Griffin Wong details his top Tre Tucker prop bet for Raiders vs. Cowboys on Monday Night Football.
For likely the last time this season, the Las Vegas Raiders will appear on prime-time, finishing a public slow fade for what has been one of the NFL’s more disappointing teams this season. Entering tonight’s 8:15 p.m. ET game against the Dallas Cowboys, Las Vegas is just 2-7 and, like all awful teams, has found ways to lose in a variety of heartbreaking ways.
Perhaps the only plus for the Raiders offensively has been the emergence of Tre Tucker as the team’s leading receiver. This season, the 24-year-old has accumulated 455 yards on 34 catches, serving as one of the more reliable deep threats in football.
Las Vegas is a 3.5-point underdog for tonight’s clash at DraftKings Sportsbook, with the point total set to 49.5. Below, I’ve detailed my favorite prop bet centered around Tucker.
Best Tre Tucker Prop Bet on DraftKings Sportsbook
Tre Tucker 50+ Receiving Yards (+118)
Two of the four games in which Bowers reached 50 receiving yards came during Brock Bowers’ three-game absence, and he has fallen short in each of the games since Bowers’ return. Still, I’m not sure the correlation is direct; while the tight end was clearly the star in the Raiders’ overtime loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars on November 2, catching 12 passes for 129 yards and three touchdowns, he had just one catch for 31 yards on Thursday Night Football last week. Instead, it was the newly-acquired Tyler Lockett who was the team’s leading receiver with 44 yards. There doesn’t seem to be a clear week-to-week hierarchy between Tucker, Lockett, Bowers, and Ashton Jeanty.
Against the awful Cowboys secondary, it’s possible that all of Tucker, Lockett, Bowers, and Jeanty can amass at least 50 receiving yards. Dallas has allowed the third-most yards per game on the second-most yards per attempt and the highest passer rating. Only the Cincinnati Bengals have given up more touchdown passes, and no team has allowed more fantasy points per game to wide receivers. Perhaps the return of Shavon Revel Jr. will help the Cowboys, but it’s more likely that relying on a third-round cornerback coming off of a torn ACL at East Carolina more than a year ago will hurt their defense more than it will help.
