

Sunday, October 18 at 1:00 PM EDT
PIT
-2.5
-148
Total
39.5
TB
+2.5
+124
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. 2.5 sits half a point short of 3, one of the margins games actually land on. That hook is most of what you are paying for or getting here.
- Spread 2.5 — the 0-3 point band. In 1,487 games since 1999 the favorite covered 49.8% of the time — a coin flip once the 95% range (47.3–52.4%) is taken into account.
- Total 39.5 — spread in the 0-3 point band. Games with a spread this size went over 48.7% of the time across 1,480 of them.
Last three seasons
PIT
23-17-1 ATS · 23-18 SU · 21-20 O/U
15-6 ATS home
TB
16-23-1 ATS · 19-21 SU · 22-18 O/U
6-14-1 ATS home
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
Pittsburgh Steelers open a 2.5-point favorite over Tampa Bay Buccaneers — about 60% implied to win outright. The 39.5 total prices it near 21–19, a low-scoring script.
Pittsburgh Steelers went 10–7 in 2025 — #17 of 32 by point differential (+0.6/g).
Tampa Bay Buccaneers went 8–9 in 2025 — #20 of 32 by point differential (-1.8/g).
2025 team profiles
Pittsburgh Steelers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers