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NFL Survivor Pool Picks: Week 6 Targets and Avoids (2024)

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The top NFL survivor pool picks for Week 6 of the 2024 NFL season. Kevin's weekly survivor league pool targets and avoids -- expert picks for survivor leagues.

Welcome to our NFL Survivor Pool Picks for Week 6 of the 2024 NFL season! There are so many different pools, fantasy leagues, weekly bets, and futures bets that it's hard to decide what to do with all of these choices. But survivor pools are the oldest and simplest leagues out there. All you have to do is pick a team and have them win, but you can't choose them again.

All season long, I'll bring you weekly survivor pool advice for NFL teams to target and teams to avoid each week. Survivor league strategy is a major part of winning your pools, and this article will help you through the 2024 NFL season. We're ready to preview Week 6 and get you through the early season weeks.

We're in the thick of bye week season, so the Survivor picks get tougher and tougher by the week. With another quartet of teams (Chiefs, Rams, Dolphins, Vikings) on bye this week, let's look at some teams to target and avoid for survivor pools in Week 6.

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Implied Point Totals, Point Spreads, and Over/Under Totals for Week 6

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Before jumping into the picks for Week 6, it's helpful to get an overview of the slate with implied point totals, point spreads, and over/under totals from betting markets. All implied totals come courtesy of FantasyLabs each week.

Week 6 NFL Survivor Pool

Now, let's take a look at the survivor pool pick recommendations to target and avoid for Week 6.

 

Top Survivor Pool Picks to Target for Week 6

Philadelphia Eagles vs. CLE

The Cleveland Browns have been pretty awful on offense and I just don't think there's a world where Deshaun Watson is leading this Browns team to a victory in Philadelphia against the Eagles.

The Eagles are 6.0-point favorites against the Browns after coming off their bye and getting healthier on the offensive side. Gone are the days of trotting out Parris Campbell and Jahan Dotson as a pair of starting wide receivers in 2024. In are the Eagles' stud pairing of A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith.

The Eagles are one of the biggest favorites on this Week 6 slate and the Browns have the third-lowest implied point total at 16.75 points. The Eagles are a bit more volatile than we'd like, but the confluence of factors like them being at home, off a bye, and now healthy against this iteration of the Browns? That makes this pick a very easy one to start Week 6.

Houston Texans at NE

The Texans had to place star wide receiver Nico Collins on injured reserve for a hamstring injury, which is just brutal. Even then, the Texans are still 7.0-point favorites against the New England Patriots in Foxborough.

While the vibes for the Patriots are seemingly at an all-time high with the announcement that rookie Drake Maye is making his first start for the team, the team is also busting out the Patriot Pat uniforms for the occasion.

That's all well and good, but the Patriots might have the worst offense in the entire league. The oddsmakers also think so, as the Patriots have the lowest implied point total on the slate at a meager 15.5 points.

Even with the prospect of Maye elevating the Patriots offense, it's pretty unlikely that they can score with C.J. Stroud, Stefon Diggs, Tank Dell, and the Texans. This game favors the Texans with the largest spread among the favorites and the chalkiest pick in Survivor pools this week as well.

 

Top Survivor Pool Picks to Avoid for Week 6

Buffalo Bills at NYJ

The Buffalo Bills enter Week 6 at 3-2 and coming off of a three-point loss in Houston against the Texans where Josh Allen only completed 30% of his passes (9-of-30). On the road, the Bills are 2.5-point favorites against the New York Jets, who are heading back home after a trip to London and a loss to the Minnesota Vikings.

The Bills are in a weird position now and aren't the Bills we're accustomed to. They've been very good in terms of passing efficiency on the season, but the Jets have the clear and decided advantage on defense, where they have the third-highest pressure rate of any NFL defense.

Don't count Aaron Rodgers out in big games and he's at home with talented players against a Bills team that, while the record looks good, hasn't played well consistently for all four quarters. On paper, it's a game that feels like a clear win for the Bills, but not so fast.

Cincinnati Bengals at NYG

The Cincinnati Bengals have been involved in a lot of close games as all four of their losses on the season have been by a combined 15 points. The Bengals are the road favorites as the oddsmakers have the line set at Bengals -3.5. It's interesting as the Bengals offense has been incredibly potent but has been in shootouts in all but their opening loss vs. New England.

The Giants pulled off an improbable win in Week 5 as they traveled across the country and three time zones to face Seattle and won without Malik Nabers and Devin Singletary.

It was a huge win and the Giants will look to follow it up with a win at home against the Bengals. The Giants have a good shot at getting Nabers back for this matchup, as well as Singletary, which could provide quarterback Daniel Jones with a lot of firepower at home.

The Giants don't feel like a good team, but they have been pretty plucky. The Bengals could be tripped up by this offense, so I'm not touching this game, whether Nabers plays or not.



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