2026 NASCAR Cup Straight Talk Wireless 500 odds, picks, props: best bets from proven racing experts

Tyler Reddick is one of the favorites as he looks to win his fourth race in a row at the NASCAR Straight Talk 500 on Sunday at Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Ariz. Reddick led for 58 laps last week at the DuraMax Texas Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, as he nosed out race favorite Shane Van Gisbergen. Reddick upped his career win total to 11 with 95 top-10 finishes. Ryan Blaney is the race favorite at +500 (risk $100 to win $500) at FanDuel.

Among the other favorites are William Byron, Kyle Larson and Denny Hamlin (+650), Christopher Bell (+700), Reddick and Joey Logano (+1100), Chase Elliott (+1600) and Chase Briscoe (+1800). Bell won last year's race, the third in a row for him early in the 2025 Cup Series. He closed out the season with four total wins. Sunday's race is set to start at 3:30 p.m. ET.

Before entering any 2026 NASCAR Cup Series props or NASCAR picks, be sure to see what elite expert auto racing handicappers Phil Bobbitt and Steve Greco have to say.

Bobbitt and Greco built a predictive engine that consistently beats the books. They find huge value and aren't afraid of volume. Over the past four-plus years, their followers could be up more than $28,000 on $100 plays. In 2024, they nailed seven outright winners in the Cup Series, returning nearly seven units for a 25.7% ROI. 

They predicted Daniel Suarez's victory in Atlanta at +3500 and were 10-2 on matchup plays. Their 2024 NASCAR All-Star Race preview nailed Joey Logano at +1100 and went 4-0 in matchup picks, and they hit Austin Cindric at +2800 in the Enjoy Illinois 300. They also nailed Ross Chastain as a +3000 longshot in the Hollywood Casino 400. Overall, they were up 47.18 units across all racing articles last season. In 2025, they correctly called William Byron (+2300) in the Daytona 500 and Kyle Larson (+450) in the AdventHealth 400. Anyone following Bobbitt and Greco could have seen HUGE returns!

For the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Straight Talk Wireless 500 at Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Ariz., we can tell you Bobbitt and Greco are backing Brad Keselowski over Kyle Busch (-130, Caesars) in a head-to-head matchup. "Keselowski has averaged 3.2 fastest laps per race compared to Busch's 0.8, while also leading 1.2 laps per race to Busch's zero," Bobbitt said. "His average running position sits at 15.5 compared to Busch's 18.1, and he has spent 54.3 percent of his laps inside the top-15 compared to Busch's 41.9 percent. If that paragraph felt like drinking from a fire hose of statistics, the quick takeaway is simple: Keselowski has been the faster car.

"The gap widens even further when we expand the sample to all comparable short-flat tracks since the start of the 2024 season. Across those 13 races, Keselowski owns a 13.2 average finish compared to Busch's 21.6, along with advantages in fastest laps per race (9.8 vs 6.3), laps led (8.5 vs 1.2), average running position (15.7 vs 21.8) and percentage of laps inside the top-15 (50.9 percent vs 25.1 percent). Taken together, the projections and the underlying speed metrics point clearly toward Keselowski in this matchup." 

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