My First Bet for Week 5: Chiefs keep momentum, Lions pile on points

Week 5 of the NFL play gets underway with the Los Angeles Rams hosting the San Francisco 49ers connected "Thursday Night Football." Both teams beryllium astatine 3-1 aft the 49ers suffered their archetypal nonaccomplishment of the play past week.

Another brace of 3-1 teams conscionable Sunday day erstwhile the Seattle Seahawks big the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Sunday wraps up the an AFC East matchup betwixt the undefeated Buffalo Bills and the 2-2 New England Patriots.

"Monday Night Football" (8:15 p.m. ET on ABC/ESPN) features the Kansas City Chiefs, caller disconnected a triumph implicit the Baltimore Ravens, visiting the Jacksonville Jaguars, who handed the aforementioned 49ers their archetypal loss.

Our squad looks astatine the aboriginal Week 5 likelihood and identifies which ones are worthy jumping connected present earlier imaginable shifts aboriginal successful the week.

Note: Odds astatine clip of publication, courtesy of ESPN BET Sportsbook

My First Bet

Kansas City Chiefs to screen -2.5 (-120) astatine Jacksonville Jaguars

The Jaguars' opportunistic defense, which leads the NFL with 13 forced turnovers, creates immoderate intermission here. But aft watching Patrick Mahomes administer the shot to 9 antithetic players successful the Week 4 triumph implicit the Baltimore Ravens, I'm going with a Chiefs squad that is starting to make an violative identity. K.C. covers connected Monday nighttime successful Jacksonville. -- Matt Bowen

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