Opening Chargers vs Patriots Odds, Spread, Total for Wild Card

• The New England Patriots will host the Los Angeles Chargers in the Wild Card Round
• This is New England’s first home playoff game post-Tom Brady
• See the opening Chargers vs Patriots odds for the 2026 Wild Card Round

For the first time since the Tom Brady era, the New England Patriots (14-3, 6-3 home) will host a playoff game. The #2-seeded Pats will welcome the #7 Los Angeles Chargers (11-6, 5-3 away) to Gillette Stadium on either Jan. 10th, 11th, or 12th (schedule TBD).

The Patriots have opened as modest 3.5-point home chalk.

Opening Chargers vs Patriots Odds for Wild Card Round

The opening Chargers vs Patriots odds list New England at -184 on the moneyline, which equates to a 64.79% implied win probability. The Chargers come back as +154 road underdogs (39.37% implied win probability).

The game total has opened at 45.5 with the over favored at -118 at FanDuel.

Odds as of 7:35 pm ET, Jan. 4th, at FanDuel.

LAC vs NE: Team Stats Comparison

The Chargers and Patriots didn’t meet this season. Los Angeles obliterated the Pats 40-7 in New England in Week 17 of the 2024 regular season. But Drake Maye, the odds-on favorite in the NFL MVP odds, has obviously evolved into a much different player than he was back then.

The Chargers enter the postseason on a two-game losing streak, though Jim Harbaugh opted to rest many of his key starters in the team’s Week 18 loss at Denver. The Patriots have won three straight. They fell a tiebreaker short of claim the AFC #1 seed from the Denver Broncos, who await the worst remaining AFC seed in the Divisional Round two weeks from now.

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