Primetime Props: Chicago Bears vs. New England Patriots
Yahoo Betting Analyst Ariel Epstein joins Fantasy Football Live to offer a player proposition as the Patriots host the Bears in week 7.
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ANDY BEHRENS: All right, if there's one thing America can't get enough of, it's the Chicago Bears in prime time. They're on again. They're playing the Monday-nighter. It's against the Patriots. You've found something worth betting here.
ARIEL EPSTEIN: We don't have any Patriots props yet. So I've got to look to the Chicago side. I'm going to zone in on Chicago running backs. Now, Khalil Herbert's probably going to be stepping up more in the RB1 role for David Montgomery who might slide into RB2, yet Montgomery still has proven to catch balls out of the backfield pretty well. 11 and 1/2 is his receiving yards prop.
Against a defense like New England who allows the 10th most receiving yards to running backs, I'll bet this over of 11 and 1/2 receiving yards to Montgomery. It's a number he's gone over in four of the five weeks. The only week he didn't was when he got hurt against Houston.
For running backs against New England this year, Chase Edmonds had 40 receiving yards, Najee Harris 40 receiving yards, JK Dobbins had 17, Craig Reynolds 68, Nick Chubb 14. All of them have gone over this number of 11 and 1/2. I'll take that over on David Montgomery, receiving yards. You probably could do this with just 1 catch, maybe 2.