NFL picks for week 17 have many CBS experts picking the Green Bay Packers to win. The week 17 NFL picks for the Green Bay Packers vs. Minnesota Vikings game heavily favor the Packers to beat the Vikings and win the NFC North. The analysts at CBS Sports have picked the Packers to win this important divisional game and improve to 11-5 on the season. If the prediction does turn out to be correct, the Packers will become the No. 3 seed for the NFC in the NFL standings.
A prediction for the Seattle Seahawks vs. Arizona Cardinals game has all but one expert siding with the Cardinals. They also unanimously predict that the Carolina Panthers will beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to finish the regular season with a 15-1 record. If the Week 17 NFL picks from CBS Sports turn out to be correct, the Panthers will be the No. 1 seed in the NFC Playoffs. They would be followed by the Cardinals (No. 2), Packers (No. 3), Washington Redskins (No. 4), Vikings (No. 5), and Seahawks (No. 6).
Several other NFC rivalry games are addressed in the Week 17 NFL picks. The predictions from those games include the St. Louis Rams beating the San Francisco 49ers, the Dallas Cowboys beating the Washington Redskins, the Detroit Lions beating the Chicago Bears, the New York Giants beating the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Atlanta Falcons beating the New Orleans Saints. As previously reported by the Inquisitr, if the Rams beat the 49ers, it will mean the entire NFC West has swept the team from Santa Clara this season.
Other AFC predictions include the Pittsburgh Steelers beating the Cleveland Browns, the New York Jets beating the Buffalo Bills, the Houston Texans beating the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the Kansas City Chiefs beating the Oakland Raiders. The site hasn’t submitted a prediction for the Tennessee Titans vs. Indianapolis Colts, possibly because the game has no impact on how the NFL playoff standings will finish. The Titans are batting for the first pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, though, so many football analysts feel the Colts are a likely pick to win this game.
CBS analyst Jason La Confora is going against the grain with many of his Week 17 NFL picks. He has picked the Seahawks to beat the Cardinals, the Raiders to beat the Chiefs, the Chargers to beat the Broncos, the Ravens to beat the Bengals, the Saints to beat the Falcons, and the Redskins to beat the Cowboys. During the 2015 NFL season, he has posted a record of 146-94 in his predictions, which comes in at a tie for fourth place among the experts making predictions on the site. He finished 169-95-1 during the 2014 NFL season.
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