NFL Offensive and Defensive Rookie of the Year Odds

The online betting sportsbook has posted odds for the NFL’s Offensive and Defensive Rookie of the Year honors. Although the NFL is still working through an intense labor dispute, the NFL Draft this past April produced huge ratings, like it does every year, signaling that pro football fans are eagerly waiting for training camp to begin in August.

Surprisingly, overall number 1 pick Cam Newton is not the favorite on the NFL betting big board for the offensive award. Favoritism has fallen to former Alabama wide receiver Julio Jones, the sixth overall pick in this year’s draft. Jones is going off at +500 in the sportsbook.

The second choice on the board for NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year is Mark Ingram, another Crimson Tide alum, who is listed at +550. Ingram, chosen twenty-eighth overall by the Saints, figures to receive a ton of carries in New Orleans’ coach Sean Payton’s spread offense.

Following Ingram is wide receiver A.J. Green at +600. The Cincinnati Bengals chose Green third overall in the draft. The oddsmakers must feel that the Bengals will end the war of words that they’ve been having with quarterback Carson Palmer who has threatened to retire before this upcoming season. If Palmer does retire, then Green may end up catching passes from a long shot NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year candidate, former TCU signal-caller Anthony Dalton, who is listed at +2000 in the online sportsbook.

Cam Newton, last year’s Heisman Trophy winner and the starting QB for national champion Auburn, is listed at +650 to win the award. Newton, who will be in an intense battle for the starting position with former Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen – if the NFL gets its act together – over in Carolina, might find himself on the bench for most of next season. So far, action has been tepid on the first overall pick.

On the defensive side of things, a defensive tackle, defensive back, and linebacker are listed as the favorites in the sportsbook. Nick Fairley, the thirteenth overall pick by the Detroit Lions, who anchored Auburn’s D-line in last season’s run to the BCS title, and Patrick Peterson, the fifth overall pick by the Arizona Cardinals that picked off passes as a cornerback for LSU, are both at +500. The second overall pick in the draft, former Texas A&M outside linebacker Von Miller, is also listed at +500 to win NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year honors. Miller figures to excel under first year Bronco’s coach John Fox’s schemes. Fox turned Jon Beason into a second line tackling monster during his stint at Carolina.

Going off at +600 is Marcell Dareus, the anchor on Alabama’s defensive line, whom the Buffalo Bills chose third overall in the draft. Two defensive backs, Prince Amukamara from Nebraska, drafted nineteenth by the New York Giants, and Jimmy Smith from Colorado, drafted twenty-seventh by the Baltimore Ravens, are the only other two choices in the sportsbook for the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award listed at single-digits in the sportsbook. Both Amukamara and Smith are listed at +800 to win the award.

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