Bengals vs. Giants DFS Picks: Best DraftKings, FanDuel lineups and props for SNF primetime showdown

Joe Burrow and the 1-4 Bengals will visit Daniel Jones and the 2-3 Giants at MetLife Stadium for the Week 6 edition of Sunday Night Football (8:20 p.m. ET, NBC). 

For Cincinnati, it's a must-win situation. Given how strong the AFC North has already proven to be this season, the Bengals might have already played themselves out of the divisional title conversation. A fifth loss with 11 games remaining would be crippling, so expect Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins to get up.

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For New York, there's really nothing to lose. Stud rookie wideout Malik Nabers remains out for a second consecutive game after a concussion and lead back Devin Singletary is questionable with a groin injury, but Big Blue proved last week in Seattle that it doesn't need its young phenom or its RB1 to compete. 

If you're assembling a DFS lineup for this primetime clash, the Sporting News has the optimal lineup, studs, sleepers, and strategy to help make you some daily fantasy cash. Let's get right to it, listing our DraftKings, FanDuel, and SuperDraft squads ahead of the Bengals vs. Giants on Sunday Night Football.

Bengals vs. Giants NFL DFS picks: Optimal DraftKings lineup

Before we get into our lineup and strategy, here are the key scoring settings for DraftKings Showdown contests: They're full-point PPR, and they feature three-point bonuses for 300 passing yards, 100 rushing yards, and 100 receiving yards. The Captain pick costs 1.5 times a player's original price, but he also gets his point total multiplied by 1.5.

Captain: Joe Burrow, QB, Bengals ($15,000)

We sometimes stick a cheaper sleeper in the Captain's spot to maximize our flex budget, but in this case we couldn't get away with Burrow despite him being the second-most expensive choice. We put him above top wideout Chase, as he's $2,100 cheaper in this spot and yet averages just one point fewer than him.

If Cincinnati had three wins instead of one, we would be talking about Burrow being an MVP candidate. He's got a 72.3-percent completion rate, a 113.6 QB rating, 12 passing TDs and just two interceptions, and he averages 274 yards per game. In a must-win situation against a bad defense on national TV, he's gonna ball out.

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FLEX: Ja'Marr Chase, WR, Bengals ($11,400)

We can't possibly pick Burrow without also selecting his No. 1 receiver. The fellow LSU product has enjoyed a significant rapport with his QB since he entered the league, and the result of that connection has been a ton of highlight-reel plays and some filthy PPR production. 

Just look at the DK points Burrow and Chase combined for in Weeks 3 and 5 against the Commanders and Ravens, a primetime game and a marquee matchup: 61.2 and 82.1. How could we possibly leave either part of this nuclear equation out of our optimal SNF lineup? Fire away and enjoy the show. 

FLEX 2: Tee Higgins, WR, Bengals ($9,400)

Can you tell how we predict this one to go? Cincinnati is going to eviscerate the Giants, and both Chase and Higgins should benefit from the smash-job. Higgins enjoyed his yearly breakout game last week, putting up 29.3 DK points on nine catches (13 targets), 83 yards, and two TDs.

Only six squads have surrendered more touchdowns to wide receivers than the Giants this season, so Cincy's 1-2 wideout punch seemed like a no-brainer to draft. Bombs away, Burrow!

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FLEX 3: Wan'Dale Robinson, WR, Giants ($8,200)

We need to roster at least one player from each team, so Robinson serves as our one Giant. He's been a good one to roster — even in season-long redraft leagues — as he has been the most heavily involved Giants receiver not named Malik Nabers.

Robinson has 47 targets on the season, and he has only dipped below six catches in a game once in five weeks. He averages 13.8 DK points per game and he's put up a combined 34.1 over the past two weeks, and he now gets a second-straight game with no target competition from Nabers and a projected pass-heavy game script. 

FLEX 4: Mike Gesicki, TE, Bengals ($4,000)

Gesicki's 7.0 PPG DraftKings average makes him a very intriguing target at just $4,000, as we don't think anybody else at or below that price level has such a dependable floor.

Gesicki's been heavily involved in a couple big games already this season, catching a combined 11-of-14 targets for 138 yards in Weeks 2 and 3 against the Chiefs and Commanders. Even if this game's a blowout, though, the veteran should get his looks. 

FLEX 5: Drew Sample, TE, Bengals ($1,600)

In our stars-and-sleepers build, Sample is the biggest dart throw. We only had $2,000 left at this point, so we went with a guy who has played at least 40 percent of offensive snaps in every Bengals game so far. Sample put up 5.8 DK points in Week 2 in Kansas City, and we would be ecstatic if he could replicate that. 

Bengals vs. Giants NFL DFS picks: Optimal FanDuel lineup

Here are the key scoring settings for FanDuel single-game tournaments: They're half-point PPR with three-point bonuses for 300 passing yards, 100 rushing yards, or 100 receiving yards. The MVP pick multiplies that player's total by 1.5 but does not cost 1.5 times their listed salary.

Sometimes when we enter lineups on DraftKings and FanDuel, our FD squad looks a bit different as a sort of hedge strategy. In this case, we're still going with three of the four players we project to be the highest fantasy scorers of the game — and Burrow remains in the multiplier spot — but we're going without Chase as he's so dang expensive on FD.

That assures us lineup variance and also gives us a big leg-up on potential jackpot contention if anything happens to him or he gets double-teamed all night long. He's one of the three biggest receiving weapons in the NFL — it's entirely possible that Brian Daboll's main defensive scheme is to contain him. 

We also love Moss and Tracy for a combined $19,500 on the back-end of our roster. In half-PPR formats, these two backs will go undervalued this week. Chase Brown (quads) and Devin Singletary (groin) are both questionable this week, so that gives us even more confidence that Moss and Tracy will be the lead dogs of this game's RB picture. 

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Bengals vs. Giants NFL DFS picks: Optimal SuperDraft lineup

For those unfamiliar, SuperDraft's DFS scoring involves point multipliers as opposed to traditional salary-capped or tiered contests. A winning lineup will likely feature a strong mix of stud fantasy contributors with 1x-1.6x boosts, as well as matchup-based sleepers with larger multipliers. Each player is assigned a scoring multiplier based on their value as determined by SuperDraft. Users can roster any player in their lineup with no restrictions.

Here are the most notable scoring rules for SuperDraft NFL contests: Half-point PPR, four-point passing TDs, and two-point bonuses for 100 rushing yards, 100 receiving yards, and 300 passing yards. SuperDraft lineups feature no D/ST position. The "Champ" position adds a 50-percent boost to the selected player, while the SuperFlex positions are limited to the boost listed for each player. 

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Hedge No. 2! What if the Giants show up like they did in Seattle last week and in Cleveland in Week 3? There won't be a ton of entries featuring two Giants players, never mind three.

In this super-sleeper boost-lineup play, we have Danny Dimes and both his top receivers with Nabers out, as well as two of Cincy's four best non-QB skill-position players.

We won't enter a big-money contest with this lineup, nor will we put it up against 1,000 entries — but in a low-risk, smaller-pool tourney, this might be well worth the dart throw in case yet another primetime game shocks the world.