2025-26 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year Odds Tracker – Ashton Jeanty Opens as Favorite

• Get the latest odds to win the NFL’s 2025-26 Offensive Rookie of the Year award
• Sportsbooks are split on Cam Ward and Ashton Jeanty as the favorite to win NFL OROY
• Track each player’s OROY odds throughout the 2025-26 NFL season

I am tracking 2025-26 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year odds from the time they open, through the 2025-2026 NFL season, and right up until the award is handed out. Only one sports betting app has opened OROY odds ahead of the NFL Draft, but we are sure to see many more follow shortly. The highly-coveted RB from Boise State, Ashton Jeanty, opened as the favorite, but sportsbooks are now split on Jeanty and the first-overall pick, Cam Ward, as the favorite.

The graphs below were generated by averaging the odds from our top sportsbooks.

Top NFL OROY Contenders

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The NFL Draft odds heavily favored Cam Ward being the first-overall pick and becoming the Titans (hopeful) franchise QB, and they were correct. Ward opened with +400 odds to win the NFL OROY award, but he did not open as the favorite. Ashton Jeanty, who was correctly believed to be a top six pick in the draft, opened as the favorite with short +250 odds. However, Jeanty being drafted by the Raiders, who haven’t generally been known for offensive output and also play in a division with three stingy defenses, has resulted in some sportsbooks favoring Ward over Jeanty.

I believed we would see Jeanty remain the favorite to win Offensive Rookie of the Year regardless of which team drafted him. For what it’s worth, BetRivers does still list Jeanty as the favorite following the draft, and DraftKings is also favoring Jeanty. However, bet365 and FanDuel both favor Ward very slightly.

Some of the other top offensive talent found themselves in less than ideal landing spots as well, and their odds dipped a little as a result. Tet McMillan will certainly be the go-to receiver in Carolina as a rookie, but he may have been able to post better stats if he wound up a Cowboy. Matthew Golden joins a Packers offense that was very run-heavy last season and tends to spread the ball around a lot when it’s put in the air. Maybe Golden can change that, but his odds faded a fair bit after Green Bay selected him. Emeka Egbuka was a receiver many believed could be headed to Denver or could be targeted by a WR-needy team moving back into the first round. However, he ended up hearing his name called by the Bucs, where he will be competing for targets with Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, and even Jalen McMillan – not to mention, in an offense that really began to feature Bucky Irving down the stretch.The same goes for Quinshon Judkins, TreVeyon Henderson, and even Omarion Hampton.

One of the more intriguing top OROY contenders is Travis Hunter, who was drafted second-overall by the Jacksonville Jaguars. Hunter is given +750 odds as we await to see how many offensive snaps he will see in his first season – he is technically being drafted as a corner, but he played both sides in college and Jacksonville has stated they will play him on both sides as well.

Odds to Win 2025-26 NFL OROY

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Ashton Jeanty is currently the favorite to win NFL OROY for the 2025-26 NFL season. Jeanty is given +200 odds to take home the award, and his probability to win it based on those odds is 33.3%. A $20 bet on the Boise State running back would stand to profit $40 and return $60.

Rounding out the top five OROY contenders are: Cam Ward (+230), Travis Hunter (+750), Tyler Shough (+1200), and Tetairoa McMillan (+1400).

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Here are some more notes on odds movement:

• [April 26] In spite of falling all the way to the 5th round, where the Browns selected him at 144th-overall, sportsbooks still felt Shedeur Sanders wound up in a good enough home for his OROY probabilities. Sanders was getting +800 odds to win the award pre-draft, but his odds only slipped to +1500 after his draft free-fall.
• [April 25] Tyler Shough saw some of the most significant odds movement after Day 2 of the NFL Draft, as the Saints made him the 40th-overall pick. The former Louisville QB is believed to have a chance to see the field right away with Derek Carr suffering through a shoulder injury, where the severity and timeline for return is unknown after the draft. Shough’s OROY odds opened at a distant +6000, but improved to as short as +1200 at DraftKings. His odds could still be found as long as +2200, though. Another player who saw massive movement was RJ Harvey, who was drafted 60th-overall by the Broncos. Harvey did not even have opening odds at BetRivers ahead of the draft, but FanDuel opened him at +17000 after the first round. His odds shortened to +5000 after joining Sean Payton’s offense.
• [April 24] For whatever reason, NFL OROY odds opened much later this year than in previous seasons. It could have been the uncertainty around how much offense Travis Hunter would play, or maybe just sportsbooks setting a new precedent of not opening themselves up to potential exposures before they know which teams these rookies will be playing for. Regardless, NFL OROY odds opened the day of the draft and saw Ashton Jeanty open as a heavy +250 favorite. Cam Ward, Travis Hunter, and Shedeur Sanders also opened with odds shorter than 9-1.

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Offensive Rookie of the Year Trends

Here are some recent trends to know before betting on the award:

• Jayden Danirels (2024-25), CJ Stroud (2023-24), Justin Herbert (2020), Kyler Murray (2019), and Dak Prescott (2016) are the only QBs to win the award in the last 11 years
• RBs have won the award in two of the last eight seasons and in four of the last 12
• Kyler Murray and Cam Newton (2011) are the only first-overall picks to win the award in the last 13 years
• Dan Marino is the only QB to win OROY with less than 12 starts in his rookie season
• The award has gone to a player from the NFC in 14 of the last 18 seasons, but the AFC has won four of the last five; before CJ Stroud, Garrett Wilson, Ja’Marr Chase, and Justin Herbert won the award in four of the last five, Vince Young was the previous AFC player to win OROY (2006)
• The Vikings have the most OROY winners with five; there are seven teams who have never had an OROY winner: Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers, and Seattle Seahawks
• No TE or offensive lineman has ever won the award

Past NFL OROY Winners

Top Contenders at Each Position

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Cam Ward (QB), Travis Hunter (WR), Tyler Warren (TE), and Ashton Jeanty (RB) opened as the favorites at their respective positions.

OROY Winners by Position

Top Contenders by Draft Round

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Among the 58 Offensive Rookie of the Year award winners, 43 of them were drafted in the first-round of the NFL Draft, and 51 of them were drafted in the first two rounds.

Mike Anderson (RB) of the Denver Broncos is the player selected latest in the draft to win the honors – Anderson was selected 189th overall in 2000.

• 11 of the 13 QBs to win the award were drafted in the first-round
• 24 of the 34 RBs to win the award were drafted in the first-round
• Eight of the 11 WRs to win OROY were drafted in the first-round – Anquan Boldin in 2003 was the last non-first-round WR to win the award

Here are the 15 players selected outside of the first-round who have won the award:

OROY Winners Who Weren’t Drafted in 1st Round

Archived OROY Odds:

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• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018