Dak Prescott held a slight edge over Brock Purdy as the favorite to win the NFL MVP award heading into Week 15. Leaving Week 15, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback has jumped the Dallas Cowboys passer and everyone else by leaps and bounds.
Purdy walks into Week 16 with a commanding lead for the MVP award at -225 as of Tuesday morning, via BetMGM. The rough showing by Prescott and the Cowboys in a Week 15 loss at the Buffalo Bills has dropped Prescott to third on the leaderboard at +700.
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The Baltimore Ravens’ Lamar Jackson stands at No. 2 with his team manning the AFC’s No. 1 seed.
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And don’t look now, but the Bills’ Josh Allen has crept into the top four at +1000. His team is ninth in the AFC playoff race, meaning Buffalo would miss the postseason if it started today.
Niners running back Christian McCaffrey rounds out the top five at +1600.
Here’s a look at the odds from all of the NFL individual awards (odds are live and will shift accordingly):
NFL MVP
Does McCaffrey have a chance?
Purdy did his best to help the McCaffrey MVP campaign by claiming the 49ers running back is the deserving award winner following McCaffrey’s stellar performance in Week 15. Could that be enough to sway voters? Probably not. Here’s how good Purdy has been.
Since 2000, Purdy possesses the fourth-highest single-season passer rating through 15 weeks of any quarterback (790 quarterback seasons) with a 119.0 rate. The top three above Purdy all won the NFL MVP award in those seasons:
Here’s a look at the rest of the non-MVP award odds:
Offensive Rookie of the Year
Defensive Rookie of the Year
Offensive Player of the Year
Defensive Player of the Year
Comeback Player of the Year
Coach of the Year
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