Bears vs Seahawks DraftKings Showdown Breakdown Week 8

Bears at Seahawks is the Week 8 Monday night showdown, a projected 47 point game at Lumen Field with Seattle favored and Cole Kmet out for Chicago. Below is the game type, the captain pool, the full FTA projection board for the DraftKings showdown, the captain leverage board, the optimal lineup against the ownership capped build, and the low owned screen.

Chicago Bears at Seattle Seahawks kicks off on Monday November 2 at 8:15 PM Eastern at Lumen Field, and it is a one game slate. Below is the full FTA projection board for the DraftKings showdown, the optimal lineup, the captain leverage board and the low owned screen, with every number taken from the same simulation set that feeds our tools.

47.0Projected total
Seahawks by 3.5Spread
211%Optimal ownership
27Players with projections
Injury note. Chicago is without Cole Kmet and Kyle Monangai. Seattle is without Rashid Shaheed, Elijah Arroyo and Jake Bobo, while Zach Charbonnet is off the injury report and expected to play.

Game type: Lean favorite, standard total

The Seahawks are favored but not by much. The field will tilt toward Seahawks captains without fully abandoning the Bears.

How to build it: Make most captains Seahawks, keep a meaningful share on the Bears, and always bring back at least one player from the other side.

What the slate shape says before you look at a single player

Our simulations put this game at 47.0 total points, with the Seahawks at 25.1 and the Bears at 21.9, a spread of about 3.5 points. The Seahawks are the side the field will lean on, but this is not a blowout on paper, and the Bears are very much alive.

Even so, do not build only one side. Our study of 163 showdown slates found the perfect lineup took players from both sides in almost every slate, with a three to three or four to two split accounting for the clear majority. Building entirely on one team is the single most common way to lose a showdown you had right.

The top of the DraftKings board

Jaxon Smith-NjigbaSEA WR23.19$12,000
Caleb WilliamsCHI QB17.89$10,200
Sam DarnoldSEA QB17.19$9,400
D'Andre SwiftCHI RB16.50$9,800
Luther Burden IIICHI WR13.55$9,000
Colston LovelandCHI TE11.52$7,800
Rome OdunzeCHI WR10.00$7,600
Zach CharbonnetSEA RB9.44$7,000

The eight highest projections on the slate. The full board of 27 players, the value board, the captain leverage board and the optimal lineup are below for FTA+ members.

The rest of this breakdown is in FTA+. Members get the complete 27 player projection board, the value board, the captain leverage board ranked by ceiling over ownership, the optimal lineup with its total projected ownership, the same build under an ownership cap, and the low owned screen. See what FTA+ includes.

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You are seeing the top projections on this single game slate. The full player board, the value board, the captain and MVP leverage board, the optimal lineup with its projected ownership and the low owned screen are in FTA+.

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