NFL MVP stock watch: Top 3 Stay Put

2. Aaron Rodgers, QB (Green Bay Packers)

Last Week’s Ranking: 2nd 

Highest Ranking of Season: 2nd 

2020 Stats: 3,395 Passing Yards, 36 Passing TDs, 4 INTs, 68.9% Comp, 118.5 Passer Rating

Here’s one way to think about the efficacy of Aaron Rodgers’ MVP candidacy: He could stop playing this very moment and remain in contention for the award. Look at the numbers. Every general manager in American would drool over the prospect of his/her team quarterback accruing Rodgers’ current numbers by season’s end.

Therefore, Rodgers is a bonafide MVP suitor. He’s been in the conversation nearly every week since the Packers Week 1 thrashing of the rival Vikings. The 37-year-old was nipped by a single nasty game this season at the hands of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Rodgers endured an atrocious outing in Week 6, but that was it for his poor performances. Other than that headscratcher, Rodgers has posted a passer rating north of 100.0 in each game throughout 2020.

Green Bay is one game behind the New Orleans Saints in NFC seeding, and the entirety of the credit for this standing is allotted to Rodgers. His weapons — outside of Davante Adams and Aaron Jones — are notoriously underwhelming (or so goes the national dialogue). Rodgers’ statistics have not suffered. For now, he is ignoring an age-related decline.