Baltimore at Indianapolis

Indianapolis opens the season with one of the strangest collapses in recent NFL history: an 8-2 start, the best record in the AFC, undone by a seven-game losing streak that began the moment Daniel Jones went down with a season-ending Achilles injury in Week 14. Jones is back, has called himself fully ready, and Shane Steichen returns as head coach, running the same system built around Jonathan Taylor and a physical ground game. Baltimore arrives from the opposite direction. The Ravens finished 8-9 last year, their first losing season since 2021, and let go of John Harbaugh two days after it ended. Jesse Minter takes over as head coach for his first regular-season game, installing new coordinators on both sides of the ball in a true road opener against a team with something to prove. New systems rarely execute cleanly in the first week of the season, and Indianapolis's ability to control the clock on the ground works against a fast, high-scoring pace. Take Indianapolis with the points, and take the UNDER on the total.