"Seattle is tied with the Los Angeles Rams at +950 to win the NFL's championship in 2027, followed by the Buffalo Bills at +1100, and the Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Ravens and AFC champion New England Patriots tied at +1300, according to DraftKings odds. If they hold until the beginning of the season, the Seahawks' and Rams' odds would be the longest for a preseason favorite on record (since at least 1977), per ESPN Research and SportsOddsHistory.com. Since 2015, +950 would have been the second-shortest odds on the odds board once and fifth-shortest on the board six times."
""When you have teams that are a little higher priced on the top end of the future book, that just means you can't have teams that are really high priced in the middle," Avello told ESPN. "I think there's just a lot of uncertainty with these teams right now and after what we saw happen this year with [New England and Seattle] making a big move, that just shows you that maybe that's the way football is. Maybe there's parity now in football.""
Seattle won Super Bowl LX after entering the season as +6000 long shots. They enter the next season tied with the Los Angeles Rams at +950 to win the 2027 NFL championship, followed by the Buffalo Bills at +1100 and the Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Ravens and AFC champion New England Patriots tied at +1300, per DraftKings odds. If these odds hold until the season, +950 would be the longest preseason favorite odds on record since at least 1977. Longer top-end odds have created more balance across middle-tier futures, clustering many contenders with relatively short odds.
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