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The Oakland Raiders are quickly discovering how much a chore it is to roster one of the premiere players in the game. To say Antonio Brown has been a handful since arriving in Oakland would be putting it very lightly with the Pro Bowl wide receiver suffering a fluke cryotherapy injury to his feet and then throwing a hissy fit about not being able to wear his helmet of 10 years. When it’s said and done, his primadonna ways best see some major production on the gridiron or else. You know it’s bad ... 

The team that led the league in passing yards last season will be a surprise to many fans. It wasn’t Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, or New Orleans…it was Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers were playing from behind a lot, so they let it fly through the air with both Jameis Winston and Ryan Fitzpatrick posting big numbers through the air throughout the course of the season. That led to Mike Evans having the biggest season of his career, as the wide receiver from Texas A&M finished the year with over 1,500 receiving yards for the first time. ... 

Michael Thomas got paid this offseason. The New Orleans Saints made Thomas the highest-paid wide receiver in the league on July 31, signing him to a five-year, $100 million extension. Thomas had outperformed his rookie contract during his first three seasons in the league by a significant amount, and he was deservedly rewarded. He will look to have an even better season in 2019.... 

Week 3 of the preseason is what’s known as the ‘dress rehearsal’ and the Pittsburgh Steelers are doing everything this week in preparation for their game with the Tennessee Titans like it’s a normal week during the regular season. Things will look familiar when the team takes the field on Sunday, too, with Ben Roethlisberger in line to see his only action of the preseason. The game will take place at Nissan Stadium in Nashville and air on NBC at 8 p.m. ET. Current NFL odds favor the home team.... 

Saquon Barkley is sure to earn the money owed to him in the second year of his $31.2M contract. Odell Beckham Jr. is no longer in the Big Apple to force opposing defenses to account for the Giants’ passing game. While Sterling Shepard, Golden Tate and Evan Engram are fine players, they won’t have opposing defenses shaking in their cleats. With that, Barkley is going to be staring into a bevy of stacked boxes over the season’s entirety. Though New York is likely to face a multitude of negative ga... 

One thing Marlon Mack has going for him entering the 2019-20 regular season is the fact that there’s nobody currently on the roster breathing down his neck to vulture snaps away from him. Have you seen all the moves the Indianapolis Colts have made in hopes of finding a capable backup? The RB1 slot is his to lose! With that, an ample workload for one of the more lethal offensive attacks in the league should go a long way in helping the third-year back produce the best statistical outputs of his ... 

With a new quarterback under center in Nick Foles and new offensive coordinator that loves to sling the pigskin around the ball yard in John DeFilippo, it’s tough to get a handle on Leonard Fournette heading into the 2019-20 regular season. When healthy, the former LSU Tiger has proven to be one of the premiere running backs in the league as evidenced by his excellent rookie campaign in which he combined for over 1,300 yards from scrimmage and 10 TD. That said, he still missed three games and on... 

The shackles are finally off of Joe Mixon with the Marvin Lewis regime finally a thing of the past and the Zac Taylor era set to kickoff for the Cincinnati Bengals in 2019-20. Grossly underused in the passing game over the course of his brief career, Mixon is in line for his biggest showing since controversially breaking into the league back in 2017. With his ability to take on a burdensome load and hold onto the football, Mixon is in line to become one of the bigger producers of all 32 teams. T... 

The Pittsburgh Steelers ranked out the No. 20 most effective running game in the league a season ago after gaining a total of 1,667 yards that equated to just over 104 yards per game. Linemakers at online sportsbooks look to be bullish on Mike Tomlin’s troops improving upon those outputs this upcoming season with James Connor putting forth a large share of the production. Entering his second full season as the Steelers bell cow running back, the former PITT Panther finds his rushing yards prop c... 

The Detroit Lions are expecting big things from Kenny Golladay in 2019. Golladay became the Lions’ go-to guy after Marvin Jones went down with an injury and Golden Tate was traded away midway through last season, and he thrived under the spotlight. He shook off a disappointing rookie campaign to finish with over 1,000 yards, and he is out to build off that in 2019. The oddsmakers have him favored to post consecutive 1,000-yard seasons per the NFL prop betting odds.... 

The Los Angeles Chargers took a chance on Keenan Allen, and he has rewarded them for their faith. Allen signed a big extension with the Chargers in the summer of 2016 despite only breaking 1,000 yards in one of his previous three seasons, and the decision to extend him didn’t look great after Allen tore his ACL in the first game of that season. He was a wildcard coming into 2017, but he has developed into one of the NFL’s top receivers in the last two years. Allen has been voted to two straight ... 

Week 3 of the NFL preseason is considered the dress rehearsal. It’s a time when regulars see their most and in some cases only action of the exhibition slate. That thought process has undergone serious consideration over the past several years and certain coaches have elected to rest their starters until the regular season. And we’ve seen some major line movement for this week’s games because of it.... 

