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Denver Broncos: 2026 Win Total & Market Edge

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The prediction-market read on the Broncos: our 10,000-season simulation projects 10.2 wins in 2026 (8th of 32, Playoff tier; model 10.2), beside the live Kalshi win-total line. Full schedule, per-game win probabilities and AFC West standing below.

Entering Week 7: experts 7 · market-implied 11 · PMP 11. Experts vs. market on the Broncos →

2026 win total: our model vs. Kalshi

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Denver Broncos

AFC West · 11th power rating · Playoff
Kalshi live
10.2 projected wins
± 1.6 · 8th of 32
Kalshi market
10.66w
Ladder-implied wins
7 Oracles sim
10.24w
59.6% backtested
Divergence
-0.42w
Market higher

Model agrees with the market

Divergence is projected wins minus the ladder-implied market line, in wins — LOW on the one ladder every season-wins surface grades on (STRONG ≥2.0 · HIGH ≥1.5 · MODERATE ≥1.0); OVER / UNDER fires at ±2.0. Projected wins are the 10,000-season simulation mean; the model — wins already banked plus the rest of the season — reads 10.2. No single rung sits near 50¢.

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The consensus spread

Three independent estimates of the same season on one line: the expected wins implied by the live Kalshi ladder, our 10,000-season simulation, and EA’s Madden 27 simulation. Where they disagree is the whole signal.

2.01 wins of disagreement
8.65 Madden 27
10.24 Our sim
10.66 Kalshi
6.78.29.711.112.6

Both independent models sit on the same side of the market line — our sim at 10.24 and the Madden simulation at 8.65 against 10.66 implied wins. That is the cleanest version of this signal.

Madden and our model broadly agree on the Broncos — 13th on talent against 11th on play-by-play.

Where the season actually lands

A point estimate cannot tell a trader whether to take a position — the full distribution against the contract line can. Bars are the Madden 27 simulation over 10,000 seasons; the dashed marker is the live contract.

Kalshi 10.66 01234567891011121314151617
46%
our probability
of clearing 10.66
Madden sim: 27%
-3.7pp vs a coin flip

Our probability from the 10,000-season simulation (mean 10.24 wins; model, banked wins plus the rest of the season, 10.15 ± 1.61). Bars: Madden 27 sim-2026, 10,000 iterations. Two methods, no shared inputs.

The Ladder — Broncos

All ladders →

The season simulation at every Kalshi win-total rung, then the widest player-prop gap on this club this week. The rungs the market has not listed two-sided yet are drawn from the simulation alone.

BroncosSeason winsMARKET READView 11+ wins on Kalshi →

Kalshi prices 11+ wins at 56¢. Where the Oracle line sits on each rung is Pro.

Headline rung · 11+ wins
YES 57¢NO 45¢
pays 1.8x · books — · Oracle 🔒

Fewer than three strikes have both a two-sided Kalshi book and a model number inside our published 30–70% band, so there is no shape call here. The market prices are complete.

Legend
  • Kalshi YES mid, 0–100¢
  • book consensus (no-vig)
  • Oracle line (Pro) · hollow = outside the 30–70% band
  • YES/NO buttons are the Kalshi taker cost; “pays” is 100¢ ÷ cost.
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Adam TrautmanReceptionsMARKET READView 1+ rec on Kalshi →

Kalshi prices 1+ rec at 48¢ — a coin flip. Where the Oracle line sits on each rung is Pro.

Market · 1+ rec
YES 49¢

Fewer than three strikes have both a two-sided Kalshi book and a model number inside our published 30–70% band, so there is no shape call here. The market prices are complete.

Oracle Ladders venue check

At 1+ rec Kalshi's YES costs 49¢, the books imply 47¢ — 1.3 points above the book read.

Legend
  • Kalshi YES mid, 0–100¢
  • book consensus (no-vig)
  • Oracle line (Pro) · hollow = outside the 30–70% band
  • YES/NO buttons are the Kalshi taker cost; “pays” is 100¢ ÷ cost.
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Jaylen WaddleReceptionsMARKET READView 5+ rec on Kalshi →

Kalshi prices 5+ rec at 51¢ — a coin flip. Where the Oracle line sits on each rung is Pro.

Market · 5+ rec
YES 51¢

Fewer than three strikes have both a two-sided Kalshi book and a model number inside our published 30–70% band, so there is no shape call here. The market prices are complete.

Oracle Ladders venue check

At 5+ rec Kalshi's NO costs 50¢, the books imply 48¢ — 1.1 points below the book read.

