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NFL Best Bets

Get our experts’ best NFL bets this week and every week of the 2025/26 season. Our experts analyze their NFL picks and predictions across a whole host of markets to give you their best NFL Bets today.

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Sun Jan 18
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LA Rams -3.5(-115)

Four of 6 road teams won during NFL Wild Card weekend, starting with the Rams’ 34-31 victory at Carolina. Although Los Angeles failed to cover as 10.5-point road favorites, the Rams avenged a 31-28 defeat to the Panthers from late November. Los Angeles squandered an early 14-0 lead, but QB Matthew Stafford hit TE Colby Parkinson for the go-ahead score in the final minute, marking the 4th lead change in the final quarter. The Rams travel to frigid Chicago on Sunday night, where temperatures are expected to be below 20 degrees during the day and around 6 degrees at night.

Chicago rallied from a 21-3 halftime deficit to stun Green Bay 31-27 for the franchise’s first playoff win since 2010. The Bears scored 25 points in the fourth quarter, highlighted by a pair of TD passes from QB Caleb Williams in his playoff debut. The former top pick finished with 361 passing yards and 2 TDs, marking his first 300+ yard passing performance of the season. Chicago somehow came back in spite of not creating a takeaway after leading the league at +22 in turnovers in the regular season. The Bears have won 7 of their last 8 games at Soldier Field since falling apart in the season-opening defeat to the Vikings.

For the 2nd straight week, the Bears are listed as a home underdog and the Rams are a road favorite. LA posted a 5-2 ATS mark as a road favorite, including the blowout of Jacksonville in London. The 2 non-covers came as a favorite of more than a TD in losses to Atlanta and Carolina, but all 5 covers came by at least 10 points. The Bears have put together an 8-2 ATS record in the role of a dog, including a 2-0 ATS mark at home. The Rams aren’t used to the cold, but let’s back the road favorite here to advance to the NFC Championship.

Rams vs Bears prediction: Los Angeles Rams -3.5 (-115) available at time of publishing. Playable to 4.

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At Pickswise our experts put in countless hours of research and analysis every week to bring you free NFL best bets. Although the NFL regular season is just 18 weeks long, there are still 272 regular-season NFL games to decipher, as well as the NFL playoffs, so we bring you free NFL best bets this week and across the whole season and post-season.

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The NFL action comes thick and fast during the season and we cover all of it. Our NFL Best Bets should be your first port of call here at Pickswise alongside the NFL Picks page where you can find the entire catalog of our weekly game previews which combine for a comprehensive view of all of today’s NFL games and best bets. Check back every week for those Monday Night, Thursday Night and Sunday slates’ best NFL picks, all for free. 

Best NFL Bets This Week

The NFL is very much a look-ahead sport, particularly within sports betting. Almost as soon as the previous week’s games are done, oddsmakers and bettors alike are already trying to find the best bets for NFL this week. Here at Pickswise, we’re no different.

You can often find great value early in the week and our experts will take an early look ahead, so we get our best bets for NFL this week posted on-site as soon as possible, so you can lock in those best lines and odds before the inevitable movement later in the week. Be sure to keep an eye on the NFL best bets page every day on game week as our experts continue to highlight those biggest edges and best NFL bets.

What Is An NFL Best Bet at Pickswise?

Our expert NFL cappers post their best bets on this week’s NFL games across a whole host of betting markets. Each of our selections on Pickswise is given a confidence rating ranging from 1 to 3 stars, with 3 stars being the most confident, and 1 the least. Our NFL Best Bets page details those 3 star rated bets, making them our expert’s NFL Best Bets on this week’s games.

How We Decide Our Best NFL Bets at Pickswise

Each week of the NFL season, as our experts deep-dive into the stats and make their picks and predictions for the week’s coming games each expert handicapper gives their reasoning and the data to back up their selections. Through a robust process of debate and consideration, taking into account the odds, potential winnings and an expert judgement on the bet’s outcome, they come to a consensus on the confidence rating for each play. Only those that get a 3 star confidence rating through this process qualify as an NFL best bet.

All our handicappers vie for their picks to get the NFL best bet stamp, each and every week of the season. It’s this friendly competition amongst experts that ensures are NFL best bets are indeed the best NFL bets you’ll find anywhere.

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57 Wins from 2024/25 NFL Best Bets

When Pickswise tells you that we have an NFL Best Bet, we mean it. In the 2024 season, our team of expert NFL handicappers finished with 57 wins on our NFL best bets and we are hungry to provide even more winners this season. We don’t just throw around 3 star plays, all of our cappers and editors meticulously break down each pick and predictions before we put our NFL best bet stamp on it. We often have best bets each week of the season, but tail our expert NFL cappers with confidence this week. 

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NFL Best Bets FAQs

There are endless ways in which you can bet on the NFL and the Best Bet is a winning one. The Pickswise Best Bets page is a collation of our expert handicappers’ most confident selections on this week’s NFL games. While we can’t guarantee every bet will win, we have a long-trusted and proven record, our NFL Best Bets returned 57 wins across the 2024/25 season.

The most important numbers to consider when betting on the NFL are 3 and 7. A lot of games in the NFL are decided by one score so when you’re looking at spread lines you must keep Field Goals and Touchdowns at the forefront of your mind, as there is a big difference between -3.5 and -2.5 and -6.5 and -7.5.

At Pickswise we use a star system to show our cappers’ confidence in that particular pick. All of our Best NFL Bets get our top confidence rating of 3 stars.