Someone bet $300 on Quez Watkins to score a TD and won $7K

It's not the odds that matter in this one. It's the fact that one brazen bettor who I simply have to suspect is a Cowboys fan risked a whopping and oddly specific $55,577.92 on the Cowboys to cover 3.5 points against the 49ers in Week 15. It's like going all in with an 8-3 off-suit hand, only for the opponent to agree with a 7-2 off-suit.

And it worked.

Some of the players in this specific touchdown parlay came across as reasonable picks. DeAndre Hopkins, going against a vulnerable Eagles secondary without Darius Slay among other injuries. Lamar Jackson, going against Jacksonville and fresh off his best game of the season. Robert Tonyan, who now has a whopping 10 touchdowns this season and a whopping one Pro Bowl snub as well.

The risky one, though, was Texans wide receiver Chad Hansen, who entered Houston's Week 15 clash with the top-notch Indianapolis Colts defense with a grand total of zero touchdowns in his career.

Clearly, that went a long way in making this bet a fruitful one.

I've watched every minute of every Eagles game throughout this frustrating season, and I had heard Quez Watkins' name called maybe one or two times the entire season prior to Week 15. After all, he had played 42 snaps the entire season, with a season-high 22 in Week 14 in which he recorded one catch for three yards.

So when he was found by Jalen Hurts outside on a short pass and he took it up the sideline and to the house, you could consider Eagles fans pleasantly surprised.

Was it a pleasant surprise for the bettor who risked $300 on that exact prop, though? Or did that bettor know something that we didn't? Regardless, this curiously confident wager resulted in quite the pay day.

What do Donovan Peoples-Jones, Darius Slayton, Evan Engram and Austin Hooper have in common? They're all talented and wildly unpredictable skill players in terms of what their weekly production might be. So meshing them all together in one same-game parlay seems like a disastrous way to lose money... or gain a whole lot if it somehow goes right.

Meanwhile, Nick Chubb has been a solid and reliable beast since returning from injury in 2020, and it only made sense that while this bettor took the overs on every player mentioned above, he took the under on the one established superstar in the equation.

Some parlays just defy explanation, I guess.

The Jets were 17-point underdogs. The Bengals were 14-point underdogs. So it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that parlaying the two underdogs together on a money line bet would hold insanely juicy odds for just a two-leg bet.

But calling it "just" a two-leg bet doesn't do it justice. The winless Jets have been abysmal all season and, barring extreme imprudence, would want to continue their losing streak to claim the first overall draft pick. The Steelers, coming off two straight losses — their only two losses — had the perfect get-back-on-track game against the depleted Bengals.

We all know how those story lines turned out.