MVP
- Lamar Jackson
- Jared Goff
- Josh Allen
- Jayden Daniels
- *Patrick Mahomes
MVP: Lamar Jackson
If the season ended today, the person who has been the best and most differential player could not be other than Lamar Jackson. The reigning MVP is playing better than last season, the presence of Derrick Henry next to him in the backfield has enhanced all his virtues, since the attention that the RB demands from defenses, the number of loaded boxes that Lamar must read, gives him On the one hand, they allow you to release your arm and make the difference through the air, but also to pull your legs when necessary to achieve important gains. Lamar Jackson is proving undetectable to opposing defenses, and the Ravens’ offense – the best in the league so far in terms of production – poses a challenge when deciding where defenses should allocate their resources. And that has to do with Henry, yes, but above all with Lamar Jackson whose mix of gifts to operate from the pocket and, at the same time, to make the most of his virtues as a mobile QB, make him the best player right now of the league.
Lamar Jackson is second in the QB Rating classification only behind Joe Burrow, but to that he adds 501 career yards, being the 14th running back in the entire NFL and evidently the first QB in the category. But, above all, his ability to understand when the game requires him to stay in the pocket and when he should extend plays is something that makes him a weapon different from all the others. That his team has already suffered 3 losses has much more to do with a defense that is too vulnerable against the pass than with what Lamar and the Baltimore offense are doing.
2. Jared Goff
It is easy to understand that Jared Goff is playing at the best level of his entire career. Yes, in an idyllic situation in which his pair of RBs and his OL protect him at an elite level, but within that context, Goff is improving and greatly improving the Lions’ attack. His last weeks are bordering on perfection. In the last 5 weeks, Jared Goff has accumulated 88/106 passes completed (83%), 1,171 passing yards and 13 touchdowns, for only one interception. They are MVP numbers. That 83% of completed passes is also the best percentage in a five-game spectrum in the entire history of the NFL.
3. Josh Allen
How scary the Bills attack is starting to look, once Amari Cooper has integrated into it. These last few weeks everything has fit together like a puzzle, Cooper is the ball winner they needed in obvious passing situations, third downs and red zone; That has freed Keon Coleman from being strictly an Also, the running game is excellent with James White. It’s curious, because the Bills are a team that plays with many jumbo formations (with an extra player on the OL), which should enhance their running game and indeed, it does; What’s happening is that Josh Allen is also shining in the pass with these types of situations and the Bills are the team in the entire NFL that produces the most air route in jumbo formations.
For a few weeks now, this Bills offense has sounded like a well-tuned symphony orchestra and, what is better, it has one of the best pure passers in the NFL today as its conductor. Josh Allen is managing to eliminate everything that has to do with not taking care of the ball – just one INT this season and because his WR slipped in the Seattle rain. The Bills QB began the season alternating the superhero cape in some games, coming out of the pocket with impossible throws and saving runs, with his most managerial version so that the entire unit worked. However, since Cooper’s arrival we have seen the most enhanced version of a QB capable of things that are within the reach of very few QBs. If his production ability continues at this level and at the same time he continues to reduce turnovers, he will be a very serious MVP candidate at the end of the year.
4 Jayden Daniels
The Washington Commanders rookie QB deserves, at the very least, to be in the MVP conversation. His season so far has been impeccable and he is the undisputed winner of another award, so a few paragraphs below we will develop his merits; but I did not want to fail to mention it in a category in which, at the very least, it deserves to be included.
*Patrick Mahomes
The asterisk with Patrick Mahomes is due to a very specific circumstance: If you look at the statistics of the Chiefs’ QB, it is easy to think that we are facing one of his worst years in the NFL, with constant interceptions, without great numerical production … But when you watch the games it is obvious to see that he is a QB who is doing a lot with little. He makes the most of what he has around him and, unlike others in the position, leaves his ego aside to do what his team requires of him. It is no coincidence that always and without exception, when the moment of truth arrives, it is Mahomes who makes the difference. Every week he shows up to do what is necessary for his team to win… and if we are talking about the team with the best record in the NFL and the only undefeated team, that could also deserve the MVP.
