3 Best Prop Bets for Vikings vs Packers: Dalvin Cook's Role will Expand with Kirk Cousins Sidelined

Sunday Night Football in Week 17 features the next chapter in the heated rivalry between the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers.

The Packers are a much better team who is going to compete for the Super Bowl this year and are currently 13 point favorites as of this writing. While that may seem like a high number, it is because Sean Mannion will be playing quarterback for the Vikings.

It will be Mannion’s third start in his seven-year career getting paid millions to hold a clipboard. Let’s take a look at some prop odds for this NFC North showdown, courtesy of WynnBET Sportsbook.

3 Best Prop Bets for Vikings vs. Packers

• Davante Adams OVER 89.5 Receving Yards (-125)
• Dalvin Cook OVER 80.5 Rushing Yards (-125)
• Justin Jefferson UNDER 71.5 Receiving Yards (-115)

Davante Adams OVER 89.5 Receving Yards (-125)

Davante Adams leads the Green Bay Packers receiving core and will need to step up again tonight against the Vikings. Adams not only leads the Packers but is also second in the NFL in total receptions, targets per game, and receiving yards per game.

While he has gone over his predicted total in just half of his games this season, he has gone OVER 90 yards in four of his last five games overall. Those include three straight games at Lambeau where this game is taking place. 

Adams will have a plus matchup here as the Vikings defense is 25th in the NFL in opponent yards per pass at 7.0 and 27th in passing yards given up per game at 248.5.

Adams is too heavily targeted and too good to miss here. He also has more yards after the catch than any of his teammates has in total. So, he might not need a lot of usages to get to 90 yards tonight. 

Dalvin Cook OVER 80.5 Rushing Yards (-125)

While Cook missed four games so far this year, he has already eclipsed 1,000 yards rushing to go along with six touchdowns. Now, with Kirk Cousins out of this game, he becomes the most important player on the Vikings offense.

The Vikings will lean on him more than usual in the hopes he will go off and lead them to a win. Cook is very capable of handling a large workload and has at least 20 carries in seven of the 11 games he has played in this season.

He has been ramping up his usage as of late and has 27 and 28 carries respectively in his last two games. Having had the last two weeks off, I expect Cook to be fresh, hungry to run, and heavily used tonight. The Packers have one of the worst rushing defenses in the NFL and I think the Vikings need to exploit that shortcoming.

I also like Dalvin Cook to go OVER his receiving yards total of 16.5 yards and his chances to score a TD at +120. The offense will be run through him and he has a chance for a season-best performance. 

Justin Jefferson UNDER 71.5 Receiving Yards (-115)

Justin Jefferson is one of the best young pass-catchers in the NFL right now. He is fifth in the league in receiving yards and has the size and speed to make any secondary cringe.

However, with Mannion under center, I think we should temper our expectations of this young superstar. Even with Adam Thielen out, I don’t have faith in Mannion and I expect the Vikings to use a low-volume passing attack and hope that Cook can get going.

In the two other games that Jefferson played in that Thielen didn’t, Jefferson had 79 yards in one and 46 yards in the other. He had just 11 catches combined in those games after defenses were able to double-team him.

This is not a knock on Jefferson, but with the QB situation tonight for Minnesota, I think Jefferson and this passing attack have a quiet night under the lights of Lambeau.