NFL Touchdown Scorer Prop Picks for Wild Card Weekend: Tight Ends to Go Wild

NFL Touchdown Scorer Prop Picks for Wild Card Weekend based on the top odds.

Last updated: January 14, 2023 3:23 PM EST • 3 min read

Scoring plays in the playoffs always provide plenty of excitement, and it is even more exciting if you have picked the right player to score a touchdown. Read on for our favorite touchdown scorer prop picks for Wild Card Weekend based on the best NFL odds and check out the rest of our NFL best bets.

Saturday marks the first day of the 2022-23 NFL playoffs. Over the course of the weekend, 12 teams will square off on their quest to play in the Super Bowl (check out our best Super Bowl odds). Several star players will have their shot to make the highlight reels by finding their way into the end zone. As always, you have the opportunity to profit should they find success in that task.

The following players have all enjoyed a high level of competency in crossing the goal line with the football this season. On top of that, they find themselves in offensive schemes that bolster their chances to continue that success.

Here are our top NFL touchdown scorer prop picks for Wild Card Weekend (odds via Caesars Sportsbook, DraftKings Sportsbook, and FanDuel Sportsbook; pick confidence based on a 1-to-5-star scale).

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NFL Touchdown Scorer Prop Picks for Wild Card Weekend

T.J. Hockenson anytime TD (+235 via DraftKings) ⭐⭐⭐
Ezekiel Elliott anytime TD (+115 via FanDuel) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Best NFL Touchdown Scorer Scorer Prop Predictions for Wild Card Weekend

T.J. Hockenson Anytime TD (+235) ⭐⭐⭐

It’s been a feast or famine season for former Detroit Lions tight end T.J. Hockenson in the touchdown department. Even still, he has six scoring plays on the year including three with the Minnesota Vikings. Two of those occurred in his Week 16 encounter with the New York Giants, the team he is set to face on Sunday.

Two stars have been subtracted from this prop largely in part to Hockenson's inconsistency in finding the end zone. Before his two-touchdown outburst against the Giants, the fourth-year tight end had gone three games without a score. He is currently on a two-game drought without a touchdown reception since Week 16.

There is a significant swing in pricing here which speaks to the overall uncertainty. BetMGM has dropped his odds to score down to +125. DraftKings (+235) has your best odds, just ahead of FanDuel and PointsBet (+230). Caesars (+165) falls in between the wide range of prices available for a Hockenson touchdown.

Check out our Giants vs. Vikings picks and our NFL player prop picks for Wild Card Weekend.

Ezekiel Elliott Anytime TD (+115) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott ripped off a nine-game streak in which he found the end zone from Week 6 to Week 17 but that was snapped last week when he had only eight carries against the Washington Commanders in a mostly-meaningless game for Dallas. All told, the Cowboys' star back has 12 rushing touchdowns on the season. He failed to score in only five games this year.

Elliott and the Cowboys will take on a Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense that has allowed a running back to rush for a touchdown in four of its last seven matchups. However, his five-star rating is fueled by his recent success regardless of his opponent.

You can grab Elliott at plus money on every book except for Caesars which has him at -115 to score this week. Outside of that, his odds for an anytime touchdown hover around the +100 to +115 range.

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NFL touchdown scorer prop for Wild Card Weekend picks made 1/13/2023 at 7 p.m. ET.

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Rod has been a contributing author at Sportsbook Review for the last two years specializing in NASCAR and NFL prop betting. He has been writing and podcasting professionally for almost 20 years, spending the last four years in the sports gambling space. Rod has made several appearances on the SiriusXM Fantasy Sports channel. He’s appeared multiple times on the Fantasy Alarm Show with Howard Bender as well as several times over the last two years during the FSGA Draft Week. He is a published author in the academic world with an article on steroids in baseball featured in the Bedford Reader textbook. Rod loves to find non-traditional bets which has led him to dive into the world of defensive and kicking props in football among others. His love of motorsports has translated into several winning weeks of both NASCAR and Formula 1 bets. Rod is a fan first and aims to provide betting picks that are not only profitable but will provide the maximum entertainment value during the sweat. Ultimately, he tries to remember that watching sports should still be fun and anything else is icing on the cake.