The Week 10 NFL schedule kicks off with an AFC West showdown on Thursday Night Football between the Oakland Raiders (4-4) and Los Angeles Chargers (4-5) at 8:20 p.m. ET. NFL DFS players will be sorting through a player pool that includes high-priced options like Josh Jacobs, Derek Carr, Philip Rivers, Melvin Gordon, Hunter Henry and Darren Waller, as well as potential value picks like Hunter Renfrow, Jalen Richard and Zay Jones. Who should you target for Thursday Night Football DFS contests? And which Raiders vs. Chargers DFS picks will sink your night? Before setting your NFL DFS strategy for any daily Fantasy football tournaments for Thursday Night Football like the $800K NFL Thursday Night Special on FanDuel or the $1.11M Thursday Night Showdown on DraftKings, first see what SportsLine’s Mike McClure has to say. He’s a DFS pro who has won almost $2 million in his career, and his optimal NFL DFS picks and advice can help you crush Raiders vs. Chargers.
McClure is also a predictive data engineer at SportsLine who uses a powerful prediction model that simulates every minute of every game 10,000 times, taking factors like matchups, statistical trends and injuries into account. This allows him to find the best NFL DFS values and create optimal lineups that he shares only over at SportsLine. They’re a must-see for any NFL DFS player.
McClure had some eye-popping results during the 2018 NFL season, cashing in the top 5 percent of tournaments on FanDuel and DraftKings multiple times. His optimal lineups cashed as high as the top 0.1 percent on FanDuel and as high as the top 1 percent on DraftKings.
He’s rolling through 2019 as well, including a strong 3x return on DraftKings in the Week 3 main slate. On Sunday of Week 5, his optimal lineup finished in the top 1 percent of tournaments on DraftKings, with his four core players — Deshaun Watson, Michael Thomas, Christian McCaffrey and Will Fuller — combining for a whopping 196.34 points, enough to cash in tournaments by themselves. He followed that up by cashing his FanDuel and DraftKings lineups on Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football in Week 6 and then cashed everywhere on his SNF lineups yet again in Week 7. He continued his roll with wins on both sites on the main slate, SNF and MNF in Week 8, and then followed that up with huge 5x returns on his optimal lineups on both sites in Week 9. Anyone who has been following him has seen huge returns.
Now, he has turned his attention to Week 10 of the NFL season and locked in his top daily Fantasy football picks over at SportsLine.
We can tell you one of McClure’s top NFL DFS picks for Thursday Night Football is Gordon. The fifth-year back out of Wisconsin has put up disappointing season-long rushing numbers (64-192-3) after a contract holdout kept him out him five games. He looked rusty after his return, but may have turned a corner last week against the Packers, rushing for 80 yards and two scores, returning over 5x value on DraftKings.
On the surface, Oakland looks like a tough matchup because the Raiders have given up the seventh-fewest rushing yards per game this year (92.5). But from a Fantasy standpoint, they’ve been mediocre defending running backs, ranking 15th in the league in points allowed to that position, in part because backs have caught four receiving touchdowns against them.
Part of McClure’s optimal NFL DFS strategy also includes rostering Carr, who has been putting up impressive numbers recently. He’s on a three-week tear where he’s thrown for at least 285 yards in each game with seven touchdowns and just one interception.
Los Angeles boasts a top-10 pass defense, but could be without starting defensive back Roderic Teamer (groin) on Thursday Night Football. And the Chargers have been vulnerable at times this year, with Deshaun Watson throwing for over 350 yards against them and Mitchell Trubisky going for a season-high 253, so confidently lock Carr into your Thursday Night Football daily Fantasy football lineups.
McClure is also targeting a player who could go off for massive numbers on Thursday Night Football because of a dream matchup. The stars are aligning for him to go for 30, even 40 points on FanDuel and DraftKings. This pick could be the difference between winning your tournaments or going home with nothing.
So who is DFS pro Mike McClure putting in his optimal NFL DFS lineups for Chargers vs. Raiders and the rest of Week 10? And which player could put up tournament-winning numbers? Visit SportsLine now to see the full optimal tournament and cash game lineups from a professional DFS player who has almost $2 million in career winnings, and find out.
