2023 NFL Draft Betting Odds - Football Picks

2023 NFL Draft Betting

The 2023 NFL Draft will be held from Thursday, April 27, 2023 through Saturday, April 29, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri, just outside of Union Station. NFL teams will select the top college players with the first round being held on Thursday, April 27. The second and third rounds will be held on Friday, April 28, while rounds four through seven will be held on Saturday, April 29. The Chicago Bears have the No. 1 overall pick but there is a good chance the Bears will trade that pick and move down in the NFL Draft. There is an oddity in the 2023 NFL Draft, as there will only be 31 picks in the first round. The Miami Dolphins forfeited their first-round pick for violation of the NFL’s anti-tampering policy. There are four teams that have two first-round picks, the Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, Philadelphia Eagles and Seattle Seahawks. Alabama quarterback Bryce Young is the odds-on favorite to be taken with the first overall pick. ESPN, ESPN Deportes, ABC and NFL Network will provide television coverage of the 2023 NFL Draft.

2023 NFL Draft at a Glance

Date: April 27-29, 2023

Location: Kansas City, Missouri

Television Coverage: ABC, ESPN, ESPN Deportes and NFL Network

2023 NFL Draft Betting Odds

Alabama quarterback Bryce Young won the Heisman Trophy for the 2021 college football season and he was really good again in 2022, as he threw for 3,328 yards with 32 TDs and just five interceptions. He has all the looks of a franchise quarterback with poise, vision and pocket awareness. Some people are concerned about his height, but there are plenty of NFL quarterbacks today that don’t fit the traditional mold.

CJ Stroud threw for 3,688 yards with 41 TDs and just six interceptions for Ohio State last season. He is bigger than Young, as Stroud is 6-foot-3 and 215 pounds. The question about Stroud is whether he has the same poise and vision that Young has and whether he is truly a franchise quarterback.

Richardson has the frame of an NFL quarterback and he has a strong arm and can run. What he doesn’t have is a lot of experience and he makes a lot of mistakes. In terms of raw talent, Richardson looks great, and some teams will take a chance on him becoming a franchise quarterback, but he is not going to step right in and start.

Levis really shouldn’t be a first round pick, but quarterbacks almost always go higher than they should. Levis threw for 2,406 yards with 19 TDs and 10 interceptions last season for Kentucky. He has the build of a quarterback, as he is 6-foot-3 and 232 pounds.

Jalen Carter might just be the best player in the draft, but quarterbacks almost always get more love, so Carter likely won’t go first overall. He is an excellent defensive tackle who is 6-foot-3 and 310 pounds with great quickness. He had some ankle and knee injuries this season that held his numbers down.

Another outstanding defensive player is Will Anderson who had 27.5 sacks, 54 tackles for loss, 130 pressures, a forced fumble and an interception over the last two years. He probably would have been the first overall pick last year if he had been in the NFL Draft.

2023 NFL Draft Order

1. Chicago Bears

2. Houston Texans

3. Arizona Cardinals

4. Indianapolis Colts

5. Seattle Seahawks (via DEN)

6. Detroit Lions (via LAR)

7. Las Vegas Raiders

8. Atlanta Falcons

9. Carolina Panthers

10. Philadelphia Eagles (via NO)

11. Tennessee Titans

12. Houston Texans (via CLE)

13. New York Jets

14. New England Patriots

15. Green Bay Packers

16. Washington Commanders

17. Pittsburgh Steelers

18. Detroit Lions

19. Tampa Bay Buccaneers

20. Seattle Seahawks

21. Los Angeles Chargers

22. Baltimore Ravens

23. Minnesota Vikings

24. Jacksonville Jaguars

25. New York Giants

26. Dallas Cowboys

27. Buffalo Bills

28. Cincinnati Bengals

29. New Orleans Saints (via SF via MIA via DEN)

30. Philadelphia Eagles

31. Kansas City Chiefs

Heading into the 2023 NFL Draft there are a total of four teams that will be picking twice, the Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, Philadelphia Eagles and Seattle Seahawks. As noted earlier, the Miami Dolphins had to forfeit their pick. The San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns, New Orleans Saints and Los Angeles Rams traded away their first-round picks.

All-Time No. 1 Picks

Many fans don't realize that the NFL Draft has been occurring annually for 85 years. Of course, it has taken a long time for the draft to become the standalone event it has become today.

Players in the 1930s were basically just drafted sight unseen because of their prowess in college. The 1940s and 1950s were only slightly better in terms of scouting, but the early 1960s saw the creation of BLESTO, and that organization brought scouting into prominence.

The NFL Draft became a huge television spectacle back in the 1980s when ESPN started broadcasting it with luminaries like Chris Berman and Mel Kiper Jr. By the time the draft moved to New York in 1995, it was a two-day event that was sucked up by the NFL-hungry public. Now, the draft is three days long, starting with the first round on Thursday, the second and third rounds on Friday and the fourth through seventh rounds coming on Saturday.

No. 1 NFL Picks By Position

Quarterbacks are the cornerstones of every successful NFL franchise, and not surprisingly, teams jump over each other all the time to try to find that quarterback that can lead their team for the next decade and a half. As a result, 34 of the No. 1 overall picks in the NFL Draft have been quarterbacks, representing nearly 40 percent of the top choices. Running backs used to be incredibly popular to pick as top choices as well, but we will likely never see a running back selected No. 1 overall again due to their shorter than average careers.

No. 1 NFL Picks By Team

It's amazing that for as long as the NFL Draft has been going on, no team has had the first overall pick more than seven times. The Colts and Rams share that dubious distinction. Of course, the team that "earns" the top pick thanks to having the worst record in the NFL isn't always the one that picks first. The No. 1 pick is traded from time to time, most recently in 2016, when the Rams traded up to get Jared Goff. We also saw Atlanta trade a king’s ransom for the right to select Michael Vick in the 2001 NFL Draft.

There are other examples where the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft never plays for the team that drafted him. The most notable were John Elway, who never played for the Baltimore Colts, Bo Jackson, who left the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Eli Manning, who essentially demanded to be traded to the New York Giants from the San Diego Chargers.

The Broncos, who were the beneficiary of Elway's move from Baltimore, have never actually possessed the No. 1 overall pick themselves. They're one of three teams, joining the Seahawks and Ravens as teams that have never chosen first.

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