Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is a pretty important piece to the Packers’ Super Bowl chances. Actually, he’s more than just ‘important’; he’s the one guy on the team that can dramatically swing the fortunes of the team from a Super Bowl contender to a mediocre football team.
So when he went down with a broken collarbone against the Chicago Bears earlier this year, an injury that could sideline him for 4-6 weeks, the shockwaves reverberated from Titletown, USA all the way to Las Vegas.
The Packers, considered as SuperBowl contenders before the Rodgers injury, saw their SuperBowl odds drop from the 10/1 vicinity all the way to as high as 20/1. This news is devastating for those who backed the Pack at much shorter odds. And with Rodgers expected to be out for the majority of the second half of the season, things are definitely looking bleaker and bleaker for Green Bay’s SuperBowl odds, much less its chance to win the NFC North for the third straight year.
As it stands now, the Denver Broncos are still the odds-on favorite to win the SuperBowl at 3/1 odds. The Seattle Seahawks, though, are nipping at their heels at 5/1, followed by the San Francisco 49ers at 7/1, the New England Patriots at 8/1, and the New Orleans Saints at 9/1.
It doesn’t look too well if the Cincinnati Bengals and the Kansas City Chiefs, a team that despite being 9-0 I’m still not a believer of, both have shorter odds than Green Bay at 14/1 each.
If you’re hoping and praying that Rodgers has recuperative powers the likes of which we’ve never seen from a professional athlete, now’s a perfect time to get some value on the Packers’ SuperBowl odds. But if you’re a little more on the cautious side, this injury just threw up a huge red flag on this line. Nobody’s going to take it against you if you believe that Seneca Wallace won’t come close to replicating No. 12’s production.
