Seahawks vs Broncos DraftKings Showdown Breakdown Week 6

Seahawks at Broncos is the Week 6 Thursday night showdown, a projected 41.6 point grind with the Seahawks favored by about 2 and Jaxon Smith-Njigba questionable. 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.

Seattle Seahawks at Denver Broncos kicks off on Thursday October 15 at 8:15 PM Eastern at Empower Field at Mile High, 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.

41.6Projected total
Seahawks by 2Spread
211%Optimal ownership
28Players with projections
Injury note. Jaxon Smith-Njigba is questionable for Seattle, and he is the top projection on the board, so check his status before you build. Drew Lock is also questionable, and Zach Charbonnet, Jadarian Price, Jake Bobo and Robbie Ouzts are out. Denver is without Pat Bryant, Jonah Coleman and Caleb Lohner. Every number below assumes Smith-Njigba plays.

Game type: Pick'em, grind

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 Broncos, and lean on the bigger implied total only slightly. A low total makes kickers and defenses more useful than usual.

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

Our simulations put this game at 41.6 total points, with the Seahawks at 21.8 and the Broncos at 19.9. 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 WR21.07$11,600
Sam DarnoldSEA QB15.43$9,800
Bo NixDEN QB15.20$9,600
Emanuel WilsonSEA RB14.00$9,400
Jaylen WaddleDEN WR12.04$9,000
RJ HarveyDEN RB9.69$6,400
Courtland SuttonDEN WR9.00$8,000
J.K. DobbinsDEN RB8.97$8,400

The eight highest projections on the slate. The full board of 28 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 28 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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