Fantasy football best buys: Week 3 DFS picks, sleepers, values

For the fantasy football player, success in daily fantasy formats comes down to your ability to find value, to identify players who are faced with great matchups, and to maximize the relationships among the players on your roster (otherwise known as correlation). In other words, what are this week's best buys on the fantasy football schedule?

Each week, I'll go through each offensive position and give you a few players I'm considering for my head-to-head lineups, as well as some of the better team defenses for you to select in order to round out those fantasy rosters. These are usually players who are getting as much volume as possible, while also coming in at value prices. I'll also include some players I'm considering for my tournament pool play. And while things may change between this posting and game time, I'll do whatever I can to keep people updated on my various social media channels all the way up until kickoff on Sunday.

With all of that in mind, here are my favorite plays for Week 3.

Josh Allen ($8,200 DraftKings, $9,000 FanDuel), Buffalo Bills at Miami Dolphins: Over the last two seasons, Allen has been the quarterback with the highest propensity for 30-plus point days on DraftKings. Allen has logged multiple passing touchdowns in all eight of his career games against Miami, not to mention 53.8 rushing yards per game. It's very easy to talk yourself out of playing Allen in tournaments based on the high price for both him and his primary target Stefon Diggs, but this is another great opportunity to pay up to be contrarian in large field tournaments.

Jalen Hurts ($7,600 DraftKings, $8,100 FanDuel), Philadelphia Eagles at Washington Commanders: Since the beginning of the 2021 season, five of the top six games by