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NFL Week 5 DraftKings ownership: HOU @ TEN Showdown

What the field actually played on the NFL Week 5 DraftKings HOU @ TEN 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
HOU, TEN
First lock
Sun Oct 11, 1:00 PM ET
Player pool
30 players
Projections
Captured Sun Oct 11, 12:38 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
Nico CollinsHOUWR74.1%85.0%+10.9
C.J. StroudHOUQB78.5%79.1%+0.6
Cam WardTENQB49.5%52.3%+2.8
Dalton SchultzHOUTE39.2%41.6%+2.4
Ka'imi FairbairnHOUK31.8%40.6%+8.9
Wan'Dale RobinsonTENWR29.0%36.2%+7.1
TexansHOUDST36.3%33.9%−2.4
David MontgomeryHOURB34.8%32.8%−2.1
Carnell TateTENWR36.0%30.6%−5.4
Tony PollardTENRB38.0%25.7%−12.3
Woody MarksHOURB17.7%25.1%+7.4
Jaylin NoelHOUWR3.4%21.1%+17.7

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
Jaylin NoelHOUWR3.4%21.1%+17.7
Nico CollinsHOUWR74.1%85.0%+10.9
Ka'imi FairbairnHOUK31.8%40.6%+8.9
Woody MarksHOURB17.7%25.1%+7.4
Wan'Dale RobinsonTENWR29.0%36.2%+7.1
The field played him less than we projected
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Tony PollardTENRB38.0%25.7%−12.3
Xavier HutchinsonHOUWR24.9%13.3%−11.6
TitansTENDST20.5%9.9%−10.7
Joey SlyeTENK23.0%13.4%−9.6
Gunnar HelmTENTE17.2%11.4%−5.8

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 $200 Dime Package [Just $0.10!] (HOU @ TEN)large-field tournament2,378$0.10-
NFL $8K Showdown Special [$2K to 1st] (HOU @ TEN)small-field or limited-entry tournament941$10-
How our fantasy point projections held up

Across 30 players, our point projections missed by 4.0 fantasy points on average (4.9 on players who scored), with a correlation of 0.55 against what they actually scored.

Biggest point misses
PlayerOursActualGap
Jaylin NoelHOU1.615.2+13.6
David MontgomeryHOU10.11.1−9.0
Ka'imi FairbairnHOU8.217.0+8.8
Carnell TateTEN10.21.6−8.6
Woody MarksHOU5.712.5+6.8
By position
PosPlayersAvg missBias
DST25.0+1.4
K26.2+2.6
QB25.1−1.2
RB74.0−0.2
TE71.6−1.0
WR104.8+1.6

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