Written before the game and kept as published. Final: Seattle Seahawks 14, Denver Broncos 17 (OT) — the graded call is above.
There is almost nothing between these two on our numbers. The Broncos rate +1.8 (9th of 32), the Seahawks +4.1 (1st) — 2.3 points apart before home field, inside the error bar of any preseason rating. The split comes out 50%/50%, and this rates as the closest game of the 14 in Week 6. When the model has no opinion worth holding, the price has to supply the edge.
Season-long, the model can barely split them: 10.9 projected wins for the Broncos against 10.1 for the Seahawks, favored in 13 and 14 of their 17 respectively. Two teams heading for the same neighborhood in the standings tend to produce exactly this kind of line. This game sits 5th-hardest on the Broncos' schedule and 3rd-hardest on the Seahawks'.
The defense wins the headline matchup here: the Seahawks grade +2.3 on that side of the ball (2nd of 32) against a Broncos offense at +0.4 (17th) — 2.0 points the wrong way for the offense. Going the other direction, the Seahawks offense (+0.6, 14th) meets the Broncos defense (+1.2, 5th), a 0.5-point gap. Special teams adds to it: the Seahawks grade +1.1, 1st in the league, against +0.3 (21st) on the other side — close to a point of hidden margin.
On the calendar, the Seahawks are on a 4-day turnaround and the Broncos are on a 4-day turnaround. The Seahawks come in off the 49ers, the Broncos off the Chargers. Rest measures at about a tenth of a point per day (2013-2025), and the closing line already charges for it, so a normal-week gap is not where an edge comes from.
Scheduling note: this is a Thursday game — the only one on the schedule that day — so it sits outside the main Sunday slate.
Calibration check, because a near-even number is the easiest kind to overtrust: across 3266 walk-forward games (2013-2024) the model gave a side 50-55% in 870 of them, and those sides won 52%. The Seahawks at 50% are in that band. A margin that thin is why we would rather wait for a price than call it a lean.
Kalshi listed this game as KXNFLGAME-26OCT15SEADEN, and the contract has settled now that the game has been played. The last price we archived before kickoff is in the settled-market section on this page; there is no live price and no position left to take.
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