Texans' Super Bowl Odds Improve with Deshaun Watson

On Thursday night, the Houston Texans traded up to select Clemson QB Deshaun Watson in the first round of the NFL Draft.

At BookMaker.eu, Houston improved from +2,850 to win Super Bowl 52 to +2,210. That's roughly 22/1, up from 28/1.

Those are the best odds of any team in the AFC South.

SportsLine projects the Texans to win 8.6 games and win their division 35.6 percent of the time; both are the best of any AFC South team.

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The Texans won their division last season after going 9-7 and winning the tiebreaker with the Tennessee Titans. They struggled with inconsistent play from the quarterback position and wound up sending free agent mega-bust Brock Osweiler to the Cleveland Browns.

On Friday, Texans head coach Bill O'Brien said Tom Savage would remain his starting quarterback, but the team's odds to win the Super Bowl climbed anyway.

"As a rookie quarterback it's a big jump," O'Brien said. "Tom is our starter and Deshaun will come in and he's going to work hard and we're going to teach him and feed him a lot of information and he'll work at it."

Watson had almost 100 total touchdowns in his last two seasons at Clemson, and got the best of Alabama's impenetrable defense in January's national championship game.

Current Super Bowl LII Odds, from BookMaker.eu:

• Arizona Cardinals +4,400    
• Atlanta Falcons +1,205    
• Baltimore Ravens +4,200    
• Buffalo Bills +9,500    
• Carolina Panthers +2,826    
• Chicago Bears +11,000    
• Cincinnati Bengals +6,000    
• Cleveland Browns +19,000    
• Dallas Cowboys +873    
• Denver Broncos +1,862    
• Detroit Lions +6,000    
• Green Bay Packers +1,164    
• Houston Texans +2,210    
• Indianapolis Colts +3,438    
• Jacksonville Jaguars +8,000    
• Kansas City Chiefs +2,115    
• Los Angeles Chargers +5,700    
• Los Angeles Rams +13,500    
• Miami Dolphins +4,800    
• Minnesota Vikings +3,772    
• New England Patriots +445    
• New Orleans Saints +4,700    
• New York Giants +2,327    
• New York Jets +15,000    
• Oakland Raiders +1,407    
• Philadelphia Eagles +3,623    
• Pittsburgh Steelers +964    
• San Francisco 49ers +17,696    
• Seattle Seahawks +903    
• Tampa Bay Buccaneers +3,644    
• Tennessee Titans +4,500    
• Washington Redskins +6,300