In 56 previous Super Bowls, the quarterback of the winning team has won the Super Bowl MVP award 31 times. The only MVP to win the award on the losing team was linebacker Chuck Howley in Super Bowl V for the Dallas Cowboys against the Baltimore Colts.
We’ve seen a greater spread of MVP winners recently, as only five of the last nine Super Bowl MVPs have been quarterbacks (Tom Brady was three of them), but 15 of the last 24 have been quarterbacks. It may not be a quarterback-driven award to the same level, but a running back has not won the award since 1998 (Terrell Davis) and only five wide receivers have won in that span.
Let’s compare and contrast the Super Bowl odds and the Super Bowl MVP odds for the quarterbacks from DraftKings Sportsbook.
Kansas City Chiefs
Chiefs +300 vs. Patrick Mahomes +350