NFL Playoffs Conference Championships: First & Anytime Touchdown Scorers Predictions

The NFL Conference Championships are here with a blockbuster Championship Sunday upon us as the San Francisco 49ers take on the Philadelphia Eagles for the NFC title and the Cincinnati Bengals face off against the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship. As always, we're locked in for a super Sunday of football by delivering you our best predictions for the most likely First and Anytime Touchdown Scorers for Championship Sunday. Using our predictive analytics, we've consulted our NFL projection model to determine where the best value bets are for Sunday. Read on below for our full analysis of our best touchdown picks for the day.

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First Touchdown Scorer Predictions for NFL Playoffs Conference Championships, 2022-23

Using trusted data and predictive analytics from 10,000 simulations of every game, Dimers.com crunches the numbers to find the NFL players most likely to score the first touchdown in NFL Conference Championships games.

Here are the two guys most likely to score the first touchdown in this weekend's NFL Playoffs games.

Anytime Touchdown Scorer Predictions for NFL Playoffs Conference Championships, 2022-23

Christian McCaffrey (49ers) - Sunday 3:00PM ET

After being brought into San Francisco at the mid-way point of the season from Carolina, McCaffrey has slotted perfectly into a Kyle Shanahan offense that has used him in every conceivable way - even throwing touchdowns. While the Brock Purdy fairytale has continued to endure, the stakes get bigger with every week that passes in these NFL playoffs and CMC is going to be heavily relied upon by the Niners to shoulder the load on offense and try to leave as little margin of error for Purdy as possible.

One of McCaffrey's many strengths - and indeed this San Francisco offense - is to utilize their running backs as effective receivers, often setting up 5-wide. If Shanahan elects to play it more conservatively and minimize Purdy's deep shots when he does pass, look for McCaffrey rack up a lot of small receptions, as well as take the lions share of carries on the ground. He's going to be everywhere. 

BET: Christian McCaffrey Anytime Touchdown (-125 at DraftKings Sportsbook)

Isiah Pacheco Anytime Touchdown (Chiefs) - Saturday 6:30PM ET

There is understandably a lot of hype around Travis Kelce to get into the end zone on Sunday against the Bengals, but you shouldn't sleep on Isiah Pacheco having an impact either. Even though Patrick Mahomes has done all of the right things in practice this week, that ankle turn last weekend looked pretty nasty and could impact his ability to do a number of things that we've grown accustomed to expecting from the presumptive MVP for this season.

Pacheco went scoreless last week against the Jags but did clock up 95 rushing yards in a statement that he is a big part of this offense, regardless of whether Mahomes is fit or struggling. If the Chiefs are within the 10-yard line and Mahomes is hobbled, Pacheco is an obvious option to score.

BET: Isiah Pacheco Anytime Touchdown (+140 at DraftKings Sportsbook)

How To Bet On NFL Player Props?

Short for 'proposition', a prop bet is a wager based on the occurrences or non-occurrences of events during a sporting event. These situations may have no bearing on the game's outcome or even the final score.

Props typically include individual players or teams reaching specific milestones. These milestones may include the number of yards a quarterback will throw for in the NFL, whether a player will score a touchdown, and how many rushing yards or receiving yards a player will register.

Generally you will see a line for yards (Over/Under) and odds for touchdowns and we use these odds and match them against the probabilities generated from out predictive analytics model, known as DimersBOT, to identify edges for sports bettors to exploit and win more bets than they lose.

Where To Bet On Anytime Touchdown Scorer?

All the major sportsbooks have player prop markets and it's quite easy to get your bets down on popular plays such as first touchdown scorer and anytime touchdown scorer.

BetMGM, DraftKings, PointsBet and FanDuel will all let you place a wager on player props and we recommend having accounts with at least two of these operators to ensure you are getting competitive odds and favorable lines.

Creating a sportsbook account is easy and only takes approximately five minutes. Any of the links on this page will give you access to the best offer at that particular sportsbook, so if you're looking to maximize your sports viewing experience, why not throw some money down on a first touchdown scorer bet or anytime touchdown scorer bet using the most advanced predictive analytics model out there.