FTN Staff's Articles

We are down to the final two weeks of the NBA season. Most teams have about eight or nine games left. At this point, every day is officially eliminating a team or two from playoff contention, and every day someone is moving up or down in the seedings. Motivation is always important, but even moreso […]

We’re back for a Cinco de Mayo version of MLB’s best bets, as Wednesday brings us a jam-packed 16-game slate. We’re finally blessed with some afternoon games, with first pitch in the Chicago and Cincinnati game scheduled for 12:35 p.m. ET to fill up the mid-day lull. Per usual, we’ll dig in to see where […]

As the regular season is winding down, now is a good time to discuss NBA playoff futures. The math has changed slightly as the league experiments with expanding play-in games, but you will see that it tends to matter little in the overall scheme of things. Those teams playing for a chance at one of […]

The FTN Betting Breakdown is a new article series we are featuring this year on FTNBets where we will have a daily breakdown of the day’s NBA betting slate. This breakdown will feature key injury news and updates and how players and teams are affected by said news to give you the opportunity to potentially […]

It’s a good day of baseball for the New York teams if you are betting on Tipico Sportsbook in the garden state Tuesday. The Yankees are at home and the Mets are on the road in St. Louis, and both teams are favored. The similarities between the two matchups pretty much end there, though. The […]

Below are odds from my model for this week’s golf event, the Wells Fargo Championship. You can use these to compare to a bookmaker’s odds straight up, or you could use them in your own model to make adjustments.  These odds are meant to be a tool for you to use how you best see fit. […]

The PGA Tour heads to Quail Hollow for this week’s Wells Fargo Championship. We last saw this event in 2019, where Max Homa came away with his first PGA Tour victory. This makes for back-to-back events that were canceled during the 2020 season. We’re in the part of the schedule where a majority of these […]

Welcome to a Monday edition of One-Play Payday. If you aren’t familiar with “One-Play Payday”, we provide you with one play, whether it be a spread, total or moneyline, that stands out as a rock-solid play on Tipico Sportsbook. Tipico Sportsbook lines We have an eight-game Monday slate to start the week, here are all […]

We have a smallish eight-game slate of NBA action and less than eight games left in the regular season for almost all of these teams. These games today have some divisional and playoff implications, so we should get some intense basketball. The injury situation at the end of the year is always tricky, but keep one […]

Monday brings us a smaller, 10-game MLB betting slate to ring in the second month of the year. We’re almost through 20% of the season already and starting to get a better idea of how teams will shake out. With no afternoon games schedules, the night should be packed with action as Milwaukee and Philadelphia […]

We have a pretty big slate of games around the NBA for a Saturday. None are scheduled before 7 p.m. ET either, so this will be a robust slate for betting and fantasy purposes. My guess is we will have a lot of prop plays as well, so make sure you follow the FTN Bet Ttracker […]

The Buccaneers took QB Kyle Trask to end the second round of the 2021 NFL Draft, and that kicked off a quarterback run, with QBs going in three out of four picks — the Vikings took Kellen Mond, and then the Houston Texans selected Stanford QB Davis Mills. (Follow along with every pick in the […]

The Minnesota Vikings might not need a quarterback for 2021, but they grabbed one to look down the road with their third-round pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, selecting Texas A&M QB Kellen Mond. (Follow along with every pick in the FTN Draft Tracker.) Mond played all four years for the Aggies, totaling 9,661 passing […]

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have the oldest quarterback in football, so they grabbed a potential replacement at the end of the second round of the 2021 NFL Draft in Florida QB Kyle Trask. (Check out the FTN Kyle Trask scouting report here.) Trask was a Heisman finalist in 2020, when he threw for 4,283 yards […]

The Carolina Panthers land another receiving option in the second round of the 2021 NFL Draft, selecting LSU WR Terrace Marshall with the No. 59 overall pick. (Check out the FTN Terrace Marshall scouting report here.) Marshall is reunited with his ex-WR coach in LSU, Joe Brady, who is the Carolina offensive coordinator now. Marshall had […]

The Los Angeles Rams didn’t get to pick until the 57th overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, getting to relax in their draft beach house on Day 1. In the second round Friday, they selected Louisville WR Tutu Atwell. (Follow along with every pick in the FTN Draft Tracker.) Atwell, who had a 1,304-yard, […]

