Knock on wood, but Week 4 looks like the best slate of the year so far. With teams finally knocking the early-season rust off, we have a handful of game environments that look like they could shoot out and deliver us fantasy points in bunches.

• Expect fireworks from the late games
• Start your lineups with these two foundation pieces
• The Week 4 vomit stack isn't even that gross
• Why you need to get comfortable with the Chiefs
• Sleeper TEs on Underdog

5 DFS Strategies for Week 4

For more DFS analysis in video form, be sure to check out the Week 4 DFS jam on the Fantasy Life YouTube channel where I'll answer questions, draft teams and discuss strategy for the week. 

Macro: The Late-Game Hammer

The best way to take advantage of this optionality is by ensuring you play a couple low-owned, contrarian pieces early. This move will allow you to gain valuable information on how you should proceed with your team in the late window.

Example: Let's say you have the stones to roll out a Michael Penix double stack with Drake London and Kyle Pitts at 1 p.m. despite all of the dysfunction with the offense right now. If that unique stack hits (hey, miracles do happen sometimes!), then you would have a green light to play the best (and most popular plays) from the 4 p.m. window like CMC and Puka (more on them in a second). 

On the flip side, if that stack flops, you would know that you need to go more off the board and could pivot to more contrarian plays like Derrick Henry and Brian Thomas Jr. 

On Underdog this dynamic doesn't exist because your team is locked after it is drafted (unless a player is ruled out and you get a single swap). But taking advantage of the late-swap dynamic on DraftKings can help you make better lineups than the majority of the field who are often too lazy or busy (myself included!) to make these swaps.

The New Kings Of DFS

Speaking of CMC and Puka, let's take a second to spotlight the new "free squares" in DFS–Christian McCaffrey and Puka Nacua–who not coincidentally lead their respective positions in Utilization Score:

CMC has lived in this upper echelon for years, but this does feel like a coronation for Puka, who has a league-high 29 receptions and 333 yards on 35 targets in 2025, plus the additional 3-52-1 on the ground. He's averaging an absurd 9.5 yards per target and is the only WR this year with 15+ fantasy points every week. 

I do expect Puka to be the most popular WR on DraftKings, but he's going fifth off the board in Underdog drafts. I get that RBs are more valuable over there with the half-PPR making TDs more important, but he should not be going behind Bijan Robinson and James Cook. I plan to have a big 'ol bag of him on UD this week at those prices. 

The Giants Are The Key To The Slate (Vomit Stack?)

For the third straight week, we have another cheaply priced QB to consider as the poster boy for our vomit stacks with rookie Jaxson Dart taking over for Russell Wilson in New York.

For the brave among us, here's what a Week 4 vomit stack looks like … 

• Jaxson Dart—$4500
• Cam Skattebo—$5,500
• Malik Nabers—$7,000

Similar to Marcus Mariota last week, the most exciting element of a cheap QB is one who rushes. As Dwain notes here, Dart handled 16% of the designed rushing attempts during his career at Ole Miss. Our Xfinity Best projections give him a ceiling of 28.2 points vs. the Chargers. It takes a leap of faith, but Dart is very much in play this week.

And for a total of just $10k, you can lock up the entire rookie movement in New York by also tacking on human bowling ball of knives Cam Skattebo to this stack. With no Tyrone Tracy Jr. (shoulder) around, Skattebo is poised for an elite workload. His UR score jumped from 65 to 84 from Week 2 to Week 3, and Mathew Freedman notes here that the Chargers run defense has been middling to start the year. 

Neither Dart or Skattebo will be sneaky per se, which is why Nabers is what makes this stack work. After a monster Week 2 (37.7 points), Nabers crashed back down to earth in Week 3 (3.3 points). We might hate that volatility in season-long, but we want to embrace it in DFS. Courtland Sutton just put up 20.8 points on this Chargers defense and got loose for a big TD. There's no reason Nabers can't do the same here.

Do You Believe In The Chiefs?

I think the biggest riddle to this entire slate is this Kansas City/Baltimore game, and more specifically, how you view the Chiefs.

• Patrick Mahomes is the QB9 on DraftKings by salary and the QB7 on Underdog by ADP, but the Ravens are giving up the fourth-biggest fantasy boost to opposing QBs (4.2) and just got lit up by Jared Goff and the Lions in Week 3. 
• Do you have the stomach for Isiah Pacheco? Because the Ravens have allowed a league-leading 33.6 fantasy points per game (half-PPR) to opposing RBs, it doesn't feel fun, but DFS isn't about having fun. It's about making the uncomfortable clicks everyone else is too scared to make.
• Still not intrigued? What if I told you that Xavier Worthy ($5800) is expected to return to the offense and should inject a much-needed shock to the offensive system?
• It's also worth shouting out Tyquan Thornton's emerging role in this offense. Over the last two games he's scored 13.9 and 18.1 points with 19% and 27% target shares. Sure, Worthy could eat into that, but there is plenty of room for playmakers in this talent-deprived offense.

On the Ravens side, we also get a perfect opportunity to buy low on Zay Flowers, who didn't get involved in the Week 3 shootout vs. the Lions.

Piggybacking off the notes above about the late-game hammer and having the flexibility to pivot off the chalk, I think this KC-Baltimore tilt is the perfect place to look for a contrarian game environment. We are wired to hate Chiefs games right now—I get it—but the oddsmakers say this has the potential to shoot out (48.5) total. 

Plug your nose and play some Chiefs/Ravens game stacks.

Underdog TEs: Scroll For The Old Guard

Last week Hunter Henry was the key to the slate on Underdog, helping user 'FANTASYGRINDER' ship $50,000 on Underdog. 

With an ADP of 35.8, which translated to being on only 5.08% of rosters, Henry was the TE piece you needed to win first place in a contest with 55,992 entries.

Because the "Elite" TEs continue not to separate from the position (Mr. Bowers, I'm begging you to start balling out), it is imperative to "scroll" at TE on Underdog. 

Look at our projections here for Week 4. There is less than a 2-point gap between TE6 to TE15!

With Henry now steamed up (he's the TE4 on the slate), it's time to scroll down to some of these other TEs. My favorites include:

• Mark Andrews (TE8)
• Travis Kelce (TE6)
• David Njoku / Harold Fannin Jr. (TE11 / TE14)
• Juwan Johnson (TE7)
• Kyle Pitts (TE13)
• Dallas Goedert (TE10)
• Cade Otton (TE12)

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