Quarterback · Cincinnati Bengals

Joe Burrow

No. 9 · 7th season

Bettors are so confident in Burrow they're giving a sportsbook a headache

Coming off a season he barely finished, Joe Burrow is somehow the player everyone wants to bet their money on.

Burrow missed significant time last year to injury, which tends to cool off the public. Not this time. Bettors at BetMGM have piled onto Burrow to win the league's Most Valuable Player award so heavily that the sportsbook is now sitting on a liability — meaning if Burrow wins, they pay out more than they'd like.

That's not a small thing. Sportsbooks set their lines to balance money on both sides. When one name draws this much of the ticket, it tells you something about how the public feels — and right now, the public feels like Burrow is ready to remind everyone why they fell for him in the first place.

Somewhere between the injury and the offseason, the narrative didn't cool. It got louder. That's the kind of belief that's hard to manufacture.

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