuel. | 5:06 |
All systems go. Clear for liftoff. What is going on, everybody? Welcome back to week three of the Cash GameA cash game is a contest that pays a large share of the field, usually close to half, the same flat prize. Fifty-fifties, double-ups and head-to-heads are the common cash games.Treat cash games as the steady base of your bankroll. Use one safe core across your cash entries on a slate, and save riskier ideas for tournaments.Full explanation ↗ countdown. I am Titletown. We'll be breaking down DraftKings and FanDuel cash games going position by position like usual. Hope everyone's had a great start to the cash game year. Pretty interesting week. We'll get into it in just one second. Again, usually trying to keep these videos around fifteen minutes. Straight to the point, you can use it for cash games. Of course, you can use it for tournaments as well.
Where is the field going? What is looking to be ChalkChalk is the most popular, highly owned play on a slate. The term comes from sports betting, where the favorite is called the chalk.Don't label chalk good or bad. Ask whether each popular play deserves its ownership, then decide which chalk you'll eat and which you'll fade.Full explanation ↗? And you can decide how to pivot. Off of that, again, this is a first look, so things do change. You can see my core plays, four on FanDuel, four on DraftKings, under NFL and the Slate Station. That'll be up Saturday, and then any updates on Sunday. You can get those. How do you get our content? NFL only, as you can see, if you're just playing NFL, I think this is the best deal.
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And talk some Cash GameA cash game is a contest that pays a large share of the field, usually close to half, the same flat prize. Fifty-fifties, double-ups and head-to-heads are the common cash games.Treat cash games as the steady base of your bankroll. Use one safe core across your cash entries on a slate, and save riskier ideas for tournaments.Full explanation ↗. We're going to start at the quarterback position. Actually, let me just get out of the way quick defense because usually there is, I mean, sometimes there's locks, sometimes there's not. I think there's a clear lock on both sites this week, and that is the Titans against the Giants and James Winston with Jackson Dark going down. Four, knee injury.
Sad to see if you're a Giants fan for sure and any fan, but the Titans at $2,400 when we'll get to FanDuel, they are locked over there as well. So we already know we're saving at at defense for sure. In terms of quarterback. I don't think you need James Winston at four key on the slates. I think there's enough value when we get to receiver to tight ends. We already talked about defense. We're probably not where I would go.
The cheapest I'd probably go is Kyler Murray at five point $1,000, who I am fine with. Tyler Shuck, five point $4,000. Also good with him. Patrick Mahomes, six point $2,000. I think those are the main ones I'm looking at right now. Mahomes, Kyler and Shuck, depending on where you want to be in the in the price range app. Chiefs implied for a lot of points for sure.
But it could get out of hand against the Dolphins if they want to lean on Kenneth Walker. Still a good price tag right there. But right now I'm thinking at initial look, one of these three. Let's go to the running back position. I think it is pretty concentrated in the sense of like, I want Kenneth Walker. He is an absolute beast. He has been probably the most impressive I've seen so far this year.
And yeah, seven point $4,000 against the dreadful Dolphins. They're going to probably give him the ball. Twenty plus times. He is a Cash GameA cash game is a contest that pays a large share of the field, usually close to half, the same flat prize. Fifty-fifties, double-ups and head-to-heads are the common cash games.Treat cash games as the steady base of your bankroll. Use one safe core across your cash entries on a slate, and save riskier ideas for tournaments.Full explanation ↗ staple for me. And I think we're able to fit Gibbs and Walker as well. Ideally, that would be what I want to. Gibbs is an absolute workhorse and pied for twenty eight at home. Against the Jets, if I can play these two, which, again, you can.
That's why Kyler Murray, Tyler Shuck are also in play because I feel very good starting my lineups with these two. After that, by no means do you have to go three running backs. Brees Hall at six-four, though, looks solid. Jalen Warren at five-seven, assuming he plays and Rico is out. We have to monitor that, but I think Warren would be pretty strong. Chuba Hubbard, no Jonathan Brooks. Chuba was already leading that backfield, but Chubb...
