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DFS: With passing games exploding, save on QBs and WRs, spend up on bell-cow RBs

It's hard to believe five weeks are already in the books, but here we are in Week 6.

This middle part of the NFL season is always my favorite. We now have a large enough data set to weed out some of the early-season variance, but it's still early enough that teams haven't started to phone it in.

Well, minus the Raiders.

So let's go over some trends we're seeing in large-field tournaments.

Not surprisingly, we're seeing game stacks dominate the leaderboards as fellow Pro Football Weekly editor John Sahly focused on last week.

But there's something noticeable outside of stacks: players are loading up on bellcow backs and taking chances at QB and WR.