Raiders vs. Rams Point Spread: NFL Week 7 Odds, Prediction

Edgar Chaput | Updated Oct 16, 2024

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Two beaten-down squads (morally and physically) hoping to energize their seasons will collide when the Las Vegas Raiders visit the Los Angeles Rams in Week 7.

Las Vegas
2-11
AT
October 20, 2024, 4:05 PM ET
SoFi Stadium
L.A. Rams
7-6
Pointspread +7 -105
Moneyline +280
Over / Under o +43.5
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Pointspread -7 -115
Moneyline -350
Over / Under u +43.5
Matchup Odds

Neither the Las Vegas Raiders nor the Los Angeles Rams resemble their Week 1 rosters and that’s for all sorts of unpleasant reasons. The Rams are beat up and don’t have the services of WR Cooper Kupp (questionable) and Puka Nacua (IR). As for the Raiders, they dealt WR Davante Adams to the Jets in the hours that followed Monday Night Football in Week 6.

Our NFL odds have much more faith in the Rams, who are currently -6.5 favourites.

NFL Point Spread and Betting Analysis

The Raiders and Rams are relatively unfamiliar West Coast foes, having played each other only five times from 2006 through 2022. For what it’s worth, disaster tends to strike for the Raiders, with losses of 20-0, 52-0 (not a typo), and 33-13 as standouts. Even the most recent tête-à-tête in 2022 was frustrating despite being a close game. Then-washed-out Baker Mayfield led the Rams to a game-winning touchdown drive in the final minute for a 17-16 win.

Las Vegas enters this contest with about as little momentum imaginable. They’re 2-4 straight up – with two consecutive defeats – and 2-4 against the spread. Those two recent losses were their worst of the season, WR Adams is no longer in the picture, and in Week 6 QB Aidan O’Connell looked nothing like the gunslinger Adams himself described in the offseason.

Not that the Rams are having a nice season either. The injuries have piled up, and head coach Sean McVay, for all his smarts, is struggling to string wins together. Like the Raiders, their 1-4 straight tally is reflected in results versus the spread. L.A. is playing the opposition tough, with a pair of recent defeats by a TD or less, just not tough enough.

Las Vegas Raiders

So, the Davante Adams saga comes to an end without it ever having really got off the ground in two-plus seasons. It’s just another day for the Raiders organization.

Head coach Antonio Pierce made the quarterback change from Gardner Minshew to O’Connell when the Pittsburgh Steelers came to town last week. The result was what one would expect when a young, somewhat inexperienced QB faces one of the best defences in the NFL. The 32-13 defeat felt justified.

It doesn’t help that this team can’t run the ball (57 yards on the day and 79.5 per game average). One of the few bright spots this season has been the play of rookie TE Brock Bowers, who once again had a good day (nine receptions for 71 yards).

We won’t speculate about DE Maxx Crosby’s shoving of an assistant coach on the sideline. Only those two are in the know, but it did make for a distilled visual of what the season has been like so far for Las Vegas.

Los Angeles Rams

The Rams are coming off a bye. When they were last seen, they hosted and lost to the Green Bay Packers 24-19. It wasn’t an all-around bad performance. Just one that stressed how thin the team is these days.

QB Matthew Stafford isn’t letting age or the lack of top-notch wide receivers make his numbers drop too much. Los Angeles is 12th in the NFL in yards in the air per contest (226.6) and he’s completing 67.4 per cent of his attempts. The issue is that he doesn’t have anybody notable to throw to. Nobody had Jordan Whittington, Demarcus Robinson, or Colby Parkinson on their Rams bingo cards in early September.

Not helping matters is a defence that gives up 27.8 points per game, which places them in 29th league-wide. Then again, they get to host a Las Vegas squad that’s largely derelict when attacking.

Who Will Win Raiders vs. Rams?

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  • +7 -7
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