Who Was MVP of the NFL This Year?
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The NFL season has wrapped up and the awards have been handed out. But who was the Most Valuable Player of the year?
Tom Brady
Tom Brady is an American football quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He is one of only two players in NFL history to have won seven Super Bowls, and he is the oldest player to have won a Super Bowl at age 43. Brady has also been named the MVP of the NFL three times.
New England Patriots
The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston region. The Patriots compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team plays its home games at Gillette Stadium in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts, which is 28 miles (45 km) southwest of downtown Boston.
The Patriots are also headquartered at Gillette Stadium. An original member of the American Football League (AFL), the Patriots joined the NFL in the 1970 merger of the two leagues. The team changed its name from the original Boston Patriots after relocating to Foxborough in 1971. The Patriots played their home games at Foxboro Stadium from 1971 to 2001, then moved to Gillette Stadium at the start of 2002.
The Patriots have appeared in ten Super Bowls in total, winning six of them – all six victories have come since 2001, with four of them coming under head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. With Brady as quarterback and Belichick as head coach, New England has compiled a 273–133 record, won 19 AFC East titles, and appeared in 16 AFC Championship Games between 2001 and 2019. In addition, they have been successful enough that only two other NFL teams have won more games over that same period: Indianapolis Colts with 277 wins and Green Bay Packers with 269 wins
Quarterback
Tom Brady is an American football quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He has played in nine Super Bowls, winning seven of them, and is one of only two quarterbacks to win a Super Bowl in their first season as a starter. Brady was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the NFL four times and has been selected to 14 Pro Bowls.
Russell Wilson
It was a very close race this year for NFL MVP, but ultimately the vote went to Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks. Wilson had an amazing season, leading his team to a 13-3 record and a first-round bye in the playoffs. He threw for 4,110 yards and 31 touchdowns, with only 7 interceptions. He also rushed for 586 yards and 3 touchdowns.
Seattle Seahawks
Russell Wilson was born November 29, 1988, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is an American football quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wilson was drafted by the Seahawks with the 12th pick in the third round (75th overall) of the 2012 NFL Draft. In 2012, he tied Peyton Manning’s record for most passing touchdowns by a rookie (26) and was named the Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Year. In 2013, he led the Seahawks to their first ever Super Bowl victory, defeating the Denver Broncos 43-8 in Super Bowl XLVIII. Wilson has appeared in three NFC Championship Games (2012, 2013, 2014), and two Super Bowls (XLVIII and XLIX).
Quarterback
Russell Wilson is an American football quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Seahawks in the third round of the 2012 NFL Draft. Wilson played college football for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he won the Heisman Trophy in 2011.
Aaron Rodgers
The National Football League’s Most Valuable Player Award for the 2020 season was presented to Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers. Rodgers was unanimously selected for the award, becoming only the third player to earn the honor unanimously. He is also the first player to win three MVP awards in his career.
Green Bay Packers
Rodgers was born in Chico, California, the son of Darla Leigh (née Pitts) and Edward Wesley Rodgers. His father is a Texas-born chiropractor who played football as an offensive lineman for the Chico State Wildcats from 1973 to 1976. His mother is a native of Saskatchewan, Canada, and is of English, Irish, Scottish, German, and Welsh ancestry. Rodgers has stated that while his parents were on vacation in Hawaii during the offseason of 1976, they discovered that one of their sons had been conceived without their knowledge or consent and chose to have him aborted. Edward Rodgers tossed Darla a pack of cigarettes and said, “You’d better go back there and finish that job.” Rodgers grew up in Pleasant Valley with his younger brother Jordan. He attended Butte College in Oroville during Fall semester 2003 where he played football.
Rodgers was drafted by the Green Bay Packers with the 24th pick in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft. The Packers acquired this pick by trading their first-round pick (No. 29 overall), second-round pick (No. 37 overall), fourth-round pick (No. 102 overall) and seventh-round pick (No. 250 overall) to the New England Patriots for this first-round pick (No. 24 overall) and fifth-round pick (No. 163 overall).
Quarterback
Aaron Rodgers is a professional American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Packers in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft. Rodgers played college football for the California Golden Bears, where he set several career passing records, including most career touchdown passes.
He was named MVP of the NFL in 2011 and 2014. In Super Bowl XLV, Rodgers led the Packers to a 31-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, earning him Super Bowl MVP honors.