There’s nothing quite as exhilarating as catching a touchdown pass, and nobody did it more than Antonio Brown in 2018. AB’s 15 scoring grabs were the most in a season since Dez Bryant snared 16 in 2014. And Brown has been a TD machine with 59 scoring grabs over the last five seasons with no less than nine in a campaign. AB changed teams this summer and will be catching passes from someone other than Ben Roethlisberger for the first time in his career.... 

The top three players on the odds board to win the 2019 NFL Defensive Player of the Year award are in familiar territory. That’s because the trio has combined to win the last five honors with Los Angeles Rams lineman Aaron Donald the betting favorite at top online sportsbooks to three-peat. Widely considered the best defensive player in the game today, Donald has amassed over 100 tackles with 31.5 sacks the last two seasons. As long as he stays healthy, Donald is in position to become the third ... 

The aerial circus in the NFL will continue to thrive and a number of talented pass catchers will be on the end of those tosses. Julio Jones topped the league in receiving yards last year and he is the odds-on favorite at top NFL sportbooks to do it again in 2019. Jones has caught passes from only one quarterback his entire career and he’s twice led the league while going over the 1400-yard level in receiving yards in each of the past five seasons.... 

With the “Air Raid” making its appearance in the desert, NFL bettors are buying into the Arizona Cardinals marching a competent unit onto the gridiron every passing week. One of the main contributors to benefit from this change in offensive ideology is sure to be David Johnson who more or less played shackled under the previous clueless coaching staff. You can bet your bottom dollar at online sportsbooks Kliff Kingsbury won’t have the best player on his offense locked down, but instead will look... 

Dalvin Cook has gained a grand total of 969 yards and played in just 15 overall games through his first two played seasons at the NFL level. So why is he still being taken amongst the first two rounds of fantasy football drafts entering the 2019-20 regular season? Its simple folks - the kid is flat out talented! That’s reflected by his 1,150.5 rushing yards prop at online sportsbooks being tied with Cincinnati’s Joe Mixon as the second highest output on the betting board. But you can have talent... 

Do you realize that more than half of the people who participate in sports betting also play fantasy sports? A recent study conducted by the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association found that 61% of people who wager on sports also play fantasy sports. You might think that fantasy football might take away from sports betting, but the opposite is actually true. The survey from FSGA found that there is no loss of players from either sports betting or fantasy sports, or in other words, there is no c... 

Julio Jones is the favorite to lead the league in receiving yards according to NFL prop betting odds, so his over/under for receiving yards this season is the highest on the board. Jones has been one of the league’s top receivers since breaking into the league in 2011, and he is poised for another incredible year. Is that enough for him to go over his total though?... 

If not for Patrick Mahomes going berserk, Christian McCaffrey would’ve likely taken home the Offensive MVP Award after going HAM in his second played season at the NFL level. The former Stanford Cardinal was the Panthers offense last season. Though his 1,098 rushing yards ended up being the sixth most gained overall, he added another 867 yards through the air and 6 TD to finish the season with nearly 2,000 combined yards and 13 total saunters into the end zone. Linemakers at online sportsbooks e... 

Can Patrick Mahomes duplicate his MVP performance from a season ago? The Kansas City Chiefs certainly hope he can. Mahomes became the third player in NFL history to throw 50 touchdown passes in a season, joining two of the best in Payton Manning and Tom Brady. And if you’re thinking he can come close to that number, Mahomes is the betting favorite at online sportsbooks to lead the league in scoring strikes in 2019.... 

Eclipsing the 4,000-yard passing mark was a big deal until the 1980s when it became commonplace. The next step up is 5,000 yards, which was accomplished just once before the 2008 season. In the previous 11 seasons the 5,000-yard barrier has been surpassed six times with Drew Brees doing it on four occasions. Brees had a down year in 2018 and he isn’t getting any younger. Many feel he could be on the downside of his Hall of Fame career. That may be the case, but if you think Brees and the Saints ... 

There are a number of things to consider when taking a futures bet on the regular season NFL MVP. First, the winner has to put up wicked numbers and those are typically amassed by offensive players. In 2018, Patrick Mahomes became the sixth straight quarterback to claim the award, and his numbers were eye-popping. Mahomes was only the second player in NFL history to throw for over 5,000 yards and 50 touchdowns in the same season winning in a landslide.... 

Never one to challenge for the rushing title with two full seasons now under his belt, oddsmakers at online sportsbooks are expecting Alvin Kamara to blow past his career high-rushing mark when he takes to the gridiron for the 2019-20 regular season. Having never rushed for more than 885 yards in a single season, Kamara is now being asked to accrue his first 1000+ yard rushing campaign in order to cash over tickets for those buying into him as being the bell cow back for the New Orleans Saints t... 

Le’Veon Bell felt it to be the prudent move to hold out an entire season. In getting less than the Pittsburgh Steelers ultimately ended up offering, the decision to do so proved faulty. However, there’s one less year of wear and tear on the Pro-Bowl running back’s tires, so the New York Jets will no doubt be looking to run him early and often heading into the 2019-20 regular season. Whether the time off ultimately allows the Jets to become one of the premiere rushing teams in the league remains ...