If the opening line on the Green Bay Packers’ week 6 game holds up through kickoff next Sunday, it will be the team’s biggest point spread as a favorite in 13 years.
The Packers host the Cincinnati Bengals at Lambeau Field next Sunday afternoon, and a combination of home-field advantage and the Bengals’ abysmal injury and quarterback situation has left them in an awful spot. After losing 37-24 to the Detroit Lions in Cincinnati in week 5, the Bengals are on the wrong side of a spread of more than two touchdowns.
Today’s opening line from FanDuel sportsbook finds the Packers favored by a whopping 14.5 points, a remarkably large number for any NFL game in 2025. One must go back to 2012 to find the last time Green Bay was favored by a spread that large, when they were 16-point favorites for