It’s time to wrap up our season-long awards previews for the 2022 NFL season, and we’ve saved the big one for last: MVP.
Most Valuable Player — three words that will send any sports conversation down the rabbit hole for hours at a time, debating the meaning of “value” and who deserves the award and what the MVP criteria should be.
Aaron Rodgers is our defending MVP after throwing 37 TDs and just four picks, racking up 4115 yards and a third straight 13-win season for the 1-seed Packers. Rodgers pulled away from Tom Brady late (much to our chagrin) and took home 39 of 50 votes to become the fifth back-to-back MVP ever.
So what exactly defines a Most Valuable Player? What makes one player more valuable than others? What sort of player wins MVP? Is this a quarterbacks’ club or is the race open? And how much of this just comes down to narrative?