{"id":123942,"date":"2025-09-06T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123942\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:30:08","slug":"nfl-week-1-picks-straight-up-and-against-spread-who-wins-best-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123942\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 1 picks straight up and against spread: Who wins best games?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NFL Week 1 best bets: Why we like Ravens, Lions and Steelers<\/p>\n

Lorenzo Reyes is back for another season of best bets. He explains why he’s taking the Ravens over Bills, Lions over Packers and Steelers over Jets.<\/p>\n

Week 1 will feature four prime-time games between Thursday and Monday.The playoff rematch between Buffalo and Baltimore on Sunday night looms as the game of the weekend.One of our experts picked nearly 73% of the games correctly in 2024.<\/p>\n

NFL<\/a> football is officially back. Finally.<\/p>\n

Since the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> won Super Bowl 59 in February<\/a>, a full 207 days have passed ahead of their 2025 regular-season kickoff opener against the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> on Thursday night. In between? There was a draft<\/a>, free agency<\/a>, Micah Parsons got traded<\/a> from the Cowboys, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got engaged<\/a>, Nike rolled out some slick new uniforms<\/a> … but no legit NFL football.<\/p>\n

But now our cups runneth over. Following Eagles<\/a>-Cowboys, the Week 1 smorgasbord rolls onward Friday night, when Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> face the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> in S\u00e3o Paulo, and Swift will reportedly be in attendance at Corinthians Arena.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s 13-game stack kicks off with Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> QB Aaron Rodgers’ return to “JetLife” Stadium and ends with a playoff rematch between former MVP Lamar Jackson’s Baltimore Ravens<\/a> and reigning MVP Josh Allen’s Buffalo Bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Week 1 ends Monday night in Chicago, where the new-look Bears<\/a> will host the Minnesota Vikings<\/a> in QB J.J. McCarthy’s first regular-season start.<\/p>\n

USA TODAY SPORTS’ 2025 NFL PREDICTIONS: Who makes playoffs, wins Super Bowl 60, MVP, ROY and more?<\/a><\/p>\n

Can’t. Wait.<\/p>\n

(But to tide you over in the interim, Week 1 picks from USA TODAY Sports’ panel of NFL experts.)<\/p>\n

(Odds provided by BetMGM<\/a>)<\/p>\n

All NFL news on and off the field.\u00a0Sign up<\/a>\u00a0for USA TODAY’s 4th and Monday newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL Week 1 best bets: Why we like Ravens, Lions and Steelers Lorenzo Reyes is back for another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[4630,1754,8814,159,3050,1203,5462,1742,1442,6359,12595,13270,1748,49,48,6681,1735,8825,8497,6361,8824,527,1465,6795,18817,1323,2212,1435,1727,18786,18816,2211,54545,1731,2598,1726,47,2349,2034,44,514,8827,1333,2042,54546,1518,1747,5457,35305,82,6365,865,12409,12408,7223,18785,12659,13271,6360],"class_list":["post-123942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-aaron","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-allen","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-and","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-bears","tag-betting","tag-bills","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears","tag-chiefs","tag-city","tag-disclaimer","tag-eagles","tag-football","tag-hub","tag-il","tag-jackson","tag-josh","tag-josh-allen","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kelce","tag-lamar","tag-lamar-jackson","tag-micah","tag-micah-parsons","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-parsons","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-ravens","tag-rodgers","tag-sports","tag-sports-betting-widget-and-disclaimer","tag-sports-news","tag-swift","tag-taylor","tag-taylor-swift","tag-travis","tag-travis-kelce","tag-vikings","tag-widget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}