Super Bowl 57 is less than a week away and with all the star power that comes with two No. 1 seeds clashing, this championship could easily be decided by some lesser-recognized players on both sides or some secondary skillsets from key players.

I will try and shine a betting light to some possible unheralded X-Factors for Sunday’s Big Game. I’m looking at some players or skills that might be slipping the attention of many, which in turn could potentially return some value in their Super Bowl player prop markets.

I break it all down in my best Super Bowl picks below. 

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Ladies and gentlemen, it’s teaser time!

We got back into the winner’s circle last week to bring the season’s record to 4-3, and there’s a lot of great options on the NFL odds board to pair up this week that could get us to 5-3.

Specifically, we have five different NFL Week 8 favorites in the six to 8.5-point range that we can tease down to get inside the key number of three. This is rare territory, but we need to be ultra careful with NFL picks in these spots. There’s very few things worse in sports betting than teasing that favorite down, only to watch them lose outright – hello Eagles in Week 6… and Ravens in Week 3.

I’ll be pairing two of these favorites in my Week 8 teaser, so let’s hope they do…

Matthew Stafford’s return to the Motor City is going to be the storyline that dominates coverage of the Wild Card game between the Los Angeles Rams and Detroit Lions at Ford Field. And while it’s exciting to see Stafford and Jared Goff face off against their former teams in primetime, the rookies taking the field will be just as important despite having no Super Bowl odds experience.

The NFL odds have the Lions as 3-point home favorites, but things could get hairy for the Detroit defense if rookie phenom Puka Nacua gets loose. Luckily for Lions head coach Dan Campbell, he has a pair of electric rookies of his own.

Find out where our best bets lie in our NFL picks and predictions for Rams vs. Lions props on Sunday, January 14. And don’t forget to ch…

The Cincinnati Bengals once again find themselves with an 0-2 record to begin the season. They’ll be looking to pick up their first win of the year on Monday Night Football against the Washington Commanders.

Joe Burrow is the superstar in Cincinnati so we’re going to look his way for some spotlight player props for Monday Night Football.

Read on for my Joe Burrowo odds and player props for Commanders vs. Bengals on Monday, September 23rd.

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“It takes a little time to work out the significance,” Ivan Gazidis says as, in his role as the chief executive of Milan, he describes his emotions after the club won their first Serie A title in 11 years the weekend before last. Gazidis held a similar position at Arsenal for 10 years before leaving London amid accusations that the club stagnated during his tenure. He has led a far more impressive resurgence at Milan where a bold plan has been vindicated.

After watching Milan win their final game of the season, 3-0 away to Sassuolo, Gazidis remembers that “you’re straight into euphoria and joy but you then realise this is quite a monumental achievement not just for what we’ve done but how we’ve done it – which is very different…

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Fresh off their UEFA Super Cup triumph, Real Madrid will kick off their 2024/25 La Liga season with a trip to face Mallorca at Estadi Mallorca Son Moix on Sunday night. The reigning Spanish champions will be keen to assert their dominance again after finishing 10 points ahead of arch-rivals Barcelona last season.

Mallorca, who ended the previous campaign in 15th place and seven points clear of relegation, will face a stern test against Los Blancos as they look to improve on last year s struggles.

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Mallorca are gearing up for their fourth consecutive season in La Liga, marking their longest stretch at this level since 2013. Despite this achievement, the Pirates endured a challenging 2023/24 campaign, finishing 15th, ju…

Star goalkeeper Jan Oblak has extended his contract at Atletico Madrid through to June 2023.

The Slovenia international still had two years to run on his previous deal, but LaLiga side Atletico have moved to secure his future for the next four seasons.

The fresh agreement reportedly includes a release clause set at around €100million.

Oblak joined Diego Simeone s side from Benfica in July 2014 and has established himself as a worthy successor to Thibaut Courtois.

The 26-year-old has started all 32 of the club s league matches this term and his signature comes as another significant boost following Antoine Griezmann s commitment to a long-term deal during last year s World Cup.

— Atlético de Madrid (@atletienglish)

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Yuri Lodygin sees no reason why Zenit s impressive start to action in 2015 cannot continue when Torino visit the Stadion Petrovsky in the UEFA Europa League last 16 on Thursday.

The Russian side have shown no ill-effects after a two-and-a-half-month break from competitive football in recent weeks, cruising to wins in their three fixtures without conceding a single goal.

Two of those games were against runaway Eredivisie leaders PSV in the Europa League s previous stage before Zenit resumed their Russian Premier League campaign with a 3-0 victory over Ural on Saturday to maintain their seven-point advantage at the top.

Andre Villas-Boas side blew away PSV 3-0 on home soil in the last round and Lodygin has called for no let-up when Serie A s eighth-placed team v…

Massimiliano Allegri believes AC Milan have nothing to lose as they look to put a turbulent 2012 behind them.

Milan s form has been inconsistent during the early part of the campaign after a summer of wholesale changes within the squad, but Allegri is confident his side can kick on in 2013.

I m sure that we ll have a good second half of the season, he told Sky Sport Italia.

We re behind in the standings so we have nothing to lose.

It will be fundamental that we beat Siena when the championship re-starts and that we get to the half-way point of the league with 30 points on the board.

We know that we can’t fix the league table in a month or a game and we are aware that we have some really important matches from now until February.

Al…

Rico Lewis is a surprise omission from the England Under-21s squad for their Euro 2023 campaign this summer.

Lee Carsley’s Young Lions head to Romania and Georgia hoping for a first European Championship success since 1984, but they will be without the young City star after he was not included in the 23-man squad.

Lewis, just 18, played 23 times for City during their treble-winning season.

Your squad for the finals has been confirmed!

— England (@England)

Folarin Balogun is a notable absentee following his recent decision to represent the United States.

Head coach Carsley had been hopeful that Balogun would decide on his future after this summer’s tournament, but the 21-year-old informed the Football Association of his choice to …