Excitement is high for tonight’s Monday Night Football clash between the Detroit Lions and the Baltimore Ravens, two teams that project to be Super Bowl contenders at the end of the season. For the marquee contest, DraftKings is running a King of the End Zone promotion with $2 million in bonus bets. The rules are simple: if you place a singles bet on a touchdown-scorer market and opt in to the contest, that bet becomes eligible for the promotion, and if that player scores the longest touchdown of the game, you win a share of the prize pool.
Baltimore is a 4.5-point favorite (-225 Moneyline) for tonight’s 8:15 p.m. ET game. Detroit, meanwhile, is +185 on the Moneyline, and the point total is set to 53.5. With so many talented players on both offenses, there should be plenty of options.
There are plenty of obvious candidates, and I already broke down why Derrick Henry, as the odds-on favorite to score, is most likely to ultimately be crowned the King of the End Zone. In this article, I’ll take a look at two longer-shot players.
King of the End Zone — What You Need to Know
The two images below break down everything you need to know about the King of the End Zone contest:
The promotion is fairly simple: as long as you opt in and place a Singles bet with a stake of at least $5 on a TD Scorer prop bet from your cash or DK Dollars balance prior to the scheduled kickoff time and don’t cash it out, your bet is eligible to receive a share of the prize pool. Passing touchdowns will not count; if you choose Lamar Jackson or Jared Goff, he’ll need to run it in himself. Either team’s D/ST, though not an individual player, is eligible to become the King of the End Zone.
King of the End Zone Preview & Picks | Ravens vs. Lions on Monday 9/22/25
Players with shortest odds to score a TD:
- Derrick Henry (-205)
- Jahmyr Gibbs (-120)
- Zay Flowers (+105)
- Amon-Ra St. Brown (+120)
- David Montgomery (+130)
- Lamar Jackson (+185)
King of the End Zone Picks for Monday 9/22/25: DeAndre Hopkins and Lions D/ST
I almost considered for Jameson Williams (+255 to score a touchdown), but he’s not necessarily a long shot: because of his 17.8-yard average depth of target — the fourth-highest mark in the league — and his game-breaking speed, he should be a pretty popular option. In fact, Williams scored the game’s longest touchdown in the Lions’ Week 2 win over the Chicago Bears, breaking away for a 44-yard score in the middle of the third quarter. Six of his eight touchdowns last season were the longest score of the game.
Instead, Hopkins (+370 to score a touchdown) is my favorite long shot. The future Hall of Famer had a season to forget in 2024, hauling in just 56 passes for 610 yards and five scores between stints with the Tennessee Titans and the Kansas City Chiefs, his lowest yards and second-lowest touchdowns output in a full season. He also averaged his third-lowest yards per target and fourth-shallowest average depth of target while playing with a bad quarterback (Will Levis) and in a bad system (the Chiefs’ passive offense, which averaged the fewest intended air yards per passing attempt).
This season, he’s once again become the league’s most prominent deep threats: though Jackson has only targeted him four times, his 24.3-yard average depth of target would lead the league if he had enough targets to qualify, as would his 94.3 overall grade at Pro Football Focus. His touchdowns this season have been 29 and 23 yards, Baltimore’s third- and fifth-longest offensive scores this season, respectively. Detroit has allowed seven 20-plus-yard receptions already and has conceded the ninth-most yards per reception, so while the Lions have had a solid secondary overall, the damage has come in bunches. Plus, Detroit’s coverage unit is already dealing with injuries: D.J. Reed is questionable with a knee issue. Both Reed and Terrion Arnold have been poor in coverage this season, posting the 19th- and 12th-worst coverage grades among 102 qualified corners.
If Hopkins isn’t a long enough shot, I also like the Lions’ D/ST (+600 to score a touchdown). While defensive touchdowns are rare, they tend to be explosive, and any defensive touchdown for Detroit tonight likely will be, given that the Ravens have had the league’s second-most efficient offense this season. Baltimore’s D/ST has already been a game’s hypothetical King of the End Zone once, as Roquan Smith returned Joe Flacco’s fumble for a 63-yard score in its Week 2 blowout over the Cleveland Browns. It’s unlikely that Goff will be strip-sacked like Flacco was, given how good Detroit has been in pass protection, and Jackson is elusive enough to make up for the Ravens’ poor pass protection. Neither quarterback throws many interceptions. Thus, it comes down to ball security: Baltimore has fumbled three times this season, though it recovered two of them, and the Lions haven’t fumbled yet.
