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The Pittsburgh Steelers come in as a -8 road favorite at Cleveland. They own a 4-3 record Straight Up and Against The Spread. The Panthers are 4-3 SU and 3-3 ATS.
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What to Bet
Steelers pay $13 for every $10 bet to win the AFC North
The Steelers So Far This Season
From NFL.com: "The Steelers were off this week. Their defense had been on the two weeks before that. Well, as on as it needed to be, allowing only 38 combined points against the Falcons and Bengals. Been saying on "The Power Rankings Show" for a month now that Keith Butler's unit merely needs to be viable for this team to go far. While the performances against Atlanta and Cincy were hardly suffocating, think about how well those offenses have played this season. The Falcons scored 104 points over three contests prior to facing Pittsburgh, while the Bengals were averaging over 30 points per game before they fell to Sixburgh. Not bad."
The Steelers 2018-2019 Odds
The Steelers pay $13 for every $10 bet to win the AFC North and 22-1 to win the Super Bowl. Lock in the AFC payout odds prior to this game.
Line Movement and Public Backing
The line opened at -7 and has gone to -8 with moves back to -7.5. The Steelers were seeing 65% of the betting action.
Steelers vs. Browns Betting Trends, Predictions
The CBS Sportsline proprietory prediction model has the big win of the week being a Steelers cover of -8 against Cleveland (Sorry Browns fans).
From CBS Sports:
Le'Veon Bell didn't return over the bye week as some expected, but the model doesn't see that slowing a rested Steelers team against a Cleveland squad that has lost three of four.
Ben Roethlisberger throws for over 300 yards, according to the model, while James Conner has 100 yards of total offense as Pittsburgh covers in the spread in almost 55 percent of simulations. The model is also calling for 52 total points, giving plenty of value to the over (49).
As for the model itself, it went 176-80 last season and beat over 95 percent of CBS Sports Office Pool players in 2016 and '17.
- Ean Lamb, Gambling911.com
