William Hill has posted odds at its Nevada sportsbooks on which team quarterback Tom Brady will take his first snap with in Week 1 of the 2020 NFL regular season.
Betting
There are three road favorites in this weekend’s games, and Houston is the favorite to claim the new football league’s title.
The Circa Sports Million features $3 million in guarantees, up from $1.5 million last season. The new Circa Survivor guarantees $1 million to the winner.
Station Casinos sportsbook lists the total number of QBs drafted in the first round at 3½. The over opened as a +140 underdog, but has been bet up to a -150 favorite.
The best teams in the new football league have started to emerge, and that is reflected in this week’s betting lines and futures odds.
Circa Sports watched bettors drive the totals on Week 1 games for the new football league up from 40½ to 51 or higher, but the results worked out for the book.
An all-time Super Bowl prop loss and some brutal changes of fortune in basketball make up our first weekly compilation of games bettors want to forget.
The relaunched football league, which opens play this weekend, eliminates extra points, encourages kickoff returns, discourages punts and speeds up play.
The $18.8 million won by the books is their second-largest Super Bowl win, behind the $19.7 million (16.5 percent) win on Seattle’s 43-8 upset of Denver in 2014.
The Patriots remain the favorites to keep their six-time Super Bowl champion quarterback in New England. But if Brady leaves, the Raiders are now the favorites to sign him.
“Everybody cashing Super Bowl tickets now will bet something on their way out,” Westgate vice president of risk Ed Salmons said. “We’ve taken bets on literally every team.”
The odds on Tom Brady playing for the Las Vegas Raiders next season keep improving. If Brady leaves New England, the Raiders are now the favorites to sign him.
A botched desperation lateral would’ve given bettors a miracle over. But the game stayed under when a deep pass by Jimmy Garoppolo was intercepted.
The Chiefs quarterback’s rushing yards took a hit as Kansas City ran out the clock, dealing a bad beat to bettors who took him to exceed his total.
MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment each reported a multimillion-dollar win on the Kansas City Chiefs’ 31-20 comeback victory over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV.
