Week 16 of the 2023 NFL season is nigh and it’s a very special weekend of football as we enter the semifinals for fantasy football. If you won last week’s matchup despite some underwhelming performances from Ja'Marr Chase, Bijan Robinson, Dak Prescott, etc. then congratulations on moving on! But as we look into this NFL DFS slate for Saturday, we have a very condensed pool of players to consider. We get a matchup in the AFC North with the Cincinnati Bengals, sans Ja'Marr Chase, traveling to Western Pennsylvania to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers who will start Mason Rudolph at quarterback. And we close out this two-gamer with the red-hot Buffalo Bills traveling West for some sunshine this holiday season as they take on the Los Angeles Chargers. We’ll have you covered with NFL DFS Projections and full Match-Up Previews for both games as well. Let’s take a look at the top NFL DFS lineup picks and strategies to bring in a little more green this holiday weekend!

 

The NFL is delivering the goods with a variety of slates. Saturday gives us this two-game slate which we’re previewing here. Then the Sunday main slate on DraftKings and FanDuel is only a nine-game slate and it does parallel last Sunday’s slate quite a bit. Then on Monday, Christmas Day, Howard will have you covered with a full NFL DFS Playbook for the three-game slate. For this specific slate, it’s a concentrated player pool and most of the exposure likely flocks to two teams: the Cincinnati Bengals and Buffalo Bills.

Early in the week, we have the Bengals as favorites by about a field goal with a low over/under of roughly 38 points. That gives Cincinnati an implied total of about 20 points more or less. Jake Browning has been just fine in three starts as Cincinnati’s starting quarterback, but the team will be without Ja'Marr Chase for this match-up. Browning has thrown for at least 275 yards in each of his three starts and the Steelers have some injuries and suspensions on defense that we’ll get to shortly.

In the late game on this slate, the Buffalo Bills and this new-look Joe Brady offense, take on the Los Angeles Chargers. This game’s over/under opened at 42.5 points early in the week with Buffalo coming in as 11-point favorites. However, the implied total has moved to 44 points and Buffalo is now favored by 12.5 points on some sportsbooks. The Bills, at about 27.5 points, have the largest implied team total on the slight by far. And to top it all off, they’re going against one of the worst defenses in the league. In a year where injuries have decimated the quarterback position, which is reflected in this slate, we have the Bills turning a corner at the right time as they make their playoff push. 

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