Upsets And Huge Parlays Headline Crazy NFL Wild Card Betting Weekend

The NFL Wild Card Weekend provided an total lot excitement and making a wager surprises. [Image: Shutterstock.com]

Somebody who understanding that a wild one year of NFL making a wager used to be going to cease in the Wild Card spherical had one other thing coming to them.

Amid the shock of the Houston Texans – who have a rookie head coach, rookie offensive coordinator, and rookie quarterback – annihilating the Cleveland Browns and the Dallas Cowboys losing their undefeated home shuffle in historical trend to the Green Bay Packers had been some predominant making a wager surprises.

$7,505 on a two-leg $5 parlay

Considered one of the craziest wins of the weekend at a predominant sportsbook used to be one DraftKings bettor successful $7,505 on a two-leg $5 parlay. 

The wager incorporated each and each Packers operating lend a hand Aaron Jones and Cowboys tight pause Jake Ferguson scoring 3+ touchdowns in the identical recreation, a feat they’d handiest done three times across their total careers (and no longer since September 2020).

Jones done the sport with 118 yards and three TDs on the ground on 21 carries, while Ferguson caught 10 balls for 93 yards and three rankings. Ferguson scored twice in the ideal six minutes of the fourth quarter, cementing the ticket as a winner after he scored on a 14-yard circulate with 3: 25 last.

While Jones and the Packers loved the spoils of Sunday’s purchase against Dallas, high extensive receiver Jayden Reed dropped a huge goose egg.

The 23-one year-previous caught 64 passes for 793 yards and eight TDs at some level of the conventional season, however did no longer location as a lot as approach down with a address three targets on Sunday.

Reed posted on X (formerly Twitter) after the sport and jokingly apologized for ruining his fans’ parlays however furthermore shared his excitement for advancing in the playoffs.

Green Bay became each and each the significant seven seed to purchase a recreation in the newly expanded NFL Wild Card format and a making a wager hero. The Packers had been spherical +285 on the moneyline at kickoff, however showed no mercy to a Dallas group that used to be 8-0 at home with a mean scoring margin of +21.5.

In the period in-between, the Texans’ Expansive Bowl odds shrank from +6000 to as itsy-bitsy as +1700 at DraftKings following their upset purchase over the Browns.