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NFL Week 5 DraftKings ownership: DEN @ LAC Showdown

What the field actually played on the NFL Week 5 DraftKings DEN @ LAC Showdown, next to what we projected before lock. Our misses are shown in full.

October 11, 2026 · Updated October 11, 2026 · After The Timeout

1 game · showdown

The slate at a glance

Sport
NFL
Week
Week 5
Site
DraftKings
Format
Showdown (single game)
Games
1
Teams
DEN, LAC
First lock
Sun Oct 11, 4:05 PM ET
Player pool
30 players
Projections
Captured Sun Oct 11, 3:08 PM ET, before lock

Top 12 by real ownership

The chalk: who the field played most

Field ownership is the share of lineups that used each player, from 1 large-field tournament contest, 2,378 entries. Gap is the field minus our projection: green means the field played him more than we expected.

Some field numbers read low. Part of the real ownership here comes from a results source that counts each player in one roster slot only, so a player the field used in more than one slot can show less ownership than he really had.

Ours vs the field, 1 large-field tournament contest, 2,378 entries
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Bo NixDENQB80.8%85.2%+4.3
Justin HerbertLACQB66.7%63.4%−3.3
Jaylen WaddleDENWR52.2%59.4%+7.2
RJ HarveyDENRB33.0%58.6%+25.6
Tre' HarrisLACWR22.1%51.4%+29.3
Oronde Gadsden IILACTE15.4%36.7%+21.3
Omarion HamptonLACRB53.5%36.3%−17.1
Keaton MitchellLACRB14.7%33.6%+18.9
BroncosDENDST29.8%29.4%−0.4
Courtland SuttonDENWR27.0%24.6%−2.5
Wil LutzDENK38.5%22.5%−16.0
Cameron DickerLACK32.9%22.5%−10.4

10 players where we were furthest off

Our biggest misses

We publish these on purpose. The players the field played far more than we expected, and the ones it passed on.

The field played him more than we projected
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Tre' HarrisLACWR22.1%51.4%+29.3
RJ HarveyDENRB33.0%58.6%+25.6
Oronde Gadsden IILACTE15.4%36.7%+21.3
Keaton MitchellLACRB14.7%33.6%+18.9
Jaylen WaddleDENWR52.2%59.4%+7.2
The field played him less than we projected
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Ladd McConkeyLACWR36.5%6.5%−30.0
Omarion HamptonLACRB53.5%36.3%−17.1
Wil LutzDENK38.5%22.5%−16.0
ChargersLACDST21.6%7.4%−14.2
Cameron DickerLACK32.9%22.5%−10.4

1 contest · not enough to grade

Why there is no grade

We grade a contest type once it has at least 2 contests behind it. This slate has results from one large-field tournament contest (2,378 entries), so the tables above show that contest, and we do not put a grade on it.

The 2 contests behind these numbers
ContestGroupEntriesFeeMax entries
NFL Showdown $2K First Down [20 Entry Max] (DEN @ LAC)large-field tournament2,378$120
NFL $15K Showdown Special [$5K to 1st] (DEN @ LAC)small-field or limited-entry tournament1,470$12-
How our fantasy point projections held up

Across 30 players, our point projections missed by 3.7 fantasy points on average (3.9 on players who scored), with a correlation of 0.43 against what they actually scored.

Biggest point misses
PlayerOursActualGap
Kimani VidalLAC0.712.6+11.9
Ladd McConkeyLAC9.80.0−9.8
RJ HarveyDEN9.10.7−8.4
J.K. DobbinsDEN7.715.4+7.7
Hayden RucciLAC0.07.7+7.7
By position
PosPlayersAvg missBias
DST23.6+0.3
K22.0−0.8
QB25.0−5.0
RB84.7+0.6
TE63.7+1.4
WR103.1−1.2

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