The Kansas City Chiefs and Tennessee Titans have exchanged wins in each of their last five meetings, including two playoff games. The Titans nearly shut the Chiefs out last season, when Derrick Henry rumbled for 86 yards on 29 carries. After Henry ran for 219 yards and two touchdowns last week, should he be a lock for your NFL DFS lineups on Sunday Night Football?
Kansas City has allowed the second-fewest rushing yards this season, but Henry still has a great chance to finish as the top back in the game because the top rush defense in the NFL belongs to Tennessee. The Chiefs' backfield appears to have fallen into a timeshare between Clyde Edwards-Helaire and Isiah Pacheco, but could either be worth considering as an RB2 in the NFL DFS player pool for Titans vs. Chiefs? Before you make your NFL DFS picks for Sunday Night Football, be sure to check out the NFL DFS advice, strategy and projections from SportsLine daily Fantasy expert Mike McClure.
McClure is a legendary professional DFS player with over $2 million in career winnings. His methodology has led to enormous cashes on FanDuel and DraftKings. He took down two high-stakes tournaments on FanDuel in 2020 and recorded a pair of top-10 finishes in tournaments with over 130,000 entrants on DraftKings. His lineups also finished inside the top 1% in more than a dozen other tournaments.
He uses a powerful prediction model that simulates every snap of NFL action, taking factors such as matchups, statistical trends and injuries into account. This allows him to find the best DFS values that he shares only with members at SportsLine.
This year, he's already won the DraftKings Millionaire Maker twice and the FanDuel Million once. Now, McClure has turned his attention to Chiefs vs. Titans and locked in his top daily Fantasy football picks. You can only see his picks and analysis at SportsLine.
Top NFL DFS picks for Titans vs. ChiefsOne of McClure's top NFL DFS picks on Sunday night is Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. In his last start two weeks ago against San Francisco, Mahomes finished with 423 yards, three touchdowns and just one interception. In two career games against Tennessee, he has completed 65.8% of his passes for 652 yards and three TDs and has only turned the ball over twice.
The Chiefs are coming off of a bye, and Mahomes has been surprisingly less effective than his usual self in those scenarios over the past few years. Still, the alternative at quarterback for single-game tournaments on sites like DraftKings or FanDuel is a hobbled Ryan Tannehill (ankle/illness), or perhaps Titans rookie QB Malik Willis, who only completed 6-of-10 passes for 55 yards and an interception last week against Houston. Mahomes is the clear top option on his own merit, and he's thrown for 2,159 yards and 20 touchdowns this season, the most in the NFL.
Part of McClure's optimal NFL DFS strategy also includes stacking Mahomes with tight end Travis Kelce, who has over 200 receiving yards over his last two outings. Through seven games this season, Kelce has 47 catches for 553 yards and a league-leading seven touchdowns. In last year's 27-3 loss to Tennessee, Kelce was still productive from a Fantasy perspective, catching seven of his 12 targets for 65 yards.
The Titans have allowed the 14th-most receiving yards to opposing tight ends this season (390), but have played one fewer game than all but two teams ahead of them on that list. Tight ends average 7.2 targets per game against the Titans, which is slightly above league average, but gain the ninth-most yards at 58.6 per game. Both of those numbers are certain to be higher as Kelce averages the most targets per game of any tight end in the NFL (8.6). You can see the rest of McClure's NFL DFS advice here.
How to make NFL DFS lineups for Chiefs vs. TitansMcClure is also targeting another undervalued player who could explode for huge numbers on Sunday night. This pick could be the difference between winning your tournaments and cash games or going home with nothing. You can only see who it is, and the rest of McClure's NFL DFS picks, at SportsLine.
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