4 DraftKings Studs to Target in Week 3

Jimmy Garoppolo, QB, San Francisco 49ers

DraftKings Price: $6,500
Projected Points: 23.8

The San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs game has a massive 56.0 point total and should be full of fantasy goodness in Week 3. The Chiefs are currently 6.5-point favorites and have an implied team total of 31.25 points while the 49ers have an implied total of 24.75 points as road underdogs.

With the 49ers possibly playing from behind for most of this game, or at the very least trying to keep pace with the Patrick Mahomes-led offense, the responsibility of scoring in bunches could lie squarely on the shoulder of the new franchise quarterback, Jimmy Garoppolo.

Per our models, Jimmy G is our highest-projected quarterback (23.8 DraftKings points) for Week 3. Our models project him to throw for 314.14 yards and connect for 2.06 touchdowns. The Chiefs' defense has allowed Philip Rivers and Ben Roethlisberger to throw for a combined 876 passing yards and 6 touchdowns on 73-of-111 passing in the first two weeks of the 2018 season.

A defense that is struggling to rush the passer and missing one of their best defensive players, safety Eric Berry (who's still not practicing), is one that I want to target until they prove they have fixed their issues. Jimmy Garoppolo is an elite option in all formats in Week 3.