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Fox Sports
21 hours ago
- Sport
- Fox Sports
2025 NFL odds: How will Aaron Rodgers, DK Metcalf mesh in Pittsburgh?
The QB-WR duo of Aaron Rodgers and DK Metcalf could be a match made in heaven for the Steelers this season. Rodgers recently landed in Pittsburgh on a one-year, $13.7-million deal after spending the past two seasons with the New York Jets (2023-24), following an 18-year run with the Green Bay Packers to start his career (2005-22). Now, the 41-year-old four-time NFL MVP joins the Steelers for his 21st season after a whirlwind offseason. The Seahawks traded Metcalf to the Steelers in March after he spent the first five years of his career in Seattle (2019-24). In Pittsburgh, he signed a five-year contract worth $150 million. So, how will Rodgers mesh with two-time Pro Bowl wide receiver? Let's check out Rodgers' and Metcalf's odds for the 2025 season at DraftKings Sportsbook, as of June 9. DK Metcalf to score 8+ receiving touchdowns in the regular season: +250 (bet $10 to win $35 total) DK Metcalf to have 1000+ receiving yards in the regular season: +115 (bet $10 to win $21.50 total) DK Metcalf to have 1500+ receiving yards in the regular season: +1000 (bet $10 to win $110 total) Aaron Rodgers to have 30+ passing touchdowns in the regular season: +425 (bet $10 to win $52.50 total) Aaron Rodgers to have 4000+ passing yards in the regular season: +400 (bet $10 to win $50 total) Steelers to score 1+ passing TD in every regular-season game (17 games): +1700 (bet $10 to win $180 total) Steelers to score 1+ rushing TD in every regular-season game (17 games): +3500 (bet $10 to win $360 total) Steelers to go undefeated in the regular season (17 games): +40000 (bet $10 to win $4,010 total) Although he missed the entire 2024 season with an Achilles injury, Rodgers was solid last season in New York, throwing for 3,897 yards and 28 touchdowns against 11 interceptions. The Jets got off to a 2-3 start before firing then-head coach Robert Saleh. Rodgers played better down the stretch, but New York finished 5-12 and missed the playoffs for the 14th straight year. That said, Rodgers became the fifth player in NFL history to throw 500 regular-season touchdown passes in the season finale. Pittsburgh is hoping Rodgers has enough left physically to go with a football IQ that remains elite. Elsewhere, the Steelers' organization is hoping that the addition of Metcalf, 27, will bring some stability and, hopefully, maturity to a wide receiver room that has lacked both as of late. The imposing 6-foot-4, 235-pound wideout has become one of the most dynamic and reliable receivers in the NFL. He has never finished with fewer than 900 receiving yards in a season, and the 48 touchdowns he caught over six seasons in Seattle are third on the franchise's career list. He tallied 6,324 receiving yards for the Seahawks over that span. Metcalf joins a wide receiver group that includes 12-year veteran Robert Woods and third-year player Calvin Austin III. "I'm a physical receiver, you know, big shout out to my pops," said Metcalf, whose father played guard and tackle for the Chicago Bears in the mid-2000s. "So he instilled that in me, and I just try to play the game a different way." The Associated Press contributed to this report. Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily ! recommended Get more from National Football League Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more
The Advertiser
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Advertiser
Warriors slaughter Sharks as NRL's top four break away
The Warriors have brushed Cronulla aside in a 40-10 win that has helped create a breakaway pack of four in the race for the NRL minor premiership. Marshalled by one-time Cronulla playmaker Luke Metcalf, the Warriors kept pace with fellow top-four contenders Canberra, Canterbury and Melbourne with victory in front of 13,727 at Shark Park on Saturday. Metcalf will take the plaudits for the Warriors' round 14 victory, but some of the Kiwi outfit's young forward talent - namely Demetric Vaimauga and Leka Halasima - trumped the Sharks for both flair and fight. The win for Andrew Webster's side, who led 12-10 at halftime, opens up a four-point buffer between the top four and Cronulla, who remain stuck in fifth after a second straight defeat. "I didn't know when it was going to come, but at halftime I was like, 'boys, we love these tight games'," Webster said. "I was rapt that we got the rewards late and I thought both our attack and defence complimented each other." The Sharks, meanwhile, are in real danger of slipping back into the chasing peloton. A large number of the home side's supporters made for