Brad Keselowski has dominated at Talladega Superspeedway throughout his career and will try to extend that success when he takes part in the 2025 NASCAR Jack Link’s 500 on Sunday. The 41-year-old driver has posted six career wins at Talladega and placed second twice there in 2024. The 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion has 36 wins over 557 races in his 17-year career. He has 263 top-10 finishes with 18 poles. Ryan Blaney is the +850 favorite, followed by Joey Logano (+1200) and Austin Cindric (+1300) in the latest 2025 NASCAR at Talladega Superspeedway odds from DraftKings Sportsbook.
Sunday’s race is scheduled to start at 3 p.m. ET. Before making any 2025 Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway picks or NASCAR predictions, you need to see what NASCAR insider Steven Taranto has to say.
Taranto, who moonlights as a sim racer and has 20 career wins in iRacing, is the lead NASCAR writer for CBSSports.com. He has an annual NASCAR medial credential and also publishes a popular weekly NASCAR predictions column, famously calling Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez’s breakthrough wins in 2022.
Taranto was red-hot for SportsLine in 2024 as he nailed 17 winners, including 16-1 longshot William Byron at the Daytona 500 and 14-1 longshot Chase Elliott at Texas. He correctly picked the Straight Talk Wireless 400 winner in Larson on March 23. Anyone following his NASCAR picks at their favorite sportsbooks could have seen huge returns.
Now, Taranto has analyzed the starting lineup and odds for Sunday’s 2025 NASCAR Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. He’s sharing his best bets at SportsLine.
2025 Talladega NASCAR expert picks
For the 2025 Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, Taranto is high on a number of drivers, including William Byron (+1500), the Daytona 500 winner who has six top-10 finishes this year. In his last race at the track last fall, Byron, who drives for Hendrick Motorsports, finished third at the 2024 YellaWood 500. He has top-10 finishes at the track in each of his last four races there. The 27-year-old veteran placed third overall last season and has had a lot of success over his eight-year career. Byron is going off at +1600 at FanDuel Sportsbook.
In 261 races in the Cup Series, he has logged 14 career wins, registering 15 poles and 110 top-10 finishes. He has been racing since first competing in the 2018 Daytona 500. He earned his first Cup series win at the 2020 Coke Zero Sugar 400. He has experienced success at other NASCAR levels, including the Xfinity Series, where he has earned four wins, 26 top-10 finishes and three poles in 42 races over a five-year span. See which other drivers he’s backing at SportsLine.
Top NASCAR props for Talladega Superspeedway
Taranto sees Ty Dillon breaking through to earn his first top-10 finish of the year (+410). While driving for Germain Racing from 2017 to 2020, he earned seven top-15 finishes at Talladega in eight starts. His previous best finish at Talladega came in the 2020 YellaWood 500, where he placed third. He opened the season by taking 14th at the Daytona 500.
The 33-year-old has run 249 races over his 12-year career. The Kaulig Racing driver finished 50th a year ago and has registered seven top-10 finishes since his first race in 2014 at the Oral-B USA 500 in Atlanta. He has fared well at the NASCAR Xfinity Series level, with one victory and 92 top-10 finishes among his 165 races over 11 seasons. See all of Taranto’s picks at SportsLine.
How to make 2025 Jack Link’s 500 predictions
Taranto has also identified three other drivers for his 2025 NASCAR Jack Link’s 500 best bets. He’s also high on a huge NASCAR longshot who’s going off at 70-1 to win it all, potentially netting any backer a huge payday. You can only see who they are here.
So who wins the 2025 Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, and which massive longshot could stun NASCAR? Visit SportsLine now to see the 2025 Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega picks and best bets from a NASCAR insider who nailed a colossal 17 winners last year, and find out.
2025 Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway odds, lineup
See full Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway picks at SportsLine
Ryan Blaney +1000
Brad Keselowski +1000
Kyle Busch +1100
Joey Logano +1100
William Byron +1200
Kyle Larson +1400
Denny Hamlin +1400
Tyler Reddick +1600
Christopher Bell +1600
Chase Elliott +1600
Chase Briscoe +1600
Austin Cindric +1600
Bubba Wallace +2000
Alex Bowman +2000
Michael McDowell +2200
Todd Gilliland +2500
Ross Chastain +2500
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. +2800
Chris Buescher +3000
Ty Dillon +3500
Ty Gibbs +4000
Josh Berry +4000
Erik Jones +4000
Daniel Suarez +4000
Carson Hocevar +4000
Ryan Preece +4500
Austin Dillon +4500
Noah Gragson +5500
Justin Haley +5500
A.J. Allmendinger +5500
Cole Custer +6500
Zane Smith +7000
Riley Herbst +7000
John Hunter Nemechek +7000
Shane Van Gisbergen +8000
Anthony Alfredo +10000
J.J. Yeley +13000
Cody Ware +13000
B.J. McLeod +13000
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