NBC analyst and former NFL quarterback Chris Simms evaluates the top five MVP candidates this season; Will Jalen Hurts, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Justin Jefferson or Joe Burrow be named the NFL Player of the Year in 2022?
While the 2022 regular season is still two weeks away and the Super Bowl champions won’t be crowned until mid-February, we welcome 2023 on Sunday… and what better way to celebrate the new year than to speculate on who will be the MVP NFL leagues?
“This has been one of the most interesting years in recent years in terms of MVP talk,” Simms said on Pro Football Talk (Sky Sports NFL, weekdays at 6:00 pm). Since the winner wasn’t announced until after the NFL Honors during Super Bowl week, who do you think is this year’s winner?
The Eagles currently own the best record in the NFL at 13-2 with two weeks left, and the Hurts are out due to the second of those losses to the Dallas Cowboys last week with a sprained shoulder a key component of their success. .
This season, Hurts has 3,472 passing yards, 22 touchdowns and only five interceptions. Add to that 747 yards on the ground (third-most among quarterbacks) and 13 scoring points (second-best in the NFL), and it’s easy to see why a third-year quarterback is considered the top contender for league MVP in 2022.
Simms: “I don’t think you should take away the MVP title from someone if they only missed one game. I don’t think it should affect this.
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“If you’re going to vote for Jalen Hurts, then you should vote for Jalen Hurts. He did a really good job, had a great year. He’s a damn good player, the leader of this football team.”
“I understand how the league MVP award works, but to me he is not necessarily the most valuable player in football. Rather, this is a phenomenal team – not that I want to belittle his achievements this year.
Having led the Chiefs to a seventh consecutive AFC West division title, Mahomes is a many-man favorite to take home a second MVP gong in his first five seasons as an NFL starting quarterback, also winning in 2018.
The 27-year-old has logged over 4,500 passing yards and 35 passing touchdowns for the fourth year in his career, with a league-leading 4,720 and 37 in 2022. Only Tom Brady and his two-decade career had more. such seasons (five).
