GPP Tournament Picks: NFL Week 16

Taking down massive GPP tournaments like these can be a challenging feat that requires knowledge of both the players you are drafting and the opponents you are playing against. Beating a field with hundreds, of thousands, of entrants can be a daunting task, but correctly drafting players with low ownership percentages, that are also in good spots to produce, is a recipe for success. Below, we'll be highlighting our GPP-specific projections to provide you with players at each position who can produce and also be below 20% owned, preferably lower.

Carson Palmer

David Johnson is coming off of an attention-grabbing performance in prime time last week, and he'll be one of the most popular players in daily fantasy football this week. On DraftKings, where he's laughably priced at $5,800, just a $100 salary increase from Week 15, he'll be owned on a staggering number of rosters. This is all to say that he'll be the member of the Cardinals who gamers load up on, and given the fact gamers tend to, in most circumstances, avoid stacks involving a quarterback and running back from the same squad, Palmer's ownership rate should be depressed.

Johnson is an excellent pass-catching back, though, so he's not your typical back, and I'd advocate stacking the back with Palmer. The veteran signal caller is also a high-risk, high-reward stand alone play. By that I don't mean Palmer himself is a risky pick, but fading the super chalky Johnson to use only Palmer or Palmer and a receiver or two from the Cardinals is risky. Getting back to what the 35-year-old quarterback has done this year, he's been elite. He's passed for more than 270 yards in all but two games this season, and in the two games he fell short of that yardage threshold, he tossed four touchdown passes and three touchdown passes, respectively. Palmer's playing at an MVP-caliber level, and his ceiling is high thanks to his own play, his embarrassment of riches in the passing attack and a robust team over/under total of 26.75 points.