NFL parlay picks for every kickoff window: same game parlays on the primetime nights, game-line and player-prop parlays for the Sunday slate, all published before kickoff.
NFL parlay picks for every kickoff window of the week. A game alone in its window - Thursday, Sunday and Monday night, a London morning - gets same game parlays. The Sunday early and late windows get parlays across their games on the spreads, totals and moneylines, and a Slate Parlay of player props. Every slip is published before kickoff, settled from the box score and kept on the record.
Every slip carries its stake, and every settled slip counts in the record.
Prices are at the time of writing: player props at bet365, game lines at the best price across the books. Prices move - check the slip before you place it.
About these NFL parlays
What an NFL parlay is
A parlay combines two or more bets into one slip that pays only if every leg wins. The price of the slip is the product of the prices of its legs, so each leg you add raises the payout and lowers the chance of collecting. Two legs at even money pay 3/1 together, three pay 7/1 and four pay 15/1. That is the whole appeal of a parlay and the whole risk of one: a small stake can return a large amount, and a single losing leg sinks the slip however well the others did.
Books call the same bet by different names. In the United States it is a parlay; in the UK it is an accumulator or an acca, and a two-leg or three-leg slip is a double or a treble. The names on this page follow both habits - the Sunday editions include a double and a treble - and anything with more legs is simply a parlay.
NFL parlays come in two shapes. A same game parlay takes every leg from one game: a quarterback's passing yards, his top receiver's catches and the game total, say. A cross-game parlay, or slate parlay, takes its legs from several games played in the same window: one team to cover the spread in one game, another to win outright in the next, the over in a third. This page carries both, organised by when the games kick off rather than by team or by market, so each slip matches the games you will actually be watching.
The kickoff windows
The NFL week is not one slate. Thursday night is a single game, Sunday afternoon is a dozen or more played in two waves, and Sunday night and Monday night stand alone again. Every game on this page sits in a kickoff window by its Eastern start time: the London morning games, the Sunday early games at 1pm, the late games at 4:05pm and 4:25pm, and the night games.
A window holding one game - Thursday, Sunday and Monday night most weeks, and a London game when it kicks off on its own - carries same game parlays. A window holding several games - the Sunday early and late slates - carries parlays across its games. The whole Sunday afternoon, the early and late games together, can carry a slip of its own when there are enough games to make one, so you can follow the early games, the late games or the whole afternoon on one ticket.
Kickoffs are shown in Eastern and UK time: a 1pm ET kickoff is usually 6pm in the UK. Windows are listed in kickoff order, and a window leaves the page when its first game kicks off, so the page always leads with the next window you can still bet. Thanksgiving's games each get a window of their own, the Saturday games late in the season get theirs, and bye weeks shrink the Sunday slates from Week 5. A game whose kickoff time has not been set yet is listed separately until it lands in a window.
The Sunday editions
The Sunday windows carry parlays on the game lines in five editions, from the short price to the long shot. The Short-Price Double is two legs - moneylines or spreads - at around 2/1 to 3/1, the shortest slip on the page. The Sensible Treble is three legs mixing moneylines and spreads, at around 5/1 to 7/1. The Spread Parlay is three or four teams against the spread. The Totals Parlay is three or four game totals, overs and unders mixed. The Bold One is the long shot: three to five legs into the 20/1 range and beyond, usually led by underdogs to win outright.
Beside them, every Sunday early and late window carries a Slate Parlay: player props on the starters across the window's games, one leg a game, three to five legs in all. A slip whose legs come from different games is easy to follow through a Sunday - each leg is its own game - and it pays when the last one lands.
Not every edition appears every week. A window carries the editions that fit its games, so a full Sunday early slate can carry all five and a small late window fewer. The primetime nights carry same game parlays instead: up to two a game, from the Single Game Parlays page, built around how that one game plays out.
The markets on a slip
A moneyline is a bet on a team to win the game outright. A favourite's moneyline is short and an underdog's is long, and the gap between them is the book's view of how one-sided the game is. The spread evens the game up: the favourite gives points and the underdog gets them, so a team at -3.5 has to win by four or more to cover, and a team at +3.5 covers if it wins or loses by three or fewer. A total is a bet on the combined score going over or under the book's number - 44.5 points, say - whichever team scores them.
Player props are bets on one player's numbers: a quarterback's passing yards, a running back's rushing yards, a receiver's receiving yards or receptions, and anytime touchdown scorers. The yardage and catch lines are offered over and under; an anytime touchdown pays if the player scores at any point in the game. Passing touchdowns do not count for anytime touchdown, so a quarterback needs to run one in himself.
Beside the main line - the number where the over and the under are priced near even money - books post alternate lines: 60 or more receiving yards, 70 or more, 80 or more, each at a longer price. A leg taken on an alternate line is marked ALT on the card. Game lines on this page are taken at the best price across the books we track, and the card names the book when it is not the slip's main one; player props are bet365's lines.
Reading a slip
Each card names its edition and its window and puts the combined price at the top, with the number of legs and the book. Every leg shows the team or the player, the market, the line and the price, and our chance for that leg beside the price. A player leg carries more underneath: his projection for the game, his hit rate at this line over his recent games - L10 7/10 means he cleared it in seven of his last ten - and the opponent's rank for what it allows in that market.
At the foot of the card sit three numbers: the chance the book's combined price implies, our chance for the slip as a whole, and the stake with what it returns. If the price has moved since the slip was published, the card says what the same legs fetch now. The published price is the one that goes on the record, whichever way the line has moved.
Settled slips show their receipts. Every leg is marked Landed, Missed or Void, with what the player or the team actually did - the yards, the catches, the score - so a slip can be checked line by line against the box score.
Stakes, settlement and the record
Every slip shows its stake in points, where a point is your standard unit - whatever you would put on a single bet. The return line on each card uses that stake, so a winner is shown at exactly what it paid and a loser at exactly what it cost.
Every slip is recorded before kickoff at the legs, lines and prices it was published with, and nothing is edited afterwards. Once the games are final, each leg is graded from the box score and the slip settles. A slip with any lost leg is lost. A leg whose player did not play is void and comes off the slip, which then pays at the product of the remaining legs' prices, the way the books settle it. A cancelled game voids its legs; a postponed game keeps them open until it is played. Every settled slip goes on the record at its published stake, losers beside winners.
Parlays are long-odds bets, and most of them lose: that is what the price is telling you. Treat a parlay as a small bet with a big payout, never as a way to win back a loss, and bet only what you can afford to lose. Betting is for over-18s only.
When the parlays go up
The week's parlays go up on Tuesday and Wednesday, once the books post their lines for the coming week, and the cards' current prices refresh as the lines move. A slip whose player is ruled out before kickoff is withdrawn rather than left standing, and nothing is published for a window after its first game has kicked off. Once every window has kicked off the page says so, and next week's slips follow on Tuesday.
Every slip in the next window to kick off is open to everyone. The legs of the other slips are for NFL Pro members, with each slip's window, price and stake shown to all.
This page sits beside the rest of the betting desk. Single Game Parlays carries the same game parlays game by game, Touchdown Parlays the anytime touchdown slips for the Sunday slate, the Prop Picks board every priced player prop, and Best Bets the week's single bets.