Bettor backs Eagles with $3.1 million wager to beat Panthers

A bettor in Kentucky is backing the Philadelphia Eagles to defeat the Carolina Panthers on Sunday with a $3.1 million wager, one of many largest bets ever reported on an NFL regular-season recreation.

Circa Sports activities took the wager on the Eagles cash line Thursday afternoon at -700 odds, which might web roughly $442,800. In response, the sportsbook moved its line on Philadelphia to -870 and lengthened Carolina to +650 as of Friday morning. Different sportsbooks have Philly so long as -675, with the Birds giving round 13 factors to the Panthers on the unfold marketwide.

Circa Sports activities proprietor Derek Stevens instructed ESPN that the bettor first positioned $1 million on the Eagles, then requested to guess extra, ending up with the $3.1 million on Philadelphia. It is the biggest guess the sportsbook has ever taken, Stevens mentioned. “I instructed my guys within the danger room to go to work and get some buyback on the Panthers,” Stevens mentioned Friday. “With us being in 5 states now, we must always have the liquidity to get sufficient buyback to the place we find yourself needing the Eagles.”

“We presently have the very best Panthers [money-line] value on the board and might be massive Bryce Younger followers on Sunday,” Circa sportsbook director Jeff Benson instructed ESPN by e-mail.

ESPN BET reviews that Philadelphia is the e-book’s most-bet cash line, in addition to the second-most-bet on the unfold, by whole tickets. The Eagles are additionally the most-bet money-line choice at DraftKings by bets and deal with, and BetMGM says the Panthers (+575) are its second-most-bet underdog to win outright by whole tickets.

“Eagles-Panthers is our most-bet recreation of the weekend, and it has been largely one-way site visitors with 70% of unfold deal with and 80% of money-line deal with on Philly,” ESPN BET’s director of North American sports activities buying and selling Adrian Horton mentioned through e-mail. “We opened the sport at -12.5, and it is nonetheless shifting within the Eagles’ path, now at -13 on Friday morning.”

The guess for Sunday’s recreation in Philadelphia is believed to be one of many largest ever positioned on an NFL regular-season contest. In Week 12, a bettor at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas positioned a $1 million wager on the Los Angeles Rams to cowl a three-point underdog unfold in opposition to the Eagles at -120 odds; L.A. misplaced the sport 37-20. In January 2023, a bettor misplaced a $1.4 million dwell money-line wager when the Los Angeles Chargers blew 27-0 result in the Jacksonville Jaguars within the playoffs.

The biggest recorded NFL bets of all time have all been within the Tremendous Bowl. Famed bettor Billy Walters reportedly guess $6 million on the New Orleans Saints with the factors in opposition to the Indianapolis Colts in Tremendous Bowl XLIV, whereas Houston-area furnishings salesman and bettor Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale has made a number of wagers in extra of $3 million on current championship video games.