Friday Night Football
Green Bay @ Philadelphia
Team Totals: Packers 23, Eagles 25.5
Corinthians Arena in São Paulo, Brazil hosts the first regular-season contest in South America and first Week 1 Friday night game (at 9:15 p.m. ET) since 1970.
Philadelphia’s upgraded offense under OC Kellen Moore will undoubtedly push the pace after last year’s Chargers led the league in combined play volume, allowing Jalen Hurts‘ managers to quickly forgive him for averaging 6.6 yards per attempt and 7.7 carries — a shell of his career averages (7.5 YPA, 9.8 carries) in three years starting — through multiple injuries from Week 11 on. Green Bay’s hyper-talented front seven is additionally a wash opposite Brandon Thorn’s No. 2 O-Line. Fortunately, new Packers DC Jeff Hafley leaned on single-high defense at Boston College and (unlike his predecessor) will be on a mission to stop the run. Hurts’ projection both through the air and up the gut unsurprisingly seat him atop his position. I bet him to rush for 2+ touchdowns on DraftKings (+800). … Saquon Barkley missed out on former DC Joe Barry’s annual tradition to be gashed from the ground, and this backfield has been targeted at the league’s sixth-lowest rate (15.2%) from Hurts. Fourth-round RB Will Shipley (5-foot-11/206) also blazed a 4.39 40-time (83rd percentile) and 38.5-inch vertical (89th) at his Pro Day then logged receiving reps over Barkley in camp. Shipley himself has little appeal outside of massive-field one-game DFS slates but admittedly limits Barkley’s Week 1 ceiling to low-end RB1 status. Kenneth Gainwell is expected to mix in during the 2-minute drill.
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