Seahawks, Rams favored in wide-open Super Bowl LXI field - ESPN

The Seattle Seahawks won Super Bowl LX after entering the season as +6000 long shots. They'll enter the next season favored to win Super Bowl LXI, but their relatively long odds suggest the field is unprecedentedly wide open.

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.

The longer odds at the top means there is more balance in the middle tiers of the odds board. The Detroit Lions (+1400), Green Bay Packers (+1400) and Los Angeles Chargers (+1500) are just some of the perennial contenders at +2800 or shorter… a group that ultimately comprises half of the teams in the league.

DraftKings Sportsbook director Johnny Avello notes that teams like the Kansas City Chiefs (+1500), whose dynastic ambitions are somewhat in flux, and the Denver Broncos (+1800), who narrowly missed playing this year's Super Bowl, are perhaps getting more lost in the sea of contenders than they would in previous years.

«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