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4 DraftKings Studs to Target in Week 9

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Dak Prescott, QB, Dallas Cowboys

DraftKings Price: $6,700
Projected Points: 21.05

The Dallas Cowboys will be without Ezekiel Elliott as they host the visiting Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. Even without Zeke, the Cowboys are currently 1.0-point favorites and have an implied team total of 26.00 points.

Sans Elliott, the Cowboys will likely have to rely on Dak Prescott to shoulder more of the burden. At $6,700, Prescott is the fourth-most expensive quarterback on the Week 9 main slate. In four out of the last five weeks, he has scored at least 22.9 DraftKings points. If he is able to reach that number again, he will pay off his price tag considerably.

Our models have Prescott projected to score 21.05 DraftKings points, which is actually only the seventh-most on the slate. But Dak has a tremendous ceiling, as evidenced by the back-to-back 30.0 and 30.7 DraftKings points he scored in the two games prior to the contest against Washington, when the combination of game script and poor weather destroyed his upside.

Fading Deshaun Watson against the Indianapolis Colts might not be the popular thing to do in Week 9, but doing just that and having a few shares of Prescott could be the decision that puts you at the top of the leaderboard when the games are finished.