The Week 14 NFL schedule features 14 games, with half of them being divisional showdowns. Four are NFC battles, including a pair featuring the top two teams in their divisions. The Dallas Cowboys (8-4) attempt to extend their lead over the Washington Football Team (6-6) in the NFC East, while the Los Angeles Rams (8-4) look to draw closer to the Arizona Cardinals (10-2) in the NFC West on Monday Night Football. Before you make your Week 14 NFL survivor picks, you NEED to see which team the SportsLine Projection Model is backing.

The model, which simulates every NFL game 10,000 times, is up almost $7,200 for $100 players on top-rated NFL picks since its inception six-plus years ago. The model enters Week 14 of the 2021 season on an incredible 132-94 run on top-rated NFL picks that dates back to the 2017 season.

The model also ranked in the top 10 on NFLPickWatch four of the past five years on straight-up NFL picks and beat more than 94 percent of CBS Sports Football Pick'em players four times during that span. Anyone who has followed it is WAY UP.

The model can be used to crush the survivor pool format, which calls for picking one team to win each week but never using the same team twice. The team winning the most model simulations each week has been incredibly successful this season, as the 49ers in Week 1 (75 percent), Buccaneers in Week 2 (79 percent), Cardinals and Ravens in Week 3 (79 percent) and Bills in Week 4 (87 percent) were victorious. 

The Patriots in Week 5 (78 percent), Colts in Week 6 (81 percent), Cards in Week 7 (84 percent), Rams in Week 8 (91 percent) and Steelers in Week 9 (73 percent) were winners for survivor contestants who used those teams, as were the Buccaneers and Browns in Week 11 (73 percent) and the Bucs again in Week 13 (70 percent).

In Week 14, we can tell you the model is shying away from the Washington Football Team, even though it carries a four-game winning streak into its clash with the Cowboys. Washington both games against Dallas in 2020 but lost seven of the previous eight meetings and is 47-73-2 in the all-time series, including a pair of playoff matchups. Washington is winning only 45 percent of simulations, so the model is saving it for another week.

Instead, the model is backing a team that is facing an opponent that owns one of the worst road records in the NFL! Picking this team not only will get you to Week 15, but will also put you in the optimal position to go deep in your NFL survivor pool. You NEED to see which team the model is backing before locking in your NFL survivor picks!

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