Super Bowl 60 marks the end of the 2025 NFL DFS season. It is a long road back to pro football being in our lives again, so we need to soak it up with the Super Bowl 60 DFS Showdown contests over at DraftKings.
I still suggest keeping things light, but this battle between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots is a very compelling matchup. Two elite defenses and two very explosive offenses go head to head, creating a tough Showdown slate for everyone to navigate. Some plays are obvious, but we could have insane leverage ahead of us. I’ll break it all down with my preferred Captain plays, some GPP picks I like, and my key core plays I’d have in most of my lineups.
Best Captain Picks
- JSN
- Drake Maye
- Kenneth Walker
These are the “fool proof” plays at Captain. JSN has the best projection, top ceiling, and he’s the most consistent and most reliable performer going into Super Bowl Sunday. He’s also the most expensive and the highest owned.
There is edge in going under-weight on JSN in the Captain spot. I’ll definitely do that, but fading him in the Flex is probably a poor choice.
Maye has dual threat ability and offers the second best projection and probably the second highest ceiling of the Super Bowl Showdown slate. He also has been pretty weak in three playoff games. Despite that, he’s cleared 15+ fantasy points every time out, making him a strong play across the board.
Maye is playable in CPT, but feels like an elite Flex play and someone I won’t Captain as much as the field.
Walker is the third best play in terms of safety. He has one of the better floors and a strong ceiling. Nobody has a good matchup in this game, so we should pay more attention to the volume he’s going to get, his TD equity, and his home run-hitting upside.
There is risk here, especially since he’s the second highest owned Captain at the moment. If his ownership drops I will be all over him. As things stand, I prefer him in the Flex.
Overall, I see a lot of leverage opportunity going into the Super Bowl. I won’t fade these guys in the Captain, but I’ll be slightly under the field and try to attack some value so I can get different and/or load up in the Flex.
Top GPP Captain Picks
- Stefon Diggs
- Hunter Henry
- Sam Darnold
- Cooper Kupp
- George Holani
- TreVeyon Henderson
You can play anyone. It’s a Showdown slate and it’s the Super Bowl. But for leverage, upside, and roster building, these are my favorite tourney plays in the Captain slot.
Diggs and Henry are the top volume guys in New England’s passing game and neither are getting ownership right now in the Captain spot. I will definitely be over the field on both. Henry has the best matchup of anyone in this game and we know he’s a red-zone threat. Diggs has the “never won a ring” narrative, so coming up with a zero seems unlikely.
My favorite contrarian Captain pick is Darnold, though. If JSN is going to slay, there’s a decent chance Darnold has something to do with it. He’s not owned at all with JSN, Maye, and Walker getting all the attention, and yet we know he has upside after dropping 29 fantasy points against the Rams in the NFC title game.
JSN in the Flex and Darnold in the Captain just might feed families.
Further hedging on JSN and Walker could come via Kupp. He doesn’t get crazy volume, but he’s scored in both of Seattle’s playoff games and he has Super Bowl experience. New England will also go out of their way to slow down JSN. If they’re successful, Kupp could be busier than usual underneath.
George Holani is a pretty interesting punt. You can use him as leverage on Walker or pair them, but he’s really just a price play for a guy that could see up to 10 touches with Zach Charbonnet down for the count. He probably profiles as a far better Flex play, but a sprinkling in Captain is on the table for me.
Lastly, Hendo is such an awesome tourney flier. His touches were non-existent in the AFC title game, so there undeniably is a very real possibility the Pats just lean on the more experienced Rhamondre Stevenson. But there are several paths to success here: an expanded role, a Stevenson injury, Stevenson fumbling woes popping back up, or Henderson simply taking one of his precious few touches to the house.
Super Bowl 60 Core Plays
- JSN
- Maye
- Walker
There’s no such thing as a true core in Showdown. You can absolutely fade anyone due to ownership, matchup, projection, or simply for leverage. Anyone can get hurt, get shut down, or just fail to show up.
JSN is the guy I’d want to fade least. If I make 100 Super Bowl Showdown lineups, he’d probably be in all of them. I’d definitely rotate Maye and Walker in and out of some of them, but for the most part I want exposure to them.
Darnold is my favorite GPP Captain. I like the idea of targeting him and also working in a bunch of different Patriots WRs as Captain plays to stack with Maye. Of course, I have some of my favorite plays detailed above.
Just remember to have a reason for how you build a lineup. Try to have some correlation, make sure you don’t eat just chalk, and look for a good leverage opportunity to give yourself an edge. It’s a Showdown slate, though, so don’t go too hard. Save your cash for NBA, NHL, and the coming MLB season.
Good luck!
Playing DFS since the days of DraftStreet, Kevin knows the ins and outs of DFS, specifically for NFL and NBA. He’s also been helping people win in fantasy football leagues for 15+ years and is one of many experts featured at FantasyPros.
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