the exit when Warriors five-eighth Chanel Harris-Tavita crossed in the 66th minute. Craig Fitzgibbon's men imploded after the break. A side once famed for their defensive steel, the Sharks have conceded 108 points across their past three games. "We work hard on that (defence) and it's a simple game," Fitzgibbon said. "Sometimes if you don't get the simple and the hardest parts right, that's what happens to you. "A lack of physicality in the second half cost us." The early warning signs were there for Cronulla as the rising Warriors started with promise and took the lead after just five minutes. Dallin Watene-Zelezniak and Adam Pompey gave the Kiwi side an early lead before Mawene Hiroti and KL Iro both hit back for the Sharks before halftime. Cronulla had an avenue back into the game, but they failed to take it, and in their first defensive test of the second half Fitzgibbon's side wilted. Vaimauga created the confusion as the young forward played a no-look short ball for James Fisher-Harris close to the goal line that allowed the prop to stroll in untouched. Vaimauga then nabbed a try of his own backing up a Metcalf break, before Halasima got in on the act by outjumping Sione Katoa and touching down in the in-goal. Harris-Tavita scored two tries in the final quarter of an hour, the first off a show-and-go that left the Sharks defence clutching at air. His second was an 80-metre runaway effort after intercepting a Nicho Hynes pass that will only add to the pressure on the Sharks. The Warriors have brushed Cronulla aside in a 40-10 win that has helped create a breakaway pack of four in the race for the NRL minor premiership. Marshalled by one-time Cronulla playmaker Luke Metcalf, the Warriors kept pace with fellow top-four contenders Canberra, Canterbury and Melbourne with victory in front of 13,727 at Shark Park on Saturday. Metcalf will take the plaudits for the Warriors' round 14 victory, but some of the Kiwi outfit's young forward talent - namely Demetric Vaimauga and Leka Halasima - trumped the Sharks for both flair and fight. The win for Andrew Webster's side, who led 12-10 at halftime, opens up a four-point buffer between the top four and Cronulla, who remain stuck in fifth after a second straight defeat. "I didn't know when it was going to come, but at halftime I was like, 'boys, we love these tight games'," Webster said. "I was rapt that we got the rewards late and I thought both our attack and defence complimented each other." The Sharks, meanwhile, are in real danger of slipping back into the chasing peloton. A large number of the home side's supporters made for the exit when Warriors five-eighth Chanel Harris-Tavita crossed in the 66th minute. Craig Fitzgibbon's men imploded after the break. A side once famed for their defensive steel, the Sharks have conceded 108 points across their past three games. "We work hard on that (defence) and it's a simple game," Fitzgibbon said. "Sometimes if you don't get the simple and the hardest parts right, that's what happens to you. "A lack of physicality in the second half cost us." The early warning signs were there for Cronulla as the rising Warriors started with promise and took the lead after just five minutes. Dallin Watene-Zelezniak and Adam Pompey gave the Kiwi side an early lead before Mawene Hiroti and KL Iro both hit back for the Sharks before halftime. Cronulla had an avenue back into the game, but they failed to take it, and in their first defensive test of the second half Fitzgibbon's side wilted. Vaimauga created the confusion as the young forward played a no-look short ball for James Fisher-Harris close to the goal line that allowed the prop to stroll in untouched. Vaimauga then nabbed a try of his own backing up a Metcalf break, before Halasima got in on the act by outjumping Sione Katoa and touching down in the in-goal. Harris-Tavita scored two tries in the final quarter of an hour, the first off a show-and-go that left the Sharks defence clutching at air. His second was an 80-metre runaway effort after intercepting a Nicho Hynes pass that will only add to the pressure on the Sharks. The Warriors have brushed Cronulla aside in a 40-10 win that has helped create a breakaway pack of four in the race for the NRL minor premiership. Marshalled by one-time Cronulla playmaker Luke Metcalf, the Warriors kept pace with fellow top-four contenders Canberra, Canterbury and Melbourne with victory in front of 13,727 at Shark Park on Saturday. Metcalf will take the plaudits for the Warriors' round 14 victory, but some of the Kiwi outfit's young forward talent - namely Demetric Vaimauga and Leka Halasima - trumped the Sharks for both flair and fight. The win for Andrew Webster's side, who led 12-10 