Football is back, baby! Well, sort of. The NFL preseason gets underway on Thursday night with the annual Hall of Fame Game, and although no starters will be suiting up for the Chicago Bears or Houston Texans, we finally have football back in our lives. We'll take anything we can get at this point.
Here's how we're attacking the Hall of Fame Game.
Betting angles for the Hall of Fame Game
First half over 15.5 (-110 Bet365)
Unders normally crush early in the preseason, but we're expecting a quicker start from the Bears and Texans with competent quarterbacks under center.
Houston will be rolling with Davis Mills for possibly the entire first half. Mills started nearly a full season for the Texans in 2022, and he's still an above-average NFL backup. The Bears will start Tyson Bagent, who started four games as a rookie and played well in relief of Justin Fields. Bagent is a dangerous scrambler, which should come in handy while playing with an offensive line and receiving corps made up of backups.
This line should be more than half the game total of 31, so we like the over here.
Bears +1.5 (-105 FanDuel)
Uncertainty can be your friend in the sports betting world. We don't know exactly what head coaches will do in the preseason, but neither do the sportsbooks. The Bears opened as short favorites in the Hall of Fame Game, but the line has flipped to Chicago +1.5 due to the report that Mills was going to play "extensively" in the game. We'll gladly play against that line move in what's essentially a coin-flip game.
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