NFL Picks Week 2: Game-by-Game Advice for Current Vegas Spreads

The 2016 NFL season got off to a highly entertaining start, with 11 of the opening week’s 16 games decided by a single score. It’s a level of competitiveness the league hopes will continue throughout the duration of the campaign.

That said, it’s hard to draw any definitive conclusions from one week. It usually takes at least a month before things really begin to stabilize, which makes picking early games either more fruitful or more difficult, depending on a person’s read on an individual team.

So let’s check out the complete schedule for Week 2 and make selections for each contest. We’ll follow that up with a closer look at some of the most intriguing options on the board. 

Week 2 NFL Picks

Top Selections

Houston Texans (-2.5)

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The Houston Texans are starting to emerge as a sleeper team in the AFC. A lot depends on the continued development of new quarterback Brock Osweiler, who had a solid team debut, but the pieces are otherwise in place for the team to make a serious run.

Everything starts with the defense, which held the Chicago Bears to just 258 total yards and a 27 percent conversion rate on third and fourth downs. The unit also racked up five sacks despite a limited impact by J.J. Watt, as discussed by Trey Wingo of ESPN:

Texans got 5 sacks today, none of them from @JJWatt . This would be considered a good sign for the Houston defense

— trey wingo (@wingoz) September 11, 2016

That’s bad news for the Kansas City Chiefs. They narrowly escaped with a home victory over the San Diego Chargers after falling behind 24-3. But they certainly can’t expect to put up anywhere near 33 points against the Texans this …

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