The Seattle Seahawks didn’t select on Day 1 of the 2021 NFL Draft, not getting their first pick until No. 56 overall. With that pick, they grabbed a wide receiver, selecting Western Michigan’s D'Wayne Eskridge. Eskridge played five years at Western Michigan, going for 811 scrimmage yards and 8 touchdowns as a fifth-year senior in […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers nabbed an in-state tight end in the second round of the 2021 NFL Draft Friday, picking Penn State TE Pat Freiermuth with the No. 55 pick. (Check out the FTN Pat Freiermuth scouting report here.) Freiermuth won the 2020 Kwalick-Clark Award, given to the No. 1 tight end of the year in the […]

The Arizona Cardinals added some receiving help in the second round of the 2021 NFL Draft Friday, selecting Purdue WR Rondale Moore. (Check out the FTN Rondale Moore scouting report here.) Moore won the Paul Hornung Award as college football’s most versatile player in 2018. He was a monster as a Purdue freshman, going for […]

The Denver Broncos traded up Saturday to go earlier in the second round of the 2021 NFL Draft, using the pick to select UNC RB Javonte Williams. (Check out the FTN Javonte Williams scouting report here.) Williams was a second-team All-American for North Carolina in 2020. He ran for 1,140 yards and had another 305 […]

The New York Jets gave their new quarterback Zach Wilson a brand new target with their second-round pick of the 2021 NFL Draft Saturday, selecting Ole Miss WR Elijah Moore. (Check out the FTN Elijah Moore scouting report here.) Moore was a consensus All-American in 2020 at Mississippi. He had 1,193 receiving yards and 8 […]

Welcome to my betting breakdown for UFC Vegas 25: Reyes vs. Prochazka. After a historic event last week in Florida for UFC 261, the UFC is returning to Las Vegas to host this fight night at the apex facility. In the main event this week we have two-time former title challenger Dominick Reyes trying to […]

We have about three weeks left in the NBA season. Most teams at this point have played 62 or more games, meaning they have 10 or less to go in a shortened 72-game NBA regular season. We have a couple games here with two teams still vying for divisional titles, and a lot of these […]

The Baltimore Ravens seemed destined to take a wide receiver in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft, especially after they added a second first-round pick in a trade last week, and that came to fruition Thursday when the team selected Minnesota WR Rashod Bateman with Pick No. 27. (Check out the FTN Rashod […]

The Jacksonville Jaguars made a shocking second pick Thursday in the 2021 NFL Draft, selecting Clemson RB Travis Etienne with their second first-round pick of the draft. (Check out the FTN Travis Etienne scouting report here.) The pick comes as a surprise after the Jaguars had James Robinson put up a huge rookie year in […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers were long rumored to be going running back in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft, and that came to fruition Thursday, with the team landing on Alabama RB Najee Harris with the No. 24 pick. (Check out the FTN Najee Harris scouting report here.) Harris was the 2020 Doak Walker […]

After trading out of the No. 11 pick, allowing the Chicago Bears to select Justin Fields, the New York Giants landed a wide receiver at Pick No. 20 of the 2021 NFL Draft, selecting Florida WR Kadarius Toney. (Check out the FTN Kadarius Toney scouting report here.) Toney made the second-team All-SEC team in 2020, […]

The New England Patriots landed the last of the top-tier quarterbacks in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft Thursday, hanging back at 15th and landing Alabama QB Mac Jones. (Check out the FTN Mac Jones scouting report here.) Jones took over for Tua Tagovailoa in 2019. He started all of 2020 and threw […]

The Chicago Bears landed their quarterback, trading up with the New York Giants for the No. 11 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft to select QB Justin Fields. (Check out the FTN Justin Fields scouting report here.) Fields played with Georgia in 2018 then landed with the Buckeyes for 2019 and 2020. He was […]

The Philadelphia Eagles added some desperately needed receiver help in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft Thursday, trading up to the Cowboys’ No. 10 pick to draft Alabama WR DeVonta Smith. (Check out the FTN DeVonta Smith scouting report here.) Smith, the 2020 Heisman Trophy winner, had 1,856 receiving yards and 23 touchdowns […]

After trading out of No. 3 and then trading back up to No. 6, the Miami Dolphins added receiving help in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft Thursday, selecting WR Jaylen Waddle out of Alabama. (Check out the FTN Jaylen Waddle scouting report here.) Waddle was the SEC Freshman of the Year in […]

After three quarterbacks and a tight end went off the board to start the 2021 NFL Draft, the Cincinnati Bengals went for another offensive weapon at No. 5, drafting WR Ja’Marr Chase out of LSU. (Check out the FTN Ja’Marr Chase scouting report here.) Chase teams back up with his ex-LSU teammate QB Joe Burrow […]