Week 3 closes with Rams-Broncos on Sunday Night Football, which means the DFS main slate's last cash decisions all funnel through one game. Mike McClure, the SportsLine analyst and Daily Fantasy multimillionaire, just dropped his picks for the matchup, and the full lineup advice is over at CBS Sports.

I'll be upfront about my process: I don't copy another analyst's lineup wholesale, ever. But McClure's reads are worth stealing as scaffolding, because he's been on the right side of enough tournament busters that ignoring him feels like leaving money on the table.

The Denver angle is the one I keep circling back to, and it's a principles thing more than a stats thing this week. Route participation over touchdowns, always. A pass catcher running most of the routes in a projected one-score game beats the guy who caught one garbage-time score and disappears. That's the lens I'm applying to whichever Broncos skill players McClure pegs in his SNF builds, and his full reasoning is at the link.

On the Rams side the question is simpler: which pass catcher eats the target share this week. That offense has moved its volume around enough through two weeks that you want the cheapest path to the biggest slice, and that's the kind of puzzle model-driven analysis is actually built for. SNF pricing errors are usually the most exploitable because casual lineups flood in on name brands.

One caution from my own ledger, because I track my receipts: single-game builds live and die on game script. If one side controls tempo early, the other's passing-game ceiling caps out fast and you're stuck rooting for garbage time that never comes. My rule for primetime DFS is pay up at the skill positions who touch the ball regardless of script and save salary at the spots that need a specific game flow to matter.

Two weeks of football is still mostly noise, so don't let a bad Saturday push you into hero-stack panic on Sunday night. Check McClure's full picks, cross-reference with your own reads, and build one cash-style lineup and one tournament shot.

And if you're wondering whether any of this helps me snap my three-year losing streak in the home league I run with Deb, it doesn't. She texted me a screenshot of the standings last night. She's first. I'm sixth. No spreadsheet has ever hurt me like that woman does.