The Chicago Bears look to get back in the winning column after dropping one last week to the Baltimore Ravens. Their opponent is the Cincinnati Bengals, who have a porous defense and give us some interesting opportunities to bet on Chicago Bears players on props. Last year, we published after Lamar Jackson was a \u201cfull participant\u201d in practice, so we gave Lamar over passing yards, which, of course, ended up being a non-play. Last week we went 1-1, which brings our season record to 13-7.<\/p>\n
What do we like this week? Here are three props to play.<\/p>\n
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Kyle Monangai OVER 70.5 Rushing Yards -114<\/p>\n
This is a wild number to take an over, but we are running it in. D\u2019Andre Swift is out, Trey Hendrickson almost certainly won\u2019t play, and the Bengals\u2019 defense is a league-worst defense, allowing over 150 yards per game on the ground. Roschon Johnson is also out, and I can\u2019t see Ben Johnson turn to Travis Homer for 10 touches. I expect Brittain Brown to get elevated from the practice squad to be the team\u2019s RB2 on offense, but I think Monangai gets the bulk of the carries, and it\u2019s hard to imagine that the Bears don\u2019t go well north of 100 yards as a team, and Monangai has a chance to go over 100 yards on his own if you want to bet alts.<\/p>\n
Olamide Zaccheaus OVER 28.5 Receiving Yards -114<\/p>\n
We have to expect the Bears\u2019 passing attack to have success against this Bengals defense. If they don\u2019t, that\u2019s a conversation for a different article (and a conversation a LOT of people will be having next week). But I don\u2019t expect that to happen. I think we see a successful passing attack. If that\u2019s the case, I can\u2019t say I trust the tight ends to get involved, as they just haven\u2019t been all season. Luther Burden is out with a concussion, so unless Rome Odunze gets 75% of the targets (certainly possible), I think Zaccheaus is the guy that goes over here and gets upwards of 50 yards receiving.<\/p>\n
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Caleb Williams OVER 241.5 Passing Yards -114<\/p>\n
Despite having a bumpy game last week, Caleb still went way over his yardage prop. That was largely thanks to some garbage time yardage in the fourth quarter, but a win is a win. This week, we are simply betting against the Bengals\u2019 defense. If the Bears get upwards of 400 yards of offense against Cincinnati, how does Caleb Williams not have 250 or more passing yards? It\u2019s almost a simple math equation. The Bears would have to be around 200 yards rushing to get a Caleb passing under, and while that\u2019s possible against the Bengals\u2019 defense, it\u2019s hard to imagine Monangai, Brown, and Travis Homer manage to do it, even if the big guys up front do their jobs. Let\u2019s ride with Caleb once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears look to get back in the winning column after dropping one last week to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[117,1035,228,53993,1036,391,227,256,2296,4903,7,2526,895,6,11501,9081,79895,2495,4077,3394,24480,1503],"class_list":{"0":"post-490475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-baltimore-ravens","9":"tag-ben-johnson","10":"tag-bengals","11":"tag-brittain-brown","12":"tag-caleb-williams","13":"tag-chicago-bears","14":"tag-cincinnati","15":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","16":"tag-cincinnatibengals","17":"tag-dandre-swift","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-kyle-monangai","20":"tag-lamar-jackson","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-olamide-zaccheaus","23":"tag-passing-yards","24":"tag-porous-defense","25":"tag-rome-odunze","26":"tag-roschon-johnson","27":"tag-the-bears","28":"tag-travis-homer","29":"tag-trey-hendrickson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115471570959872986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}