NFL Week 17 Picks: Prop Bets, Vegas Lines, Over-Under Predictions and Advice

Week 17 in the NFL is a bit of a mixed bag in terms of matchups.

Playoff teams are faced with the dilemma of starting their key players and risking injury, or sitting them and hoping it doesn’t throw off the chemistry they’ve spent 17 weeks building. 

Those teams that aren’t making the playoffs already know that and face the quandary of playing in a game where winning will lower their draft stock—not that players who are fighting for their jobs care about where their team might pick in the draft to replace them. 

Still, Week 17 provides the opportunity for bettors to cash in on some games that will be impacted by the circumstances of the season’s final week.

Here’s a look at the complete schedule and odds, along with a closer look at two games and the latest prop odds on the MVP race from OddsShark. 

Cleveland Browns at Pittsburgh Steelers

Under normal circumstances, this would be a blowout. 

The Steelers possess one of the best offenses in football, and the Browns, well, they aren’t very good at the sport. 

However, the Steelers have no impetus to play Ben Roethlisberger, Le’Veon Bell or Antonio Brown on offense or any of their studs on defense. The team has already sewn up the division and the No. 3 seed regardless of the Week 17 outcome, and it is taking on the lowly Browns after all. 

That lowly Browns team, by the way, is still willing to fight. Cleveland picked up its first win of the season against the San Diego Chargers last week. While it might not seem like much, head coach Hue Jackson described the state of his team after the win. Afterward, he and veteran tackle Joe Thomas shed tears of joy, according to Zac Jackson of Pro Football Talk:

I was emotional for our players. I know how hard this group has worked and I know how hard it has been for these guys to go out every week and give it everything they have and come up short and to be the brunt of jokes and to be talked about and people saying we were going to be 0-16 and there were parades [planned] and this and that. I just thought all that emotion just came to a head.

Coming off an emotional win like that, it’s hard to envision the young Browns just laying an egg against a …

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