With only two weeks remaining in the regular season, there are a lot of teams that have a huge stake in what happens to keep their playoff hopes alive. This week, we decided to go with five players in the middle of the postseason chase and whether their efforts will keep the dreams of getting in the playoffs and chasing down a Lombardi Trophy. Below, we look at 5 NFL player prop bets for Week 17, and make our best NFL picks, predictions and bets.
Week 17 prop bet picks and predictions
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Tom Brady OVER 278.5 passing yards (-115)
My biggest problems with taking the Over on this is the slew of injuries on the offensive side. The Bucs may also blow out the Jets so quickly that he either gets benched in the second half or the team opts to run the ball to control the clock. I always hate going against Brady achieving something, but the Bucs are already in playoff mode and that often means throttling a team with the ground game, but Brady will likely have to be ahead by 30 before he comes out, and he can reach this number by that point.
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Kansas City Chiefs WR Tyreek Hill OVER 74.5 receiving yards (-115)
I love taking on a challenge with Hill when his Over/Under is in the 80s pushing 90. The Chiefs-Bengals game has all the earmarks of a high-scoring, back-and-forth contest with the “anything you can do, I can do better” mindset. If the game plays out like that, the Chiefs will look to Hill to make big plays. Hill seems to have his biggest game on the biggest stage against other playoff teams, and as I tend to note, it only takes one big play to eat up half the yards needed to get to the Over, and he will have at least one of those against the risk-taking Bengals defense.
Philadelphia Eagles TE Dallas Goedert UNDER 54.5 receiving yards (-110)
Goedert’s number got inflated because he had 135 receiving yards in the first meeting with Washington. But Goedert is more of a chain-mover than a deep, downfield threat and given his performance against WFT just two weeks earlier, the defense will make adjustments and take Goedert away much more than it did the first meeting. This will be a tight game and taking away Goedert will be a priority.
Dallas Cowboys WR CeeDee Lamb OVER 65.5 receiving yards (-114)
The Cowboys and Cardinals are expected to get into a high-scoring battle, and Dallas won’t be likely to take their foot off the gas whether they are ahead or behind. Over the last four games, Lamb has averaged six receptions a game, and given his speed and the amount of single coverage the Cardinals defense play, one big splash play will likely be enough get the job done as he looks to keep the Cowboys in the running for the No. 1 seed in the NFC.
Los Angeles Rams WR Cooper Kupp OVER 111.5 receiving yards (-114)
There are certain players I have loved making money on this season, and Kupp is at the top of that list. What he is doing is incredible. He is averaging 116 yards a game and is within reach of hitting 2,000 yards in a season. He is within reach of Calvin Johnson’s single-season record of 1,964 receiving yards, and the Rams may look to enhance those chances by targeting him 15 or more times to give him the opportunity to put his name in the annals of the history books. That, combined with a Ravens secondary ravaged by injury, as outlandish as that number is for an Over/Under, he has topped that number in seven of his last 10 games.
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