What's your early Super Bowl LXI pick? Jeremy Fowler, national NFL reporter: Rams over Broncos. Los Angeles matched up with Seattle as well as anyone last season and will be back to finish the job. The Matthew Stafford-Sean McVay connection is improving with age. The secondary was a weakness late in the season, so expect the Rams to address that issue for roster balance.
At leading prediction market Kalshi, more than $47 million has been staked this season on what are known as NFL announcer mention markets, where users trade on the probability of what the play-by-play broadcaster or color analyst will -- or will not -- say during games. Since September, the average amount risked on NFL announcer mention markets has grown more than seven times, from less than half a million per game at the start of the season to $3.55 million on the AFC and NFC championship games
Matthew Stafford has been named NFL Most Valuable Player and confirmed he will return for another season with the Los Angeles Rams. The 37-year-old edged New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye in one of the closest MVP races in league history before using his acceptance speech to announce he is not retiring. Stafford received 24 of 50 first-place votes in balloting by a nationwide panel of media members and finished with 366 points.
