Chiefs vs Seahawks DraftKings Showdown Breakdown Week 7

Chiefs at Seahawks is the Week 7 Sunday night showdown, a projected 43 point pick’em at Lumen Field with Rashee Rice and Zach Charbonnet out. 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.

Kansas City Chiefs at Seattle Seahawks kicks off on Sunday October 25 at 8:20 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.

42.9Projected total
Seahawks by 2Spread
201%Optimal ownership
29Players with projections
Injury note. Kansas City is without Rashee Rice and Brashard Smith, and Seattle is without Zach Charbonnet, Elijah Arroyo and Jake Bobo. Every number below reflects those absences.

Game type: Pick'em, standard total

Neither side is a clear favorite. In our study, pick'em games sent the captain to the favorite 66 percent of the time, so the underdog captain is live in a way it rarely is.

How to build it: Split captains close to evenly between the Seahawks and the Chiefs, and lean on the bigger implied total only slightly.

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

Our simulations put this game at 42.9 total points, with the Seahawks at 22.5 and the Chiefs at 20.4. That is a spread of about 2 points, which still puts it in the pick'em band. Across our study of 163 showdown slates, pick'em spread games sent the captain to the favorite 66 percent of the time.

So neither side is a rule. The same study 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 WR21.03$11,600
Kenneth Walker IIIKC RB19.55$12,000
Sam DarnoldSEA QB16.52$9,400
Patrick MahomesKC QB16.40$10,400
Xavier WorthyKC WR12.04$7,000
Emanuel WilsonSEA RB11.54$6,400
Travis KelceKC TE11.52$8,000
Jason MyersSEA K8.85$5,200

The eight highest projections on the slate. The full board of 29 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 29 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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