A bettor in Kentucky is backing the Philadelphia Eagles to defeat the Carolina Panthers on Sunday with a $3.1 million wager, one of many largest bets ever reported on an NFL regular-season sport.
Circa Sports activities took the wager on the Eagles cash line Thursday afternoon at -700 odds, which might internet roughly $442,800. In response, the sportsbook moved its line on Philadelphia to -870 and lengthened Carolina to +650 as of Friday morning. Different sportsbooks have Philly so long as -675, with the Birds giving round 13 factors to the Panthers on the unfold marketwide.
Circa Sports activities proprietor Derek Stevens advised ESPN that the bettor first positioned $1 million on the Eagles, then requested to guess extra, ending up with the $3.1 million on Philadelphia. It is the most important guess the sportsbook has ever taken, Stevens stated. “I advised my guys within the danger room to go to work and get some buyback on the Panthers,” Stevens stated Friday. “With us being in 5 states now, we must always have the liquidity to get sufficient buyback to the place we find yourself needing the Eagles.”
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“We presently have the perfect Panthers [money-line] value on the board and might be huge Bryce Younger followers on Sunday,” Circa sportsbook director Jeff Benson advised ESPN by electronic mail.
ESPN BET reviews that Philadelphia is the e-book’s most-bet cash line, in addition to the second-most-bet on the unfold, by complete tickets. The Eagles are additionally the most-bet money-line choice at DraftKings by bets and deal with, and BetMGM says the Panthers (+575) are its second-most-bet underdog to win outright by complete tickets.
“Eagles-Panthers is our most-bet sport of the weekend, and it has been largely one-way visitors with 70% of unfold deal with and 80% of money-line deal with on Philly,” ESPN BET’s director of North American sports activities buying and selling Adrian Horton stated by way of electronic mail. “We opened the sport at -12.5, and it is nonetheless transferring within the Eagles’ route, now at -13 on Friday morning.”
The guess for Sunday’s sport in Philadelphia is believed to be one of many largest ever positioned on an NFL regular-season contest. In Week 12, a bettor at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas positioned a $1 million wager on the Los Angeles Rams to cowl a three-point underdog unfold towards the Eagles at -120 odds; L.A. misplaced the sport 37-20. In January 2023, a bettor misplaced a $1.4 million dwell money-line wager when the Los Angeles Chargers blew 27-0 result in the Jacksonville Jaguars within the playoffs.
The biggest recorded NFL bets of all time have all been within the Tremendous Bowl. Famed bettor Billy Walters reportedly guess $6 million on the New Orleans Saints with the factors towards the Indianapolis Colts in Tremendous Bowl XLIV, whereas Houston-area furnishings salesman and bettor Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale has made a number of wagers in extra of $3 million on current championship video games.
