Welcome to the DFS Playbook for NFL Week 9!

As it stands right now, this could be a week unlike any other this season. Free and clear. Yes. Free and clear. While there are COVID concerns all over the place, it doesn't appear as if any games are in danger of postponement nor do we have any marquee names in danger of missing their respective games either. Matthew Stafford still needs another negative to be guanranteed his starting spot for the Lions, but he's been in isolation for the week and has tested negative each day so far after being quartantined due to contact tracing. On top of that, there doesn't seem to be any weather concerns either, so this certainly makes things easier for us. We can continue with the analysis with limited concern of suddenly getting bitten in the assby either COVID-19 or Mother Nature.

The injury bug does continue to bite, but we just roll with those punches in DFS. No Chris Carson? OK, we can mine for value in Seattle's backfield. Ezekiel Elliott is questionable? We can handle that too. There are plenty of top names in favorable match-ups that these injuries roll off like water on a duck's back because all they do is help create value for us. And that's what we're alsways looking for -- value -- as it eases the salary burden during roster construction. 

Before we get to the actual players in the Playbook, a few reminders for those who may be joining us late, here is your three-step process to lead you up to going through your favorite Playbook plays:

Step 1: Check out the DFS Position Coaches

QB Coach -- James "Babyface" Grande (@The_Real_Grande)

RB Coach -- Justin Vreeland (@JustinVreeland)

WR Coach -- Colby Conway (@colbyrconway)

TE Coach -- Andrew Cooper (@CoopAFiasco)

D/ST Coach -- Dan Malin (@RealDANlanta)

Step 2: Check out the rest of the relevant DFS content

In addition to the positional coaching pieces, you also have things like the DFS Watch List, where I provide you with a list of players I am looking at throughout the week. We have the NFL DFS Podcast with me and Jon Impemba (@jimpemba777), who also does the Contrarian Corner video and check out the DFS Bargains from Jen Piacenti (@jenpiacenti). Our Master of Tools, Matt Selz (@theselzman), supplies you data junkies with the Weekly Match-Up Report and everyone should also be reading the Weekly Game Previews and WR/CB Match-Up Report from Ryan Hallam (@fightingchance).

Step 3: Make your own list of players

It's real easy to just sit and wait for the Playbook, but as you are doing your research throughout the week, it is important to make notes and list the players who interest you the most. Maybe they end up in the Playbook and maybe they don't. If they're there, then great, it should mean we are honing in on the same things that make him a strong play. If not, maybe you're onto something else that someone overlooked. We aren't perfect and if you uncover something different, maybe you're right. I would be careful of routine groupthink and hype from beat writers, but often times someone will tell me something they saw about their local team that I missed and I am always looking to investigate more if its there. If you do, then say something in the chat. Talk it out and see what the rest of the #FAmily thinks.That's why the chat is there, isn't it?

With those three steps complete and discussions are in progress, you are ready to look at the Playbook players, make comparisons and finalize your list for lineups, so let's get to it.

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