

David Bearman
The Undertaker
David Bearman spent 18 years with ESPN, 14 in their Stats & Information Department and the last four overseeing their betting content on ESPN.com. He was at the forefront of ESPN's launch into sports betting. The founder of the "Betting with Bearman" podcast and newsletter, David appears regularly on "Early Edge" and CBS Sports HQ, as well as other national shows. He has a fondness for Unders, hence his nickname. A big football and golf bettor, Bearman went 143-111-3 (+28 units) during the 2025 NFL season, including hitting 61 percent of his prop bets. He swept his four season-long win total plays and nailed preseason futures on Matthew Stafford MVP (40-1) and Tet McMillan ROY (16-1). All bets were publicly documented in his newsletter. On the golf side, David finished the 2026 season up over 30 units, including nailing five outright winners. He also capped NCAA baseball at SportsLine for the first time in 2026, going 83-63-4 (+11.2 units). David shared each of those plays, with analysis, in the growing SportsLine Discord. For David Bearman media inquiries, contact SportsLine@CBSInteractive.com.
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4 Live PicksFlorida to take advantage of Ole Miss letdown spot and poor rush defense...
Both Atlanta Falcons and Green Packers have stuggled to move the ball...
Jaguars defense to control the Patriots offense...
Eagles have shown no offense and Bears have a QB issue...
Based on Week 1 alone, the Giants look like the side you want to be on, but this line was Rams -9.5 on the lookahead board last week. The late travel to Australia strategy which didn't work, but the travel was done that way as to be better for the Rams when they get back to Pacific Time Zone. 10 days off and against a Giants team, which looked great --- vs. an awful Cowboys defense. The Giants had 37.5 minutes of possession vs. Dallas, who allowed the G-Men to convert 9 of 11 third downs. Shouldn't have been a surprise as the Cowboys were 32nd in that category last year. But the Rams were 7th and won't let the Giants keep it that long.
Jaxson Dart is averaging 36.1 rushing yards per game in short career, including 54 last week, with 3 designed runs in there. He's hit 32+ in seven of his last eight games, averaging 43.3 in that stretch. Last year vs. the Rams. Stroud went for 32, Hurts 40, Huntley 39, and Caleb Williams 40 vs. the Rams. Brock Purdy had 29 last week.
The Jaguars had the top rush defense in the NFL last year, holding teams to 85.6 yards per game. Last week, Judkins only had 33 yards, getting us the win in his prop. I faded RBs on a weekly basis against them and with the way the Broncos looked last week vs. KC (61 total rush yards), I am going right back to the well. Dobbins had 36 yards last week and 17 was on one carry. He had 19 yards on his other 7 carries.
Cincy hung on to beat Tampa Bay in after the Bucs had 4 TOs, including fumbling into the end zone. Some credit goes to what seemed like an improved Bengals defense, but Baker had 3 fumbles, which isn't surprising considering he led the NFL in that category each of the last two seasons. The projected high-flying Bengals offense only had 351 yards, with Chase catching 2 passes and Brown running for 56 yards. The Texans vaunted defense (1st in 2025) got lit up in Week 1 by Buffalo, but after watching last night's Bills destruction of the Lions, maybe that's not so bad after all. I do not expect the Texans defense to look that bad again the rest of the season.
The Atlanta Falcons are not a good football team right now. Granted, they are on QB3, but QB1 and QB2 aren't good either. Outside of Bijan Robinson, the Falcons completed 4 passes all day. Drake London, Zaccheaus, Dotson, and Pitts were not used and this wasn't the '85 Bears they were facing. Panthers showed last year was no joke, even in the loss, and are primed to repeat in that division. They couldn't stop the Bears, but the Falcons offense is the opposite. I don't have a problem taking road team here, even knowing that Bryce Young has never covered in a game as favorite.
This is not a fade nine QBs, including Jared Goff last week (who threw for 327 yards vs. Bills last night) have failed to break 230 yards passing on the Saints. Goff had 206 last week. Opposing starting QBs went under 200 passing yards in 10 of 17 games as the Saints finished 4th in pass defense at 170.2 pass yards per game. Baltimore ran 37 times in Week 1 and the Saints didn't stop the run vs. the Lions, allowing 165. Now add the fact that Zay Flowers, the leading WR, may not play.
Saints QB Tyler Shough keeps performing and books continue to ignore it. He struggled in first half last week, but ended up with and NFL-high 410 yards. Well the line is 15 yards lower this week. He has hit this in each of this last five and in seven of the last eight games last season. Once again, should be operating in a negative game script with being an 8.5-point underdog.
Neither offense was any good in Week 1 and the Eagles faced what was supposed to be a terrible Commanders defense. It was not a good start for the Philly offense, despite the win. I don't think Tennessee actually has an offense as they were as inept as possible at home vs. Jets. Philly at least got 300+ yards. Tennessee had 195 total yards at home in the opener. 195.
Tennessee allowed 152 rushing yards to Breece Hall and Braelon Allen as the Jets game plan was to run, run, run, holding the ball for 39 minutes. Even though there has been a dip in Saquon Barkley's numbers since his 2,000-yard season in 2024, he still had hit 70+ yards in five of his last six games, with 68 in the other. I expect the Eagles to copy what the Jets did and run all game.
Jim Mora has things cooking already out west after turning around the UConn program. Rams have won their two games 93-37, racking up 1,100 yards of offense. QB Hauss Hejny has 9 TDs and 539 yards as Mora has offense humming. BYU covered against a tough Arizona team, but need a late TD and trailed at the half in a game that Arizona looked like the better team.
Just like last week’s FAU/UNLV pick, we are playing a Group of Six game with travel considerations. Nevada lost at home by two TDs to FCS Montana State, still doesn’t have its starting QB Carter Jones due to injury, and now travels across a couple of time zones to face Middle Tennessee State as a favorite. Neither backup QB played well vs. Montana State, combining for 167 passing yards, completing only 52.8% of their passes. Middle Tennessee State held a fourth-quarter lead last week at Marshall, looking for a 2-0 start. A poor final quarter and a missed two-point conversion in the closing seconds took care of that.





