A trio of playmakers in the 4:00 p.m. window are featured in my NFL Week 8 prop bets.
The pregame narrative: D’Andre Swift has looked explosive in recent weeks as a running and receiving threat. I like the over on his scrimmage yards prop while recommending plays on Amari Cooper and Javonte Williams.
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Best bet: Swift over 77.5 rushing/receiving yards (-112)
Three straight wins was just what Swift and the Bears needed, and now we’ll see if they can take their show on the road. I’m betting they can.
Chicago has scored 95 points over its past three matchups, and Swift was a central figure in all of that offensive production. He finished with 115-plus scrimmage yards and a touchdown in each of those games.
Swift has averaged a career-low yards per rush (3.6), but he’s offsetting that with respectable numbers in the receiving game. He has 20-plus receiving yards in five consecutive weeks.
I wouldn’t quite categorize Swift as a bell-cow running back, but he’s steadily in the RB1 role. Swift has seen more than 60.0% of snaps in five of six games, per Football Guys, and his 110 touches are more than three times that of any other Chicago receiver or tailback.
As long as the volume remains high — and there’s no reason to assume otherwise — Swift’s yardage floor should be high, too.
Washington is a team that Swift should be able to churn yards against. The Commanders’ defence ranks 25th in EPA per play, according to RBSDM.com, and 27th in yards per rush (4.7).
Key stat: Swift has 15-plus touches in five consecutive games and has averaged 97.6 scrimmage yards per game in that span.
Quick picks
Cooper over 53.5 receiving yards (-117): Cooper only played 19 offensive snaps in his Buffalo debut last week, but he turned that into a tidy four catches (five targets) for 66 yards and a score.
He’ll definitely be on the field more often on Sunday, which makes this yardage line look like a steal to me.
Cooper was in shackles in Cleveland. He had 53 targets in six games, but only 34 were catchable, according to Rotowire.
From 2018-23, Cooper averaged 70.0 yards per game and made the Pro Bowl three times. Now that he’s playing alongside a talented quarterback like Josh Allen, I don’t expect Cooper’s line to be this low very often.
Williams over 63.5 rushing yards (-114): In Week 7, Williams looked like a guy reclaiming his backfield.
The fourth-year RB scampered for a season-high 88 yards in a road matchup against the New Orleans Saints. That’s particularly impressive given that Denver’s other three running backs saw the field and Bo Nix called his own number 10 times.
Up next is the dreadful Carolina Panthers, who’ve allowed the most rushing yards per game to their opponents (162.1).
Williams has rushed for 5.1 yards per carry over his past four games and should enter Sunday’s matchup with plenty of confidence.
Picks made at 3:40 p.m. ET on 10/24/2024.
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