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Week 11 may have been when the MVP race got serious. Josh Allen took Buffalo’s game into his own hands on fourth-and-2 with 2:17 remaining, rumbling for a bruising 26-yard touchdown run to beat the previously unbeaten Chiefs. Detroit’s Jared Goff bounced back from a five-interception disaster with a game for the ages against the Jaguars: 412 passing yards, four touchdowns and a perfect 158.3 passer rating.
But will Allen or Goff ultimately show enough to dethrone reigning MVP Lamar Jackson or two-time winner Patrick Mahomes? In this week’s roundtable, FOX Sports’ NFL experts pick their MVP front-runners, debate whether Broncos QB Bo Nix has passed Commanders phenom Jayden Daniels in the Offensive Rookie of the Year race, explore whether the Chiefs losing was a good thing for them, identify which 9-win team has the most upside down the stretch and more.
Let’s get started.
How many players do you consider to be realistic MVP candidates? Who’s the front-runner?
I’d say five: Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Jared Goff, Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes. Allen has the slight edge over Jackson for me at the moment, after the former scored the game-winning touchdown to beat the previously undefeated Chiefs.
No quarterbacks are playing better than Allen and Jackson, and Goff and Mahomes are quarterbacking the current No. 1 seeds. Hurts leads one of the NFL’s hottest teams in the Eagles. Running backs Derrick Henry and Saquon Barkley certainly deserve honorable mention for how dominant they’ve been, but we all know MVP is a quarterback award. —Ben Arthur
It’s a two-man race between Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. Allen has played well of late, and the win over the Chiefs gives him something Jackson couldn’t get done this year. Also, Allen has never won the award, so I think that gives him a sentimental angle for the voters. However, Jackson is tops in passer rating (117.3), second in passing yards (2,876) and passing touchdowns (25). And he also leads all quarterbacks with 584…
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