The first game on the Week 7 NFL schedule features two struggling teams that had high hopes coming into the 2022 season. Kyler Murray and the Arizona Cardinals will host Andy Dalton and the New Orleans Saints in a Thursday Night Football battle between 2-4 NFC teams. All-Pro wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins will make his season debut for the Cardinals, while promising rookie wideout Chris Olave (concussion) is expected to make his return for the Saints. With Marquise Brown out for Arizona, and Michael Thomas and Jarvis Landry out of the TNF DFS player pool for New Orleans, are Hopkins and Olave must-start options in your NFL DFS lineups and NFL DFS stacks? Or would it make more sense to build your Week 7 TNF DFS strategy around a start quarterback or running back? Murray, Dalton, Alvin Kamara, and James Conner all project to be impact classic and showdown NFL DFS picks for Thursday Night Football.
Before making any Thursday NFL DFS picks for Cardinals vs. Saints on sites like DraftKings and FanDuel of your own, be sure to check out the NFL DFS lineup advice, strategy and player stacks from SportsLine NFL daily Fantasy expert Jimmie Kaylor.
Kaylor is an NFL and DFS expert for SportsLine, who opened the 2022 NFL season by winning DraftKings' NFL Showdown Thursday Kickoff Millionaire contest. He edged out over 355,000 other entrants in the contest and also has multiple five-figure tournament wins on his DFS resume. Kaylor has covered the NFL and college football for close to a decade as a member of the Pro Football Writers of America, and his background as a former college and NFL player gives him a unique perspective when building his fantasy lineups and locking in his betting picks.
Kaylor has been spot-on all season, hitting on epic NFL DFS picks like Jerry Jeudy (4-102-1), Stefon Diggs (12-148-3), Amari Cooper(7-101-1), Nick Chubb (23-113-1), CeeDee Lamb (8-87-1), Deebo Samuel (6-115-1), Cooper Kupp (14-122), Travis Kelce (7-25-4), and Davante Adams (3-124-2).
Now, Kaylor has turned his attention to Cardinals vs. Saints on Thursday Night Football Week 7 and locked in his top daily Fantasy football picks. You can only see his picks and analysis at SportsLine.
Top NFL DFS picks for Cardinals vs. Saints on TNF
One of Kaylor's favorite Cardinals vs. Saints TNF DFS picks is Arizona wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins. The 30-year-old is making his first appearance of the 2022 season, and his presence should provide an instant shot of life to Arizona's struggling offense. Hopkins has a proven rapport with quarterback Kyler Murray and could be in for a monster night without Pro Bowl cornerback Marshon Lattimore available to defend him on the other side.
"(DeAndre) Hopkins is making his season debut after serving a six-game PED suspension, so there may be some rust to knock off early. That said, the 30-year-old wideout didn't have to grind through training camp and should come into this matchup with fresh legs and be close to 100% healthy. He also is very familiar with quarterback Kyler Murray, and Kliff Kingsbury's offensive scheme. With Hollywood Brown out, the targets should be there, and with Marshon Lattimore out for the Saints, Hopkins could be in line to produce huge numbers on Thursday Night Football." Kaylor told SportsLine. You can see the rest of Kaylor's NFL DFS picks here.
How to make NFL DFS lineups for Saints vs. Cardinals on TNF
Kaylor is also targeting another undervalued option that could explode for huge numbers for Thursday Night Football. This pick could be the difference between winning your tournaments and cash games or going home with nothing. You can only see who it is, and the rest of Kaylor's TNF DFS picks, at SportsLine.
So who is Jimmie Kaylor including in his optimal NFL DFS lineups for Thursday Night Football? And which under-the-radar DFS picks offer huge value? Visit SportsLine now to see optimal NFL DFS picks, rankings, advice, and stacks, all from a DFS expert who already won a single-game millionaire maker tournament in 2022, and find out.
