5 Daily Fantasy Football Matchups to Exploit in Week 2

New Orleans Saints Passing Offense

Y'all saw what Mariota did to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last week right? Well, now that same Bucs defense gets a matchup with Drew Brees and his band of merry Saints.

This matchup isn't based on an overreaction to a wretched Week 1. It's a continuation of what Tampa did all of last season. They finished 31st in Adjusted Defensive Passing NEP per play while the Saints were 10th on the offensive side. The Saints are at home and favored by 11.5 points with an implied Vegas total of 29.25 points. Everything aligns in this one for fantasy football juiciness.

You may be a bit worried about this one based on what transpired for the New Orleans offense in Week 1. They were held to 19 points, but the Arizona Cardinals are a pretty solid defensive unit. They ranked 11th in Adjusted Defensive Passing NEP per play last year. Even with that, Brees managed to clock in with a positive Passing NEP at 3.20 over 50 attempts. It certainly wasn't Brees's most efficient performance, but it also wasn't nearly enough to warrant true worry given the matchup.

My main focus here (outside of Brees) is on Brandin Cooks and Brandon Coleman. Unfortunately, nobody on the New Orleans offense received more than 20 percent of the targets last week, so there's no one true option. However, that seems to be cooked into the pricing of both players. Cooks was targeted eight times, and he's $7,400 on FanDuel. Coleman received seven targets -- the same number as Marques Colston -- and is only $5,000. I love Coleman as a high-floor/high-upside guy to stack with Brees in a tourney.

With the aforementioned high implied point total, I wouldn't overlook Ben Watson, either. He was able to snag five targets in Week 1, and he's minimum price on FanDuel. He's certainly no lock to get the necessary volume, but the team is going to be near the red zone with regularity Sunday. That puts Watson in play if you want to save some cash at that position.

Mark Ingram is the most intriguing piece of this puzzle. He actually received the most targets on the team in Week 1 with nine. Additionally, with the Saints projected as heavy favorites, they'll probably look to the ground game at some point. As a note of caution, though, Tampa Bay excelled against the run last year, clocking in with a fourth-place finish in Adjusted Defensive Rushing NEP per play. Using Ingram is depending on game flow working in the Saints' favor, though that seems like a fairly safe bet this week.