NFL Handicapping Articles

Which State Produces the Most NFL Players?
by Docsports.com - 8/20/2025

A new report by Doc's Sports examines NFL talent production across all U.S. states and college programs, analyzing the data of 24,517 NFL players over 50 years. We also provide insights into current 2025-2026 season patterns and projections.

Best Bets for NFL Win Totals
by Mike Allen - 8/19/2025

We're now just a little over three weeks away from the NFL Kickoff Game between the rival Dallas Cowboys and the defending Super Bowl Champion super team. Hangover or not, my money's on Philly—more on the Birds in a few. Even with all the new ways to bet the NFL before the season even starts, over/under win totals remain the most popular method toward potential profit, while making your money last near to the new year.

NFL Season Leaders Odds and Best Bets
by Mike Allen - 8/19/2025

Fantasy football lovers and NFL future bettors unite! The 2025 NFL regular season is just weeks away. With your drafts approaching, I'm sure you guys have strong opinions about which skill players will put up the most significant numbers. Fortunately, we aren’t here for fantasy football. I want to share with you today some cumulative odds and best bets for NFL season leaders that will last you the entirety of the regular season.

2025 AFC Division Winner Odds and Best Bets
by Mike Allen - 8/15/2025

Even with the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC, the return of Christian McCaffrey, Dak Prescott, and Aidan Hutchinson to their respective teams, and the Ben Johnson/Caleb Williams era in the Windy City, I still have the AFC as the far more intriguing conference for the 2025 season.

2025 NFC Division Winner Odds and Best Bets
by Mike Allen - 8/14/2025

With the 2025 NFL regular season rapidly approaching, I wanted us to tackle the betting odds to win each of the four divisions in the NFC. You'll be surprised to see how affordable some of the favorites are, as well as some of the surprisingly high potential payouts we could have with teams like the Arizona Cardinals, for example.

NFL Comeback Player of the Year Predictions with Betting Odds
by Mike Allen - 8/14/2025

The Cincinnati Bengals' Joe Burrow won the NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award last season. This was cool to see, but the man deserved to be the league's Most Valuable Player, but wasn't considered because he couldn't at least carry his team into postseason contention. Some of this year's candidates include Michigan native and Detroit Lions' edge rushing sensation Aidan Hutchinson.

2025 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Mike Allen - 8/14/2025

Always one of the most intriguing NFL prizes to discuss and predict, the Offensive Rookie of the Year Award has some highly interesting names from top to bottom of the betting board. The Heisman Trophy winner, Travis Hunter, comes in at 10-1 to win the award, but we must keep in mind that he would probably be higher on the list should he only be projected to play on the offensive side of the ball. His two-way style of play brings up more questions, though—more on those in a minute.

2025 Los Angeles Rams Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025

The Rams are a big buzz team entering the 2025 season. They followed a surprise 10-win playoff season in 2023 with 10 more wins and a division title in 2024. Now the assumption is that the team, with one of the league’s youngest rosters, will continue to ascend and threaten a third Super Bowl trip in the McVay Era.

2025 Green Bay Packers Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025

Green Bay, with the No. 5 total offense and No. 5 total defense, was actually the only team in the league to finish in the Top 5 on both sides of the ball. And ironically enough, the last time the Packers boasted Top 5 units on both sides of the ball was the 1998 team that also lost in the Wild Card Round.

2025 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025

Tampa, which easily beat its preseason Las Vegas win total (7.5), underachieved its Pythagorean win expectation by 1.1 games. They finished with a negative turnover differential (-5) and they were just 1-6 in games decided by five points or less or in overtime.

2025 Washington Commanders Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025

In 2022, Houston won just three games and were a league pushover. They drafted a rookie quarterback No. 2 overall and that rookie took the league by storm, leading the 2023 Texans to 10 wins and a surprise playoff appearance. Then, prior to the 2024 season, Houston spent the offseason loading up on big-name veterans through trades and free agency in an attempt to build on their breakthrough season.

2025 San Francisco 49ers Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025

Last year my 8-Unit NFL Futures Play was on San Francisco 49ers to go ‘under’ their 11.5 Las Vegas season win total. In my writeup, I observed that, “Funny thing about championship windows. They normally don't close quietly; they slam shut.” And last year San Francisco’s window to win a Super Bowl title slammed shut.

2025 Los Angeles Chargers Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025

Jim Harbaugh is a winner. He has been at ever stop of his football career. And he proved it yet again by taking a perpetually underachieving Los Angeles Chargers franchise, stripping it down to the studs, and then using football basics to force the Chargers to 11 wins and a playoff trip in what was supposed to be a rebuilding year.

2025 Pittsburgh Steelers Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025

Think what you want about the Steelers. But bet against Mike Tomlin and his boys at your own risk. Over the last 53 seasons, Pittsburgh has made the playoffs 34 times. Think about that for a second. The longest playoff drought that they have had over the last half-century was four years. And that happened back in the 1980’s.

2025 Arizona Cardinals Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025

Ken Whisenhunt increased Arizona’s win total each of his first three years, including a high-water mark of 10 wins in his third attempt. Bruce Arians did the same thing, increasing Arizona’s win total each of his first two years and then hitting a high of 13 wins in his third frame.

2025 Dallas Cowboys Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I hate the Cowboys just as much as you do. I loathe their obnoxious, disgusting fans in their repulsive state. I’m an annoyed by their clueless, decrepit owner. The faux feeling of entitlement from everyone and everything surrounding this franchise is gross.

2025 Seattle Seahawks Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025

Seattle has beaten its Las Vegas season win total three straight seasons and six of the past seven years. Since 2011, the Seahawks have gone 10-4 against their season win total and they enter the 2025 season still underrated, sporting the lowest win total in the NFC West (7.5).

2025 Chicago Bears Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025

The Bears are going to be much better this season than they were last year. Undeniably better. New coach Ben Johnson can’t possibly be worse than all-time clown Matt Eberflus, whose 14-32 tenure featured one jaw-dropping decision and one mind-numbing loss after another.

2025 Jacksonville Jaguars Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025

Do you remember just two years ago the Jacksonville Jaguars entered the 2023 season with a Vegas season win total of 10.5 and realistic Super Bowl expectations? It’s true! That really happened! Peter King predicted the Jaguars to the No. 1 seed in the AFC that year. Pete Prisco had them as a legit Super Bowl threat. Other semi-serious media bobbleheads – the same people that crowned Trevor Lawrence as a “generational talent” – had these chuckleheads right below the Bills and Chiefs in the AFC hierarchy.

2025 Atlanta Falcons Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025

Maybe the 28-3 Super Bowl collapse really did just break this franchise. Has there been a more maddening team in the NFL over the last several years than the Atlanta Falcons? Despite being perpetually predicted to be a player in the NFC South – which is in a constant battle with its AFC brethren for the worst division in the NFL – the Falcons are routine underachievers.