Brooks went to the IR, so I do think Chubb Hubbard is a pretty good play there as well. That's really all I'm going to mention. Bucky's six-three seems a little fine, but I think I'd just rather save with Warren or Chubb. Again, I'm playing Kenneth, probably Gibbs after that, assuming I can afford it. And then, yeah, Brees, Chubb, Warren as the other third running back if you go that route for some savings.
Wide receiver, it is kind of like it has been recently. That is where I think Cash GameA cash game is a contest that pays a large share of the field, usually close to half, the same flat prize. Fifty-fifties, double-ups and head-to-heads are the common cash games.Treat cash games as the steady base of your bankroll. Use one safe core across your cash entries on a slate, and save riskier ideas for tournaments.Full explanation ↗ have been won and lost. Parker Washington, though, is an easy click at $6,000. Yeah, a little salty, obviously still over here, but $6,000 for wide receiver one. The game should be relatively competitive, so they're not just going to mail it in. And Parker Washington a grown ass man. He's a beast. So I think that price tag really stands out. After that, I want to mention Zay Flowers.
We have projected in right now. It's unlikely that he does play. So Rashad Bateman at four point $7,000, I think, is a strong play. Another value, Devon Bailey, four point $4,000 strong. Ladd McConkie, five nine Malik Washington. Another one that we have projected right now is Caleb. Oh, we don't. Excuse me. No, Caleb Douglas projected, but. He is going to be out. That is a big bump. Or Malik Washington fits drafting scoring better than FanDuel.
Jalen Coker is still too cheap at five, five again, lad five, nine. I'm already talked about Bateman. I think JMO and Ted McMillan still too cheap as well at $6,000 and a $5,400. I don't really see myself myself spending up right now again because I want Gibbs because I want Kenneth Walker. If I did that, I don't know, probably Olave. I wouldn't mind Seedy. I don't mind Aminra.
But I'd probably go Olave since you get a little discount from the Lambs and the Aminras of the world. But I think it's Parker Washington, then you're going to go to the mid-tier or the lower tier. I should mention as well, Nico Collins is expected to miss again as well. So Hutchinson at $4,000, not bad. Don't hate Xavier Worthy either with the highest team total at four, $4,400. But yeah, I think it's pretty tough outside of Parker Washington.
For now, going to the tight end position, sorting by value. Again, no Nico Collins. Dalton Schultz coming off a great game last week. Pretty much wide receiver one, the option for CJ. So I think he's strong. Don't mind Hawkins if you want a full punt. Kelsey, again, implied for a lot of points. Don't mind him at four point $5,000. Then Mark Andrews with no with no Zay Flowers expecting Mark Andrews at $4,400.
Seems like a strong play in what should be a back-and-forth game. I don't mind Gadsden either. I'm not sure you need to go all the way there. I think I prefer Hawkins a little more, but Charlie Kohler and Njoku on the IR for the Chargers brings Gadsden in play as a punt. Already talked about defense. You are playing the Titans unless something dramatically changes, which I cannot see being the case. Let's head on over to FanDuel. Again, I appreciate everyone hanging out.
All we ask is the like button and subscribe button. Helps us out a ton. I just want to go right to defense again. Again, three point $1,000 are the Titans. That's the second. It's a hundred off the min price. I mean, you're just playing them and moving on. There's no other reason to get cute in the Cash GameA cash game is a contest that pays a large share of the field, usually close to half, the same flat prize. Fifty-fifties, double-ups and head-to-heads are the common cash games.Treat cash games as the steady base of your bankroll. Use one safe core across your cash entries on a slate, and save riskier ideas for tournaments.Full explanation ↗. All right, so for quarterbacks, I do think Josh Allen's definitely more in play on FanDuel and DraftKings. Fits scoring a little more.
He's closer in price to the Mahomes of the world than he is on DraftKings. I also think a little more flexibility in terms of pricing at wide receiver and tight end. So, yeah, I do think Josh Allen's in play. By no means a must, though. Mahomes, I think, is interesting. And then Tyler Shuck, Kyler Murray, the same kind of guys that we are talking about.
