Tennessee Titans Now Favorites to Sign DeAndre Hopkins After Wild Odds Swing
NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Titans have always made a ton of sense as a DeAndre Hopkins landing spot, but rarely have they been considered the favorites to land him. Until today, when the odds shifted and all the sudden the Titans went from +500 to best odds at -300 on Draft Kings Sportsbook.
Just this morning I wrote about the Hopkins' odds and where the Titans fell. Just a few hours ago they sat with the third-best odds behind the then-favorited New England Patriots and Buffalo Bills.
Spin the clock forward and the Titans now sit as a -300 favorite with the Patriots in second at +400 and the Kansas City Chiefs in third at +700. A massive jump for the Titans that continues a streak of good reports for the team.
I discussed all the recent buzz in the story earlier today, but why got intel from Mike Reiss, Patriots' beat reporter for ESPN, saying he "leaned Tennessee" in terms of who he thought would land Hopkins and mentioned the Titans being "more aggressive" in their pursuit of Hopkins.
Not only that, but this past week Jeremy Fowler of ESPN said on radio that the Titans were "well positioned" to land Hopkins and the idea had a lot of "buy in" from Mike Vrabel.
To cap it all off, Mike Lombardi of the GM Shuffle podcast, who has ties with the Patriots, said he thought the Titans would sign Hopkins because they were willing to spend more. Which, as I also wrote earlier this week, they should be.
The reality here is that gambling odds don't really mean much at the end of the day. While some like to use them as a predictive tool, it's a fool's errand. The purpose of gambling lines is to attract the type of bets the books think they need.
Odds shift not solely based on intel, but based on the bets that come in on a particular topic. We cannot take these line changes as some seismic event and let it lead to unearned optimism. However, if you examine the situation and listen to recent reports, it makes all the sense in the world the Titans are the favorites.
Maybe, this is the books catching up, not being out in front.
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