Packers’ Super Bowl Odds Vary Widely After Rodgers News

With the trade of Aaron Rodgers from the Packers to the Jets a formality, here are the latest Super Bowl, division and MVP odds.

Author:
Bill Huber
Publish date:
Mar 16, 2023 5:58 PM EDT

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GREEN BAY, Wis. – With Jordan Love presumably taking over at quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, will they be Super Bowl contenders or pretenders in 2023?

Nobody really knows how they’ll respond to a trade of Aaron Rodgers, which explains the all-over-the-map Super Bowl odds at some of the nation’s top sportsbooks in the wake of Rodgers saying he intends to play for the New York Jets.

At SI Sportsbook, the Packers are +2800 to win the championship. That’s where they’ve been since the initial odds were posted after the Chiefs beat the Eagles in this year’s Super Bowl.

At FanDuel Sportsbook, Green Bay’s championship odds have yo-yo’d. The Packers opened at +2500, moved to as long as +3500 and are back to +2800.

On the other hand, the Packers are +3500 to win the Super Bowl at PointsBet and +5000 at SuperBook and BetMGM.

Meanwhile, the Jets’ championship odds are fairly steady across the sportsbooks, ranging from +1200 at SuperBook to +1500 at FanDuel.

“There’s a lot of reasons why the Jets are attractive,” Rodgers said on The Pat McAfee Show on Wednesday. “But there’s one coach who’s meant as much to me as any coach I’ve ever had. And he happens to be the coordinator there.”

That’s obviously Nathaniel Hackett, who was Green Bay’s offensive coordinator from 2019 through 2021. The Packers won 13 regular-season games all three seasons and Rodgers won MVP in 2020 and 2021. Receiver Allen Lazard joined the Jets, too.

“Anybody who’s been around Nathaniel Hackett knows that he brings a lot of energy, a lot of fun,” Rodgers continued. “He’s an incredible teacher of the game, especially the quarterback position, and he’s a really good human being. So, for people to say that that was done just as an attempt to lure me, is a total disservice to Nathaniel Hackett, what he’s accomplished in his career, the kind of person that he is. I’m going to push back on that every time.”

The presumptive trade of Rodgers and the early days of free agency haven’t been kind to Green Bay’s NFC North odds. At BetMGM, the Detroit Lions are a heavy favorite at -135. They are followed by the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings at +300 and the Packers at +450. It’s a little closer at PointsBet, with Detroit +160, Minnesota +275, Chicago +310 and Green Bay +375.

“With or without him, we are on the rise and I think that we’re going to be for years to come,” Lions linebacker Alex Anzalone said Wednesday. “And it’s fun to see it happening and see it happening in real time, and seeing young guys develop, seeing pieces being filled that we need filled through free agency and the draft. It’s going to be a fun year going forward.”

In the NFC Championship market, the Packers are +1800 at SI Sportsbook – ninth-longest of the 16 teams.

At FanDuel, Rodgers’ over/unders are 4,000.5 passing yards and 29.5 touchdowns. He is +1500 to rush for five-plus touchdowns.

The bet is +200 for the Jets to make the playoffs and the Packers to miss the playoffs, and +350 for the Jets to miss the playoffs but the Packers to make the playoffs. The Jets are +400 to reach the AFC Championship Game, +850 to have the No. 1 seed and +15000 to go undefeated.

In the MVP race at FanDuel, Buffalo’s Josh Allen, Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow and Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes are the tri-favorites at +700. Rodgers has the seventh-longest odds at +1600. Love is +3000 – shorter than the likes of Russell Wilson (+4000), Derek Carr (+4000), Kirk Cousins (+5000) and Matthew Stafford (+6000).

At SuperBook, Rodgers is +1200 and Love is +5000. At PointsBet, Rodgers is +1800 and Love is +4000.