If NFL executives had a vote, Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes would be the MVP of the 2020 NFL season.
NFL Network reporter Tom Pelissero surveyed executives from 22 NFL teams in hopes of determining the winners of the NFL’s end of season awards. The Most Valuable Player award this year has been considered a close race between Patrick Mahomes and Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers lately, but the NFL executives polled by Pelissero seem to believe otherwise. Here was the final tally of votes collected:
- Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes: 13
- Packers QB Aaron Rodgers: 6
- Bills QB Josh Allen: 2
- Titans RB Derrick Henry: 1
That’s essentially a runaway win for Mahomes with over double the votes to Rodgers. The votes for Allen and Henry seem to do more harm to Rodgers than Mahomes. What the executives had to say about Mahomes just speaks to the reputation that he has earned within the NFL over the past three years.
“You can’t stop him,” an NFC executive told Pelissero of Mahomes. “He is the hardest player to stop in the league. Rodgers is right there. But this guy (Mahomes) — he makes the unique look routine. He’s unbelievable.”
Mahomes has led the Chiefs to the best record in the NFL at 13-1. He currently sits at 4,462 passing yards, 36 touchdowns and five interceptions on the season. He’s 635 yards and 14 touchdowns shy of the numbers that helped him earn his first MVP award back in 2018.
While MVP is typically judged on the body of work within a single season, I think the reputation that Mahomes has built over the past three seasons might help him here. He’s picking apart some of the best teams in the league this season and nothing has really been able to slow him down. Short of a miraculous performance in the final two weeks from Rodgers, it feels as if Mahomes may have already locked up his second career MVP award. We’ll have to wait until the NFL honors ceremony to find out for sure, but this is certainly a good sign.
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