A First Look At Super Bowl Prop Bets for the NFC Team: San Francisco 49ers

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The Philadelphia Eagles are in the Super Bowl for the first time since the 2017 NFL season when they upset the New England Patriots to win the first championship in the SB era. Can they win a second on Sunday? Philly is a 1.5-point favorite on the Super Bowl odds to beat the Kansas City Chiefs.

A First Look At Super Bowl 57 Prop Bets For Philadelphia Eagles

It has been a breakout season for Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts. He was a bit of a question mark entering the campaign – Philadelphia even looked into trading for Deshaun Watson last winter – but likely will finish second in NFL MVP voting and is set for a big contract extension. Hurts, a second-round pick of the Eagles in 2020, has one year left on his rookie deal and is now eligible for an extension. He is the +110 favorite to win Super Bowl MVP.

Hurts showed leadership traits and some on-field promise in his first full year as a starter in 2021, but questions about his ceiling — driven mainly by subpar accuracy numbers — lingered into last offseason. Hurts was in an ideal spot this season playing with great receivers, a good offensive line and an elite defense. But he maximized the opportunity and produced magnificent numbers in 2022.

“I don’t think he has anything to prove (as the quarterback of the future),” owner Jeffrey Lurie said this week of an extension for Hurts. “He is an MVP-caliber quarterback, an incredible leader of the team on the field (and) off the field. He’s 24 years old, incredibly mature and, most importantly, driven to be even better. What we’re seeing today, I think, is just the beginning for Jalen. This guy will attack every weakness, as he has since high school (and) since college. The future is bright and very exciting for all of us.”

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Hurts will make history on Sunday, becoming the first two Black quarterbacks to start in the same Super Bowl: “It lays the foundation for what’s to come,” said Hurts. “So many kids that have been told to change their position now know that it can be done.”

Hurts is set at over-under 241.5 passing yards, 1.5 TDs and 50.5 rushing yards on Sunday. In the NFC title game win over the 49ers, Hurts completed 15 of 25 passes for 121 yards and added 39 rushing yards and a touchdown on 11 carries. He hasn’t put up huge numbers in these playoffs as the Eagles didn’t need much in blowing out both the Niners and Giants.

Running back Miles Sanders is +2200 to win MVP and could be playing his final game with the Eagles as Sanders is set for free agency. This season, Sanders has totaled up 1,401 rushing yards and 13 rushing touchdowns — a notable feat considering he didn’t find the end zone once in 2021 despite contributing 962 scrimmage yards. He also had 81 receiving yards on 27 receptions en route to his first career selection to the NFL Pro Bowl – although Sanders obviously didn’t compete in the Pro Bowl festivities.

Sanders and Hurts are also the first teammates in NFL history with 13 or more rushing touchdowns in a single season – Sanders had two TDs in the NFC title game win over the Niners. Sanders is set at over-under 59.5 rushing yards for Super Bowl 57 and is -105 for an anytime touchdown. Sanders averaged 73.7 rushing yards in his 19 appearances this season. The Chiefs allowed the eighth-fewest rushing yards per game (107.3) during the regular season and held their playoff opponents to a nearly identical number (107.5).

Hurts’ top two wideouts, AJ Brown and former Heisman winner DeVonta Smith, are +2500 and +3300, respectively for MVP – a receiver won Super Bowl MVP last year in the LA Rams’ Cooper Kupp. Smith set the Eagles’ franchise record for catches by a wideout (95) and Brown set the record for receiving yards (1,496) in their first season together; Smith was a 2021 first-round pick out of Alabama and Brown was acquired via trade from Tennessee during the 2022 NFL Draft. They combined for 18 touchdowns and 41 gains of 20-plus yards. Brown is +105 for an anytime TD on Sunday and Smith +150.

In the three drafts before the 2022 trade for Brown, the Eagles had taken receivers in the second round (J.J. Arcega-Whiteside), first round (Jalen Reagor), and first round (Smith); Smith was the only notable success with the other two as major busts and now elsewhere.

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This coming Sunday, when Super Bowl 51 begins, it will represent only the second ever appearance for the Atlanta Falcons in the Championship Game. There seems to be a definite split among people talking about their chances versus the New England Patriots. For every person who believes that their offense will be unstoppable this weekend, there is another who believes that their inexperience will do them in. Regardless of which side of that fence you sit on, you still can make some money with this team on Super Bowl Sunday, and that comes via the multitude of prop bets that are available. I have broken the Super Bowl betting lines down into two distinct categories, so lets’ look and see what’s available.

A First Look At Super Bowl Prop Bets For Atlanta Falcons

SB51 Atlanta Falcons Game Props

As you might expect from a team with an offense this potent, many of the game props have to do with scoring. Your first wager option is to decide what the Atlanta Falcons first scoring play will be, a field goal or a TD. If you believe that it will be a TD, will it be a rushing or passing play? We all know that this team can score, but will they be able to put points on the board in each of the four quarters?

In terms of efficiency wagers, you can look at their running game and choose between the OVER or UNDER 110.5 total yards. You can also wager on whether or not they will score a rushing TD at any point in the game, including OT. The total first downs number is set at 23.5, while the total sacks made by the defense comes in at 1.5.

Given the point total for this game, everyone believes that the Falcons will score at least one TD, but when exactly will that happen? There are a few different TD scenarios to wager on for the Falcons, but if you believe that it is going to be their defense that rises up, then you can select from many different defensive props, such as sacks, INT’s, and whether the D can score.

SB51 Atlanta Falcons Player Props

The winner of SB51 will be the one that puts in the best overall team effort, but you can guarantee that one or two players will do something that will make a difference. For the Falcons, that may well be Matt Ryan, which is why he has a few prop bets open, such as total yards, completions, and total TD passes. The biggest target for Ryan I Julio Jones, and you can go with several different prop bets on the big receiver, from total catches to number of yards, plus many more.

The running game will be crucial to the success of the Atlanta Falcons, and it will be Devonta Freeman who will get the majority of the carries. How many carries he gets, as well as his total yards, are both prop bets that are open to you. Choose your favorite player and make some money on what they do in the big game.