Now, SportsLine's NFL DFS Optimizer has turned its attention to Sunday's 2025 NFL Week 9 schedule and just locked in its top daily Fantasy football lineups. You can only see its optimal lineups at SportsLine. New users can get $50 in Pick6 credits at DraftKings when they play $5.

Toby Mergler makes early Week 9 picks wildly over-indexing on vibes, small sample sizes and comparisons to pop culture classics.

We are just five days away from the Nov. 4 NFL trade deadline. Some deals have already gotten done this past week, and more are sure to come. Teams who already have an eye toward next year may look to sell, while others that feel they are one player away from winning a Super Bowl will buy.

The model, which simulates every NFL game 10,000 times, is up well over $7,000 for $100 players on top-rated NFL picks since its inception. The model enters Week 9 on a sizzling 45-28 run on top-rated picks dating back to 2024. Anybody following its NFL betting picks at sportsbooks and on betting sites could have seen strong returns.

The NFL's 2025 trade deadline is now less than a week away. At 4 p.m. ET next Tuesday, the deadline will pass, and after that, teams will have to wait until the offseason to make deals.

New England received a 2026 sixth-round draft pick in return for the veteran safety. The Patriots also sent a seventh-round pick with Dugger to Pittsburgh. Dugger was a second-round pick by the Patriots in 2020 and had been a primary starter for the team since 2021.

When it comes to that last part, the good news is that I've seen so many horror movies that I'm actually going to recommend some to a few NFL fan bases out there. Here are my three recommendations for this week:  The Cowboys,

A 9-6 overall record for Week 7 is exactly what I needed to turn this season of picks around. Going 2-1 on five-star plays, and 4-1 if you include my two four-star selections, made for a profitable week that we can use as momentum into the campaign's second half.