2025 WNBA, NFL future best bets: Back Clark to win MVP; Canales to win COY

Geoff Schwartz

Fox Sports Wettanalyst

The 2025 WNBA season begins on Friday and sports books are everything over it.

Caitlin Clark had a massive rookie season, broke several records and won the 2024 Rookie of the Year Award. Can she have an even better year? I think so.

And while the WNBA season begins, I always have football when you consider that the NFL time plan of the regular season has just fallen.

Let us immerse yourself in three future bets that I like.

Caitlin Clark Win MVP

Caitlin Clark will win the WNBA MVP Award in 2025 and you should now jump to this number before it is long over.

After Clark had followed Iowa for years, Clark went to Indiana fever for her rookie season. Clark was number 1 in the overall design of 2024 WNBA and immediately became the face of the league. It was less than two months after playing in the NCAA title game 2024 and she had already started in her first WNBA game.

Clark started slowly after her standards, but came up after the Olympic Games/All-Star break. She did a month break, which showed in her statistics after the break. Her average points per game rose from 17.3 before the break to 23.1 post break. She achieved an average of 8.4 assists per game in the league, and this number will jump with better teammates this season. The total list of the fever is better. Your teammates will master your passports with better hands and be ready on the edge, in contrast to the games of last season.

Clark achieved an average of six rebounds per game. If we assume that an average of 23 points, six rebounds and eight templates will achieve – together with the fever that makes the post -season as a higher seed – Clark will be the best overall player.

It is possible for these numbers to be closer to 25 points, six rebounds and 10 assists if the number of assist is higher.

It is also worth mentioning that it is awarded in Must-Have moments that we know that MVP voters are aware of. It is third in WNBA clutch points and the first in assists. Her popularity will always help her win this award. There is possible tiredness of the voters after A’ja Wilson has won the award three times in the last five seasons.

Take Clark now to win MVP.

Selection: Caitlin Clark (+220) to win MVP

How effective was Caitlin Clark in the WNBA?

Chicago Sky Under 19.5 wins

The Chicago Sky went 13: 27 in Angel Reese’s rookie season, to which a 1: 5 route belonged to end the season, while Reese was on the road for an injury. The sky fired her head coach and did not bring Chennedy Carter, her leading goal scorer. Chicago is confident that Roster supplements, including the design of Hailey van Lith, compensate for the missing points of Carter. Reese should also improve your rating after a working season.

What lacks sky on the offensive, they make it out with the defense. Chicago is big and long and on paper you should improve defensively.

Nevertheless, it seems to be a big task to make a jump of seven victories with a new trainer, new additions and questionable offensive production. Twenty victories would have placed the sky in the WNBA last season as the sixth best team, and I don’t see the squad as good enough so that this happened this season.

Selection: Chicago Sky (-110) under 19.5 wins

Dave Canales to win NFL coaches of the year

The head coach of Panthers enters his second season with the comfort that he has his quarterback.

Bryce Young was confiscated in 2023 and had no productive rookie season. Canales and his employees got their hands in their hands last season and in 2024 it started terribly. Young was put on the bench, but finally got the job back in the middle of the season. To the surprise of many, but not those in the Panthers’ building, Young showed a significant improvement. He was exactly, avoided pressure and made far fewer mistakes. This helped the Panthers to play both Super Bowl teams until the last game of the game.

The Panthers saw themselves losing these narrow games last season, and that is the way for a younger team with a squad in the river. You lose these narrow games and then win them in the following season. You must not only increase the team’s storage expenses, but also to increase defense.

If the panthers have the season that I expect to win like the department, Canales is absolutely alive for this award.

Selection: Dave Canales (+1800) to win the NFL coach of the year

Geoff Schwartz is an NFL analyst for Fox Sports. He played eight seasons in the NFL for five different teams. He started three seasons for the University of Oregon for the University of Oregon and was an all-PAC-12 selection of the second team last year. Follow him on Twitter @Geoffshschwartz.

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