The Week 5 NFL schedule features a full slate of 16 games, including the undefeated Cardinals vs. 49ers and Rams vs. Seahawks in NFC West showdowns and Bills vs. Chiefs in a rematch of last year's AFC Championship Game. Before you make your Week 5 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 $7,900 for $100 players on top-rated NFL picks since its inception six-plus years ago. It went a sizzling 24-14 on top-rated NFL picks last season, returning more than $800. The model also enters Week 5 of the 2021 season on an incredible 124-82 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 is a perfect 4-0 after the Bills (87 percent) easily dispatched the Texans, joining the 49ers in Week 1 (75 percent), the Buccaneers in Week 2 (79 percent) and both the Cardinals and Ravens in Week 3 (79 percent) as winners for survivor contestants who used those teams over the first four weeks.

In Week 5, we can tell you the model is shying away from the Chiefs as they host the explosive Bills, who have scored 35 or more points in three straight games after producing only 16 in their season-opening loss to Pittsburgh. The Chiefs are winning only 45 percent of simulations, so the model is saving them for another week.

Instead, the model is backing a team that has locked down its last three opponents! Picking this team not only will get you to Week 6, 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!

What is the optimal Week 5 Survivor pool play? And which team will send you through to Week 6? ... Join SportsLine right now to see the SportsLine Projection Model's shocking survivor pick, all from the model that consistently crushes the NFL!