Los Angeles Rams have NFL’s finest playoff odds at historic -500

The 2026 Los Angeles Rams haven’t performed a single sport but, however the oddsmakers are already treating their playoff possibilities like January could be penciled into the calendar. 

After their first two wins within the preseason, sportsbooks have put in the Rams as overwhelming favorites to make the playoffs with -500 odds, the shortest odds of any workforce in soccer. 

At -500, bettors must danger $500 simply to win $100 on Los Angeles reaching the postseason. Baltimore owns the next-shortest worth within the NFL at -375, adopted by Buffalo at -350. No NFC workforce is especially near the Rams, with Detroit and reigning Tremendous Bowl champion Seattle sitting at -220.

Evidently, that is a gigantic quantity of confidence in reigning NFL MVP Matthew Stafford and a Rams roster constructed with all of the subtlety of a championship-or-bust billboard. 

The expectations don’t cease with playoff possibilities. The Rams and Ravens additionally share the NFL’s highest common season win whole at 11.5 video games, one other indication that oddsmakers see the Rams as a 12-win workforce, working in a unique neighborhood than most groups within the league. 

Oddsmakers additionally like the opposite groups within the NFC West as properly. Seattle has -220 playoff odds and San Francisco sits at -150. Lowly Arizona isn’t anticipated to make the playoffs with the worst offs at +2000. Their over/below on common season wins is 3.5. 

In fact, these are simply preseason odds. It ensures nothing. The Rams know all too properly that accidents can derail a season. Tremendous Bowl favorites fall come winter. Each NFL season has not less than one workforce that sees their preseason projections burnt to a crisp with a blowtorch.

However -500 isn’t merely respect. It’s the betting market primarily daring you to think about the Rams lacking the playoffs. 

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For a franchise constructed to win the Tremendous Bowl proper now, the message from oddsmakers couldn’t be a lot louder: Making the playoffs isn’t thought-about an accomplishment.

It’s now the expectation.