Every NFL season, Action Network Chief Content Officer Chad Millman and professional sports gambler Simon Hunter analyze every matchup to select their best bets from the NFL slate. Utilizing Action Network's data-driven analysis, the latest injury news and insider info from Simon's network of professional bettors, together they craft their betting card for the weekend, along with moneyline parlays, totals, survivor pool picks and so much more. For the 2023 NFL season, The Favorites will have new episodes every Sunday night, Tuesday and Thursday. Proudly presented by bet365, the world's favourite sportsbook brand.

The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

NFL Fantasy Update

The Action Network: Sports Betting Picks & Tips

NFL Fantasy Football 2022 is right around the corner and Action Network's Chris Raybon joins Chad Millman and Simon Hunter on The Favorites podcast to give three wide receivers that are underrated and three that are overrated according to ADP! 2:56 Hunter Renfrow 8:24 Mike Evans 12:03 Christian Kirk

Jaylen Waddle

DeAndre Hopkins

Robert Woods

NFL Fantasy Football 2022: Overrated & Underrated Wide Receivers

NFL Fantasy Football 2022 is right around the corner and Action Network's Chris Raybon joins Chad Millman and Simon Hunter on The Favorites podcast to give three running backs that are underrated and three that are overrated according to ADP! 2:39 Leonard Fournette 4:15 James Conner

Christian McCaffrey

Antonio Gibson

JK Dobbins

Damien Harris

NFL Fantasy Football 2022: Overrated & Underrated Running Backs

NFL Fantasy Football 2022 is right around the corner and Action Network's Chris Raybon joins Chad Millman and Simon Hunter on The Favorites podcast to give three quarterbacks that are underrated and three that are overrated according to ADP! 16:15 Deshaun Watson

Tom Brady

Jalen Hurts

Daniel Jones

Patrick Mahomes

Aaron Rodgers

NFL Fantasy Football 2022: Top 3 Overrated & Underrated Quarterbacks

How to profit on online prediction markets

Can You Bet On Politics?

Gamblers turn their attention to the NBA event of the summer

NBA Draft Betting

The Favorites - US Open Betting Preview

'Hustle' writer Will Fetters joins the show

Best Gambling Movies

The Favorites - NBA Finals Betting Update

Chad and Simon answer your burning questions

The Favorites - Special Mailbag Edition

Battle For Legal Sports Betting

Chad Millman and Simon Hunter debate best value and safest bets for NFC West division winner. Can Kilff Kingsbury, Kyler Murray, and Marquise Brown beat LA Rams and SF 49ers? Will DeAndre Hopkins suspension nuke their chances? DeAndre Hopkins suspended NFL's performance-enhancing drugs policy Kyler Murray, Hollywood Brown & Cardinals Drama or NFC West Champs? NFL Offseason Futures Best Bets

Kyler Murray & Hollywood Brown

49ers or Rams?

Cardinals Best Value

Kyler Moody Bitch?

Kyler Murray, Hollywood Brown & Cardinals Drama or NFC West Champs? NFL Offseason Futures Best Bets

The pick ‘em contest dream is to cash, big. You wanna spend that last weekend of the season locked in a hotel room and feel the high that comes from

Week 1 NFL Picks: The 5 Games This Pro Bettor Said He Loves

This is Part II in our series Money Guts and Brains: The Mavericks Who Remade Sports. Check out Part I on Charles McNeil, inventor of the point spread, and Part

The Mavericks Who Remade Sports, Part II: The Oddsmaker Who Globalized Sports Betting

Facts are facts, despite how much we are told to believe otherwise these days. And this much I know to be true: There has never been a winless team whose

3 Ways to Bet Redskins-Dolphins

One year ago, on Super Bowl Sunday, there were seven Action Network employees in a hotel room, sprawled on the floor with laptops, wires criss-crossing, pumping out stories. This year,

Action Network Sets New Company Records on Super Bowl Sunday | The Action Network

It began, as all good stories do, with Charles Barkley. The year was 2002, Super Bowl XXXVI. Tom Brady was more “good backup” than “bad mofo”; the Rams had rabid

Millman: How Charles Barkley's $800K Win Started a Super Bowl Trend | The Action Network

One year, the winner combined multiplication, Matt Ryan and the Millennium Falcon. Another year, an old-school (board) gamer found a way to turn Scrabble into a degenerate’s dream. For

Get Your Super Bowl 53 Prop Up in a Las Vegas Sportsbook | The Action Network

You know how sometimes you just get itchy to act? It’s impulse and ambition rolled into a messy trigger. Plenty of folks will tell you that’s the worst

Millman’s NFL RedZone Diaries: Believing in Baker Mayfield and Cashing in on Home Underdogs | The Action Network

It hit me on Thursday morning. BlackJack Fletcher and I were recording The Favorites podcast. BlackJack likes to smoke a mango vape and pound 24-ounce cans of Coors while we

Millman's RedZone Diaries: Marcus Mariota, Miracle Covers and a Gambling Day for the Ages

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<p dir="ltr"><span><span class="il">Chad</span> Millman is Chief Content Officer of The Action Network, a leading source for sports betting news, information, and data. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Millman launched Action with The Chernin Group in 2018 and helped drive its $240 million sale to Better Collective in 2021. Through its award-winning app, website, podcasts, live shows, videos, and social handles -- as well as partnerships across leagues, sportsbooks and media outlets -- Action serves tens of millions of fans. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span></span><span>Millman also hosts the top-ranked betting </span>podcast, <a href="https://www.actionnetwork.com/podcasts/the-favorites-podcast" rel="follow">The Favorites</a>, which is sponsored by <a href="https://www.actionnetwork.com/online-sports-betting/reviews/fanduel" rel="follow" title="FanDuel Promo Code &amp; Sportsbook Review">FanDuel Sportsbook</a>.</p>
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Summary

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<p class="pv-entity__school-name t-16 t-black t-bold">Chad has a <span class="pv-entity__comma-item">Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the </span>Indiana University Bloomington in <span class="pv-entity__comma-item">Journalism and Political Science.</span></p>
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Education

<p>Prior to joining Action, Millman was ESPN Digital&rsquo;s Editorial Director and Editor-In-Chief of ESPN The Magazine. At ESPN, he made regular appearances across SportsCenter, E60, and other programs. He also wrote weekly columns and hosted a weekly podcast, Behind The Bets.</p>
<p>Millman has also written seven books -- including four New York Times' bestsellers -- ranging from the autobiography of Howard Stern producer Baba Booey (<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/207168/they-call-me-baba-booey-by-gary-dellabate-with-chad-millman/" rel="follow">They Call Me Baba Booey</a>) and a non-fictional look into the lives of Las Vegas bookmakers and bettors (<a href="https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/chad-millman/the-odds/9780786731046/" rel="follow">The Odds</a>).</p>

Experience

Chad Millman is the Chief Content Officer for The Action Network, a media company providing premium analysis as well as real-time betting data.