Mike McClure has put his Week 1 NFL DFS cards on the table, and the first main slate of the season now has two receivers at the center of the conversation: Ja'Marr Chase and Emeka Egbuka. With a dozen games set to kick off between 1 p.m. ET and 4:25 p.m. ET on Sunday, those prices matter right away.
Chase is listed at $7,800 on DraftKings and $8,000 on FanDuel. Egbuka comes in at $6,200 on DraftKings and $6,400 on FanDuel, giving DFS players a cheaper path to the same kind of upside McClure is chasing across DraftKings and FanDuel for the Sunday main slate.
McClure is not guessing from the outside. He has more than $2 million in career winnings, finished tied for first in the DraftKings Millionaire Maker twice and won the FanDuel Million once. That track record is the reason his player pool gets attention when the first full slate of NFL DFS arrives.
His case for Egbuka is tied to opportunity. McClure said the receiver is expected to step up in the Tampa Bay offense with Mike Evans now gone, which gives the price tag added weight. Chase needs less explanation; a player carrying that salary is being priced as the kind of receiver who can anchor a lineup if the week breaks the right way.
The part McClure does not make easy is the tease around the player who could go off for massive numbers on Sunday. The name is not revealed in the setup, which leaves DFS players with the kind of unfinished answer they usually try to solve before lock. That is where the model matters most: it is not just naming stars, it is forcing a choice between known prices and the upside the slate has not fully priced in yet.
For anyone building lineups now, the next step is clear. SportsLine says members can see McClure’s top picks, stacks and player pools for FanDuel and DraftKings, which is where the Week 1 Sunday main slate starts to turn from names on a page into a roster decision.
