Anyone who has somehow made it to a Week 18 NFL survivor pool doesn't want their run of success to just end here. You want to finish the season just as you started it for the first 17 weeks, and that's with a winning NFL knockout pick. But with so many teams resting star players with the playoffs looming, there will be tough decisions to make to find the right matchup for your Week 18 NFL knockout picks.

Before you make your Week 18 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 well over $7,000 for $100 players on top-rated NFL picks since its inception. The model enters Week 18 of the 2023 NFL season on an incredible 181-129 run on top-rated NFL picks that dates back to the 2017 season. It is also on a 35-21 roll on top-rated NFL picks since Week 7 of last season.

The model also ranked in the top 10 on NFLPickWatch four of the past six years on straight-up NFL picks and beat more than 94% 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.

In Week 18 of the 2023 NFL season, we can tell you the model is shying away from the 49ers, even though they are 4-point favorites over the Rams. Both teams are sitting their starting quarterbacks in Brock Purdy and Matthew Stafford, while San Fran is also resting Christian McCaffrey. However, the Niners have already clinched the top seed in the NFC, while the Rams could be the sixth or seventh seed. Thus, there is still an incentive for Los Angeles, unlike San Francisco. Most of the 49ers star players are expected to be pulled early from the game, making this too risky of a matchup to back San Francisco with Week 18 NFL survivor picks.

Instead, the model is backing a team that still has something to play for against a Week 18 opponent that is already looking forward to next season! Picking this team will put you in the optimal position to win your NFL survivor pool this week. You NEED to see which team the model is backing before locking in your NFL survivor picks!

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