William Byron seeks his third win in four starts and fourth of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season when he takes part in the 2024 AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400 at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday. Byron is 7-1 and 2021 race winner Kyle Larson is the 4-1 favorite in the 2024 AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400 odds. Tyler Reddick is 6-1 and Denny Hamlin is 7-1, while reigning Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney is 8-1 in the 2024 NASCAR at Texas odds. Blaney posted five straight top-10s and eight in nine starts at Texas before crashing out at the track last September. Sunday's race on the 1.5-mile quad-oval is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. ET. Before making any NASCAR picks, be sure to see what CBS Sports NASCAR writer Steven Taranto has to say.

Taranto, who moonlights as a sim racer and has 20 career wins in iRacing, is the lead NASCAR writer for CBSSports.com, and he chronicles stock car racing with the same thoroughness and passion that he's had since becoming a full-time race fan in 2001. He has an annual NASCAR media credential and also publishes a popular weekly NASCAR predictions column, famously calling Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez's breakthrough wins in 2022. Taranto is off to a red-hot start for SportsLine in 2024, nailing four winners already, including 16-1 longshot Byron at the Daytona 500! Anybody following his NASCAR picks has seen HUGE returns!

For the 2024 AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400, we can tell you Taranto is high on Chase Elliott, even though he's a 12-1 longshot. Another curveball: He's fading Denny Hamlin, even though he's one of the favorites! "In spite of Denny Hamlin's season so far, I'm not necessarily feeling him having the third-best odds for this weekend's race," Taranto told SportsLine. "He's only led more than 45 laps in a Texas race on one occasion - the fall of 2017, when he led 65 - and his fifth-place finish last fall marked the first time he was better than ninth since (his most recent win there in 2019)."

Taranto also locked in four more AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400 best bets and is also high on a major dark horse priced higher than 75-1! You ABSOLUTELY need to see his picks before locking in any NASCAR picks of your own for the 2024 AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400.

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