Patriots vs. Vikings Player Props: Thursday Night Football NFL Week 12

Last updated: Dec 21, 2023, 5:37PM | Published: Nov 22, 2022, 10:28PM

It's Week 12 Thursday Night Football between the Patriots and the Vikings and we've got a number of different predicted player performances for you to bet on. Sink your teeth into everything from projected first touchdown scorers at U.S. Bank Stadium, down to rushing yards and receiving yards. Our predictive analytics model, known as DimersBOT, has run over 10,000 simulations of this NFL Week 12 game between the New England Patriots and the Minnesota Vikings, where we have the Vikings registering a win. Based on our Patriots-Vikings predictions, it also looks as though Minnesota's Dalvin Cook is in for a big night, with the Vikings' RB featuring heavily in our projections, listed in more detail below.

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NFL Week 12: Thursday Night Football

Who will score the first touchdown in Patriots vs. Vikings on Thursday Night Football? Well, the latest data is in.

Listed below are the most likely first touchdown and most likely anytime touchdown scorers for both the Patriots and Vikings, as well as player stat projections.

And you know what, we provide this information to you for FREE to help you choose the best prop picks for Thursday's game.

According to DimersBOT, Minnesota's Dalvin Cook is most likely to score the first TD in Patriots vs. Vikings.

DimersBOT gives Cook a 13.4% chance of scoring the first TD at U.S. Bank Stadium, while the Vikings RB is a 51.2% chance of scoring an anytime touchdown.

Scroll down for our full list of first and anytime TD scorer probabilities.

Patriots at Vikings Player Stats

Of the starting quarterbacks, the Patriots' Mac Jones is projected for 207 passing yards. The Vikings' Kirk Cousins is expected to throw for 256 yards.

Patriots Starting QB

Mac Jones: 207 yards

Vikings Starting QB

Kirk Cousins: 256 yards

Patriots Rushing

Rhamondre Stevenson: 63 yards
Damien Harris: 49 yards
Mac Jones: 11 yards

Vikings Rushing

Dalvin Cook: 77 yards
Alexander Mattison: 15 yards
Kirk Cousins: 7 yards

Patriots Receiving

Jakobi Meyers: 49 yards
DeVante Parker: 37 yards
Tyquan Thornton: 30 yards
Jonnu Smith: 29 yards
Hunter Henry: 29 yards

Vikings Receiving

Justin Jefferson: 103 yards
Adam Thielen: 53 yards
T.J. Hockenson: 53 yards
K.J. Osborn: 29 yards
Dalvin Cook: 17 yards

Patriots vs. Vikings

First Touchdown Scorer

This popular prop bet is a really simple one. As you'd expect, what we're betting on here is the player that is most likely to score the first touchdown in the game. In this case, we have Dalvin Cook as the player most likely to get to the endzone first in Thursday Night Football at a huge 13.4% probability.

Dalvin Cook (Vikings)	13.4% probability	BET NOW
Justin Jefferson (Vikings)	13.1% probability	BET NOW
R. Stevenson (Patriots)	10.8% probability	BET NOW
Damien Harris (Patriots)	7.4% probability	BET NOW
Adam Thielen (Vikings)	6.9% probability	BET NOW
Jakobi Meyers (Patriots)	6.6% probability	BET NOW
T.J. Hockenson (Vikings)	6.2% probability	BET NOW
Hunter Henry (Titans)	4.8% probability	BET NOW
DeVante Parker (Patriots)	4.6% probability	BET NOW
K.J. Osborn (Vikings)	3.4% probability	BET NOW

Anytime Touchdown Scorers

Unlike the first touchdown scorer bet, the anytime touchdown scorer bet is open to every player on the field and also valid the the entire length of a game. All we need in order to cash a ticket is for the player we bet on to score a touchdown at any point in the game. In this particular matchup we see a pretty wide spread of players, all with strong chances of scoring a TD.

Dalvin Cook (Vikings)	51.2% probability	BET NOW
Justin Jefferson (Vikings)	50.4% probability	BET NOW
R. Stevenson (Patriots)	42.6% probability	BET NOW
Damien Harris (Patriots)	31.6% probability	BET NOW
Adam Thielen (Vikings)	30.1% probability	BET NOW
Jakobi Meyers (Patriots)	27.7% probability	BET NOW
T.J. Hockenson (Vikings)	27.0% probability	BET NOW
Hunter Henry (Titans)	21.5% probability	BET NOW
DeVante Parker (Patriots)	21.2% probability	BET NOW
K.J. Osborn (Vikings)	15.0% probability	BET NOW

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