Bills Best NFL Team, Titans Worst According to Net Yards Per Play

If you're new to betting on the NFL, or at least new to studying for your bets, a great starting point in your process is to look at net yards per play.

Net yards per play is simply the amount of yards a team gains per play on offense, subtracted by the amount of yards given up per play on defense. What you're left with is net yards per play, which gives us an overall view of how good a team is (or isn't) at moving the ball down the field and preventing their opponent to do so.

Heading into Week 7 of the NFL season, the Bills are the best team in this category at +1.8 and the Titans are the worst team in the league at -1.4.

Bills Lead NFL in Net Yards per Play

In case you needed anymore proof that the Bills are deserving of being +290 Super Bowl favorites, net yards per play drives the point home. They're +0.3 better than the next best team, and proved in a win against the Chiefs last week that they can beat any team in the NFL.

If you want to find some teams that hold some value in the Super Bowl market, compare where they rank in the list above, with where they rank in the Super Bowl odds below. One interesting team that sticks out is the San Francisco 49ers, who are 2nd in the NFL in net yards per play, but are eighth in the NFL in Super Bowl odds.

Could they be a valuable bet at +1900?

Net Yards per Play Isn't the Only Metric to Look At

While net yards per play is a good jumping off point for your handicapping, that shouldn't be where it ends. A team that's a perfect example of that is the Denver Broncos, who rank fourth in the NFL in the stat but are downright painful to watch.

A big reason why that's the case, is the Broncos are terrible in the red zone. They're dead last in red zone touchdown scoring percentage, scoring six points on just 20% of their red zone trips. Red zone efficiency isn't measured in the net yards per play statistic.

So, while the Broncos may look like a great team if you look at the above metric, there's other factors you should consider before placing your bets.

With that being said, it'll be interesting to see how the net yards per play leaderboard develops as the NFL season progresses.

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