If you use oddsmakers to help make your NFL survivor pool picks, Week 1 in the 2023 NFL season was a harrowing experience. There was only one team favored by more than seven points and eight underdogs won outright. The Week 2 NFL schedule features several more moderate favorites to choose from for NFL survivor picks, but there are still seven games featuring NFL spreads of a field goal or less, including both of the Monday Night Football games.
The Saints are three-point road favorites over the Panthers in the first Monday night game, while the Browns are 2.5-point favorites on the road against the Steelers in the Week 2 NFL odds from the SportsLine Consensus. Should you avoid those primetime matchups entirely as you make your NFL knockout pool picks? Which teams should you save for later in the season for NFL eliminator picks? Before finalizing any Week 2 NFL survivor picks, see which team the red-hot SportsLine Projection Model just went all-in on.
The model, which simulates every NFL game 10,000 times, is up over $7,000 for $100 players on top-rated NFL picks since its inception. The model enters the 2023 NFL season on an incredible 163-113 run on top-rated NFL picks that dates back to the 2017 season. It is also on a 17-6 roll on top-rated NFL picks since Week 7 of last season.
The model also ranked in the top 10 on NFLPickWatch four of the past six years on straight-up NFL picks and beat more than 94 percent of CBS Sports Football Pick'em players four times during that span. In Week 1, the model backed the Falcons in its NFL survivor pick. The result: Atlanta beat Carolina 24-10. Anyone who backed the model advanced in their survivor pool.
Now, it has turned its attention to the latest Week 2 NFL odds and locked in its Week 2 survivor pool pick. You can only see who the model is backing this week at SportsLine.
Top Week 2 NFL survivor pool predictions
For Week 2 of the 2023 NFL season, the model is shying away from the Miami Dolphins, even though are coming off a thrilling win over the Chargers, while their Week 2 opponent in New England lost its season-opener to the Eagles. Both teams played hard-fought contests in Week 1, with the Dolphins earning a 36-34 win over the Chargers, while the Patriots fell 25-20 to the Eagles.
New England won the most recent matchup between these two teams, capturing a 23-21 victory in Week 17 last season with Tua Tagovailoa out of the lineup for the Dolphins. Tagovailoa is healthy now and is coming off a 466-yard performance in Week 1, but the model is still advising that you hold on to the Dolphins for later in the season after making the postseason last year and with a tough divisional matchup on tap.
Miami has games coming up in which it should be a sizable favorite, including Week 3 against the Broncos and Week 6 against the Panthers. The Giants in Week 5 could be another alluring matchup after New York began the season with a 40-0 defeat at the hands of the Cowboys. See which team to pick here.
How to make Week 2 NFL survivor pool picks
Instead, the model is backing a team with a new head coach that has a history of success versus its Week 2 opponent. The time to pick this team is now, and you can only see the play over at SportsLine.
Which surprising team is a must-back in your Week 2 survivor pool? Visit SportsLine now to see which team carries you to victory in Week 2, all from the advanced computer model that consistently crushes the NFL and nailed its Week 1 survivor pick.
