The regular season might be over, but the 2023 NFL Playoff Challenge is just heating up. It's a fan-friendly format that incentivizes both Fantasy football strategy and understanding which teams are poised to make a run through the NFL playoff bracket 2023. With NFL Super Wild Card Weekend starting on Saturday, which players should you consider for your NFL Playoff Challenge lineups? The Chiefs and Eagles are on bye this week, so rostering stars like Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, Jalen Hurts and A.J. Brown guarantees you'll be collecting double points from them in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs 2023. However, the downside is that you won't earn any points during Wild Card Weekend. So what is the best 2023 NFL Playoff Challenge strategy, and where should every player be in your NFL Playoff Challenge Fantasy football rankings? Before you lock in your 2023 NFL Playoff Challenge picks, be sure to see what SportsLine's Mike McClure has to say.
McClure is a legendary professional DFS player with over $2 million in career winnings. His methodology has led to enormous cashes on FanDuel and DraftKings. He took down two high-stakes tournaments on FanDuel in 2020 and recorded a pair of top-10 finishes in tournaments with over 130,000 entrants on DraftKings. His lineups also finished inside the top 1% in more than a dozen other tournaments.
He uses a powerful prediction model that simulates every snap of NFL action, taking factors such as matchups, statistical trends and injuries into account. This allows him to find the best values that he shares only with members at SportsLine.
Now, McClure has turned his attention to the 2023 NFL Playoff Challenge and locked in his top Fantasy football picks. You can only see them by heading to SportsLine.
Top NFL Playoff Challenge picks for Super Wild Card Weekend
One of McClure's top NFL Playoff Challenge picks for Super Wild Card Weekend: Bills wide receiver Stefon Diggs. The eighth-year pro is coming off his third Pro Bowl in as many seasons and the fifth straight 1,000-yard season of his career. Diggs is a proven postseason performer dating back to the Minneapolis Miracle and has averaged over 75 receiving yards across five playoff games with the Bills.
McClure's strategy also takes into account that Diggs is in position to maximize his Fantasy output. There are three teams in the 2023 NFL playoff bracket who won't have to play a single road game all postseason. Two are on bye, the Chiefs and Eagles, and the other is Buffalo, which gets an extra game for Diggs to rack up points. The Bills look like a team that will stick around for a while in the NFL playoffs 2023, so Diggs is primed to take advantage of those bonus points multipliers.
Another part of McClure's optimal NFL Playoff Challenge lineup includes rostering 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel. The best-case scenario in the NFL Playoff Challenge 2023 is to find players who are participating during Wild Card Weekend who have a chance to make a Super Bowl run. The 49ers look like one of the most dangerous teams in the league, as they enter the NFL playoffs 2023 on a 10-game winning streak.
Samuel missed four games this season due to injury and had to exit another early, but he still served as San Francisco's Swiss army knife, catching 56 passes for 632 yards and two touchdowns while rushing 42 times for 232 yards and three more scores. Last season, he racked up 291 scrimmage yards and scored twice over three postseason games. You can expect Kyle Shanahan to scheme him up 10 to 12 touches per postseason game again this year. See who else to pick here.
How to build 2023 NFL Playoff Challenge lineups
McClure is also targeting a player who could go off for big numbers on Super NFL Wild Card Weekend 2023 because of a dream matchup. This pick could be the difference between winning your NFL Playoff Challenge lineups or going home with nothing. You can see who it is over at SportsLine.
So what is the optimal 2023 NFL Playoff Challenge lineup for Super Wild Card Weekend? Visit SportsLine now to see the full optimal tournament lineup for the NFL Playoff Challenge, all from a daily Fantasy expert with over $2 million in winnings, and find out.
