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NFL Picks Week 17: Advice on Final Regular-Season Vegas Odds and Spreads

There's just one week remaining in the NFL regular season, and it's likely to be an unpredictable one. Looking ahead at the schedule, it's difficult to discern which playoff-bound teams are going to rest key players.

Only the Baltimore Raves have secured a first-round bye to this point, but several games will be meaningless, especially by the late afternoon—eight of the 16 games will be after the 1 p.m. window. If the Kansas City Chiefs win in the early afternoon, for example, the Houston Texans will have no reason to play their starters in a bid for a higher playoff seed.