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Single Entry/Cash Lineup
– CAPTAIN: Cooper Kupp ($10,200)
– Todd Gurley ($11,600)
– Adam Thielen ($9,800)
– Kirk Cousins ($9,000)
– Kyle Rudolph ($5,600)
– Sam Ficken ($3,200)
When creating single entry or cash lineups, you want plays which are fairly safe and have high floors. This is exactly what we have in Rams wideout Cooper Kupp. While Robert Woods has a higher ceiling, Kupp has become a go-to target for Jared Goff. Through three games, he's seen 21 targets, hauling in 15 of them and finding the end zone twice.
Kupp has scored at least 16.8 fantasy points in two of the three games, and the other was a 12.3-point outing. His floor is high, he's going to receive his fair share of targets and he's all but a lock for 4-6 catches in this game. While the Vikings have a strong defense, they've given up 35 receptions for 352 yards and two scores to wideouts, so I'm fine with Kupp's spot.
The Kirk Cousins-Adam Thielen stack is about as straightforward as you can go. Yes, it's going to be highly-owned, especially due to the Rams injuries, but a quarterback with as much upside as Cousins is hard to pass on. In single entry games, you just have to eat the chalk of this stack and hope the Vikings quarterback looks more like he did in the first two games than his mediocre showing in Week 3.
Todd Gurley is, well, Todd Gurley. High floor, high ceiling, a boatload of touches and a super high price tag. That all works out just fine in single entry games and I love getting him in this lineup with Cousins, Thielen and Kupp.
And then there's Kyle Rudolph, who I touched on previously. One of the few areas the Rams have struggled is defending tight ends. In turn, I'll have quite a bit of Rudolph in my lineups, as you've noticed by now.
He's cheap and his targets seem to be rolling in at this point. Although Cousins threw the ball 55 times last week and Rudolph just five catches for 48 yards and one touchdown, he saw eight targets the week before and hauled in seven of them for 72 yards.
To round it out, I'm sticking with the Rams kicker, Sam Ficken, as a nice way to give myself a filler who'll receive quite a few chances if/when drives stall out short of the end zone. I can see a handful of field goal opportunities in this game, as the two defenses aren't bad.