Legend
  • Kalshi YES mid, 0–100¢
  • book consensus (no-vig)
  • Oracle line (Pro) · hollow = outside the 30–70% band
  • YES/NO buttons are the Kalshi taker cost; “pays” is 100¢ ÷ cost.
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Gold is our distribution, parchment is the Kalshi contract at each strike; the band between them is green where our probability is higher and purple where it is lower. We publish our number only where we have measured it to be calibrated, between 30% and 70%; rungs outside that range show the market only, and a rung where our number sits more than 30 points from a liquid market is refused outright — a gap that size is a bug until proven otherwise. A contract pays $1 if it settles YES, so a price in cents is an implied probability. Prediction markets carry risk; contracts can settle at $0.

Market edges

The season contract and the single game most likely to move it, graded on the same thresholds every other Gridiron Edge surface uses.

◆ LOW confidence 10.66 · Under

Season wins under 10.66

Our 10,000-season simulation projects 10.24 (model 10.15), the Madden 27 simulation 8.65, against 10.66 market-implied wins — a -0.42-win gap. LOW on the wins ladder (STRONG ≥2.0 · HIGH ≥1.5 · MODERATE ≥1.0); a side is flagged only at the 2.0-win STRONG rung, so the honest read is no position.

◆ MODERATE confidence Wk 14 · Away

Week 14 at Jets

The truest coin flip on the schedule at 53%. Games this close are where a season win total is actually decided — and where a live in-week contract is most likely to be mispriced. Full read →

Informational only. Contracts can settle at $0 — verify the market and trade responsibly.

Power rating breakdown

Diverging from league average rather than four flat numbers, so a positive reads as a positive at a glance. Points per game.

Overall +1.3
Offense -0.1
Defense +1.1
Special teams +0.2

Overall +1.3 ranks 11th of 32 (Playoff tier). How Broncos rank on the points scale → Re-weight the model yourself →

Methodology: DAEPA model docs → (59.6% backtested straight-up accuracy across 3,266 games, no market line used).

The season path

Seventeen weeks as a heat ribbon — the shape of the season in one glance, each cell linking to that game’s full read. The sortable table stays below it.

10.15 cumulative expected wins
Loss likelyWin likely— cumulative expected wins

Roster shape vs the league

Nine position groups against league average. Each axis is scaled on its own league range — a shared 0-100 scale flattens every roster into the same circle.

17 Quarterback 81
1 O-Line 85
7 Receiver 84
21 Tight End 78
26 Running Back 82
5 Pass Rush 85
28 Linebacker 75
3 Secondary 85
8 Special Teams 79

Dashed violet ring = league average. Number chip = rank of 32. Source: Madden 27 launch team composites (derived unit aggregates, no per-player data).

2026 schedule & model win probabilities

All 17 regular-season games. Played games show the final; the rest show Our %, the DAEPA margin (power-rating differential + 2.5-point home-field) run through a Normal model, σ=14.4 — those numbers plus the 4-2 already banked sum to the model's 10.2 wins; the 10.2-win headline above is the 10,000-season simulation, which adds rating uncertainty (and fits its own home-field, 2.0) on top of these same ratings. Madden % is the same question asked of Madden 27 talent composites, a model that shares none of our inputs.

WeekOpponentH/AOur %Madden %
Wk 1at Kansas City ChiefsAWAYL 10-31
Wk 3vs Los Angeles RamsHOMEW 30-26
Wk 4at San Francisco 49ersAWAYL 14-24
Wk 6vs Seattle SeahawksHOMEW 17-14
Wk 7at Arizona CardinalsAWAY57%50%
Wk 8vs Kansas City ChiefsHOME57%47%
Wk 9at Carolina PanthersAWAY47%56%
Wk 11vs Las Vegas RaidersHOME69%60%
Wk 12at Pittsburgh SteelersAWAY47%46%
Wk 13vs Miami DolphinsHOME72%72%
Wk 14at New York JetsAWAY53%57%
Wk 15at Las Vegas RaidersAWAY55%49%
Wk 16vs Buffalo BillsHOME54%50%

Broncos player props vs the Kalshi line

Our projection against the live Kalshi contract. Every prop is an “X or more” contract that pays $1 if the player gets there, so the price of the side we call, in cents,is the market’s implied probability — the edge is the gap between that and ours, in percentage points. Closest strike to our projection first.

Broncos player props vs the Kalshi line — the called side, its Kalshi price and our tier on the strike closest to our projection; our odds only where our probabilities are calibrated
PlayerContractCallOur oddsMktTier
J.K. DobbinsRB2+ receptionsover 1.5YES52%38¢MODERATE
Bo NixQB2+ pass TDsover 1.5NOPro subscribers onlyPro subscribers onlyMODERATE
Bo NixQB10+ rush ydsover 9.5NOPro subscribers onlyPro subscribers onlyMODERATE
RJ HarveyRB20+ rush ydsover 19.5YESPro subscribers onlyPro subscribers onlyMODERATE

All 57 player-prop edges for Week 7 →Locked numbers are Pro.

Broncos props: where the market prices are

The market’s prices, not ours: each Kalshi strike beside the sportsbook consensus read at the same line, and where the cheaper price for each side actually is. A gap is a price difference, not a call — our Oracle calls are the opinion.

