Week 13 NFL Survivor Picks: Will The Raiders Rob You Of Your Gold? (2020)

Facing the winless Jets, the Raiders are the most popular NFL survivor pool pick of Week 13 — but value hunters should search elsewhere.

Josh Jacobs and the Raiders get the Jets in Week 13 (Photo by Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire)

We initially published our Week 13 survivor picks post while the prior NFL week is still to be finished, so this is a year for firsts.

With Pittsburgh now having beaten Baltimore to close out Week 12, you might see some shifts in the data quoted below. As of Wednesday morning, however, Week 13 features a lot of survivor pick options among teams favored by at least a touchdown —eight of them, in fact.

What makes things more interesting is that this deep into the season, many survivor pool entries probably have only a few of those options available.

In this post, we’ll analyze the five most popular NFL survivor picks of Week 13 using the “Holy Trinity” of survivor pick strategy data: win odds, pick popularity, future value.

The foundation of this pick analysis is the Data Grid feature of our NFL Survivor Picks product, the only tool on the market that customizes picks to maximize your edge in survivor pools.

Last Week Survivor Recap

The news that Denver would be without all of their quarterbacks shot the win odds up for New Orleans this weekend. The public pick popularity for the Saints rose along with that news, and by Sunday, the Saints had dethroned the Browns as the most popular pick of the week.

We recommended the Saints to our subscribers slightly more often than the public took them, and overall, it was a high survival week. With only the Pittsburgh-Baltimore game remaining, the Rams loss eliminated the most entries for the week.