How many Fantasy football players or NFL fans expected Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff to have the sixth-most passing yards (4,214) and fourth-most touchdown passes in the NFL heading into the final week of the regular season? That's the scenario ahead of the Lions' matchup with the Green Bay Packers on Sunday Night Football, and now NFL DFS players must decide if it's the time for him to anchor their NFL DFS lineups. When Goff faced the Packers earlier this season, he completed just 53.8% of his passes for a season-low 137 yards, but still threw two touchdowns.
Should you build your NFL DFS lineups around Goff on Sunday night? Or should you look elsewhere for value in the NFL DFS player pool? Before you make your NFL DFS picks for Packers vs. Lions on Sunday Night Football, be sure to check out the NFL DFS advice and strategy 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 Lions vs. Packers and locked in his top daily Fantasy football picks. You can only see his picks and analysis at SportsLine.
Top NFL DFS picks for Lions vs. PackersOne of McClure's top NFL DFS picks for Sunday Night Football is Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Curiously, Rodgers finished with just 159 yards and a single touchdown pass despite the 41-17 score in Green Bay's win last week against the Minnesota Vikings. Before last week, in the six games following the Packers' last meeting with Detroit, he completed 64.9% of his passes for 1,240 yards, 10 touchdowns and just four interceptions.
Few players come into Sunday night's matchup with as much individual motivation as Rodgers, who completed just 53.49% of his passes with three picks in his last game against the Lions. That seems to be a one-off, as in the four games against Detroit before that, Rodgers completed 74.5% of his throws for 923 yards, 11 touchdowns and zero interceptions. In nine career regular season starts in the month of January, Rodgers has a 112.7 passer rating and a 7-2 record.
Part of McClure's optimal NFL DFS strategy also includes stacking Rodgers with Packers wide receiver Allen Lazard. Lazard has been the leading receiver in the Packers offense over the last two weeks, securing 10 catches for 120 yards. Fellow receiver Christian Watson started the week as a limited participant in practice with a hip injury, and with a trip to the postseason on the line, Rodgers should keep looking for Lazard's hot hands in the passing game.
In Lazard's first game against Detroit this season, he finished with 87 yards on just four receptions with the Packers' lone touchdown. When Green Bay played Detroit on January 9 last season, Lazard caught five passes for 75 yards and two scores. Detroit's defense has given up a league-high 9.7-yard average depth of target this season, and Lazard has kept a healthy rate of 12.3 average air yards per target this year. You can see the rest of McClure's NFL DFS advice here.
How to make NFL DFS lineups for Sunday Night FootballMcClure is also targeting another undervalued player who could explode for huge numbers. 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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