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Hansen's Best Bets: Week 9

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Hansen's Best Bets: Week 9

GAME PICKS

Last Week’s ATS Record: 0-0

Best Bets ATS Record (Season): 10-7

Totals Record: 3-3

TNF

New York Jets (+10.5) at Indianapolis Colts — I watched the Jets and Mike White last week and was pretty impressed. I do think everything will be harder this week than it appeared to be last week, but I also think the Colts offense is worse than the Bengals offense. White appears scrappy enough to keep this game close, so while it looks like a trap to me, I’m taking the Jets and the points.

Player Props

Last week: 5-8

Player Props Record: 67-63

Just a brutal week for props in Week 8, as injuries ruined three of them for Antonio Gibson, James Robinson, and Jalen Reagor. I also lost an Aaron Jones prop by 4 yards and Randall Cobb, despite scoring 2 TDs, didn’t get to 5 catches.

My luck on Thursdays has not been good, and nothing really stands out to me for TNF, so I will pass on TNF and focus on bouncing back on Sunday.

Ezekiel Elliott OVER 75.5 rushing yards (-111 BETMGM) — I’d be interested in this one as long as it’s under 80 yards, since Zeke should easily get there barring an injury or something very surprising.

Marquise Brown OVER 58.5 receiving yards (-115 CAESARS) — Vikings corners are very beatable, and they won’t have their best pass-rusher in Danielle Hunter. Brown should get on struggling CB Breshad Breeland for at least one big play in this one, and he could even hit this prop on only 1-2 catches.

Bryan Edwards OVER 42.5 receiving yards (-115 DK) — I’m going for it with a beatable matchup.

Brandin Cooks OVER 4.5 catches (-141 CAESARS) — Love Cooks this week, great matchup.

Devonta Freeman OVER 29.5 rushing yards (-114 FD) — No Lat Murray, and DT Pierce is out for Minnesota.

Kyle Pitts (UNDER) 63.5 receiving yards (-114 FD) — I think they will put Marshawn Lattimore on him so it’s going to be hard for him to get to 64 yards.

Travis Kelce (UNDER) 6.5 receptions (-125 CAESARS) — He’s not really the problem, but his health is in question, and his QB is still struggling.

Cole Kmet (OVER) 2.5 receptions (-149 CAESARS) — He’s been active as an underneath option, so I’d think he’ll get 3 grabs.

Darnell Mooney (OVER) 42.5 receiving yards (-114 FD) — He’s the top guy here and the Steeler secondary is hardly a shutdown secondaty.

TNF

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Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hall of Famer John Hansen has been an industry leader and pioneer since 1995, when he launched Fantasy Guru. His content has been found over the years on ESPN.com, NFL.com, SiriusXM, DirecTV, Yahoo!, among others outlets. In 2015 he sold Fantasy Guru and in 2020 founded FantasyPoints.com.