Anytime and First Touchdown Scorer Predictions for Thursday Night Football
Week 2 was tough for this column, but we're still up for the season as we make our Thursday Night Football anytime touchdown scorer predictions for the NFL's Week 3 based on the odds from ourbest NFL betting sites.
After a very profitable opening week, we gave most of it right back in Week 2. Cleveland Browns running back Nick Chubb suffering an early injury was partly to blame. Still, we're up 0.5 units with this column in 2023, and Week 3 provides another full slate of opportunity.
That opportunity begins with our New York Giants vs. San Francisco 49ers predictions for Thursday Night Football.
Our anytime touchdown scorer predictions for Thursday night can accompany your Giants vs. 49ers player props and Week 3 NFL player props.
Anytime touchdown scorer predictions: Thursday Night Football
Giants vs. 49ers anytime touchdown scorer prediction: Kyle Juszczyk, 49ers, FB (+1100 via DraftKings)
The 49ers are 10.5-point favorites on Thursday in what's widely expected to be an even bigger blowout than that spread suggests. San Francisco has already logged a 23-point win in 2023, and the Giants were down 20 points at halftime to the hapless Arizona Cardinals in Week 2. The Niners won't cough up a lead like that.
Running back Christian McCaffrey has been an absolute workhorse through two games, and he played every offensive snap during a Week 2 win over the Los Angeles Rams. This matchup should be the perfect opportunity for head coach Kyle Shanahan to give McCaffrey a bit of a breather.
Fullback Kyle Juszczyk was the only other Niners back to get Week 2 playing time, and he was utilized for 62% of the offensive snaps in Week 1. He hasn't touched the ball yet in 2023, but Juszczyk scored at least two touchdowns in each of the past three seasons with San Francisco, with a high of six in 2020. He was given 20-plus targets in each of the previous nine campaigns, and that versatility could be on display near the goal line in what everyone's projecting as a pseudo-bye for San Francisco.
We're getting the +1100 odds from DraftKings with Caesars offering a market-low of +700.
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