Each week, we’ll focus on one game and use a top-down strategy to break it down. This means starting with the bigger picture —how teams, players or trends are performing — and then finding the best ways to apply that information to different betting markets.
With Warner playing at such a ridiculous clip, this 49ers defense should continue to be one of the stingiest in the league, setting up a potential run toward a fourth straight NFC Championship game appearance.
The defensive line is the heart of any successful defense, tasked with both disrupting the opposing quarterback with a pass rush and shutting down rushing attacks at the line of scrimmage. This season, we will monitor NFL defensive line play all season long, ranking the league's unit from No. 1 to No. 32.
Up to five players may run a route on any given play, but only one will receive the target. By examining key data points and characteristics of that play, we can predict the probability of each player being targeted.
According to AccuWeather, the high for Sunday's Cardinals-49ers game will be 99 degrees, which wouldn't be anything new if the game was in Arizona. Instead, it's projected to be the hottest game in the 11-year history of Levi's Stadium.
Patriots coach Jerod Mayo said the team is making a change at running back after Rhamondre Stevenson has fumbled in each of the first four games. Antonio Gibson is expected to start in his place.
Greg Landry, the former Lions quarterback and assistant coach, has died. He was 77. Landry was a first-team All-Pro and Pro Bowler in 1971, and five years later, earned the NFL's Comeback Player of the Year award.
As NFL officials touted a record low of preseason concussions Friday, they pledged that the league won't impose an outcome for its most notable concussion patient.
The Colts are dealing with a number of injuries ahead of Sunday's game against the Jaguars, as RB Jonathan Taylor (ankle) has been ruled out and quarterback Anthony Richardson's status is questionable.
The Cardinals still don't know who will kick for them Sunday against the 49ers Matt Prater (left knee) returned to practice Friday, getting in limited work.
Texans wide receiver Stefon Diggs downplayed his reunion with the Bills this week by saying that he is going to "block out the noise" and just try "to go 1-0" on Sunday.
The 49ers got linebacker Fred Warner and tight end George Kittle back on the practice field on Friday and they're hoping to have them on Sunday as well.
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