Recognized around the world as one of the biggest American football gurus in the industry, Grant Stevens topped himself once again in the 2018 NFL season. Mr. Stevens won 52 picks against the spread out of 76 picks during the entire season. Not quite his best NFL season ever, but he finished with 68% winners on the year which was good enough to top the American syndicate for documented sports handicappers for the 2nd time in the last 4 years. This level of consistent domination has never been seen before around handicapping circles and it’s not just the amount of winning Grant does that has garnered so much attention, it’s his own personal wagers that have gotten him banned from a number of sportsbooks in Las Vegas.
Grant Stevens is somewhat of a wanted man around Vegas sportsbooks these days, and has gotten the Billy Walters treatment from most bookies for the last decade or so since quickly rising the ranks of the sports betting scene. While he’s been a professional handicapper for over 20 years, it’s been mostly over the last 10 years that Grant has really made his name as one of the most prominent and successful sports bettors and handicappers in the country. Many people know Grant for his record breaking college football picks against the spread, but his NFL picks are every bit as good. The 2018 season was proof of that as Grant won some very large personal wagers throughout the year.
Grant has mentioned before that the majority of his betting clientele, around 60%, wagers $1,000 per game. So for those bettors who were following Grant for the 2018 NFL season, they won around $28,000. While most of his bettors wager around that $1,000 mark, Grant is known for his high-roller clientele with some of his clients wagering in excess of 6 figures on each game. For those larger stakes bettors wagering around $100,000 a game, they made $2,800,000 in just under 20 weeks. You can’t find that kind of return on investment by any other legal means.
By far his largest wager of the year and arguably his biggest win was in week 14 when the Baltimore Ravens went to Arrowhead in a must-win game against arguably the best team in football. The Ravens’ rookie QB Lamar Jackson was coming off his third straight win against losing teams, and many people doubted that the Ravens run-first, gimmicky offense could compete with the high powered Chiefs’ offense. The Chiefs were favored by 6.5 points, and even some of the more well-respected handicappers were all over the Chiefs predicating a blowout win at home, but not Grant. On his weekly football podcast during the season Grant said that the Ravens recharged defense in conjunction with their new ball control offense would give the Chiefs a run for their money. The script played out as if he wrote it as Baltimore took the Chiefs to overtime and gave them everything they could handle before losing by 3, but still covering the 6.5 point spread. Grant proclaimed in the week leading up to the game that this wager would be significantly more than his largest wager on the season, and even though he never specifically named the dollar amount, a few in his circle have rumored that the wager came out to around $250,000. Not a bad payday for one day’s work.
The college football betting expert is also one of the world’s best at picking NFL, and 2018 was just the latest example. His clientele has been growing significantly each and every year for the last decade, and he’s been gaining more acclaim over recent years as he consistently tops the documented handicappers and sports bettors from around the industry. We’re all looking forward to the 2019 season to see what Grant has in store to follow up on his greatly successful 2018 football season.
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