Picking the heaviest favorite of the week is often an NFL survivor pool strategy that keeps players around the longest. This year, it has resulted in the end of your NFL survivor picks each week. The largest favorite of the week has lost in all three weeks of the 2024 NFL schedule, so should that leave you hesitant on selecting the San Francisco 49ers with your Week 4 knockout pool picks? The 49ers are 10.5-point favorites against the New England Patriots, according to the latest Week 4 NFL odds, and are coming off a week in which they were responsible for a large chunk of players being eliminated from NFL knockout pools. The 49ers lost to the Rams, 27-24, despite being 6-point favorites last week.
The 49ers continue to have injury concerns with Christian McCaffrey (calf/Achilles) out and unknowns about Deebo Samuel (calf, questionable) and George Kittle (hamstring, will reportedly play), who both missed last week. Before finalizing any Week 4 NFL survivor picks, you need to see which team proven expert R.J. White is backing.
White has been SportsLine’s No. 1 NFL against-the-spread expert over the last seven years, going 643-543-34 against the spread to put him up more than 46 units on those picks at SportsLine since 2017. He has also delivered a 56.7% hit rate on his Vegas contest picks over the last nine seasons and has two finishes in the money, including finishing 18th out of 2,748 entries back in 2017.
His advice can be used to crush the Survivor Pool format, which calls for picking one team to win each week but never using the same team twice. In Week 1, White correctly recommended to avoid the Bengals, who lost to the Patriots as 8.5-point favorites. Instead, White picked the Saints, who beat the Panthers by 37 points in the most lopsided game of the week. Then in Week 2, he avoided the Ravens, who lost to the Raiders as 8.5-point favorites, and instead backed the Texans, who defeated…
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Author : CBS Sports Staff
Publish date : 2024-09-28 14:06:58
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