Morning Coffee: A Pair Of FanDuel Best Bets For Thursday Night Football

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The Denver Broncos and Indianapolis Colts both traded for veteran quarterbacks that they felt could lead them to a Super Bowl this season.

It’s still early, but at this point it’s safe to say that the results to date have been extremely underwhelming.

Russell Wilson and the Broncos are .500 entering Week 5, but Wilson ranks 22nd in the league in Total QBR and Denver ranks 29th in NFL in points per game. 

Now they’ll be without running back Javonte Williams for the rest of the year after he suffered a brutal season-ending injury.

Meanwhile, Matt Ryan’s 41.3 QBR is his worst QBR through his team’s first four games of a season in his career and a big part of the reason why Indianapolis has started the season 1-3.

It isn’t about to get much easier for Ryan and the Colts as they make the trip to Colorado without star running back Jonathan Taylor in the line-up.

Denver was a 2.5-point favourite for tonight’s game on the look-ahead line at FanDuel last week.

The Broncos opened -3 this week.

That spread continued to move to -3.5 on Wednesday after it was confirmed that Taylor will not be available for Indianapolis on Thursday Night Football.

So, what can we expect to see tonight in terms of a FanDuel Best Bet?

Here’s the Morning Coffee for Thursday October 6th, 2022.

FanDuel Best Bet For Thursday Night Football

Staring down a match-up that features two quarterbacks that rank in the bottom-third of the NFL in terms of Total QBR, pass TD percentage and points per game, it’s fair to wonder where the points are going to come from tonight.

Wilson has averaged 245.0 passing yards with four touchdown passes and one interception through his first four games for Denver.

Only two NFL teams have a lower average points per