Tag: 2022 nfl awards

Who will win MVP, defensive player of the year, and this year’s other NFL awards? Here are our votes

Let’s face it; Patrick Mahomes is gonna win MVP. What about the rest of the AP awards, like coach and rookies of the year?

The Associated Press (AP) released their finalists for its eight major regular season awards, including most valuable player, defensive player of the year and offensive/defensive player of the year. The nominees are roughly who you’d expect: a smattering a superstars who impacted the game across nearly five months of games to make their teams better.

While we already know who AP voters chose to fill up their All-Pro teams, we’ll have to wait until Super Bowl week to find out this year’s individual award winners. Those won’t go live until the league’s NFL Honors show in primetime February 9.

This, of course, doesn’t prevent us from speculating. We all pretty much know who this season’s MVP is going to be thanks to Patrick Mahomes’ stellar play and Jalen Hurts’ late-season injury. We’ve got a pretty good idea on the other awards, too. But there’s room for debate.

Let’s do that. Our picks prognosticators: Christian D’Andrea, Charles Curtis and Robert Zeglinski will once again steam into the breach to be kinda right about NFL stuff. Their predictions follow, but if you want Christian’s full Pro Football Writers Association ballot for their awards, you can find that here.

Patrick Mahomes or Tua Tagovailoa? Debating the NFL MVP frontrunner after 10 weeks

Mahomes and Tagovailoa are 1-2 in the MVP betting odds. Is this Mahomes’ award to lose? Or do Tagovailoa’s sparkling stats give him an edge?

Two quarterbacks have stood above the fray when it comes to passing stats in 2022. According to sportsbooks, they also stand alone with it comes to this year’s NFL MVP Award odds.

Kansas City Chiefs star Patrick Mahomes, with the legacy of a past award and a Super Bowl trophy on his resume, currently stands as frontrunner with a +125 return on his MVP future. Miami Dolphins starter Tua Tagovailoa, a player whose future in south Florida was in question coming into the season, stands at +350. Jalen Hurts and Josh Allen are also in consideration, but neither have the short odds of the quarterbacks in charge of the AFC’s top two teams.

There are still eight weeks left in the 2022 NFL season, which leaves plenty of times for hot starts to fizzle and new contenders to emerge for the most prestigious regular season honor in the game. We don’t know what those final two months will hold, but we do know how we got here.

Looking back at that path, who should be 2022’s MVP?

NFL midseason awards: Who is 2022’s Offensive Rookie of the Year after 10 weeks?

Four players have separated themselves from the rest of 2022’s first-year skill players. Will a running back take home top honors?

Winning the NFL’s Offensive Rookie of the Year award doesn’t guarantee a long and prosperous career — but you’ll find plenty of stars among its ranks. Whether those players grind impressively en route to the Hall of Fame (Randy Moss, Adrian Peterson) or burn bright and fast before fading out (Todd Gurley, Robert Griffin III) is typically up to the injury gods,

The 2022 Draft dropped another crop of low-cost impact players on the league. Some are leading unlikely playoff runs on either coast (Garrett Wilson, Kenneth Walker III). Others are standouts on bad teams (Dameon Pierce, Chris Olave). But all are building blocks for teams with Super Bowl aspirations, whether that’s this winter or a few years down the line.

So who are the frontrunners for Offensive Rookie of the Year after 10 weeks of the 2022 season?

NFL midseason awards: Who is 2022’s Offensive Player of the Year after 10 weeks?

Offensive Player of the Year often rewards the game’s best non-quarterback. 2022 has some worthy recipients — including 2 dynamite WRs.

Offensive player of the year has become the de facto runner-up to the MVP award. Sometimes it goes to a quarterback. But in four of the last five year’s it’s singled out the best non-QB skill player in the NFL.

In recent years we’ve feted monster seasons from Cooper Kupp, Michael Thomas, Derrick Henry, DeMarco Murray and Todd Gurley, which is a reminder these guys were all awesome but, uh, make sure to enjoy prolific stars while you can. The 2022 race for the prize is shaping up to be a proper follow-up to last year’s battle between Kupp and Jonathan Taylor. Let’s look at the top candidates after 10 weeks of the regular season.

NFL midseason awards: Who is 2022’s Most Valuable Player after 10 weeks?

Patrick Mahomes is the betting frontrunner, but he’s got plenty of competition when it comes to 2022’s NFL MVP.

The NFL MVP award is, for all intents and purposes, a quarterback’s award. It’s been nine years since anyone other than a passer was deemed the league’s Most Valuable Player. With passing offenses more important than ever, it would take a superhuman performance from a running back or wide receiver or pass rusher to sway voters to their side.

That narrows down 2022’s candidate list. While Tyreek Hill and Justin Jefferson have both been great, it’s a longshot either would be able to rage their way into serious consideration for the award while a handful of quarterbacks are absolutely cooking behind center. This fall has been the backdrop to some notable fades — Matthew Stafford, Aaron Rodgers and Dak Prescott foremost among them — but the league’s best teams have been powered by high octane aerial attacks.

Knowing that, we can narrow this year’s field down to a handful of quarterbacks who’ve been difference makers for teams in contention. After 10 weeks, here’s how the MVP race is shaping up in my eyes.