Man, it's weird to see Herbert all the way down at seven point $2,000, but probably not something I can do in Cash GameA cash game is a contest that pays a large share of the field, usually close to half, the same flat prize. Fifty-fifties, double-ups and head-to-heads are the common cash games.Treat cash games as the steady base of your bankroll. Use one safe core across your cash entries on a slate, and save riskier ideas for tournaments.Full explanation ↗. Don't hate Lamar, I guess, for five hundred savings if you do need it. Yeah. So I think it's probably one, two, three, four, five is what I'm looking at at quarterbacks on FanDuel. Let's go to the running back room again. Ideally, I would love to play just Gibbs and or Gibbs and Kenneth Walker. And I think you are able to.
On this slate. I mean, just complete workhorses. You do play three running backs on FanDuel. So who would that third running back be? I think it's a pretty similar pool to what we saw in drafting. Spreese Hall at seven one, Jalen Warren at six three. Again, if Rico's out, he gets way better. Chuba, six seven, no Jonathan Brooks. Then Javonte still stays cheap on FanDuel where he fits the scoring a little better as well.
Seven point $3,000 busted last week, but another great game environment for him at home gets the goal line work. I think it's, or ideally for me, it's Gibbs and Walker. And then one of these four at the running back room, let's go to receiver. I think it's pretty similar to DraftKings. Again, it's really hard. It's really open. Parker Washington looks great at seven one. It is a little more expensive though.
A lot of a eight one, a little closer to the CD lambs, the Jefferson of the world. Trying to look for some mid-tier or value, though. Ladd-McConkie, six-three, looks good. Bailey, five-seven, good. Tett, six-eight, good. Coker, six-two, good. Again, no Zay Flowers we're expecting. Bateman at five-six is very cheap. I'm always a fan of Randy Moss Jr., Michael Wilson. I think he's fine. Downs is fine. But, yeah, it's the wide receiver room on both sites.
Really outside of Parker Washington on DraftKings, but it's not even as a lock.
On FanDuel at that price tag it is pretty tough at wide receiver and I think mainly is where Cash GameA cash game is a contest that pays a large share of the field, usually close to half, the same flat prize. Fifty-fifties, double-ups and head-to-heads are the common cash games.Treat cash games as the steady base of your bankroll. Use one safe core across your cash entries on a slate, and save riskier ideas for tournaments.Full explanation ↗ will be won and lost at the tight end position I don't think we have the salary to get up to Trey McBride I'm prioritizing Gibbs and Walker as of now but we do have Kelley five five Kincaid five seven Mark Andrews five three Schultz five eight probably not Kittle I think I'd be Schultz Andrews Kincaid Kelley it's all really close this decision also will be pretty important in cash games defense already talked about it we're rolling the Titans on both sites against james Winston who looked absolutely awful on Monday but yeah it's
Uh it's a plug and play and they should be very ChalkChalk is the most popular, highly owned play on a slate. The term comes from sports betting, where the favorite is called the chalk.Don't label chalk good or bad. Ask whether each popular play deserves its ownership, then decide which chalk you'll eat and which you'll fade.Full explanation ↗ anyone that doesn't play Titans I view as paying the RakeRake is the share of entry fees the site keeps as its fee instead of paying it out as prizes. It is the gap between total entry fees and the total prize pool.Compare rake between contests you would enter anyway. A slightly higher rake can be worth it in a softer field, but when the fields look similar, take the contest that keeps less.Full explanation ↗ and people will still do that on both sites that's going to do it for us hope everybody has had a great week I'm definitely ready for some football on my screen on Sunday good luck in your Cash GameA cash game is a contest that pays a large share of the field, usually close to half, the same flat prize. Fifty-fifties, double-ups and head-to-heads are the common cash games.Treat cash games as the steady base of your bankroll. Use one safe core across your cash entries on a slate, and save riskier ideas for tournaments.Full explanation ↗ In week three, I am Title. I hope to see you in the Discord at Shippenation. Good luck. Enjoy your week and be safe.
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