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Betting the Colts in 2026: See how Indianapolis’ win total, Super Bowl odds are trending and our best bets

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The Colts were one of the best teams in the NFL over the first half of last season and entered their Week 11 bye with an 8-2 record. But that’s when the schedule turned brutal, with both games against the Texans and Jaguars down the stretch along with road trips to Kansas City and Seattle plus a home game against the 49ers. To make matters worse, starting QB Daniel Jones suffered an Achilles injury that left the team scrambling at quarterback. Jones’ recovery will likely dictate how 2026 goes for Indianapolis, as the Colts seem likely to head into the

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Betting the Falcons in 2026: See how Atlanta’s win total, Super Bowl odds are trending and our best bets

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The Falcons failed to make the playoffs for the eighth straight season in 2025, and it cost coach Raheem Morris his job. In comes two-time Coach of the Year winner Kevin Stefanski, who took the Browns to the playoffs twice during Atlanta’s postseason drought. However, Stefanski’s Browns won just eight games between the last two years combined while a Falcons team that fired its coach won eight games alone in 2025, finishing tied with two teams for the division lead but landing in third place due to tiebreakers. And just like in Cleveland, Stefanski will have to manage a quarterback

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Betting the Texans in 2026: See how Houston’s win total, Super Bowl odds are trending and our best bets

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The 2025 Texans may have been the best team in franchise history, matching a franchise record with 12 wins and posting the team’s best point differential (+109) ever. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough for a third straight division title thanks to the ascension of the Jaguars, and while the Texans made it to the Divisional Round for a third straight season, their first ever trip to the AFC Championship Game remained out of grasp. Will 2026 be the year? It may come down to the performance of a retooled offensive line and whether C.J. Stroud can recapture the magic of his

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Drake London lands massive Falcons extension, becomes one of NFL’s highest-paid WRs

The Atlanta Falcons and wide receiver Drake London agreed to a four-year contract extension Tuesday, per NFL Media. London’s deal is worth $141 million and includes $100 million guaranteed, his agent told ESPN — making him the third-highest-paid receiver in the NFL on a per-year basis and giving him the largest average annual salary in Falcons history. Incentives can make the contract worth as much as $150 million.

London is on an exciting trajectory heading into his fifth year as a pro. He upped his yardage output in Years 2 and 3 and appeared on track for another strong season in 2025

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Nick Herbig, Steelers agree to $100M extension, per report: Why deal could reshape Pittsburgh’s EDGE room

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The Pittsburgh Steelers and edge rusher Nick Herbig reached an agreement on a contract extension Tuesday, per ESPN, which locks Herbig into the team’s long-term future. It’s a four-year deal worth $100 million, including $42 million guaranteed. The hefty raise reportedly makes Herbig the first non-quarterback to land a $100 million contract without starting an entire NFL season in his career.

Across his first three years in the NFL, Herbig logged 45 appearances with just 11 starts. He has never started more than six games in a single season and is effectively the third option in the pass-rushing scheme behind T.J.

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Myles Garrett gives the Rams a better shot at winning the Super Bowl, but was he worth the cost?

The easy way to look at the Myles Garrett trade is to say the Rams added the best defensive player in football and instantly became the favorite to win Super Bowl LX.

Garrett is still one of the rare defenders who changes the pre-snap math for every offense he lines up against. He’s coming off a record-setting 23-sack season, just won NFL Defensive Player of the Year and gives the Rams the type of game-wrecking edge presence that comes along every couple of decades.

But that’s also the easy part of the conversation. The more interesting question isn’t whether Garrett makes the

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Patriots coordinator compares newly acquired receiver A.J. Brown to franchise legend

After months of rumors, wide receiver A.J. Brown is finally officially a member of the Patriots, with New England sending a 2028 first-round pick and a 2027 fifth-round pick to the Philadelphia Eagles to get the deal done. Brown moves from one Super Bowl hopeful to another and, in doing so, fulfills a lifetime dream of joining his favorite childhood team.

Coach Mike Vrabel has a lot of pressure on him going into year two with New England after making it to the Super Bowl, but coming up short last season. Adding Brown addresses one of the team’s biggest weaknesses from

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Agent’s Take: Explaining the NFL’s post-June 1 designation and this year’s biggest cuts

June 2 is an important date on the NFL calendar. Under the NFL’s salary cap rules, bonus proration from remaining or future contract years is delayed until the following league year when a player is released, retires or is traded after June 1.

The date used to carry greater significance in the NFL. It marked the beginning of the final wave of free agency. Teams would primarily release players with excessive contracts or declining performance because of the change in salary cap implications.

In some years, more than 20 players were released after June 1. Some of the big-name players to hit

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Aaron Donald return rumors are flying after Myles Garrett trade: Five signs ex-Rams star might unretire

The Los Angeles Rams pulled off one of the biggest shockers of the NFL offseason on Monday when they acquired Myles Garrett in a trade with the Cleveland Browns. The Rams already had one of the best rosters in the league, and it got even better with the addition of the two-time Defensive Player of the Year.

At this point, the only way the Rams’ roster could get any better is if Aaron Donald decided to come out of retirement, and there’s no way that’s going to happen. Right? RIGHT??

Well, don’t look now, but the return rumors are heating up. After acquiring Garrett,

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Myles Garrett to Rams props: NFL Defensive Player of Year given 20 percent shot to break his league sack mark

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One of the most surprising NFL trades in years went down Monday when the Browns traded two-time Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett, who set the league’s single-season sack record in 2025, to the Rams for Pro Bowl pass-rusher Jared Verse and multiple draft picks. Plenty of folks here at CBS already have broken that deal down and how it improved the Rams’ futures odds, so what I’ll do is alert you to a few Garrett-related specials at the various sportsbooks.

Fans who want to wager on NFL futures and tail Matt Severance’s picks need to see the latest FanDuel promo

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