We’re heading to Arrowhead on Monday night as the Kansas City Chiefs host the Las Vegas Raiders as 7-point home faves, with the highest total of the Week 5 slate at 51.5 points.

The Raiders’ defense just got torched by Russell Wilson, while the Chiefs have the No. 1 offense in EPA/play on the season. Will the Raiders be playing catch-up like the Buccaneers last week?

Find out in my free NFL player prop picks for Monday Night Football between the Raiders and Chiefs.

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The start of the 2023 NFL season has been anything but easy on the nerves of “Big Easy” sports bettors, with the New Orleans Saints’ first three games decided by a collective five points.

New Orleans has been on the winning side of those slim margins twice but came up a point short in Green Bay last week and left Lambeau Field without their starting quarterback. Derek Carr suffered a shoulder injury which has backup QB Jameis Winston taking snaps against his former team in Week 4.

The Saints welcome the rival Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the Superdome on a short week, with the Bucs still licking their wounds from a 25-11 loss at home to Philadelphia on Monday night. That pulled the curtain back on Tampa’s 2-0 start to the schedule and has the Buccaneers…

A few weeks ago, this Monday Night Football odds matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and Jacksonville Jaguars was a must-watch, must-wager game on the Week 13 odds board.

But with Cincinnati losing star quarterback Joe Burrow to a season-ending wrist injury in Week 11, tonight’s AFC affair went from a look-ahead line of a pick’em to hovering around a double-digit spread in favor of Jacksonville.

The Jaguars have won two straight and have only one loss since Week 4 while the Bengals stumble into Florida on a three-game losing skid with a backup QB calling the shots. 

I dive into the spread and Over/Under for Monday Night Football and give my best NFL picks for Bengals vs. Jaguars on December 4.

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Caleb Williams’ first game for the Chicago Bears is right up there with “Deadpool & Wolverine” among the must-see events of the summer.

The first overall pick has hopes soaring in the Windy City and the NFL odds buzzing. The Bears have a season win total of 8.5 (Over -160) and look-ahead lines peg Chicago as a favorite in 10 games this year. To put that betting market into perspective, the Bears have been a favorite just 10 total times in the past three seasons.

Williams ranks among names like Manning, Luck, and Burrow as surefire franchise quarterbacks, and the Bears have given him one of the best receiving corps in the entire league to work with. However, it will take more than big names on the backs of those blue and orange jerseys to …

We’re past the opening third of the schedule with NFL Week 7 odds open for business.

Football bettors have a fun slate in store, starting with the “Sean Payton Bowl” when the Denver Broncos battle the New Orleans Saints on Thursday.

The New England Patriots and Jacksonville Jaguars go to war in Wembley Stadium on Sunday morning, followed by an NFC North showdown between the Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings. The main event of Week 7 is a Super Bowl rematch between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers in the 4:25 p.m. ET slot.

The prime-time schedule is packed with the New York Jets visiting the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night and a Monday Night Football double-feature, starting with the Baltimore Ravens at Tampa Bay Buc…

This is yet another division that seems to be perennially up for grabs between a couple of teams, at least on paper, but unlike the NFC North, this division is fresh and exciting. A rookie quarterback! An MVP quarterback that Bill Polian wanted to convert to wide receiver! An annual dogfight to the top! And … the Bengals! Okay, maybe not the Bengals. But there are at least two, possibly three, teams that could conceivably battle their way to the top of the division. The three biggest questions in the division all revolve around quarterbacks. Will Lamar Jackson be able to avoid a MVP hangover and build on last season’s monster output, despite a humbling loss to the Titans in the playoffs? Will a 38-year-old Ben Roethlisberger, coming off an elbow injury, be able to make one last run …

Harry Kane has said his message to his England teammates just before he leads them out to face Germany at Wembley on Tuesday afternoon will be to play with freedom.

For many in the side the match will be the biggest occasion of their careers yet Kane is adamant that all of them should express themselves. “The messaging will be what it’s been all week: be free, enjoy it,” the captain said. “We all want to win, that will naturally come out in our performance. We’ve had experience at international and club level now so we’ve just got to go out there and enjoy it and make the most of it.”

England’s previous match was last Tuesday’s final 1-0 group win over Czech Republic. “We’ve had a long time to …

It was not a great weekend for the Ligue 1 teams pushing for Europe. Lorient, who beat Rennes in a Breton derby on Friday, were the only side in the top seven to pick up three points. The biggest match of the weekend saw two of the top four – Marseille and Monaco – meet at the Stade Vélodrome for a scintillating 1-1 draw that was a tale of two halves.

Monaco went into the game with the second-best away record in the league, after Paris Saint-Germain. With just one defeat on their travels this season – which came in a wild match against a magnificent Lille side – Monaco have quietly edged back into contention for the Champions League, shaking off their bitter Coupe de France elimination to second-tier Rodez and winning three of their…