The Seattle Seahawks battle the New England Patriots tonight in Super Bowl 60. Kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m. ET from Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.. The game will broadcast live on NBC.
For our Seahawks vs Patriots anytime touchdown picks, NFL experts Sean Koerner and Chris Raybon came up with two TD parlays that feature the following key players: Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Drake Maye, Hunter Henry and AJ Barner.
Continue below for their Seahawks vs Patriots anytime touchdown preview for Super Bowl 60.
Seahawks vs Patriots Anytime Touchdown Props, Parlays
- Hunter Henry + AJ Barner Anytime Touchdown Parlay (+1000; DraftKings)
- Jaxon Smith-Njigba 2+ TDs + Drake Maye Anytime Touchdown (+1900; DraftKings)
Seahawks vs Patriots Anytime Touchdown Picks
Hunter Henry + AJ Barner Anytime Touchdown Parlay (+1000)
By Sean Koerner
I'm going to go with both starting tight ends in this game: Hunter Henry and AJ Barner.
This is a good spot for Hunter Henry — even though the Seahawks defense is elite, if there is an Achilles' heel in their pass defense, it would be the tight ends.
Plus, he doesn't always need to rely on cheap touchdowns, like around the goal line in the end zone. He has three touchdowns of over 25 yards. Five of his eight touchdowns have been over 10 yards, so he has multiple ways of getting there.
The way to approach Henry is that he gets off to such slow starts that if he's shut out in the first quarter, that's probably the best time to actually invest in his touchdown market, which will probably be over 3-to-1 at that point. The live angle for Henry is to start hammering his props at the end of the first quarter.
Barner has six receiving touchdowns this season, but he has that added upside as the main ball carrier in the Seahawks' tush push play. With Zach Charbonnet out, the chances of the Seahawks leaning on Barner in those short-yard situations can only increase.
If it's first and goal on the one, Kenneth Walker might get the first crack at it. And if he doesn't get in there, the Seahawks might be like, "OK, we're done messing around, get Barner in there."
That might happen because Charbonnet was excellent in that role. He scored nine rushing touchdowns inside the five on 18 attempts, while Walker scored on just four of nine rush attempts inside the five. That's been a theme in Walker's career: he's not really a short-yardage back; he's more of a home-run hitter.
Barner makes a ton of sense to get in there, and he has a 90% success rate on the tush push. That's the highest success rate of any ball carrier with 10+ carries on the season.
Pick: Hunter Henry + AJ Barner Anytime Touchdown Parlay (+1000)
Jaxon Smith-Njigba 2+ TDs + Drake Maye Anytime Touchdown (+1900)
By Chris Raybon
The reason I like this TD parlay is because it's the Super Bowl. There are record amounts of dollars flowing in the betting market, and I'm finding that some of the guys that we would almost never bet on the regular season or certain parts of the postseason are being overvalued, and others are being undervalued.
For example, Jaxon Smith-Njigba will be the best player on the field in this game. The fact that he's still +500 or +550 for MVP just because a lot of quarterbacks have won in the past is crazy to me, especially when you consider the median outcome.
I'm going to say he goes out there and makes a statement.
Patriots CB Christian Gonzalez was targeted 16 times against Houston and has been targeted 101 times overall. That's the most of any Patriot, and he did miss some time as well.
I think that regardless of the coverage scheme, Seattle will find ways to get Smith-Njigba the ball. I would say he and Rashid Shaheed probably have outside chances of scoring on the ground, if anyone does, because the Seahawks are going to have to get creative there.
I don't know if they're going to be able to just go with the traditional run game, whether it is sneaks or handing it off. However, they might be able to do something like a fly sweeper.
Then we have Drake Maye.
I know the Seahawks have a great defense, but Maye has been spectacular this year. I would take an injured Maye to get into the end zone over any other Patriot on this roster.
Maye has to carry the Patriots in this game. I don't think his receivers will be open very often, and Seattle will sit back and rush, because that's what its defense is built to do. That will lead to Maye scrambling often; he's going to have to break a tackle or two because there are going to be extra defenders.
Pick: Jaxon Smith-Njigba 2+ TDs + Drake Maye Anytime Touchdown (+1900)
