Las Vegas releases early odds for Super Bowl 57
The confetti has fallen and there’s a new Super Bowl champion. On Monday, Las Vegas oddsmakers released the favorites to take home the Super Bowl 57 trophy now that the cap is on the 2021-22 season.
The Rams won their first Super Bowl as a Los Angeles squad on Sunday night over the Cincinnati Bengals, 23-20. Despite the victory, the Rams are not the favorite to win it all again next year. The Kansas City Chiefs, who were stunned by the Bengals in the AFC Championship, top the list for 2023. They have equal odds to win with the Buffalo Bills at +700.
The Cincinnati Bengals return a lot of young stars in 2022-23, however, they have the seventh-best odds to win the title after their Cinderella run this season. The Rams have the third-best odds at +1200 – even with the Dallas Cowboys. Behind Dallas, the oddsmakers like San Francisco and Green Bay’s chances at making it back to the playoffs and into the Super Bowl in 2023.
Super Bowl 57 Odds
Super Bowl 57 futures odds are courtesy of Vegas Insider and reflect the odds from Feb. 14, 2022.
Kansas City Chiefs +700
Buffalo Bills +700
Los Angeles Rams +1200
Dallas Cowboys +1200
San Francisco 49ers +1500
Green Bay Packers +1500
Cincinnati Bengals +1900
Baltimore Ravens +1900
Denver Broncos +2200
Cleveland Browns +2200
Tampa Bay Buccaneers +2200
Los Angeles Chargers +2400
Tennessee Titans +2400
Arizona Cardinals +2400
Indianapolis Colts +2400
New England Patriots +2800
Joe Burrow discusses Cincinnati’s future after loss
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow came so close to completing a Peyton Manning-Colts type turnaround from last place to Super Bowl championship in two seasons. However, a late-game comeback from the Los Angeles Rams spoiled the finale.
Given how close the Bengals were, and how young Cincinnati’s core is, Burrow believes that the franchise’s Super Bowl window is only just beginning.
“We’re a young team, so we’d like to think we’ll be back multiple times over the course of the next few years,” Burrow said. “We take this and let it fuel you for the rest of our careers.”
The Bengals are one of the youngest teams in the NFL, and some of their core players — namely, Burrow, who’s in his second year, and Ja’Marr Chase — have yet to reach their primes. The Bengals entered the season with an average age of 25.6 years old. They were the 10th-youngest team in the NFL heading into this season. Unlike the Rams, who traded pick after pick to bring in the likes of Matthew Stafford and Von Miller, Cincinnati owns all of their future NFL Draft picks.
The icing on the cake is the team’s cap space. Not only could they draft to their needs and select offensive linemen, a key deficiency on the roster this season, but they are in a position to be big spenders this offseason. The Bengals have the most cap space among all 2021 NFL Playoff teams. They will roll over roughly $5.3 million in cap space to next season, which gives the franchise $58 million in cap space next year.
On3’s Simon Gibbs contributed to this report.