NFL survivor contests seem very easy because of the rules, but they’re actually much more challenging when you get below the surface. The goal is simple: Pick a team to win its game. Contestants attempt to do that for the entire season, while not being able to repeat teams that they have already selected. It isn’t as elementary as it sounds, as I outlined in my Survivor strategy article earlier this week.
Week 1 of the NFL season has arrived, and it features some very tough Survivor decisions. Most of this week’s big favorites are road teams, which seems to enhance the degree of difficulty for those teams and creates a little more hesitance for contestants.
One of the more interesting Week 1 angles from last season was taking the Buccaneers as a heavy Thursday favorite and then being able to buy back into a Survivor contest if Tampa Bay failed to win. We don’t really have that this week with Bills vs. Rams, a game that an extremely high percentage of entrants will avoid.
I’ll be playing the game in this weekly article until I lose a pick. After that, I’ll make all teams available, but try to keep in mind that most readers have already used the more popular teams when sharing my advice. We did this article through Week 14 last season and I never duplicated a team.