Use DraftKings promo code to get $200 in bonus bets by targeting Bills vs. Lions on Thursday Night Football — SkimNews
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- DraftKings is offering new users $200 in bonus bets after a $5 wager (paid within 21 days), timed to the Bills-Lions Thursday Night Football matchup.
- SportsLine's Larry Hartstein is backing the Bills (-5.5) in the regular-season debut of their new stadium, noting the Lions' defense played 86 snaps in their overtime win over New Orleans and remains without safeties Kerby Joseph and Brian Branch.
- Per Clevanalytics, cited by Hartstein, road teams coming off an overtime game on TNF are 3-16 ATS, failing to cover by 7.7 points per game — direct historical context the model layers on top of the matchup.
- The SportsLine Projection Model projects the Over 54.5 to hit in 56% of its 10,000 simulations, pointing to both teams finishing top-six in scoring each of the past four seasons (28.3 ppg last year) and their Week 1 games combining for 61 and 67 points.
- DJ Moore, who posted 100 receiving yards on a 33% first-read rate in his Bills debut against Houston, is Prop Bet Guy Doug's pick at Over 63.5 receiving yards against a Lions secondary that allowed the fifth-most yards to first-read receivers last season.
- Combining the three SportsLine picks (Bills -5.5, Over 54.5, DJ Moore Over 63.5) into a same-game parlay at DraftKings yields +470 odds ($100 to profit $470).
Why it matters: For new DraftKings users, the $200 promo materially reduces the cost of testing SportsLine's model — which enters Week 2 of the 2026 NFL season on a 53-39 run on top-rated picks — on a matchup where a Detroit defense that just logged 86 snaps faces Josh Allen in his new home stadium.
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