NFL Week 1 Survivor/Eliminator Picks

The return of the NFL season means the return of everyone's favorite game that you might only play for one day: NFL Eliminator. Or NFL Survivor, because we are terrible at picking a single name for something. Starting as early as Thursday night, we'll be picking a winner each week of the NFL season … or at least as long as we're right. There will be some wild game in Week 1 that knocks out a significant percentage of players. Let's try to avoid that pitfall, cool? Each week in this space, I'll be offering up my favorite NFL Eliminator (or, if you prefer, NFL Survivor) picks for the week. I'll probably be wrong sometimes! But I'll try, and really, isn't that more important than being right? … I'm being told it is not. But OK! Here we go!

NFL Survivor Picks for Week 1

Every week, we have the same process. We eliminate teams in groups until we narrow it down to our real considerations. Start with all 32, whittle it down. And remember — this game is "once you use a team, they're off the board," so it's not always just a matter of taking the team you think will win. There has to be some strategy.