Draftkings NFL Showdown Picks: Packers vs. Giants 11/16/25
Green Bay Packers vs. New York Giants
November 16, 2025 1:00 pm EDT
On Sunday afternoon, the NFL presents Draftkings football fans with a regular season matchup featuring the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants. Let’s take a look at this game from a DFS perspective.
Before we dive into the Green Bay Packers vs. New York Giants game let’s review the rules for the Draftkings single game showdown contest.
Draftkings Single Game Showdown Contest Rules
You have $50,000 to utilize on five players from either team. However, one of those players will be designated as your team captain. The captain accumulates 1.5 times the standard fantasy points. Additionally, the captain is 1.5 times the standard cost of the flex position.
The remaining four players in your lineup will receive the standard fantasy points. Having stated that, it is highly important for you to identify the correct player for your captain position if you hope to win a large field DFS GPP (guaranteed prize pool) showdown contest.
If you have additional questions regarding the rules for the single game showdown contest, I recommend that you check out the Draftkings website for more details.
*I recommend that all readers review the starting lineups for both teams prior to setting your DFS lineup for this one game slate.
Here are my Draftkings picks for this week’s Packers vs. Giants matchup.
Draftkings NFL Showdown Picks
Captain-Jordan Love, Quarterback, Green Bay Packers $10,000
Veteran quarterback Jordan Love has been the field general that the Green Bay Packers have needed to win football games in 2025. With that said, how has Love performed from a statistical perspective this season? Let’s review the talented signal caller’s relevant key player data from the 2025 NFL regular season to better shed light on Love’s overall contributions to his team.
In the nine games that quarterback Jordan Love has played for the Green Bay Packers in the 2025 NFL regular season, Love has amassed 2,247 passing yards, 13 passing touchdowns and 138 rushing yards.
Examining the data just presented more closely, in the nine games that Jordan Love has played for the Green Bay Packers in 2025, Jordan Love is averaging a robust 17.1 Draftkings points a game.
More recently, in the Green Bay Packers 35-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers last month, Green Bay quarterback Jordan Love certainly played at a high level. More specifically, in the Packers defeat of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Love tallied 360 passing yards and three passing touchdowns.
Looking closer at the data just presented, in the Green Bay Packers win over the Steelers, Jordan Love accumulated a massive 31.3 Draftkings points.
I also like Jordan Love’s matchup in this game. Why? The New York Giants defense has been vulnerable to the quarterback position in 2025. Upon the completion of ten games played in the 2025 NFL regular season, in relation to the other 31 teams in the league, the New York Giants rank a dreadful 28th in total Draftkings points allowed (20.8) to the quarterback position a game.
As I noted in the rules section above, selecting the correct player at the captain position for a Draftkings NFL Football showdown lineup is absolutely vital if you hope to win a large field GPP (guaranteed prize pool) DFS contest. Keep that in mind as you construct your lineups.
In my view, Jordan Love is the most likely player to post the most Draftkings points in this NFL regular season game. For that specific reason, I am backing Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love at the captain position for this one game NFL DFS slate.
Flex plays I like to play well in this NFL regular season contest: Jameis Winston, Quarterback (New York Giants) $8,600: Josh Jacobs, Running Back (Green Bay Packers) $11,800: Devin Singletary, Running Back (New York Giants) $6,600: Brandon McManus, Kicker (Green Bay Packers) $5,000.
