Will NFL MVP additionally win Super Bowl? Mahomes, Allen, others to attempt

Patrick Mahomes. Joe Burrow. Jalen Hurts. Josh Allen. One of those 4 quarterbacks has an opportunity to do one thing that hasn’t been completed in 23 years — win the MVP and the Super Bowl in the identical 12 months.

Lots of people within the sports activities world nonetheless consider the MVP ought to go to one of the best participant on one of the best crew. How the award gathered such a distinction, I don’t know, however for some motive, many followers nonetheless maintain onto it as if it isn’t the dumbest saying in all of sports activities. That may be the excellence for particular person soccer video games, and that’s why now we have the Super Bowl MVP Award. However, that’s not the case for a season-long MVP title.

Not since Kurt Warner

History backs up my argument as nicely. As I’ve identified earlier than, NFL award winners have a really tough time within the Super Bowl, particularly MVP winners. Ever since Kurt Warner gained the Super Bowl in addition to the MVP Award in 1999/2000, zero gamers have achieved that feat. None! Many have tried, and even come very shut. MVPs have reached the Super Bowl 9 occasions since Warner achieved the feat. They’re an abysmal 0-9 although. Funny sufficient, a couple of of those MVPs did win the Super Bowl the next season. Mahomes gained the award in 2018 and gained the Super Bowl in 2019. Tom Brady gained MVP in 2017, misplaced to Nick Foles within the Super Bowl, after which gained the massive sport the next 12 months towards Jared Goff and the Los Angeles Rams. The closest any particular person has ever gotten to breaking the streak was Matt Ryan, the 2016 NFL MVP, who went up 28-3 within the Super Bowl, however blew the lead and misplaced in additional time to Brady’s Patriots.

Who’s subsequent?

So, might the streak be damaged in 2023? There’s a reasonably good probability. The MVP frontrunner is none aside from Patrick Mahomes. He’s the highest seed within the AFC and, though he isn’t assured home-field benefit by the playoffs, has confirmed able to main his crew to a Super Bowl victory earlier than. Even with out Tyreek Hill, the Chiefs’ offense is diabolical, and is ready to sustain with another crew within the league, even when the opposing protection is without doubt one of the greatest within the NFL as nicely. That stated, there’s nonetheless an opportunity that Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow, Buffalo’s Josh Allen, or Philadelphia’s Jalen Hurts might come away with the award. They do have the second, third, and fourth-best odds respectively.

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There can only be one, of course

That’s half of every team remaining with a chance to win it all and have their quarterback win the Super Bowl. That seems like pretty good odds, don’t you think? In reality, though, the odds aren’t as great as you might think. Since only one of those names is a quarterback in the NFC (and he has the worst MVP odds of the bunch), there’s only a 25 percent chance that we see an MVP candidate come out of the NFC. While the AFC is loaded with those MVP-caliber quarterbacks, only one can emerge to represent their conference. The best-case scenario for breaking this curse would be if Mahomes and the Chiefs went up against Hurts and the Eagles. However, that’s under the assumption that neither Allen nor Burrow takes home the hardware. Even still, the right quarterback would have to win.

It would take a miracle for everything to line up so perfectly this year, but this might be our best chance to see the streak broken. I can’t remember the last time we had every legitimate MVP candidate reach the Divisional Round. That, in and of itself, should be celebrated. Seeing the MVP win the Super Bowl though, even now, seems like an astronomically improbable occurrence.