Arizona @ Washington
Team Totals: Commanders 23, Cardinals 16
One of just two Week 1 games totaled below 40 points, Cardinals-Commanders profiles as a fantasy-unfriendly affair. … That’s especially true on Arizona’s side; first-year coach Jonathan Gannon will pick between Aug. 24 trade acquisition Josh Dobbs and fifth-round rookie Clayton Tune to start behind center following Colt McCoy’s release. Washington’s D/ST should be a popular play. … For better or worse, James Conner projects as Arizona’s offensive centerpiece, giving him RB2/flex utility based on volume alone. Efficiency remains a big concern in such an adverse environment; the Cardinals’ interior line of LG Elijah Wilkinson, C Hjalte Froholdt, and RG Will Hernandez is among the league’s worst, while last year’s Commanders yielded the NFL’s fourth-fewest fantasy running back points. … Quarterback play is a colossal obstacle for Marquise Brown. In 2-WR sets, I tentatively expect him to be bookended by third-round rookie Michael Wilson, a camp sensation who never cleared 700 yards in five seasons at Stanford. Slot types Rondale Moore, Greg Dortch, and Zach Pascal figure to form a sub-package rotation. I’m viewing Brown as a boom-bust WR3 and ignoring the rest. … Trey McBride is a mildly interesting DFS sleeper with Zach Ertz still in ACL recovery and admitting publicly he doesn’t know whether he’ll play in Week 1. A 2022 second-round pick, McBride won the 2021 Mackey Award at Colorado State and closed out his rookie season strong with receiving lines of 4/55/0, 3/17/0, 7/78/1, and 3/41/0 in Weeks 15-18.
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