2024 NFL Week 1 Spreads, Money Lines and Totals

NFL Week 1 Spreads, Money Lines and Totals

The National Football League opens the 2024 season on Thursday, September 5, with the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs hosting the Baltimore Ravens in a rematch of last year’s AFC Championship. And if oddsmakers are right we could see the two hook up again in late January with the stakes just as high. The Chiefs and Ravens are the AFC futures odds favorites and two of three teams with shorter than 10/1 Super Bowl odds. What happens in Week 1 has no bearing on the final standings and results since the Chiefs lost last year’s opener and went on to win third NFL title in five seasons.

While the champs open the season last year’s runner-up will close the betting week. The San Francisco 49ers fell to the Chiefs in overtime to conclude the 2023 season and face the New York Jets on Monday Night Football putting a bow on the opening weekend. The Jets are hoping to get more than four snaps from Aaron Rodgers, who was done for the 2023 season with an Achilles injury on MNF. After serving as Niners defensive coordinator for four seasons, Jets’ coach Robert Saleh faces his former team for the first time as a 4-point road dog. The opening weekend of NFL action is here and bettors are salivating.

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2024 NFL Week 1 Spreads, Money Lines & Totals

There’s always optimism at the beginning of the NFL season and Chicago is a good place to start. A strong finish to 2023 with wins in five of their last eight games set the tone. Then the Bears used the No. 1 overall draft pick, which was acquired in a deal with Carolina, to select generational talent Caleb Williams. The QB position has been a black hole for the Bears, but by all accounts Williams is the real deal. And he looked good in preseason. However, given their lack of success in finding a franchise signal-caller, we’ll have to wait and see. Still, the excitement in the Windy City is palpable and the Bears opened as the third-biggest favorite on the Week 1 betting board laying 4.5-points to the Titans.

One of eight teams sporting a new head coach in 2024, not much is expected from Tennessee. Brian Callahan takes over for Mike Vrabel after two straight losing seasons. Vrabel had won at least nine games with three playoff appearances in his first four years on the job.

Two new coaches go head-to-head in Week 1 in an AFC West battle. Jim Harbaugh isn’t exactly new to the NFL having led San Francisco to 44 regular season wins, three NFC Championship games and a Super Bowl in four years. The Chargers are hoping to get the same results. Antonio Pierce was 5-4 after taking over for Josh McDaniels last year getting the permanent tag for the Raiders. The teams split the last six meetings with each winning and covering at home. The Bolts opened laying 3.5-points.

The Patriots haven’t been the same since Tom Brady left now the other half of the duo that brought them so much success for two decades is gone. For the first time since 1999 Bill Belichick won’t be on the New England sideline with Jerod Mayo taking over the floundering franchise. The Pats won four games last year, their fewest since 1992, and they are the biggest underdog on the Week 1 betting board catching 9.5-points for their game in Cincinnati.

Along with the Thursday night game Week 1 brings us another playoff rematch from a season ago. The Los Angeles Rams ended last season with a wild card loss in Detroit and return to the scene of the crime on Sunday Night Football as a 3.5-point dog to the Lions. After a franchise record tying 12 wins and their first playoff victory in more than three decades, the Lions are poised for bigger things in 2024. However, they will have a target on their back as a top 5 Super Bowl favorite. The Lions were the most profitable team in the NFL last season covering the spread in 14 of their 20 games. However, one of those losses was to the Rams in the wild card game when they failed to cover the 3-point line in their 24-23 victory.

NFL Schedule

• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6
• Week 7
• Week 8
• Week 9
• Week 10
• Week 11
• Week 12
• Week 13
• Week 14
• Week 15
• Week 16
• Week 17
• Week 18

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