published its DraftKings DFS cheat sheet for Sunday and used it to lay out how it grades value on the NFL Sunday main slate. The guide is built to help players sort through lower-priced options before they lock in lineups.
The timing matters because this is the weekly slate readers are actually playing now, and the rankings are tied to projections available at publication. In that setup, Jahan Dotson matters less as a standalone headline than as part of a broader search for salary relief, where every decision turns on how many DraftKings points a player can return for each dollar spent.
That is the core of the system. said it looks for the best values among lower-priced options and also weighs matchups to play or avoid. The grading scale is built around expected output per salary: great values land in the 90th percentile of projected value picks for the week, good plays are at the 75th percentile or better, average plays run from the 25th through the 74th percentiles, shaky plays fall between the 10th and 24th percentiles, and poor picks sit in single-digit percentiles.
The structure also creates a useful wrinkle for DFS players. A player can be an average or good value and still project to outscore a great value, because salary changes the math. That means the highest raw projection is not always the best use of cap space, which is exactly why the cheat sheet is built the way it is. It is not simply naming the players expected to score the most; it is sorting players by how much production they can deliver relative to cost.
said only players projected to score 4 points or more are shown, which keeps the sheet focused on options that can realistically matter in lineup construction. The salaries come from DraftKings' main slate, and bases them on its player projections at the time of publication, so the rankings are tied to that moment rather than to a fixed season-long list.
For readers building DraftKings NFL Sunday lineups, that is the practical takeaway: the sheet is less about hype than about efficient spending. The next decision is not whether to trust a headline name, but whether the player fits the salary-and-projection balance that uses to sort value on Sunday.
