Lance, Washington Jr. Headline Week 2 Preseason DFS Slate
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- Trey Lance is expected to log the most snaps under center for the Chargers on Thursday after Justin Herbert sat out preseason Week 1 and played just one series in all of 2025; Lance responded with 164 passing yards and 27 rushing yards against Houston and now faces his former team, the 49ers.
- Mike Washington Jr., a fourth-round Raiders rookie who posted 1,000+ rushing yards and All-SEC honors at Arkansas before blazing a 4.33 40-yard dash (fastest among RBs at the 2026 combine), ripped off a 53-yard run in preseason Week 1, led Vegas with six carries, added a target and a kickoff return, and gets a Texans defense expected to rest its starters.
- No. 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza headlines a thin Thursday player pool as the Raiders visit Houston, which fielded the league's top defense a year ago; the slate contains only two games (Raiders-Texans and 49ers-Chargers), and every player is priced at $5,500 on DraftKings and $6,000 on FanDuel.
- De'Zhaun Stribling, San Francisco's first draftee, raised his DFS stock with 7 catches for 63 yards in preseason Week 1, reinforcing the broader pattern that rookies reliably see extended preseason snaps.
- R.J. White — a two-time winner of the Westgate Las Vegas SuperContest, SportsLine's No. 1 all-time NFL ATS expert, and CBS's Fantasy expert — built his lineups around Lance and Washington while flagging a third undervalued player whose identity is gated behind SportsLine's paywall.
Why it matters: With only two matchups and a flat salary structure ($5,500 DK / $6,000 FD for every player), Thursday's preseason slate forces DFS entrants to differentiate on volume rather than price. That setup directly benefits rookies like Lance, Washington, and Mendoza who are locked into heavy preseason work, while the Texans sitting starters tilts the Raiders backfield toward Washington's ceiling game.
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