VSiN By The Books | September 10, 2026 | Hour 3

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

This is VSiN By The Books on VSiN, the eSports betting network.

Dave Ross (0:08)

Top of the hour, it is VSiN By The Books on this Thursday morning. Dave Ross right here at the Mid-Gaming Hall, Franklin, Kentucky. He's our closer Jensen Lewis back home in Cleveland, Ohio. Going to go up to the great state of Connecticut. That's where Tyler Fulghum is these days at ESPN. We're going to break down this game in Melbourne between the Niners and the Rams. We're going to give out our ATS liens here, and we do not know yet, Jensen. Only Joe Frizzo, our producer, knows. Do we already have five that are going to be selected here mutually for our Millions entry first one of the year? We did end up in the black last year, and of course, our best bets are still to come on this fine program. But right now, you did it yesterday, and you do it for all the primetime games here in the NFL. It is time to bet the build in today's edition of the Daily Gridiron.

SPEAKER_1 (0:53)

This is the Daily Gridiron.

Dave Ross (1:02)

But it is your first build ever down under in Australia because it's the first ever game played in Melbourne, Australia. So it's going to be exciting. I really did not think leading up to it this summer, it would have this much pomp and circumstance, but it does feel like it's going to be a show, Jensen Lewis. And I know you're trying to identify some players that will put on a show.

Jensen Lewis (1:24)

Yeah, we cashed last night. He almost were a top 10 for sure in one of the builds last night. So already on House Money, already a winner, and we'll continue to do that hopefully with a couple of lineups tonight. I'll start with FanDuel, the MVP slot. We're going to go with Matthew Stafford. Probably not a surprise to many here, just knowing that you're going to get an extremely high floor for what he wants to do. And I would say that the ownership will be massive, more so in the flex than it will be an MVP because of the elevated salary. So putting him in that MVP spot, I think is going to give us a little bit more leverage on the field. No surprise here where we're going next with Christian McCaffrey, Brock Purdy, and Kyron Williams. Again, a little bit more on the McCaffrey-Purdy connection. What will the dynamic look like for the other receivers? I don't know if I'm willing to go there just yet, Dave, but we do know that that rapport between Purdy and McCaffrey is pretty well oiled. Kyron Williams, again, we'll see kind of what the back end looks like here for Sean McVay. Will there be a healthy rotation between he and Blake Corum? Would imagine that if you get a little touchdown here from Kyron Williams early, that's going to help pay off with that big price. Harrison Beavis, the place kicker.

We always look for ways to get different from the field. If indeed you have a handful of opportunities for field goals instead of sixes, we like getting exposure to that. And then one of the great low opportunity cost guys, or excuse me, one of the low cost, but high opportunity guys in Terrence Ferguson, second year tight end out of Oregon Dave. He can kind of be a hybrid, if you will, tight end receiver. I think he is going to get used as maybe more elevated opportunity throughout the format. McVeigh has been running him all over formations. We know that Matthew Stafford will not hesitate for some check down opportunities.

Will he be higher-owned at a cheaper price? Probably. But that right now, going four Rams and two 49ers in our fan duel bet the bill.

Dave Ross (3:35)

Okay. Harrison Mevis, everybody knows from his Missouri days, he is the heaviest kicker in the NFL, hence the nickname, The Thicker Kicker, at six feet tall, 245 So if they have any trick plays up their sleeve, I wonder if they'd run it with the thicker kicker tonight. Great pick by you, having him in your fan duel bill there. What about DraftKings here? I think we're going to go back to a usual suspect here, certainly for San Francisco as your captain.

Jensen Lewis (4:04)

Yeah. And again, I like I like San Francisco to win the game. So that's why we're going Brock Purdy into the captain's spot. It is slightly contrarian where you would see most people probably go Pukka Nakua, Christian McCaffrey. And that's good because we want to get a little differential from the field. We obviously will have Puka and CMC in there to the higher priced position players. But when you look at the projections, it looks like Puka is either the top or the second highest prediction of points here right around 21 there for our DraftKings slate. I went the dual backfield here, Dave. I just kind of changed up because of the price points.