The New England Patriots were the top choice of Proline bettors in the opening round of the NFL playoffs.<\/p>\n
New England advanced to the divisional round with a 16-3 win over the San Diego Chargers on Sunday night. According to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., 70 per cent of Proline bettors backed the Patriots’ victory.<\/p>\n
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Another 59 per cent had the Patriots on the spread (-3.5 points) while 23 per cent had the under at 45.5 points.<\/p>\n
Sixty-nine per cent of players backed the Los Angeles Rams over the Carolina Panthers 34-31 and Buffalo Bills dispatching the Jacksonville Jaguars 27-24. And 67 per cent of bettors had the Chicago Bears rallying to beat the Green Bay Packers 31-27.<\/p>\n
But just 44 per cent of bettors backed San Francisco in its 23-19 victory over the defending-champion Philadelphia Eagles while 56 per cent supported the Houston Texans’ 30-6 victory Monday night over the Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n
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However, 63 per cent of players had the 49ers on the +5.5-point spread while 69 per cent correctly had the Texans on the spread at -2.5.<\/p>\n
Not surprisingly, the top-five events last week were all NFL playoff games. The Bills-Jaguars contest was first, followed by Texans-Steelers, Chargers-Patriots, 49ers-Eagles and Packers-Bears.<\/p>\n
A digital play won $5,318.15 off a $1 bet on a 12-pick NHL parlay while another turned a $2 wager into a $2,396.13 payoff with a 10-pick parlay. A retail player earned $2,240.30 from a $1 bet on a 12 pick parlay<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 15, 2026.<\/p>\n
The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots were the top choice of Proline bettors in the opening round of the NFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[13278,1748,49,48,1744,1735,1737,1725,1749,1718,514,1747,949,82958,5886,82,173157],"class_list":["post-411724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-49ers","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-chicago-bears","tag-houston-texans","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-san-diego-chargers","tag-san-francisco","tag-sports","tag-the-green-bay-packers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}