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For a number of reasons, now is not the best time to place an NFL wager. That hasn’t stopped everyone.
Football betting markets have been fluid despite the sports world’s collective shutdown in light of the global coronavirus pandemic. Last week’s start of free agency has surely been the driving factor.
The personnel carousel has attracted more attention than ever before, largely because it’s the only current activity going on in any of the major American professional sports, and that’s translated into at least a bit of betting volume. Local sports book operators that kept their mobile betting apps available despite casino closures — and most of them did — have been updating future prices and season-long prop bets.