The most valuable player on an NFL team is based on votes and opinions. The most valuable player is a person on a team, so how can one person stand out the most in football?
The award for MVP is based on votes from 16 members from the media that the NFL picks, which makes up 80% of the votes, the other 20% of the votes come from online fans. But this doesn't determine skill; this seems more of a popular vote, so how would people know who is the actual best in this league?
Last year's MVP was quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who got most of the votes to make MVP, but many people claimed that Mahomes had "bandwagon" fans, so there was basically no chance for competition for the MVP.
But what if the wide receivers never caught one of Mahomes’ passes? Would he even be considered a good quarterback? And what if his defense couldn't make any tackles? These all are the reasons why there shouldn't be an MVP in football.
There are sports that do deserve an MVP though: for example, baseball. Any person could pitch or hit their way into the playoffs, any person can carry their team into winning. Same thing applies for basketball; all of these statistics for these sports can lead a single player to be the most valuable in their league. But in the NFL the most valuable player is mainly going to be a quarterback every year; the last time there wasn't a quarterback for MVP was in 1993, and it was Emmitt Smith.
The statistics for a quarterback can seem impressive and it is a good reason for a quarterback to be a MVP, but receiving yards count towards a quarterback's passing yards. So if a quarterback throws a 10 yard pass and the receiver catches it and runs 20 yards, the quarterback gets 30 yards in passing stats. So some statistics for a quarterback aren’t truly accurate most of the time.
To fix this, there should be a list of positions by the end of the season and the voters should get to choose the most valuable player for each position, rather than just one person overall.
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Jeremy Cheatwood is a staff writer for The Lion's Roar. You can learn more information about the writer by clicking here.
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