Chargers vs. Steelers Betting Preview 2024 Week 3

The Chargers come into Pittsburgh as a +2.5 to +3 underdog.

Chargers running back J.K. Dobbins leads the league with 266 rushing yards. He is the first player since San Francisco’s Garrison Hearst in 1998 to have 130 rushing yards and a touchdown run in each of his team’s first two games.

Dobbins leads the NFL with 266 rushing yards on 9.9 yards per carry. He missed 43 of 67 regular-season games his three years in Baltimore.

“It’s just the time and the place right now,” Dobbins said. “I can’t really say I’m proud or anything because I’m in the moment right now, working hard trying to accomplish my dreams and my goals that I set out, but it’s pretty nice to see hard work coming to fruition.”

Jon Runyan played for Jim Harbaugh as a Michigan freshman. He spoke with the New York Post in regard to what the new Chargers head coach, Harbaugh, prizes and demands of a football player.

“He wants somebody that’s smart,” Runyan told The Post at his Giants locker. “Tough. And they’re going to go until he says stop. He wants somebody that’s always going to ask for more. He wants guys that are going to fight through adversity, and they’re not going to break, they’re just only going to get stronger as whatever — the elements, the adversity — tries to bring ’em down. He wants guys that are going to be mentally and physically strong enough to fight through that. I feel like he’s tried to recruit those players to whatever program he’s been at since he’s been coaching football.”

Steelers wide receiver George Pickens is the third-year pro who has been a playmaker during Pittsburgh’s first two games. Pickens’ numbers last week (two catches for 29 yards) are deceiving. He had a 51-yard gain wiped out becuase of a holding penalty, a 6-yard TD pass called back becuase of offensive pass interference on Van Jefferson and drew a 37-yard defensive pass interference call against Denver star CB Patrick Surtain II.

Sagarin has the number at Steelers 4.05 and our model indicates the underlay we are seeing (-2.5) bodes quite well for Pittsburgh.