Week 5 Picks

Walter Football Picks (Lions 26 Packers 23):   http://walterfootball.com/nflpicks2018_05early.php

AP Wilner's Picks (UPSET SPECIAL: LIONS, 26-24):  https://pro32.ap.org/article/no-deflating-focus-when-patriots-meet-colts

Detroit News predictions: Lions vs. Packers (Packers, 26-23; Lions, 31-24; Lions, 27-24):   https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2018/10/05/detroit-news-predictions-detroit-lions-vs-green-bay-packers/1533176002/
NFL.com Harrison's NFL Week 5 game picks (Green Bay Packers 28, Detroit Lions 24:  The Packers win, narrowly. Every time you think Detroit is going to lose, they win. If the Lions are to prevail over their division rivals, they must run the football. Why make a defense that struggles to stop opposing passers stay on the field for 10 possessions or more? Shorten the game and play to your strengths. I also harped on this in the Power Rankings this week. Let me just support this argument by pointing out that, though Detroit does have the second-ranked passing defense in terms of yards, the Lions have allowed quarterbacks a 104.2 passer rating. That's awful. They succeeded in making Cowboys QB Dak Prescott look good, and that's hard to do. With Packers defensive lineman Muhammad Wilkerson out for the year, Detroit should test that Green Bay front. I think Aaron Rodgers bounces back this week.):  http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000969987/article/nfl-week-5-game-picks-chiefs-over-jaguars-eagles-nip-vikings

Game Theory: Week 5 win probabilities, score predictions (Packers win 24-21):  http://www.nfl.com/videos/detroit-lions/0ap3000000970110/Game-Theory-Week-5-win-probabilities-score-predictions

CBS Prisco's Picks (Packers 31 Lions 23:  Aaron Rodgers was not happy about the offense last week, so look for that to change here. He will light up the Lions. But I think Matt Stafford, who has had success against the Packers in the past, will also get his yards. This will be fun to watch, but Rodgers will get the best of it.):   https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/features/writers/prisco/picks

CBS' Breech Picks (Packers 24-17 over Lions):  https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-5-picks-jaguars-shock-undefeated-chiefs-winless-cardinals-pull-off-upset/

SN Iyer's Picks (GB at Detroit:  The Packers are itching to get their running game going and this is a perfect opportunity for bigger returns from Aaron Jones to make it easier for Aaron Rodgers to pick apart the Lions’ back seven. With Randall Cobb (hamstring) and Geronimo Allison (head) hurting, it will be a simple approach with Jones, Jamaal Williams and Davante Adams. The Lions will bring it at home to make it interesting in a high-scoring game, but Rodgers makes one more big play than Matthew Stafford.  PICK: Packers win 31-27 and cover the spread.):  http://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/week-5-nfl-picks-predictions-point-spreads-odds-lines-eagles-vikings-jaguars-chiefs/1avtjgggpqbml1v4vns8lg9ji0

CBS Wilson's Picks (Green Bay at Detroit:  Is there a bigger enigma than the Lions? They were blown out by the Jets, never really had a chance to beat the 49ers, then manhandled the Patriots before falling to the Cowboys last week. At 1-3, they're in last place in the division and given how the perennial basement-dwelling Bears are now playing, we don't see the Lions changing their station anytime soon. The good news is that Detroit beat Green Bay twice last season. The bad news is that Brett Hundley was the quarterback both times.  Pick: Packers 30, Lions 21): https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-5-odds-picks-eagles-expose-vikings-d-texans-outlast-cowboys-steelers-edge-falcons/

SN Steele's Picks (Green Bay Packers (2-1-1) at Detroit Lions (1-3) (Sunday, 1 p.m., Fox):  The Lions have had chances to win each of their last three games, and have won just one of them (against the Patriots, of course, which makes perfect sense). Clearly the Lions faithful are willing to give Matt Patricia the immediate benefit of the doubt they never gave Jim Caldwell. The Packers are the best example of why the NFC North is wide-open: even beating down the Bills last week failed to inspire widespread faith in them, or in how healthy Aaron Rodgers is going forward. The Lions winning would get them back into the hunt.  Prediction: Packers, 23-19):  http://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-picks-predictions-week-5-patriots-colts-falcons-steelers-packers-lions/11oc1v96cibev1rx86aow522wy

NFL RealGM (Green Bay Packers at Detroit Lions (+1.5): The Lions swept the Packers last season, but Aaron Rodgers did not play in either game. As long as Rodgers is merely hobbled and not sidelined, Detroit is unlikely to extend the winning string in the series. I’d feel better about the Lions chances at home if they weren’t so inexplicably terrible (a league-worst 33 percent TD rate) in the red zone. The Lions passing offense will keep this one close and gives Detroit a chance for a game-winning Matt Prater 55-yard field goal attempt.  Packers 26, Lions 24):  https://football.realgm.com/analysis/3075/Football-Meteorology-NFL-Picks-For-Week-5

PFT’s Week Five Picks (Packers at Lions - MDS’s take: Aaron Rodgers will outplay Matthew Stafford, as he so often has through a decade of NFC North battles.  MDS’s pick: Packers 27, Lions 20.  Florio’s take: Aaron Rodgers has been talking a lot about drinking scotch lately. Lions fans will need some of it on Sunday night, and not for celebratory purposes.  Florio’s pick: Packers 27, Lions 20.):   https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/10/04/pfts-week-five-picks-9/

CBS Picks (6 pick the Packers, 2 pick the Lions):  https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/features/writers/expert/picks/straight-up/5

ESPN Picks (8 pick the Packers, 3 pick the Lions):   http://www.espn.com/nfl/picks

SI NFL Week 5 Picks (6 pick GB, 1 picks the Lions):  https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/expert-game-picks-football-sports-illustrated-mmqb-staff

USA TODAY Sports' Week 5 NFL picks (All 5 pick the Patriots to win):   https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2018/10/04/usa-today-week-5-nfl-picks-cowboys-texans-texas-jaguars-chiefs/1519653002/

Average Prediction (392-349/15):   Packers win 26-23.  33 experts pick the Packers to win, 10 pick the Lions.