Best Optimized FanDuel NFL DFS Lineup for Falcons vs Packers Thursday Night

FanDuel DFS Lineup in Summary

• MVP: Bijan Robinson (ATL)
• FLEX: Jordan Love (GB), Michael Penix Jr. (ATL), Matthew Golden (GB), Nick Folk (ATL), Jonnu Smith (GB)
• Total salary used: $58,900 of $60,000

Falcons and Packers open Thursday Night Football, and FanDuel's Single Game contest for the matchup gives you one MVP slot at 1.5x salary and points, plus five FLEX spots, all under a $60,000 cap. With Jayden Reed ruled out for Green Bay tonight, here's the updated build.

MVP: Bijan Robinson (ATL) — $13,000

Robinson carries the highest raw projection of anyone in the entire pool, and the betting market backs that up directly — he's priced as the shortest anytime touchdown on the board tonight. That combination of true workhorse volume and a real path to the end zone is exactly what the 1.5x multiplier is built to reward.

FLEX: Jordan Love (GB) — $12,400

Love carries the second-highest raw projection in the entire pool, and at home against a Falcons defense he's shown real weekly upside through the air with several legitimate receiving options to spread the ball to.

FLEX: Michael Penix Jr. (ATL) — $10,200

Penix Jr. is both cheaper and higher-projected than the wide receiver options at a similar price point, giving this build the second-highest point total in the entire pool at a genuine discount. Rostering both starting quarterbacks is a real, valid strategy in Single Game formats with no position locks.

FLEX: Matthew Golden (GB) — $8,200

Golden offers a genuinely strong projection relative to his salary, giving this build a real value piece in the passing game without eating too far into the budget the top plays need.

FLEX: Nick Folk (ATL) — $6,200

Kickers rarely draw much attention in Single Game builds, but Folk's real per-dollar value here stands out as the best in the entire pool outside the top-tier skill players — a cheap, genuine source of floor points that frees up cap space elsewhere.

FLEX: Jonnu Smith (GB) — $2,400

A real, rostered tight end with a genuine projection at the minimum price tier, giving this build a legitimate contributor to round out the cap rather than a near-zero-target throwaway.

The Bottom Line

This lineup leans on Bijan Robinson's real workhorse role at MVP, pairs him with both starting quarterbacks in Love and Penix Jr. — the two highest-projected players remaining in the pool — then fills out the cap with two of the sharpest value plays on the board in Folk and Smith. It leaves $1,100 of unused salary, since nothing else on the board offered a signal strong enough to justify reaching for it.