at halftime, opens up a four-point buffer between the top four and Cronulla, who remain stuck in fifth after a second straight defeat. "I didn't know when it was going to come, but at halftime I was like, 'boys, we love these tight games'," Webster said. "I was rapt that we got the rewards late and I thought both our attack and defence complimented each other." The Sharks, meanwhile, are in real danger of slipping back into the chasing peloton. A large number of the home side's supporters made for the exit when Warriors five-eighth Chanel Harris-Tavita crossed in the 66th minute. Craig Fitzgibbon's men imploded after the break. A side once famed for their defensive steel, the Sharks have conceded 108 points across their past three games. "We work hard on that (defence) and it's a simple game," Fitzgibbon said. "Sometimes if you don't get the simple and the hardest parts right, that's what happens to you. "A lack of physicality in the second half cost us." The early warning signs were there for Cronulla as the rising Warriors started with promise and took the lead after just five minutes. Dallin Watene-Zelezniak and Adam Pompey gave the Kiwi side an early lead before Mawene Hiroti and KL Iro both hit back for the Sharks before halftime. Cronulla had an avenue back into the game, but they failed to take it, and in their first defensive test of the second half Fitzgibbon's side wilted. Vaimauga created the confusion as the young forward played a no-look short ball for James Fisher-Harris close to the goal line that allowed the prop to stroll in untouched. Vaimauga then nabbed a try of his own backing up a Metcalf break, before Halasima got in on the act by outjumping Sione Katoa and touching down in the in-goal. Harris-Tavita scored two tries in the final quarter of an hour, the first off a show-and-go that left the Sharks defence clutching at air. His second was an 80-metre runaway effort after intercepting a Nicho Hynes pass that will only add to the pressure on the Sharks.
7NEWS
3 days ago
- Sport
- 7NEWS
Sharks boss laments ‘lack of physicality' in thumping loss to Warriors
The Warriors have brushed Cronulla aside in a 40-10 win that has helped create a breakaway pack of four in the race for the NRL minor premiership. Marshalled by one-time Cronulla playmaker Luke Metcalf, the Warriors kept pace with fellow top-four contenders Canberra, Canterbury and Melbourne with victory in front of 13,727 at Shark Park on Saturday. Metcalf will take the plaudits for the Warriors' round 14 victory, but some of the Kiwi outfit's young forward talent - namely Demetric Vaimauga and Leka Halasima - trumped the Sharks for both flair and fight. The win for Andrew Webster's side, who led 12-10 at halftime, opens up a four-point buffer between the top four and Cronulla, who remain stuck in fifth after a second straight defeat. 'I didn't know when it was going to come, but at halftime I was like, 'boys, we love these tight games',' Webster said. 'I was rapt that we got the rewards late and I thought both our attack and defence complimented each other.' The Sharks, meanwhile, are in real danger of slipping back into the chasing peloton. A large number of the home side's supporters made for the exit when Warriors five-eighth Chanel Harris-Tavita crossed in the 66th minute. Craig Fitzgibbon's men imploded after the break. A side once famed for their defensive steel, the Sharks have conceded 108 points across their past three games. 'We work hard on that (defence) and it's a simple game,' Fitzgibbon said. 'Sometimes if you don't get the simple and the hardest parts right, that's what happens to you. 'A lack of physicality in the second half cost us.' The early warning signs were there for Cronulla as the rising Warriors started with promise and took the lead after just five minutes. Dallin Watene-Zelezniak and Adam Pompey gave the Kiwi side an early lead before Mawene Hiroti and KL Iro both hit back for the Sharks before halftime. Cronulla had an avenue back into the game, but they failed to take it, and in their first defensive test of the second half Fitzgibbon's side wilted. Vaimauga created the confusion as the young forward played a no-look short ball for James Fisher-Harris close to the goal line that allowed the prop to stroll in untouched. Vaimauga then nabbed a try of his own backing up a Metcalf break, before Halasima got in on the act by outjumping Sione Katoa and touching down in the in-goal. Harris-Tavita scored two tries in the final quarter of an hour, the first off a show-and-go that left the Sharks defence clutching at air. His second was an 80-metre runaway effort after intercepting a Nicho Hynes pass that will only add to the pressure on the Sharks.
