NFL MVP stock watch: Aaron Rodgers says hello
By Dustin Baker
2. Patrick Mahomes, QB (Kansas City Chiefs)
Last Week’s Ranking: 2nd (-1)
Highest Ranking of Season: 2nd (-1)
2020 Stats: 4,208 Passing Yards, 33 Passing TDs, 5 INT, 68.4% Comp, 112.3 Passer Rating, 2 Rushing TDs
Heads will be scratched, eyebrows will raise, mean tweets will swirl — we get it.
If there is anything that the national media loves more than Boy Wonder, Patrick Mahomes — it might just be the reclamation of an elite Aaron Rodgers. The Packers quarterback has turned back the clock to 2014 while personally annihilating all but on 2020 foe before him.
Mahomes has been fantastic, too. He’s on pace to throw for 5,179 yards, 41 touchdowns, and six interceptions. The Chiefs signal-caller is likely the odds-on favorite to win the MVP award, but statistically, Rodgers has been a smidgen better.
The one strong argument that can be made for the pro-Mahomes camp is team record. The Chiefs are 12-1 whereas the Packers are 10-3. A two-loss variance ain’t nothing and will probably be considered by MVP-voting personnel. When the Steelers were defeated by the Bills on Sunday Night Football, Kansas City squirted into the AFC’s No. 1 seed.
For now, the Chiefs would get a week off in January.