Raybon’s Steelers-Bengals Monday Night Football DFS Showdown Strategy

Here’s a breakdown of one-game DFS contests for the Week 4 Monday Night Football matchup featuring the Cincinnati Bengals at Pittsburgh Steelers at 8:15 p.m. ET on ESPN.

Cash Game Strategy

Ideally, you would like to get in each team’s starting quarterback and No. 1 running back, and Andy Dalton, Mason Rudolph, Joe Mixon, and James Conner each have top-five median projections in our DraftKings Showdown Models.

However, there is little in the way of punt options who can be relied on for snaps. So DraftKings lineups work better when you go with Tyler Boyd, whose median projection is top-five and a point less than Dalton, over Dalton, with Rudolph, who has the top Projected Plus/Minus in our models among them in the MVP slot.

A Rudolph-Mixon-Conner-Boyd core leaves enough room for each team’s kicker — Chris Boswell for the Steelers and Randy Bullock for the Bengals — who each have top-six floor projections.

On FanDuel, Dalton, Rudolph, Conner, and Mixon fit and leave $6,500 for the last spot. The clear choice there is second-year breakout candidate and former Rudolph college teammate James Washington, who ran a pass route on 34 of Rudolph’s 35 dropbacks last week as he took over the suddenly-catch-averse Donte Moncrief‘s former role.

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