2026-27 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year Odds Tracker – Mendoza & Love the Early Favorites

• Get the latest odds to win the NFL’s 2026-27 Offensive Rookie of the Year award
• Jeremiyah Love has opened as the favorite to win NFL OROY
• Track each player’s OROY odds throughout the 2026-27 NFL season

I am tracking 2026-27 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year odds from the time they open, through the 2026-2027 NFL season, and right up until the award is handed out. All sportsbooks make NFL OROY odds available throughout the season, with some brief downtimes expected during games. The highly-coveted RB from Notre Dame, Jeremiyah Love, who was selected third-overall by the Cardinals, opened as the favorite, with Fernando Mendoza, who was drafted first-overall by the Raiders on Thursday night, a close second. But we will see more change with the OROY odds after the second and third rounds are complete as well.

The NFL OROY odds table below surfaces up the best odds for each player (that are available in your region), while also letting you compare to their opening odds. The graphs below were generated by averaging the odds from our top sportsbooks.

NFL OROY Odds & Top Contenders

Jeremiyah Love is currently the favorite to win NFL OROY for the 2026-27 NFL season. Love is given +290 odds to take home the award, and his probability to win it based on those odds is 25.6%. A $20 bet on the Cardinals new running back would stand to profit $58 and return $78.

Fernando Mendoza is seen as a close second with +320 odds, but is seeing as long as +400 odds at some sportsbooks. The two players sit in a tier of their own as the top contenders for the award. However, one sportsbook includes Carnell Tate in that upper tier, who is given as short as +350 odds, but as long as +650.

Here are the top NFL OROY contenders heading into the NFL Draft:

1. Jeremiyah Love (+290 consensus odds)
2. Fernando Mendoza (+320)
3. Carnell Tate (+650)
4. Jordyn Tyson (+850)
5. Makai Lemon (+950)

All three of the wide receivers in the list of top contenders wound up in what seem to be good situations – assuming the Eagles do trade AJ Brown now that they have drafted Makai Lemon.

The biggest winners in the OROY odds after the first-round of the NFL Draft are:

• Jadarian Price: the former Notre Dame running back was the final pick of the first round, being selected by the Seahawks. Price was getting +2700 odds to win Offensive Rookie of the Year prior to the draft, but is now listed as short as +900 and as long as +1100. With Zach Charbonnet not expected to be up to full speed by Week 1, the door is open for Price to seize an immediate role in an offense that performed well last season.

The biggest losers were as follows:

• Ty Simpson: you could certainly make the argument that Ty Simpson landed in a dream destination being selected by the Rams. Sean McVay is one of the best offensive minds in the game, and there is a very good team in place already. However, barring an injury to Matthew Stafford, Simpson is not going to see meaningful snaps this season. The result was his OROY odds plummeting from +1200 to +3300.

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Here are some more notes on odds movement:

• [April 22] Jeremiyah Love opened as the favorite to win NFL OROY for the 2026-27 season. He was followed closely by Fernando Mendoza.

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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 12 years
• RBs have won the award in just 2 of the last 9 seasons and in 4 of the last 13
• Kyler Murray and Cam Newton (2011) are the only first-overall picks to win the award in the last 14 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 15 of the last 19 seasons, but the AFC has won 4 of the last 6; before CJ Stroud, Garrett Wilson, Ja’Marr Chase, and Justin Herbert won the award in 4 of the last 6, 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

OROY Winners by Position

OROY Winners by Draft Round

Among the 59 Offensive Rookie of the Year award winners, 44 of them were drafted in the first-round of the NFL Draft, and 52 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
• 9 of the 12 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:

• 2025
• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018