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With the 2025 NFL regular season quickly approaching, now’s the time to get in on season-long bets.
FanDuel Sportsbook is conducting FanDuel Futures Day on Tuesday, August 26 where you can get profit boost tokens around various futures markets throughout the day. The markets will be split up throughout the day, but they will include odds to win the Super Bowl and hypothetical Super Bowl matchups, odds to make or miss the playoffs, win totals, division winners, and player milestones. Head over to FanDuel Sportsbook on Tuesday to take advantage of FanDuel Futures Day.
Here’s a rundown of relevant markets available on FanDuel.
Jacksonville Jaguars odds: +7000 (21st-lowest)
On one hand, it’s easy to be excited about the Jaguars’ new coaching staff when comparing them to the former regime. Doug Pederson and company did not put their players in the best position to succeed — offensive coordinator Press Taylor was incredibly predictable as a playcaller, and defensive coordinator Ryan Nielsen ran a very vanilla scheme. Jacksonville was set up to fail in 2024. Now, they have hotshots Liam Coen and Grant Udinski running the offense with Vic Fangio/Brian Flores understudy Anthony Campanile heading the defense.
On the other hand, it’s easy to be concerned about the new staff compared to others across the league, largely due to their lack of experience. Coen (39 years old) has never been a head coach; Udinski (29) has never been an OC; Campanile (43) has never been a DC. Plenty of assistant coaches are also in their current roles for the first time.
Obviously, you need a roster full of great players to reach the Super Bowl, let alone win the dang thing. But betting on Jacksonville to win the big game is a bet on this coaching staff being truly special as much as anything.
Jacksonville Jaguars odds: +172 to make playoffs, -215 to miss playoffs
Vegas projects the Jags to miss the playoffs in 2025. This mostly comes down to a belief that the Houston Texans will earn a top-four seed by winning the division, and the fact that the conference as a whole is so competitive with so many marquee quarterbacks (Mahomes, Jackson, Allen, Burrow, Herbert) and coaches (Reid, Harbaugh (2x), Payton, Tomlin, Vrabel, Carroll) which will make playoff berths a battle and a half.
You could make the argument that Trevor Lawrence and Coen will join those respective lists in a matter of time, but for this season, the best thing going for Jacksonville is its weak divisional opponents. Houston is the “worst” projected division winner in the AFC (behind Baltimore, Buffalo, and Kansas City) while Indianapolis and Tennessee are generally expected to pick early in the 2026 NFL Draft.
According to Sharp Football Analysis, the Jaguars have the sixth-easiest projected schedule in the league this year based on projected win totals. That could be the difference between them making the playoffs or not.
**Jacksonville Jaguars odds: -115 to...
