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Los Angeles Rams are coming off a shocking loss to the Arizona Cardinals in Week 6 and need a win in Week 7 to remain alive in the NFC race. They’ll head to Las Vegas to take on the Raiders, who enter the matchup at 3-3.
The Rams are 2-4, but NFL experts are siding with them in this contest. Los Angeles received 38 of 52 picks across seven major outlets, with the Raiders getting the other 14. Bleacher Report was the only outlet to lean toward Las Vegas, with four of its seven analysts picking the Raiders.
Here is how the experts see Sunday’s game:
USA Today
- Jarrett Bell: Rams
- Nick Brinkerhoff: Raiders
- Chris Bumbaca: Rams
- Nate Davis: Rams
- Adam Kaufman: Rams
- Mike Middlehurst-Schwartz: Rams
Bleacher Report
- Gary Davenport: Raiders
- Brad Gagnon: Rams
- Ian Hanford: Raiders
- Kris Knox: Rams
- Moe Moton: Rams
- Wes O’Donnell: Raiders
- Brent Sobleski: Raiders
Sports Illustrated
- Albert Breer: Rams
- Eva Geitheim: Rams
- Mitch Goldich: Rams
- Mike Kadlick: Rams
- Gilberto Manzano: Raiders
- Conor Orr: Rams
- John Pluym: Raiders
- Matt Verderame: Rams
ESPN
- Matt Bowen: Rams
- Mike Clay: Rams
- Jeremy Fowler: Rams
- Dan Graziano: Raiders
- Kalyn Kahler: Raiders
- Pamela Maldonado: Rams
- Eric Moody: Rams
- Jason Reid: Rams
- Ben Solak: Rams
- Lindsey Thiry: Rams
- Seth Wickersham: Rams
CBS Sports
- Pete Prisco: Rams
- Jared Dubin: Rams
- Ryan Wilson: Rams
- John Breech: Rams
- Tyler Sullivan: Rams
- Dave Richard: Rams
- Jamey Eisenberg: Rams
The Athletic
- Zach Berman: Rams
- Jon Greenberg: Raiders
- Chad Graff: Raiders
- Larry Holder: Raiders
- Josh Kendall: Rams
- Steven Louis Goldstein: Rams
- Austin Mock: Rams
- Nick Kosmider: Rams
NFL.com
- Jeremy Bergman: Rams
- Brooke Cersosimo: Raiders
- Gennaro Filice: Rams
- Bobby Kownack: Raiders
- Dan Parr: Rams
This article originally appeared on Rams Wire: Rams-Raiders Week 7 picks: Experts heavily favor Los Angeles
