Week 7 of the NFL season is here and there is no better time to dip your toes into the DFS waters than with tonight’s NFL DFS Thursday Night Football Showdown slate featuring Alvin Kamara and Chris Olave of the Saints along with Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins of the Arizona Cardinals with their featured NFL Thursday Million contest which costs $9 to enter and pays out $200,000 to first place! Make sure to use our NFL DFS Lineup Generator and NFL DFS Player Projections when building your lineups tonight!

Check out the complete NFL DFS Thursday Night Showdown Playbook for your top plays, values, dart throws and fades from Howard Bender!

 

When it comes to building your Showdown DFS lineups a big part of the puzzle is getting the MVP player correct. With FanDuel the MVP slot earns 1.5x the points as the general flex positions, meaning they scoring is worth more. Check out my top MVP plays for Thursday’s Showdown slate between the Saints and Cardinals.

MVP (1.5X Points)

Alvin Kamara, RB New Orleans Saints - $15,000

Kamara likely is the highest rostered MVP play on tonight's slate. With Andy Dalton at QB for the Saints we've seen big production over the last two games for Kamara as he has totaled 212 yards rushing and 116 yards receiving during this recent stretch. We saw Kenneth Walker have success last week against the Cardinals and I expect a similar output tonight from Kamara as well.

DeAndre Hopkins, WR Arizona Cardinals - $12,500

Everyone loves a comeback story and even DeAndre Hopkins released his own hype video about his return. Given the fact that Marshon Lattimore is also already ruled out here and the fact we saw both Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins have good games last week against this Saints defense you have to figure Hopkins will be an uber popular play.

Kyler Murray, QB Arizona Cardinals - $17,000

He's the most expensive player on the slate but his performances have been rather underwhelming of late. Murray did finally put his rushing upside on display last week as he topped 100-yards for the first time this season. Maybe a returning DeAndre Hopkins is all he will need to get going here tonight.

Chris Olave, WR New Orleans Saints - $11,000

After missing last week due to a concussion the Saints first-round pick returns to their lineup tonight against the Cardinals. With Michael Thomas and Jarvis Landry still out of the lineup we should see Olave targeted early and often in this game against the Cardinals. Prior to getting hurt, Olave had touchdown catches in back-to-back games against the Seahawks and Vikings.

Wil Lutz, K New Orleans Saints - $9,500

Kickers have been winning GPP slates over the past few weeks and Lutz himself went for 14 fantasy points last week thanks to his 4-for-4 effort in field goal attempts.  Lutz has a big leg that can go for 50+ yards and with Andy Dalton under center this Saints offense could be prone to their drives stalling out on the road here tonight where they are forced to settle for field goals.