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Welcome to Week 2 of our DVOA-based picks.

I’m going to do the same thing here that I used to do over at Football Outsiders. I’m picking (almost) every game straight up and against the spread. I’m also doing over-under totals, which were added to the picks last year. This does not make this advice to bet every single game! You’ve got to pick and choose and be smart about it. But for people in office pools, we pick every game.

Every week I will post picks on Thursday morning for subscribers. Come back here on Sunday morning and I will update the picks before the 1pm games begin.

The picks are listed with a confidence order and the picks with the strongest confidence will be colored blue. Those are picks with a difference of at least 7 points (straight up) or 3 points (spread and total). I do not make picks where the difference between the projection and the actual line is 0.1 points or lower.

Picks this week account for a few injuries including Cooper Kupp, Diontae Johnson, Cam Heyward, and Seattle offensive tackles.

UPDATED: Sunday morning, 11:40am EDT

ORDER HOME AWAY LINE (HOME) PROJ LINE SPREAD PICK CONF. ORDER STRAIGHT PICK CONF. ORDER TOTAL PROJ TOTAL TOTAL PICK CONF. ORDER
1 PHI MIN -6 -6.4 PHI 11 PHI 4 49.0 47.9 Under 10
2 TEN LAC 2.5 4.7 LAC 3 LAC 7 45.5 45.9 Over 15
3 ATL GB -3 -4.5 ATL 4 ATL 8 40.0 45.3 Over 3
4 HOU IND -1 -0.7 IND 14 HOU 16 40.0 41.6 Over 8
5 DET SEA -4.5 -4.9 DET 12 DET 6 47.0 47.2 Over 16
6 TB CHI -2.5 -2.8 TB 13 TB 12 40.0 44.0 Over 6
7 BUF LV -7.5 -7.3 LV 15 BUF 3 47.0 45.2 Under 7
8 JAX KC 3.5 2.4 JAX 8 KC 13 50.5 49.9 Under 12
9 CIN BAL -3.5 -2.3 BAL 7 CIN 14 45.5 44.7 Under 11
10 ARI NYG 4 4.4 NYG 10 NYG 9 39.5 44.5 Over 4
11 LAR SF 7 10.7 SF 1 SF 1 45.0 44.5 Under 13
12 DAL NYJ -8.5 -8.5 DAL 2 38.5 46.4 Over 1
13 DEN WAS -4 -3.5 WAS 9 DEN 11 38.5 42.6 Over 5
14 NE MIA 2.5 1.1 NE 6 MIA 15 45.5 44.1 Under 9
15 CAR NO 3 5.3 NO 2 NO 5 39.5 39.1 Under 14
16 PIT CLE 2.5 3.9 CLE 5 CLE 10 38.5 43.9 Over 2

W-L record through Week 1