NFL Week 2 DFS is here and we're ready to get back into the lab and start cooking up some top picks and winning DFS lineups. Last week may have been a mixed bag o results, but we took away from it, a world of knowledge. Question marks developed with some backfield splits – we're looking at you Seattle and Minnesota – but we also saw things like target pecking orders develop, coaching scheme tendencies and the appearance of defensive holes we're ready to drive a boat through this week. I've spent the last six days watching video and studying things like snap counts, routes run and overall usage and feel very strongly about the NFL Week 2 DFS Playbook.

 

 

The most important thing to remember is that, no matter how your fantasy football teams or your DFS lineups are doing, you are learning things from week to week. If you've been following me on social media or listened to the variety of shows on the Fantasy Alarm YouTube page or SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio, then you've heard where a lot of my focus has been – exploiting the holes in the defensive coverage. Now, obviously, one game makes for a lousy sample size, especially when it's Week 1, but when you combine the data from the first week with what we knew about teams from last year and how their offseason went, we can glean enough information to start targeting those holes.

The key example I used culminated on Thursday Night Football when Green Bay Packers tight end Tucker Kraft racked up 124 yards and a touchdown on six catches against the Washington Commanders. If you recall from last season, the Commanders were the seventh-worst team against the tight end, according to DVOA and the key additions on defense were LB Vonn Miller who is a pass-rusher and S Will Harris whose coverage grades from Pro Football Focus put him at “mediocre at best.” Combine that with an aging and fading Bobby Wagner in the middle of the defense and you've got a hole in your defense that any tight end could drive a boat through.

That's great for Week 3 when we discuss why you're going to pay up for Brock Bowers – provided his knee is ok – but what about this week? What other holes did we find? All that is about to be revealed here in the NFL Week 2 DFS Playbook.

 

 

Now, before we dive in, I just want to take a moment to welcome any of the new #FAmily members. We've got a ton of new subscribers over the last week as well as a number of people trying us out on the 7-day free trial. In order to help you navigate through all of our DFS content, please go through the following:

All of our content, our tools and everything else that has made us the leading site for all of your fantasy football needs – seasonal and daily – are here and even more accessible. 

We have also made some enhancements to our NFL tools. We continue to crunch the numbers and tweak our algorithms so that our daily fantasy football projections are the best in the industry and that, in turn, has improved things like our Lineup Generator/DFS Optimizer and our NFL DFS Ownership Projections. Again, all right here on one site for your convenience.

If you are new to the #FAmily, welcome! All the aforementioned tools are, obviously, at your disposal as well, but please allow me to point you towards more of the content and tools we provide to help you crush your DFS contests each week. It also makes for a nice introduction to our DFS team.

In addition to the positional coaches, you also have plenty of other research content to use like the weekly DFS Watch List, where I provide you with a daily-updated list of players I am looking at throughout the week. You will also want to watch our weekly NFL DFS Show with me and Jon Impemba as we break down every position, highlight our favorite plays, offer a core group of players to build around and then drop an example lineup into out NFL DFS channel on Discord. 

For those looking for the DFS bargains, you'll see my weekly DFS Dart Board as well as Impemba's Value Plays video. And for those looking to separate themselves from the herd, we also have our Contrarian Plays video too.

Need more data? Craving more research? Many of our seasonal fantasy football articles also double as kick-ass DFS research. You have the WR/CB Match-Up Report from Drew Scott, full game previews from Mark Lammey and the team, Coop's Target Report and all of our fantasy football tools from snap counts to red zone touches.

That should cover it. Now let's get to the NFL Week 2 DFS Playbook picks!

 

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