BY ADAM GREENE<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unlike the NFL\u2019s Offensive Player of the Year Award, the Most Valuable Player doesn\u2019t need the best stats. What he does need to be on is a winning team and preferably a division champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since 2010, only one time did the MVP play on a Wild Card team and that was 2012 when Adrian Peterson ran for 2,097 yards and 12 touchdowns not even a full year after tearing his ACL. His Minnesota Vikings team went 10-6 that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Any chance it happens again? Nope, but we\u2019ll take a look anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2020 NFL MOST VALUABLE PLAYER ODDS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like the Offensive Player of the Year odds, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (+500) leads the way with Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson (+900), last year\u2019s winner, hot on his heels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to back Mahomes, that\u2019s certainly the smart play. Virtually the same Chiefs team returns from last year\u2019s Super Bowl winning squad and Mahomes could easily end up tossing 50 touchdowns in Andy Reid\u2019s offense. If Kansas City finishes 12-4 and he has a stat line like that, he\u2019s taking home both the OPOTY and MVP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jackson, I feel like he\u2019s due for a return to Earth this season as are the Ravens. I think they\u2019ll struggle to make the playoffs and while Jackson will still be good, he\u2019ll face more defenses like the one the Tennessee Titians used to stymie him in the divisional round and won\u2019t put up Madden cheat code numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As we look outside those two, who else could find their way into the MVP conversation? We know if has to be a guy playing on a division winner. The only way it won\u2019t be is if the guy is coming back from a season ending injury and puts up ridiculous numbers. The guys that fit that bill? Cam Newton (+2500) and Ben Roethlisberger (+3300). And the fact is, they fit both requirements as I feel that the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers will probably win their respective divisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But will they put the stats up to shoot them past a guy like Mahomes? Roethlisberger, probably not. Newton, maybe. Because he\u2019s playing for the best offensive coordinator he\u2019s taken playcalls from in his career, Josh McDaniels. Newton, if he stays healthy, is set to put up career numbers in the Pats offense. He could be the Madden cheat code this year and take this trophy home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Outside of those two, Tom Brady (+1200) has already won the award three times and taking a perennial underperforming Tampa Bay Buccaneers team to 13-3 would put him in the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Russell Wilson (+1400) always gets a lot of love in the preseason and constant fainting shock that he\u2019s never gotten so much as an MVP vote. If the Seattle Seahawks go 14-2, he\u2019s in the conversation, but nobody thinks that\u2019ll happen. They\u2019re an 11-5 team that will make it as far as RW takes him, which means he\u2019s their MVP if nothing else,. But he won\u2019t put up the stats to contend with Mahomes and the Seahawks are probably a Wild Card team at best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow our BetOnline Twitter accoun<\/a>t for the latest sports news and betting odds, and stay tuned on the Instagram feed<\/a> for more good information too.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY ADAM GREENE Unlike the NFL\u2019s Offensive Player of the Year Award, the Most Valuable Player doesn\u2019t need the best…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":13287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13288,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285\/revisions\/13288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}