No Kalshi strike in this slice is 5¢+ off the sportsbooks right now — the market agrees with itself.

Broncos props: where the market prices are — Kalshi mid vs sportsbook consensus per strike, widest gap first
PlayerPropKalshiConsensusGapBest price
Bo NixQBDEN v ARI10+ rush yds53.0¢51.2%2bk+1.8¢over · BetRivers 54.1¢under · Kalshi 49.8¢
Adam TrautmanDEN v ARI1+ rec48.0¢46.7%4bk+1.3¢over · Novig 49¢under · DK 53.1¢
Jaylen WaddleDEN v ARI5+ rec50.5¢51.6%6bk-1.1¢over · Novig 51.9¢under · DK 49¢
Troy FranklinDEN v ARI15+ rec yds50.0¢51.0%4bk-1.0¢over · Novig 53.1¢under · Novig 48.1¢
Courtland SuttonDEN v ARI3+ rec59.5¢60.4%3bk-0.9¢over · BetRivers 61.1¢under · ProphetX 41.7¢
RJ HarveyDEN v ARI25+ rec yds48.5¢49.3%5bk-0.8¢over · Novig 51.5¢under · ESPN Bet 51.2¢
Courtland SuttonDEN v ARI4+ rec40.0¢40.6%5bk-0.6¢over · ProphetX 41¢under · DK 61.1¢
J.K. DobbinsRBDEN v ARI2+ rec37.5¢36.9%6bk+0.6¢over · Novig 37.5¢under · ProphetX 63.8¢

See all 61 priced prop strikes on the board →+ 123 listed on Kalshi, not yet priced.

Broncos player pages

All players →

One page per player: every Kalshi strike, the sportsbook consensus at the same threshold, the season projection and the measured range.

AFC West ladder

Projected wins across the division, leader in gold — and four internal reads a click away.

Chiefs 11.2 +1.2
Broncos 10.2 +1.3
Raiders 7.5 -3.2 Chargers 4.3 -3.2

Model has the Broncos 2nd in the AFC West. Division hub →

Division odds: Broncos 30¢ to win the AFC West on Kalshi.

10,000-season simulation

How it works →

Our current board, with the 94 games already played locked in and the remaining schedule played out 10,000 times with the league's actual tiebreaker procedure. The projection above is the middle of this; these are the odds around it. The sim fits its own home-field (2.0 points, from played games) — a separate fit from the +2.5 the game model uses on matchup pages.

Sim average wins

10.2

10,000 seasons · 64% reach 10+

Make playoffs

68%

3% win 6 or fewer

Win division

34%

13% take the 1 seed

Win Super Bowl

4.5%

10th of 32 · 9% reach it

The Broncos draw a 0.501 opponent win rate — the 17th-hardest schedule in the league.

10,000 simulated seasons on our preseason power ratings. Real NFL tiebreakers, real 2026 schedule. No injuries, no in-season roster change, no market prices.

Madden 27 outlook

Full board →

A second opinion, built from Madden 27 launch ratings alone and played across the real 2026 schedule 10,000 times. It knows nothing about our own model — which is what makes the disagreement worth reading.

Madden rank

13

81.4 composite · QB 81

Simulated wins

8.7

39% reach 10+

Playoffs

46%

23% win division

Super Bowl

2.8%

SoS 0.493 (22nd hardest)

Madden and our model broadly agree on the Broncos — 13th on talent against 11th on play-by-play.

Madden-only inputs — no injuries, no in-season roster change, no market prices. Average error on a season win total is 2.27 wins, so the distribution is the product, not the mean. The 10,000-season simulation →

Broncos 2026 — frequently asked

What is the Denver Broncos win total for 2026?

The Kalshi KXNFLWINS-27 ladder implies an expected 10.7 wins for the Broncos in 2026. Our 10,000-season simulation on our DAEPA power ratings projects 10.2 wins — a 0.4-win agreement with the market (LOW on our wins ladder).

Where do the Broncos rank in our 2026 power ratings?

The Broncos sit at a +1.3-point power rating — 11th of 32 — in the Playoff tier. That rating (offense -0.1, defense +1.1, special teams +0.2) is the input behind every Broncos prediction-market edge we publish.

Can you trade Denver Broncos games on Kalshi?

Yes. Kalshi is a CFTC-regulated exchange that lists Broncos season win totals (KXNFLWINS), individual game winners (KXNFLGAME, which for 2026 opened months ahead of kickoff), plus division, conference and Super Bowl champion markets — available to traders in all 50 states. You take a yes/no position that settles at $1 or $0.

What division are the Broncos in for 2026?

The Broncos play in the AFC West, alongside Chiefs, Raiders, Chargers. Our model has them projected 2nd in the AFC West on 10.2 expected wins.

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