NFL Week 18 PLAYER PROP Bets
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Claudia Bellofatto is joined by CBS Sports Fantasy Football Expert Dave Richard, Propstarz, and Sia Nejad as they go through their FAVORITE Week 18 NFL Player Prop Bets and Parlays!
(0:00) Intro
(2:27) Week 18 Betting Strategies
(8:40) Passing Props
(25:31) Rushing Props
(30:24) Receiving Props
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| 0:00.0 | There we go, everybody, final week of the regular season in the NFL, week 18. |
| 0:15.8 | And it was a tough one. |
| 0:17.0 | It was a doozy. |
| 0:17.8 | I think all four of us struggled to find plays that we really, really liked because we don't really know what the timing is going to be, how long we're going to see players on the field for what the motivation really is for seating. But we know there's two playoff spots up for grabs. There's four divisions yet to be clinched. And a lot of the players we want to bet on, the numbers aren't even up. |
| 0:37.8 | So it was a tough one, but we're going to give you guys what we did find here on the early edge prop show, brought to you by BetMGM, make it legendary fellas, how we feel in Uncle Dave. It was tough, right? I'm speaking for all of us when I say that handicapping the slate was difficult. Well, part of the problem is that by the time we went to air, |
| 0:56.2 | there were games that didn't even have player props filled yet. |
| 1:00.5 | So it's really hard to give player props when the odds makers aren't giving us |
| 1:04.6 | props to consider. |
| 1:06.3 | But that being said, there are some games with serious implications on the playoffs. |
| 1:11.4 | Those are the games I tried to really lean into and find some props on, |
| 1:15.0 | and I did find a few that I liked. |
| 1:17.0 | Propy, how do you adjust when it is a tough slate like this late in the season? |
| 1:20.9 | Yeah, I just don't force out picks. |
| 1:23.4 | I talk about this theme through the majority of the season, |
| 1:26.8 | that my betting volume decreases as the season moves along, typically speaking or historically. |
| 1:34.2 | At this stage of the season, I think the odds makers are very sharp. |
| 1:38.9 | They have a lot of data points to pull from. |
| 1:41.8 | You couple that with week 18. |
| 1:44.5 | More than half the teams are not incentivized to play. |
| 1:48.1 | You've got individual player incentives, |
| 1:50.0 | but you also have a lot of teams who have already been eliminated from playoff contention. |
| 1:55.1 | So with so few meaningful games, it's really hard to find spots in my opinion. So I'm personally, as |
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