Any daily Fantasy football players who has used Giants receiver Malik Nabers over the past two weeks has seen strong results for NFL DFS lineups. Nabers had eight receptions for 78 yards and two touchdowns last week after posting 10 receptions for 127 yards and a touchdown in Week 2 as a breakout performer in the NFL DFS player pool. Nabers has 30 targets over his last two games and leads the NFL with 37, five more than any other player. Should you expect this type of usage when forming Week 4 Thursday Night Football NFL DFS lineups for Cowboys vs. Giants to kick off the Week 4 NFL schedule?
Wan’Dale Robinson is second on the Giants in targets (24), so should your NFL DFS strategy include Robinson if Dallas throws double-teams at Nabers on Thursday Night Football? Before locking in any NFL DFS lineups for Giants vs. Cowboys on sites like DraftKings and FanDuel, be sure to check out the NFL DFS lineup advice, strategy and player stacks from SportsLine NFL daily Fantasy expert Jimmie Kaylor.
Kaylor is a NFL and DFS expert for SportsLine, who opened the 2022 NFL season by winning DraftKings’ NFL Showdown Thursday Kickoff Millionaire contest. He edged out over 355,000 other entrants in the contest and also has multiple five-figure tournament wins on his DFS resume. Kaylor, who cashed big all season in 2022, has covered the NFL and college football for close to a decade as a member of the Pro Football Writers of America, and his background as a former college and NFL player gives him a unique perspective when building his fantasy lineups and locking in his betting picks on sites like DraftKings and FanDuel.
Kaylor hit on epic NFL DFS picks for SportsLine members throughout the 2022 and 2023 seasons. In 2022, he was all over Travis Kelce’s four-touchdown performance against the Raiders on Monday Night Football, Kirk Cousins‘ 460-yard, four-TD performance on Thanksgiving Day, and T.J. Hockenson’s 13 catches for 109 yards and two touchdowns in Week 15. In 2023, he hit on Ja’Marr Chase’s massive Week 5 performance (15 catches, 192 yards, three TDs), D.J. Moore’s eight catches for 230 yards and three touchdowns in Week 14, and De’Von Anchane’s breakout performance (233 total yards, four TD’s) in Week 3. Anyone who followed his picks is way up.
This season, in the Sao Paulo game one of Kaylor’s top picks was Green Bay wide receiver Jayden Reed, who caught four passes for 138 yards and a touchdown and rushed for 33 yards and a score, and James Cook, who scored three touchdowns on Thursday Night Football against the Dolphins.
Now, Kaylor has turned his attention to Cowboys vs. Giants on Thursday Night Football in Week 4 and locked in his top daily Fantasy football picks. You can only see his picks and analysis at SportsLine.
Top NFL DFS picks for Cowboys vs. Giants
One of Kaylor’s top NFL DFS picks for Thursday Night Football is Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb. The 25-year-old finished as the WR1 in Fantasy football last season after leading the NFL in receptions (135) while ranking second in receiving yards (1,749). Although his receptions are down to start the 2024 NFL season (4.3 receptions per game compared to 7.9 last season), he’s averaging nearly four yards more per reception, averaging 16.8 yards per catch this season. Lamb was a holdout for the majority of training camp before signing a four-year, $136 million contract in late August, so it may be taking a few weeks for Lamb and Dak Prescott to regain that timing and chemistry that made them arguably the best QB-WR duo in the NFL last season.
Lamb has still shown consistency this season with at least 60 yards in each of the first three games. He has at least four receptions and seven targets in all three contests as he remains an integral part of the offense. Lamb isn’t cheap, but he comes with arguably the safest floor in the NFL DFS player pool and after recording more than 150 yards in four games last season, he also has a huge ceiling for Thursday Night Football NFL DFS lineups.
Kaylor is also targeting Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers. New York quarterbacks dealing with speculation about job security is nothing new and Jones hasn’t been immune to that for much of his career with the Giants. The noise around his future was pretty loud after the Giants fell to 0-2 following a 21-18 loss and averaging just 12 points per game over their first two contests, but Jones silenced those calling for his job, at least for one week. The 27-year-old completed 24 of 34 passes for 236 yards and two touchdowns in a 21-15 win over the Browns last week.
Cleveland allowed the fewest passing yards and total yards last season, so not many expected a performance like that from Jones, who threw for fewer than 180 yards in each of his first two starts this year. The Browns held Dak Prescott to 179 yards in Week 1 and Trevor Lawrence to 220 yards while completing just 47.6% of his passes as Cleveland figures to have a top passing defense again this year. Lamar Jackson completed 12 of 15 passes (80%) for 182 yards on 12.1 yards per attempt, the fifth-highest of his career, against the Cowboys last week, so there are vulnerabilities in the Dallas pass defense for Jones to exploit on Thursday Night Football. See who else Kaylor likes right here.
How to set Giants vs. Cowboys NFL DFS lineups, player pools
Kaylor is also targeting another undervalued player who could explode for huge numbers in Cowboys vs. Giants. 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 Kaylor’s NFL DFS picks, at SportsLine.
So who is Jimmie Kaylor including in his optimal NFL DFS lineups for Thursday Night Football, and which under-the-radar NFL DFS picks offer huge value? Visit SportsLine now to see optimal NFL DFS picks, rankings, advice, and stacks, all from a DFS expert who won a prestigious millionaire maker tournament, and find out.
