By now you’ve hopefully already come through and checked out our updated website and are aware we’ve changed things up a bit for our 2022 picks contest. Every week we’ll check the Bet MGM lines at approximately 5pm on Wednesday and make our picks live on our podcast against those lines.
You can compete against us, too! Email us at thesportsballers@gmail.com or DM us on Facebook or Twitter with your email address and we’ll enter you in our fan contest. You’ll receive a ballot every week after our Wednesday live show so you can submit your picks against the same spread as us before the Thursday night game. Play against us week-by-week or across the whole season!
Evan won our Week 4 picks contest on a tiebreaker with Cory, but Cory now stands alone as our contest leader.
Congratulations to James Dailey, again, who has been crushing it. He, along with Sean Dunn and Michael Johnson, matched Eric’s 9 points in Week 4 and is tied with him and Evan for second in our contest. To be fair, Eric got the MNF tiebreaker exactly right, but James was closer than either Sean or Michael. James is five points ahead of our next highest-scoring fan, Sean Kennedy, for the season contest.
Let’s get to our Week 5 picks!
Date | Network | Matchup | Bet MGM Spread | Eric | Cory | Evan |
Th 8:15p | PRIME | IND at DEN | DEN -3 |
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Su 9:30a | NFLN | NYG at GB* | GB -8.5 | Giants |
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Su 1:00p | CBS | PIT at BUF* | BUF -14 | Bills |
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| CBS | LAC at CLE* | LAC -2.5 |
| Browns | Browns |
| CBS | HOU at JAC* | JAC -7 |
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| Texans |
| FOX | CHI at MIN | MIN -7 | Vikings | Vikings | Vikings |
| FOX | DET at NE | NE -3 |
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| FOX | SEA at NO | NO -5.5 |
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| CBS | MIA at NYJ | MIA -3 | Jets | Jets | Jets |
| FOX | ATL at TB* | TB -9 | Falcons |
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| CBS | TEN at WAS | TEN -2.5 | Titans | Titans | Titans |
Su 4:05p | CBS | SF at CAR | SF -6.5 | 49ers | 49ers | 49ers |
Su 4:25p | FOX | PHI at ARI* | PHI -5.5 |
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| FOX | DAL at LAR | LAR -5.5 | Cowboys | Cowboys | Cowboys |
Su 8:20p | NBC | CIN at BAL | BAL -3 |
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M 8:15p | ESPN | LV at KC* | KC -7 |
| Raiders | Raiders |
Standings
Week 5 | Eric | Cory | Evan |
Points | 7 | 6 | 10 |
Record | 7-8-1 | 6-9-1 | 10-5-1 |
Season | Eric | Cory | Evan |
Points^ | 40 | 40 | 43 |
Record^ | 40-38-2 | 40-38-2 | 43-35-2 |
Lone Wolf | Eric | Cory | Evan |
Games | 8 | 13 | 13 |
Wins | 3 | 5 | 7 |
*Denotes a game for which the three hosts of The Sportsballers Podcast did not pick the same team to beat or cover the spread.
^Season points and records will be updated after the final game of the week.
Minnesota (-7) won by 7 points against Chicago; no winners awarded for this game.
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