NFL odds, lines, picks, spreads, bets, predictions for Week 18, 2024: Model backs Lions, Packers

The Week 18 NFL lines are all largely in congruence, save for one outlier. Fifteen of the 16 games have spreads of 5.5 points or fewer, which makes Cowboys vs. Commanders stick out like a sore thumb as Dallas is favored by 13.5 points. Dallas will lock up the NFC’s No. 2 seed with a victory, while Washington has more of an incentive to lose. The Commanders enter the Week 18 NFL schedule holding the second overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, with no shot of moving to No. 1, so it has to lose to maintain its position.

Thus, that helps explain why this game deviates from all others, per the Week 18 NFL odds. Dallas also crushed Washington 45-10 when they met earlier this season, and every game this week is a divisional rematch. How much should the results from earlier in the year affect your NFL betting strategy? All of the Week 18 NFL lines are listed below, and SportsLine’s advanced computer model has all the NFL betting advice and NFL predictions you need to make the best Week 18 NFL picks now.

The model, which simulates every NFL game 10,000 times, is up well over $7,000 for $100 players on top-rated NFL picks since its inception. The model enters Week 18 of the 2023 NFL season on an incredible 181-129 run on top-rated NFL picks that dates back to the 2017 season. It is also on a 35-21 roll on top-rated NFL picks since Week 7 of last season.

The model also ranked in the top 10 on NFLPickWatch four of the past six years on straight-up NFL picks and beat more than 94% of CBS Sports Football Pick’em players four times during that span. Anyone who has followed it is way up.

Now, it has turned its attention to the latest Week 18 NFL odds and locked in picks for every NFL matchup. Head here to see every pick.

Top Week 18 NFL predictions

We can tell you one of the model’s Week 18 NFL picks is the Lions (-3) cover the spread at home versus the Vikings on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET. Both teams are…


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Author : CBS Sports Staff

Publish date : 2024-01-03 13:22:07

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