Bettors believe in the Seahawks.

That’s my takeaway from conversations with a pair of oddsmakers leading up to this weekend’s wild-card round games.

The Seahawks, who are three-point favorites at Washington on Sunday, have been backed by sharp bettors at the MGM Resorts International sportsbooks in Nevada, said Jay Rood, MGM's vice president of race and sports. Pat Morrow, head oddsmaker for online sportsbook Bovada.lv, said Seattle was the “largest position” bettors had taken in the wild-card round. (That said, there’s also been some sharp action on Washington at plus-3, longtime Nevada oddsmaker and Pregame.com analyst Chris Andrews said Thursday on Twitter.)

Bettors also appear to be smitten with the Colts, who are underdogs of around at TD at Baltimore. The interest in Indianapolis has been “growing and growing” as the club has made its run to the postseason, Rood said Wednesday.

In Saturday’s Vikings-Packers matchup, the bulk of the money at Bovada has been on Minnesota, Morrow said Thursday, though there has been a little professional money on Green Bay. At MGM, however, some sharps took Minnesota plus-8, Rood noted. The line is Minnesota +7½ at MGM but 1½ points higher at Bovada.

At Bovada, no game has drawn less interest than Bengals-Texans, according to Morrow. At MGM, the straight bets on both clubs were fairly even, Rood said, but most of the parlay money was on Houston — a development that could eventually get Rood to move the line a little bit.

For his part, Rood believes the Bengals (+4½ at MGM, +5 at Bovada) look like a solid underdog on Saturday.

“I wouldn’t mind needing the Bengals for a little bit of a decision,” he said. 

My wild-card round picks: