The Week 8 NFL schedule features 15 games, highlighted by numerous division matchups. They include Browns vs. Steelers in the AFC North and an NFC South Bucs vs. Saints rematch of their NFC Divisional playoff game. There are also less-notable division battles like the AFC East's Bills vs. Dolphins and Panthers vs. Falcons in the NFC South. Before you make your Week 8 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 $7,700 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 8 of the 2021 season on an incredible 126-85 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 7-0 after the Cardinals (84 percent) crushed the Texans in Week 7. 

They joined the 49ers in Week 1 (75 percent), Buccaneers in Week 2 (79 percent), Cardinals and Ravens in Week 3 (79 percent), Bills in Week 4 (87 percent), Patriots in Week 5 (78 percent) and Colts (81 percent) in Week 6 as winners for survivor contestants who used those teams over the first seven weeks.

In Week 8, we can tell you the model is avoiding the Chiefs, even though the reigning AFC champs host the 2-5 Giants on Monday Night Football. Kansas City will be looking to make a statement in primetime, but it is winning only 69 percent of simulations, so the model suggests saving the Chiefs for another week.

Instead, the model is backing a team whose opponent has struggled mightily on both sides of the ball! Picking this team will get you to Week 9 and put you in the prime 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 pool picks!

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