One of the biggest signs that 2020 is a sports year unlike any other has to do with the sports news cycle. What are you hearing from the NFL training camps? Usually, this is the camps dominate the news at this point in time. Baseball is usually still a month or so away from the playoffs, and the NBA and NHL are just getting back to thinking about their own training camps. Now, though, the NBA and NHL playoffs are in full swing, and the biggest NFL news we had over the weekend was a set of 77 positive tests for league employees that turned out to be false. However, we are about six weeks away from the start of the NFL regular season.
If you plan on Super Bowl futures as part of your NFL betting, which teams should you rely on?
We have the odds again for you — but then we follow them up with our own insights about the real contenders.
NFL Betting:
Who Can Really Win Super Bowl LV this Season?
| Super Bowl Odds | |
|---|---|
| Kansas City Chiefs | +600 |
| Baltimore Ravens | +650 |
| San Francisco 49ers | +1000 |
| New Orleans Saints | +1200 |
| Tampa Bay Buccaneers | +1400 |
| Dallas Cowboys | +1700 |
| Philadelphia Eagles | +2000 |
| Seattle Seahawks | +2000 |
| New England Patriots | +2200 |
| Indianapolis Colts | +2500 |
| Minnesota Vikings | +2500 |
| Pittsburgh Steelers | +2500 |
| Buffalo Bills | +2800 |
| Green Bay Packers | +2800 |
| Tennessee Titans | +3000 |
| Los Angeles Rams | +3300 |
| Atlanta Falcons | +4000 |
| Chicago Bears | +4000 |
| Cleveland Browns | +4000 |
| Los Angeles Chargers | +4500 |
| Arizona Cardinals | +5000 |
| Denver Broncos | +5000 |
| Houston Texans | +5000 |
| Detroit Lions | +6600 |
| Las Vegas Raiders | +6600 |
| Miami Dolphins | +7000 |
| New York Giants | +7000 |
| New York Jets | +10000 |
| Carolina Panthers | +10000 |
| Cincinnati Bengals | +10000 |
| Washington Football Team | +10000 |
Kansas City Chiefs
AFC West | Check the AFC Odds
How about those Kansas City Chiefs? It’s been 16 seasons since a team repeated as Super Bowl champions, as the New England Patriots (of course) did it in Super Bowls XXXVIII and XXXIX, beating Carolina and Philadelphia by a combined six points. It takes a lot of hunger to win just one Super Bowl. Will the Chiefs have that hunger again this year? The team gave Patrick Mahomes II a huge contract. How will respond? The Chiefs did solidify their defense in the offseason, and they added running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire as a sort of X-factor on offense.
San Francisco 49ers
NFC West | Check the NFC Odds
Can the San Francisco 49ers return to the Super Bowl and win this time? It has only been two seasons since a team lost a Super Bowl and then won the next year (of course, it was New England, losing Super Bowl LII to Philadelphia and beating the Rams in Super Bowl LIII). But before that? It hadn’t happened since 1972. In Super Bowl V, Baltimore beat Dallas, who won Super Bowl VI over the Dolphins. The Dolphins came back the next year and finished off their perfect season with a win in Super Bowl VII over Washington. The hangover after a Super Bowl loss can be brutal — and can lead to teams missing the playoffs altogether the next year. But the 49ers have a punishing ground game, and they have a gunslinger in Jimmy Garoppolo. They also have an elite defense. How will they look in 2020?
Baltimore Ravens
AFC North | Check the NFC Odds
The Baltimore Ravens might be the hungriest team in the NFL right now, after seeing their 14-2 season fade into oblivion after getting humiliated at home in the divisional playoff by the Tennessee Titans. Lamar Jackson will keep improving as a passer, and they added Derek Wolfe and Calais Campbell to strengthen a defense that was terrific during the season but then got gashed up the middle by the Titans.
Buffalo Bills
AFC East | Check the AFC Odds
For your sleeper, how about the Buffalo Bills? The defense is elite, particularly at the cornerback position. Josh Allen enters his third year, and he wouldn’t be the first quarterback with an extremely raw set of skills to make a huge jump entering his third year. The offensive line should be even better in 2020 as well. Oh, and the Bills finally don’t have Tom Brady playing in their division anymore.
