NFL picks, 2022 AFC, NFC Championship best bets by a legendary expert: This 4-way football parlay pays 12-1

The Kansas City Chiefs will try to extend their reign as kings of the AFC when they host the Cincinnati Bengals in the 2022 AFC Championship Game on Sunday. After losing in the AFC Championship Game three seasons ago, the Chiefs are looking to win it for the third straight year. Two seasons ago, they topped the Titans and last year they beat the Bills. On Sunday, Kansas City (14-7) will face the Bengals (12-5), who are looking to win the AFC for just the third time in franchise history. Can Kansas City win and cover seven points at Caesars Sportsbook, one of the largest NFL spreads of the 2022 NFL playoffs?

The winner will face the Rams or 49ers in the 2022 Super Bowl. Before making any NFL picks or NFL parlays, you need to see the NFL best bets from legendary handicapper Hammerin' Hank Goldberg.

Goldberg enters the conference championship weekend on a solid run: Since Nov. 17, 2019, he is 70-60-5 on his NFL best bets, including a perfect 3-0 during Super Wild Card Weekend. He also is 16-5 with his last 21 NFL picks. This is the same handicapper who enjoyed 15 winning seasons in his 17-year ESPN run. In 2017, Hammer competed against 10 top handicappers in the Las Vegas Review-Journal's NFL Challenge and beat them all, finishing 50-29-6 in against-the-spread picks. Anyone who has followed him is way up.

Now, Hammer has locked in three confident best bets for the conference championship games. If you successfully parlay his picks, you're looking at a payout of 12-1. You can only see Goldberg's picks at SportsLine. 

Top NFL conference championship game expert picks

After scouring his sources throughout the league, Hammer loves the AFC Championship Game to go Over the total. After a slow start to the season, the Chiefs have regained their prolific form. Over their last 10 contests, they have averaged 34.3 points per game. Cincinnati has been strong all season, averaging 27.1 points per game during the regular season, which ranked seventh in the league.

"This total seems far too low," Goldberg told SportsLine. "These teams played in Week 17 at Cincinnati and scored a combined 65 points. Last week, the Chiefs scored 42 points against arguably the best defense in the NFL. I think Joe Burrow and the Bengals will put up some points too."

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Hammer also jumped on the side in the AFC Championship Game 2022 and both the side and total in the NFC Championship Game 2022. Hammer says he's "high on" one of these teams to cover. You can only see which team it is, and the rest of Goldberg's picks, at SportsLine.