Is the NFL MVP award just for quarterbacks?

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, Jori Epstein and Charles Robinson discuss the race for the NFL MVP this season and if standout, non-quarterback players like Christian McCaffrey and Tyreek Hill have a chance to win. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – part of the “Zero Blitz” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

Video Transcript

[MUSIC PLAYING]

JASON FITZ: You both have an MVP vote. So I want to stress this. There’s a difference between talking heads screaming about MVP and having people that actually vote on it talk about the MVP. So this is one of the weirder years. And obviously, it’s been a big conversation.

So Jori, I’ll start with you. Not even with where you are on this because Purdy is the favorite right now according to BetMGM. Lamar’s second. CMC, Dak, third. In your mind, how much of an emphasis is put on the quarterback position specifically for the MVP conversation?

JORI EPSTEIN: Yeah, it’s something I’ve thought a lot about especially this week. And I know we’ll get to this audio, but I talked to 49ers tight end George Kittle this week about the sort of Purdy versus Christian McCaffrey. And he was making this case that when you consider guys like Christian McCaffrey and Tyreek Hill– and again, it’s been a decade since we’ve had a non-quarterback win this award.

That when you consider guys like that, well, they are making defensive coordinators change the way they play the game. And so if you have someone needing to change the game plan against you, then that is of extreme value– this mismatch piece, this chess piece that they’re doing.

CHARLES ROBINSON: It’s a quarterback award, right? We just have to come down– I hear people complain about this where they’re like, well, MVP, it’s not really open to everybody. It’s just open to quarterbacks. No, it’s a quarterback league, so it’s a quarterback award. There was a time when the NFL was a running back league. That existed.

In this current format of…

Source link : https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-mvp-award-just-quarterbacks-235650277.html

Author : Yahoo Sports Videos

Publish date : 2023-12-20 23:56:50

Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.