The 2026 Los Angeles Rams haven’t performed a single recreation yet, but the oddsmakers are already treating their playoff probabilities like January can be penciled into the calendar.
After their first two wins in the preseason, sportsbooks have put in the Rams as overwhelming favorites to make the playoffs with -500 odds, the shortest odds of any workforce in soccer.
At -500, bettors would have to threat $500 just to win $100 on Los Angeles reaching the postseason. Baltimore owns the next-shortest worth in the NFL at -375, adopted by Buffalo at -350. No NFC workforce is notably shut to the Rams, with Detroit and reigning Super Bowl champion Seattle sitting at -220.
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Needless to say, that is an huge quantity of confidence in reigning NFL MVP Matthew Stafford and a Rams roster constructed with all the subtlety of a championship-or-bust billboard.
The expectations don’t cease with playoff probabilities. The Rams and Ravens also share the NFL’s highest common season win whole at 11.5 video games, another indication that oddsmakers see the Rams as a 12-win workforce, working in a completely different neighborhood than most groups in the league.
Oddsmakers also like the other groups in the NFC West as nicely. Seattle has -220 playoff odds and San Francisco sits at -150. Lowly Arizona is not expected to make the playoffs with the worst offs at +2000. Their over/under on common season wins is 3.5.
Of course, these are just preseason odds. It ensures nothing. The Rams know all too nicely that accidents can derail a season. Super Bowl favorites fall come winter. Every NFL season has at least one workforce that sees their preseason projections burnt to a crisp with a blowtorch.
But -500 isn’t merely respect. It’s the betting market primarily daring you to think about the Rams lacking the playoffs.
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For a franchise constructed to win the Super Bowl proper now, the message from oddsmakers couldn’t be much louder: Making the playoffs isn’t thought of an accomplishment.
It’s now the expectation.