Cowboys vs Eagles DraftKings Showdown Breakdown Week 7

Cowboys at Eagles is the Week 7 Monday night showdown, a projected 45 point game at Lincoln Financial Field with Jalen Hurts out and Tanner McKee starting for Philadelphia. 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.

Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia Eagles kicks off on Monday October 26 at 8:15 PM Eastern at Lincoln Financial 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.

44.9Projected total

Cowboys by 5.5Spread

240%Optimal ownership

26Players with projections

Injury note. Jalen Hurts is out, so Tanner McKee starts at quarterback for Philadelphia. The Eagles are also without DeVonta Smith and Dontayvion Wicks, and Saquon Barkley is questionable. Dallas is without KaVontae Turpin. Check Barkley's status before you build.

Game type: Lean favorite, standard total

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

How to build it: Make most captains Cowboys, keep a meaningful share on the Eagles, 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 44.9 total points, with the Cowboys at 25.1 and the Eagles at 19.8, a spread of about 5.5 points. The Cowboys are the side the field will lean on, but this is not a blowout on paper, and the Eagles 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

CeeDee LambDAL WR19.94$11,000

Dak PrescottDAL QB19.85$10,400

Saquon BarkleyPHI RB16.34$9,600

Javonte WilliamsDAL RB16.26$10,600

George PickensDAL WR15.03$9,000

Tanner McKeePHI QB13.82$8,600

Dallas GoedertPHI TE13.05$6,400

Makai LemonPHI WR10.24$3,800

The eight highest projections on the slate. The full board of 26 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 26 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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