The rumors and odds surrounding J.J. McCarthy are heating up within the closing 36 hours forward of the 2024 NFL Draft.
A brand new staff has joined the group of favorites to pick the quarterback: the Los Angeles Chargers. Jim Harbaugh’s squad’s odds to draft McCarthy within the days main as much as the draft now maintain the fifth-best odds at +900.
Despite the fact that the Chargers have already got Justin Herbert, some have speculated that Los Angeles could possibly be a touchdown spot for McCarthy because of the Harbaugh connection. The previous Michigan coach has spoken extremely on quite a few events of the quarterback who helped him win a nationwide championship in 2023.
One other Michigan connection could possibly be at play for the place McCarthy lands. Whereas there is a sense that the New England Patriots have Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels and Drake Maye as the highest three quarterbacks within the draft, the staff might commerce again to draft McCarthy because of the “[Robert] Kraft-[Tom] Brady connection,” ESPN reported Wednesday.
The Patriots have been among the many favorites to draft McCarthy for the reason that mix, holding +400 odds to pick the quarterback as of Wednesday morning.
This is a take a look at the most recent odds concerning McCarthy’s draft standing, through DraftKings Sportsbook.
J.J. McCARTHY DRAFT POSITION ODDS: *
McCarthy to be No. 1 total choose: +6000 (guess $10 to win $610 complete)
McCarthy to be No. 2 total choose: +1100 (guess $10 to win $120 complete)
McCarthy to be No. 3 total choose: +400 (guess $10 to win $50 complete)
McCarthy to be No. 4 total choose: +180 (guess $10 to win $28 complete)
McCarthy to be No. 5 total choose: +240 (guess $10 to win $34 complete)
J.J. MCCARTHY DRAFT POSITION OVER/UNDER: *
Over 5.5: +115 (guess $10 to win $21.50 complete)
Underneath 5.5: -145 (guess $10 to win $16.90 complete)
TEAM TO DRAFT J.J. McCARTHY ODDS: *
Minnesota Vikings: +130 (guess $10 to win $23 complete)
New York Giants: +275 (guess $10 to win $37.50 complete)
Denver Broncos: +320 (guess $10 to win $42 complete)
New England Patriots: +400 (guess $10 to win $50 complete)
Los Angeles Chargers: +900 (guess $10 to win $100 complete)
Washington Commanders: +1100 (guess $10 to win $120 complete)
Las Vegas Raiders: +1300 (guess $10 to win $140 complete)
Seattle Seahawks: +1800 (guess $10 to win $190 complete)
* odds as of 4/24/24
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Whereas the Chargers aren’t the favorites to draft McCarthy, their odds to pick him have climbed in a serious approach in latest days.
FOX Sports activities’ Joel Klatt talked about the potential of the Chargers drafting McCarthy in his closing mock draft.
“Jim Harbaugh holds the keys to the place his school quarterback goes to play,” Klatt stated on his podcast, “The Joel Klatt Present.” “I’d be shocked if they don’t seem to be in communication about that, and I feel Harbaugh needs in a variety of ways in which he might draft McCarthy. The Chargers will not commerce Justin Herbert, however I feel they’ve kicked the tires on this. The issue is that the cash would not work, owing Herbert an excessive amount of and creating a large useless cap hit. I do not suppose they’ve deserted that considering as a result of Harbaugh loves McCarthy.”
As Klatt talked about, the Chargers drafting McCarthy can be a shock contemplating Herbert’s presence. However Harbaugh has spoken glowingly of McCarthy’s draft standing a number of instances in the previous few months.
“Arm expertise, athleticism, it-factor, profitable with numbing repetition. Do not be stunned if, when he is the No. 1 quarterback off the board. That is my prediction proper now,” Harbaugh stated on “The Herd in February.” “When individuals get a load of J.J. and the way he can throw the ball, how he spins it, his athleticism, his intelligence.
“Speak about ‘it-factor,’ he is bought it. The competitiveness that he has, and so they get round him, and so they actually begin digging in, and so they begin speaking to him.”
Harbaugh reiterated that sentiment when he spoke with reporters on the NFL’s league conferences in March, telling reporters “coaches and GMs come as much as me saying, ‘Nice job with J.J.'”
2024 NFL Draft: J.J. McCarthy odds and touchdown spots
There’s one other J.J. draft market that is on the transfer, and that is the Over/Underneath (O/U) for the place he’ll get chosen.
FOX Sports activities betting analyst Patrick Everson wrote:
“On April 15 … McCarthy’s Over/Underneath draft place of 5.5 noticed important motion in each instructions inside actually just some minutes. Underneath 5.5 opened as a -120 favourite, with Over 5.5 at -110. Underneath rapidly shot to a -160 favourite, however nearly as rapidly, the Underneath value rubber-banded again to -120.
“Then it shot again as much as -160 once more, with all these strikes happening inside 20 minutes or so.
As of Sunday afternoon, with the Draft 4 days out (at Circa Sports activities), Underneath 5.5 is -130 and Over 5.5 is even cash (+100).”
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