Perth Now
3 days ago
- Sport
- Perth Now
Warriors put Sharks to slaughter in heavy NRL win
The Warriors have brushed Cronulla aside in a 40-10 win that has helped create a breakaway pack of four in the race for the NRL minor premiership. Marshalled by one-time Cronulla playmaker Luke Metcalf, the Warriors kept pace with fellow top-four contenders Canberra, Canterbury and Melbourne with victory in front of 13,727 at Shark Park on Saturday. Metcalf will take the plaudits for the Warriors' round 14 victory, but some of the Kiwi outfit's young forward talent - namely Demetric Vaimauga and Leka Halasima - trumped the Sharks for both flair and fight. The win for Andrew Webster's side opens up a four-point buffer between the top four and Cronulla, who remain stuck in fifth after a second straight defeat. The Sharks are in real danger of slipping back into the chasing peloton, and a large number of the home side's supporters made for the exit when Warriors five-eighth Chanel Harris-Tavita crossed in the 66th minute. Craig Fitzgibbon's men were once famed for their defensive steel, but the Sharks have conceded 108 points across their past three games. The early warning signs were there for Cronulla as the rising Warriors started with promise and took the lead after just five minutes. Dallin Watene-Zelezniak caught a chip and touched down, before centre Adam Pompey dived on a Will Kennedy fumble to extend the Warriors' lead. Mawene Hiroti and KL Iro both hit back for the Sharks to leave the home side trailing 12-10 at halftime. Cronulla had an avenue back into the game, but they failed to take it, and in their first defensive test of the second half Fitzgibbon's side wilted. Vaimauga created the confusion as the young forward played a no-look short ball for James Fisher-Harris close to the goal line that allowed the prop to stroll in untouched. Vaimauga then nabbed a try of his own backing up a Metcalf break, before Halasima got in on the act by outjumping Sione Katoa and touching down in the in-goal. Harris-Tavita scored two tries in the final quarter of an hour, the first off a show-and-go that left the Sharks defence clutching at air. His second was an 80-metre runaway effort after intercepting a Nicho Hynes pass that will only add to the pressure on the Sharks.
West Australian
3 days ago
- Sport
- West Australian
Warriors put Sharks to slaughter in heavy NRL win
The Warriors have brushed Cronulla aside in a 40-10 win that has helped create a breakaway pack of four in the race for the NRL minor premiership. Marshalled by one-time Cronulla playmaker Luke Metcalf, the Warriors kept pace with fellow top-four contenders Canberra, Canterbury and Melbourne with victory in front of 13,727 at Shark Park on Saturday. Metcalf will take the plaudits for the Warriors' round 14 victory, but some of the Kiwi outfit's young forward talent - namely Demetric Vaimauga and Leka Halasima - trumped the Sharks for both flair and fight. The win for Andrew Webster's side opens up a four-point buffer between the top four and Cronulla, who remain stuck in fifth after a second straight defeat. The Sharks are in real danger of slipping back into the chasing peloton, and a large number of the home side's supporters made for the exit when Warriors five-eighth Chanel Harris-Tavita crossed in the 66th minute. Craig Fitzgibbon's men were once famed for their defensive steel, but the Sharks have conceded 108 points across their past three games. The early warning signs were there for Cronulla as the rising Warriors started with promise and took the lead after just five minutes. Dallin Watene-Zelezniak caught a chip and touched down, before centre Adam Pompey dived on a Will Kennedy fumble to extend the Warriors' lead. Mawene Hiroti and KL Iro both hit back for the Sharks to leave the home side trailing 12-10 at halftime. Cronulla had an avenue back into the game, but they failed to take it, and in their first defensive test of the second half Fitzgibbon's side wilted. Vaimauga created the confusion as the young forward played a no-look short ball for James Fisher-Harris close to the goal line that allowed the prop to stroll in untouched. Vaimauga then nabbed a try of his own backing up a Metcalf break, before Halasima got in on the act by outjumping Sione Katoa and touching down in the in-goal. Harris-Tavita scored two tries in the final quarter of an hour, the first off a show-and-go that left the Sharks defence clutching at air. His second was an 80-metre runaway effort after intercepting a Nicho Hynes pass that will only add to the pressure on the Sharks.
