Who Is Leading The NFL MVP Race?

The NFL MVP race is heating up and there are a few frontrunners emerging. Who do you think is leading the pack?

Tom Brady

Tom Brady is currently leading the NFL MVP race. He has thrown for over 4,000 yards and has 36 touchdown passes. He has also been extremely efficient, completing over 70% of his passes. Brady has been one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL for the past few years and is having another great season.

Stats

Tom Brady has been dominant this season, leading the league in passing yards (3,943), passing touchdowns (36), and QBR (83.6). He also ranks second in completion percentage (69.2%), and has thrown just eight interceptions. The New England Patriots are 12-3 and have clinched the AFC East title.

Record

Tom Brady currently has the most passing yards of any quarterback in NFL history. He also has the most touchdown passes in NFL history. As of the end of the 2019 season, he has thrown for 74,571 yards and 541 touchdowns. Brady also has the most wins of any quarterback in NFL history, with 207.

Team

Tom Brady is currently playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Drew Brees

Drew Brees is currently leading the NFL MVP race. He has thrown for over 3,700 yards and 31 touchdowns. He has also been a big part of the Saints’ success this season.

Stats

In his 18th season, Drew Brees is once again leading the New Orleans Saints to the playoffs. He is currently the NFL’s all-time passing leader with 74,845 yards and has thrown for 547 touchdowns, both of which are first all-time. In 2019, he became the third QB ever to throw for 3,000 yards in 15 consecutive seasons. He has been selected to thirteen Pro Bowls, was the NFL’s Offensive Player of the Year in 2008 and 2011, and was Super Bowl XLIV’s MVP when he led the Saints to victory over the Indianapolis Colts.

Record

As of October 8th, Brees has completed 154 of 203 passes for 1,658 yards and 14 touchdowns, with just three interceptions. His quarterback rating of 115.7 is the second best in the league, behind only Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs.

Team

Drew Brees is a professional American football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He had a successful college career with the Purdue Boilermakers, setting school and conference records, and earned All-American honors. Though Brees was not selected in the 2001 NFL Draft, he was signed by the San Diego Chargers as a free agent, and began his NFL career as a backup.

Brees became the starting quarterback for the Chargers in 2002 and led the team to a 12–4 record in his first season. He continued to improve each season with the Chargers, leading them to nine postseason appearances and five division titles between 2004 and 2009. In 2006, he set an NFL record for touchdowns in a season ((54)). Brees also ranked first in passing yards (5,084) and second in passer rating that year ((104.8)). He was voted to five Pro Bowls (2004–2008) with the Chargers.

In 2010, Brees joined the Saints after eight seasons with the Chargers. He helped lead them to their first Super Bowl appearance that same year which they ultimately won against Peyton Manning’s Indianapolis Colts 31–17. In 2012 he set an NFL record for consecutive games with touchdown passes ((54)) en route to his second Super Bowl victory over Eli Manning’s New York Giants 42–20.

Brees has been selected to eleven Pro Bowls—tied for most appearances by a quarterback—including nine consecutive seasons from 2009 to 2017. He was named Offensive Player of the Year by both The Associated Press (AP) and Sporting News three times (2008, 2011, 2013), becoming just the third player ever to do so since 1967; he was also named Offensive Player of the Year by Sporting News three times—tied for most all-time with Marshall Faulk—and AP once (2011).

Russell Wilson

Russell Wilson is currently leading the NFL MVP race. He has been phenomenal this season and has led the Seahawks to an 8-3 record. Wilson has thrown for 3,176 yards and 31 touchdowns. He also has a rushing touchdown. Wilson has been the driving force behind the Seahawks’ success this season.

Stats

Russell Wilson is currently leading the NFL MVP race. As of right now, he has a total of 30 touchdown passes and 5 interceptions. He also has a quarterback rating of 119.2.

Record

Russell Wilson has had one of the best starts to an NFL career by a quarterback, and he currently holds the NFL record for most passing touchdowns in a player’s first two seasons with 52. He has also led his team to the playoffs in each of his first two seasons, and he was named the NFC Offensive Player of the Year in 2012. Wilson is currently the front runner for the 2013 NFL MVP award, and he is also a leading candidate for the 2013 NFL Offensive Player of the Year award.

Team

He is the quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks.

Patrick Mahomes

Patrick Mahomes is leading the NFL MVP race. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback has thrown for 7 touchdown passes and has 1,195 passing yards. Mahomes is also the leading rusher on the Chiefs with 47 rushing yards.

Stats

In his first full season as starter, Mahomes threw for 5,097 yards — the third-most in NFL history — and a league-leading 50 TDs, with just 12 INTs. He also rushed for 321 yards and two TDs.

Record

Mahomes has set numerous records in his young career. In 2018, he became the second quarterback in NFL history to throw 50 touchdown passes and 5,000 yards in a single season. He also set the Chiefs’ franchise record for passing yards in a season with 5,097. In 2019, he led the Chiefs to their first Super Bowl victory in 50 years.

Team

Mahomes plays for the Kansas City Chiefs, who drafted him in the first round of the 2017 NFL Draft. In his first season as a starter in 2018, Mahomes led the Chiefs to an AFC Championship game appearance, where they lost to the New England Patriots. He also was named the NFL MVP that season, becoming the second youngest player to ever win the award.

Aaron Rodgers

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is leading the NFL MVP race this season. Rodgers has been in the league for 16 years and has been one of the most consistent quarterbacks. He has led the Packers to a 13-3 record and has thrown for 4,299 yards, 48 touchdowns, and five interceptions. Rodgers has also shown his versatility by running for four touchdowns.

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In 9 games, Rodgers has completed 70.4 percent of his passes for 2, Farrell said he is not concerned about the rest of the schedule. “We just have to keep winning,” he said.

“The top two guys in my mind are Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers,” Polian said. “I think it’s really a two-man race.”

NFL Network’s Kurt Warner agreed, saying Brady and Rodgers are “separate and apart from everybody else.”

“To me, it’s those two guys,” Warner said on NFL Total Access. “I don’t think anybody is close to those two guys.”

Record

As of Week 11, Rodgers has thrown for 3,125 yards, 33 touchdowns and just four interceptions while completing nearly 70 percent of his passes. He also has a 121.5 passer rating, which is not only the best in the NFL but would also be a career high if the season ended today.

Team

Green Bay Packers