Several NFL Week 1 lines moved since being posted back in April when the schedule was announced, but the biggest recent moves have been in the game that puts a wrap on the league’s 100th opening weekend with the Denver Broncos at the Oakland Raiders (10:15 p.m. EDT, ABC).

The Raiders opened as 2.5-point home favorites back in April and it slowly got bet down to -1 over the spring and summer. The game went to pick ‘em at most books last Tuesday as the HBO reality TV show “Hard Knocks” (which should have been renamed “As Antonio Brown’s World Turns” soap opera with his frost-bitten feet, helmet controversy, etc.) was wrapping up and in the real world. On Saturday morning, when he asked for his release (and got it), the line jumped to Broncos -2.5.

The conventional wisdom (which isn’t always correct – and it can be argued it’s wrong more often than it’s right), is that the Raiders are a dead team as they lost what was expected to be their biggest weapon and we’re probably going to see more bettors jump on the Broncos leading up to kickoff.

However, we often see teams in the Raiders’ role be motivated by losing a star player to injury/suspension/whatever you call this AB fiasco. They likely to want to show they can win without Brown.

Still, I’m not thrilled with just +2.5 on the Raiders (this line adjustment isn’t too significant as it’s still less than a field goal), but this is the perfect spot to use an NFL 6-point teaser where you move the line 6 points in your favor as we’re moving through the “key” numbers of 3 and 7 points up to +8.5. Now, the ideal situation is to tease this with another game where you can move through the key numbers (note: you could tease the New Orleans Saints down to -0.5 in the first Monday Night Football game at 7:10 p.m. EDT and tie it to the Raiders +8.5, but since I like the Houston Texans in that game, I’m gonna pass).

Instead, while I don’t usually advise teasing NFL totals, I recommend using the Broncos-Raiders Over/Under of 42.5 and teasing it up to Under 48.5. Denver has a new head coach in Vic Fangio (formerly defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears) and is expected to bring out the best in the Broncos’ defensive talent.

Meanwhile, QB Joe Flacco now leads an offense that won’t be too explosive and should be content of game-manager like he was in Baltimore. This game has all the makings of being around 24-17 or 24-20 either way (both of which falls within our teaser range).

The play: Raiders +8.5; Under 48.5 (6-point teaser).