

Sunday, September 20 at 1:00 PM EDT
PIT
+4.5
+180
Total
41.5
NE
-4.5
-218
Bet it or track it
Tap a price to send it to your DraftKings betslip. Tail it and it grades into My Record once the game is final — pushes settle as pushes, which matters when 3 decides one NFL game in seven.
How games at these numbers have gone
- The key number. 4.5 sits half a point past 4, one of the margins games actually land on. That hook is most of what you are paying for or getting here.
- Spread 4.5 — the 4-6 point band. In 1,055 games since 1999 the favorite covered 49.2% of the time — a coin flip once the 95% range (46.2–52.2%) is taken into account.
- Total 41.5 — spread in the 3-7 point band. Games with a spread this size went over 49.5% of the time across 3,551 of them.
Last three seasons
PIT
21-15-1 ATS · 21-16 SU · 18-19 O/U
21-15-1 against the spread
NE
21-16-2 ATS · 21-18 SU · 23-16 O/U
went over in 23 of 39
Measured on 7,276 games with a closing line and a final score. Records cover three seasons and describe the team — they are not a signal, and every situational split we measured lands at a coin flip. Context, not a pick — see every band.
The Read
New England Patriots open a 4.5-point favorite over Pittsburgh Steelers — about 69% implied to win outright. The 41.5 total prices it near 23–19.
Pittsburgh Steelers went 10–7 in 2025 — #17 of 32 by point differential (+0.6/g).
New England Patriots went 14–3 in 2025 — #2 of 32 by point differential (+10.0/g), but +1.5 of those wins outran their scoring margin, a regression flag.
New England Patriots face one of the NFL's toughest 2026 schedules (strength of schedule #6).
2025 team profiles
Pittsburgh Steelers
New England Patriots
