The picks are in for the opening week, folks!
A new season is upon us, folks, and with it comes the guys who power your favorite Minnesota Vikings website making their picks for games around the National Football League this season. Yes, the picks are in for Week 1 of the NFL slate and we’re here to share them with you on this Saturday morning.
You’ll see a couple of new faces among our selectors this year, and we’ve got seven people in total making picks. Just like the past few years, our picks will be plugged into the system provided by the good folks at Tallysight so that we can keep track of our picks throughout the season. As always, we remind you that for spread picks and over/unders and things of that nature, the numbers might vary a bit based on when each individual person puts their picks into the system. If you want to find the latest lines for each game, you can check with our friends at FanDuel.
With that, here are the picks for Week 1!
Unanimous Picks
- Houston Texans over Indianapolis Colts
- Buffalo Bills over Arizona Cardinals
- Cincinnati Bengals over New England Patriots
- Minnesota Vikings over New York Giants (yay!)
- Seattle Seahawks over Denver Broncos
6-1 Picks
- Los Angeles Chargers over Las Vegas Raiders (Warren dissenting)
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers over Washington Commanders (Chris dissenting)
- San Francisco 49ers over New York Jets (Warren dissenting)
5-2 Picks
- Baltimore Ravens over Kansas City Chiefs (majority gets it wrong)
- Philadelphia Eagles over Green Bay Packers (majority gets it right)
- New Orleans Saints over Carolina Panthers (Chris and Sam dissenting)
- Chicago Bears over Tennessee Titans (Chris and GA Skol dissenting)
- Miami Dolphins over Jacksonville Jaguars (Chris and Eric dissenting)
- Atlanta Falcons over Pittsburgh Steelers (GA Skol and Warren dissenting)
- Detroit Lions over Los Angeles Rams (Chris and GA Skol dissenting)
4-3 Picks
- Dallas Cowboys over Cleveland Browns (Chris, GA Skol, and Mark dissenting)
Man, I have a lot of picks that are going against the consensus. That means my Week 1 is probably going to be either really good or really bad. Based on the precedent set over the last couple of seasons, the latter is probably the better bet.
But those are our picks for Week 1 of the 2024 NFL season, folks? Who are you rolling with this weekend?
