Steelers at Browns predictions: Point spread, total, player props, pick, trends for 'Thursday Night Football'

The Steelers and Browns are playing each other on Thursday Night Football. Both teams are coming off losses in the last week. Pittsburgh muffed a punt in second half and lost to New England. The Browns lost against the Jets and are reeling from their collapse.

The Browns are now considered to be a 4.5-point favorite against the Steelers. The line was 3.3-5 points before the season.

The Browns are favored by 4.5 points. Myles Garrett is expected to start for Cleveland. Jack Conklin is also expected for the game. Pittsburgh is ranked 18th in DVOA against the run. The Browns will try to get an early lead and then lean heavily on the ground to win.

Browns are 8-3 ATS in their last 11 Thursday Night Football games.

The total opened at 40.5 before Week 2 and has been dragged down this week. It currently sits at 38.

The Browns prefer to control the clock and keep the ground game churning. The game may force the Steelers to throw the ball down the field in the second half.

The under is 7-2 in the last nine meetings between these teams in Cleveland.

Mitch Trubisky is the favorite to win the game against Pittsburgh. He will be facing a pass rush headlined by Myles Garrett. The Browns are set up to gain an early lead and force Pittsburgh into a game script. Trubshke has gone over his 31.5 pass attempts prop twice this season. Josh Brissett has seen 10 rushing attempts over the first two games of the season and has only gone under his 12. 5-yard rushing prop once. He has a 43-yards rushing performance against New York last week.

Kareem Hunt has seen double-digit carries in both games this season. Since joining the Browns in 2019, Hunt's received double digits carries 20 times. Nick Chubb has gone over this total in each of his previous two games and went over it in half of the games played in 2021.