The early betting motion on the Tremendous Bowl winner has been balanced sufficient between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles that, late within the week, some sportsbooks weren’t positive which staff they are going to be rooting for Sunday. However they had been sure of 1 factor: A giant sport from Saquon Barkley could be expensive.
Roughly 20% of Tremendous Bowl participant prop wagers have been on Barkley at ESPN BET, greater than every other participant, and extra money has been guess on the Eagles operating again than on Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight finish Travis Kelce mixed.
Fanatics Sportsbook reported that Barkley to attain a landing was included in additional Tremendous Bowl parlays than every other wager, together with the purpose unfold and cash line. He’s additionally tops in bets within the landing scorer markets at BetMGM, together with bets for Barkley to attain 4 touchdowns at 66-1.
“No landing from Saquon could be large for us,” Halvor Egeland, buying and selling supervisor for BetMGM, instructed ESPN on Thursday. “If he does occur to attain, limiting it to only one could be a assist to us as nicely.”
Barkley is the most well-liked guess to win Tremendous Bowl MVP at Caesars Sportsbook, regardless of historic odds for a operating again. Barkley has the second-shortest odds (+250) to win MVP, behind solely Mahomes (+120) at ESPN BET. Barkley is the primary non-quarterback to have the shortest MVP odds on his staff up to now twenty years, based on ESPN Analysis. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is (+360).
The over/below on Barkley’s dashing yards was sitting at 110.5 on Friday at ESPN BET. He’s the primary participant with a Tremendous Bowl dashing prop over 100 yards in additional than 15 years, based on ESPN Analysis. Barkley went over his dashing yards prop in 15 of 19 video games this season.
The Chiefs haven’t allowed a operating again to achieve 100 dashing yards in a sport this season.
