NFL Week 18 Rams vs. 49ers odds and game props, top sports betting promo codes

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The playoffs await both the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers, but first they will meet Sunday in a regular season finale. Kickoff from Levi’s Stadium is set for 4:25 p.m. ET on FOX.

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San Francisco (12-4) has clinched the NFC’s No. 1 seed and a wild-card round bye and will be resting a number of key players Sunday, including starting quarterback Brock Purdy and NFL rushing leader Christian McCaffrey.

Los Angeles (9-7), meanwhile, has clinched a wild-card berth and also will be holding out a number of starters, including starting QB Matthew Stafford, WR Cooper Kupp and stud defensive lineman Aaron Donald.

That leaves us with a battle of backup QBs Sunday in Santa Clara with the Niners’ Sam Darnold and the Rams’ Carson Wentz making their first starts of the season.

The 49ers are consensus 4-point home favorites (-200 moneyline) with a game total hovering around 41 points.

Like several other Week 18 contests, this isn’t a game to bet heavily on with a host of reserves playing and vanilla game plans expected.

San Francisco has dominated this NFC West series of late, winning nine of the last 10 meetings and covering in eight of them. The Niners outdueled the Rams 30-23 on the road in Week 2, but L.A. covered as a 7.5-point home underdog.

It’s easy to envision that same scenario play out again Sunday with the Rams catching more than a field goal.

With all the uncertainty, game player props weren’t available as of Friday afternoon.

Keep an eye out, though, for any Puka Nacua props to be posted this weekend (see above). The Rams’ standout rookie receiver will play Sunday as he chases the NFL rookie receptions and receiving yardage records.

Nacua is four receptions and 29 yards away from claiming both. But be cautious because if and when he has those records in hand, Nacua likely will join his fellow key starters on the sideline.

So in the absence of a player prop for now, we’ll go under 4.5 on the total-touchdown game prop.

It’s hard to envision Darnold and Wentz, two backup QBs who have struggled in recent seasons, engaging in a scoring duel and/or the two head coaches wanting to push the pedal in a largely meaningless finale with actual playoff tests looming in the coming weeks.

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