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There is a lot of buzz surrounding the Los Angeles Chargers this season. They have become the third-most popular pick to win the AFC behind Buffalo and Kansas City, as the pieces are in place for the Chargers to take the league by storm in 2022. Justin Herbert is entering his third year, and he appears to be ready to become one of the five best quarterbacks in the league,... 

Controversy overshadowed the Las Vegas Raiders’ second playoff appearance in two decades last year. Jon Gruden resigned after a 3-2 start after it came to light that he wrote a string of insensitive emails from 2011 to 2018 while he was working at ESPN. Rich Bisaccia took over as the interim coach and was able to right the ship and lead the team to a 10-7 record. The Raiders fe... 

Since Andy Reid took over the Kansas City Chiefs, they have been one of the best teams in the NFL. The Chiefs went 2-14 before Reid’s first season in 2013, but they have rebounded to win at least 10 games in eight of the last nine seasons. They have won the AFC West for six straight years, and they have been to the AFC Championship Game for four straight seasons. Kansas City has the second shortest odds to win the AFC behind Buffalo this season, and the Chiefs are always going to be a threat wit... 

At long last, the Denver Broncos have their quarterback. John Elway has been trying to land the Broncos their new franchise quarterback ever since Peyton Manning retired, and Denver finally has its man in Russell Wilson. After trying and failing with Paxton Lynch, Drew Lock, Joe Flacco, and about a half-dozen others, the Broncos finally have a bonafide winner under center now. This franchise hasn’t been able to make it to the playoffs since winning Super Bowl 50 over Carolina, but the Broncos ar... 

After less than one season at the helm, the Urban Meyer experiment came to a thankful end in Jacksonville. Meyer’s short tenure was an abject disaster on and off the field. He stirred up multiple controversies, and the franchise continued to spin its wheels instead of rebuilding for the future. The Jaguars hired former Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson this o... 

The present might be bleak for the Houston Texans, but the future is bright. Houston is likely going to be one of the worst teams in the AFC once again in 2022. The Texans have finished with just four wins in back-to-back seasons as a result of Bill O’Brien’s disastrous run as general manager coupled with Deshaun Watson’s off-field issues. Fortunately, O’Brien and Watson are both g... 

The Tennessee Titans were the best team in the AFC during the regular season last year. Tennessee went 12-5 and earned the No. 1 seed in the playoffs. However, anyone could have told you that the Titans were far from a dominant team. Star running back Derrick Henry suffered a major injury that kept him out for over two months, and the team also benefited from having four games ... 

There is a lot of buzz surrounding the Indianapolis Colts at this point of the offseason. For the third straight year, they have added a veteran quarterback, and the general consensus is that this one will be a bigger success than either of the previous two signal callers. Indianapolis has mostly everything else in place to contend for a Super Bowl, so there has been some a... 

Mike Tomlin has yet to finish under .500 with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Tomlin has been on the sidelines for Pittsburgh since 2007, and the Steelers have consistently been one of the most competitive teams in the league under his watch. This is the dawn of a new era though as Ben Roethlisberger has hung up his cleats. For the first time in his tenure, there are major conce... 

The team with the biggest question mark ahead of the 2022 season is the Cleveland Browns. It appeared that Cleveland finally had a franchise quarterback shortly after a grand jury declined to indict Deshaun Watson on sexual assault charges in March. The Browns quickly moved to win the bidding war for Watson, dealing three first-round picks, a third-round pick, and two fourth-ro... 

The 2021 season was a dream for the Cincinnati Bengals. This franchise hadn’t won a playoff game since 1990, and the Bengals ripped that monkey off their back in a big way. They knocked off the Las Vegas Raiders, Tennessee Titans, and Kansas City Chiefs to win the AFC, and they had a lead in the fourth quarter before falling to the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LVI. Howeve... 

The Baltimore Ravens finished the 2021 campaign at the bottom of the AFC North for the first time in the John Harbaugh era. Baltimore finished with its second-worst record in the last 14 seasons, but the Ravens were extremely unfortunate. They were 8-3 in late November before Lamar Jackson suffered a season-ending injury in Week 14 against the Cleveland Browns. The Ravens proceeded to lose their last six games of the regular season, yet five of those six losses came by a total of 10 points. That makes Baltimore a prime turnaround candidate in 2022. ... 

The New York Jets have the longest playoff drought of any team in the NFL. It’s been 11 years since the Jets were in the playoffs, and that’s five years longer than any other team in the league. Robert Saleh was hired to change all that, but the Jets didn’t show much improvement in his first season at the helm. They improved from 2-14 to 4-13, yet they still finished a distant fourth... 

It’s been 22 years since the Miami Dolphins won a playoff game. Miami has only been to the playoffs twice in the last two decades, as this has generally been a mediocre team that never seems to hit rock bottom. The Dolphins decided to shake things up three years ago by trading away a lot of their players for draft picks, and that helped lead to consecutive winning seasons for the f... 

After nearly two decades of unparalleled success, the New England Patriots are just another mediocre team. The Patriots won the AFC East 17 times in 19 seasons from 2001 to 2019, and they set a new standard for dynasties with six Super Bowls in that stretch.Unfortunately, the loss of Tom Brady has really affected this franchise. Although Bill Belichick remains the great... 

The oddsmakers have made the Buffalo Bills the favorites to win Super Bowl LVII. Although Buffalo is one of the most hard luck franchises in the NFL, the Bills were arguably the best team in the NFL in 2021 and only a miracle comeback by Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs kept the franchise out of the AFC Championship Game. Buffalo improved in the offseason, and many pundits ... 

A player hasn’t led the NFL in receiving yards in back-to-back seasons since Calvin Johnson dominated the NFL in the early 2010s. Megatron is now enshrined in Canton, and Cooper Kupp would love to join him. However, it will be very difficult for Kupp to lead the NFL in receiving yards for a second straight season. The Los Angeles Rams have a plethora of talented receivers for Matthew Stafford to target, and they want to run the ball more in order to wear down opposing front sevens.... 

There’s a clear hierarchy in the NFL when it comes to the top running backs in the league. Jonathan Taylor and Derrick Henry are in their own tier, and Dalvin Cook and Nick Chubb are in the next tier below them. It’s hard to see anyone else leading the NFL in rushing aside from those four players, so that’s who you should look at when it comes to betting on the NFL’s rushing leader in 2022. ... 

All of the favorites to be named NFL MVP are quarterbacks. That’s because each of the last nine winners of this award have been signal callers, and voters generally agree on a QB to be the MVP while choosing a running back or receiver to be Offensive Player of the Year. There isn’t a non-quarterback with odds below 25-1 to be named MVP, as it will take a record-breaking season coupled with down years from many quarterbacks for anyone else to be named MVP. ... 

The GOAT is looking to make even more history after breaking his own record as the oldest quarterback to lead the NFL in passing yards. Tom Brady led the NFL with 4,577 passing yards when he was 40 years old in 2017, posting the best numbers we have seen from a quarterback that age. Brady shattered that mark in 2021 though, throwing for 5,316 yards with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the age of 44. He has led the NFL in passing four times in his career, and he is one of just three active quarterbac... 

When betting on the NFL Comeback Player of the Year, it’s important to look at quarterbacks. A quarterback has won this award in four straight seasons, and 10 of the last 14 winners of this award have been QBs. Derrick Henry is looking to buck the mold though and become the first running back to be named Comeback Player of the Year since Garrison Hearst won the award in 2001. ... 

Although running backs have won the vast majority of NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year accolades, it’s a new age in the league. Quarterbacks are now the stars of the show, and that has led to signal callers winning OROY more often than any other position group over the last dozen years. We have seen six quarterbacks, four running backs, and two wide rece... 

The No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft is not the favorite to be named the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, and he isn’t even one of the players with the five best odds to win this award. The Jacksonville Jaguars are hoping that their internal scouting is better than what the oddsmakers and general public believes, but their recent draft history ... 

Bill Belichick is one of the three greatest coaches of all-time alongside Don Shula and George Halas, but he is not among the favorites to be named NFL Coach of the Year. Neither is Andy Reid although the Kansas City Chiefs have been to the AFC Championship Game for four straight seasons. That’s just how it goes for the top coaches in the league, as it typically takes a monu... 

There hasn’t been a back-to-back NFL Offensive Player of the Year winner since Marshall Faulk won this award three straight times from 1999 to 2001. That makes it unlikely that Cooper Kupp claims the honor again, but he is the co-favorite alongside Jonathan Taylor ahead of the 2022 season. Kupp should feature in the Los Angeles Rams offense and put up big nu...