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After Josh won his 4th Offensive Player of the Week Award, I wanted to see how this stacked up to MVP winners in past seasons. While I think it’s highly unlikely Josh beats out Mahomes and Rodgers, he does have an outside shot, so I thought it would be a fun exercise to look at weekly (and monthly) honors and how often past MVP winners won them in their MVP season. I went back and looked at the last 10 MVP seasons for comparison. 
 

The Last 10 NFL MVPs and Offensive Player of the Week 
 

2010 NFL MVP Tom Brady had 2 OPW.

Only Michael Vick had more (3). 
Josh Freeman and Aaron’s Rodgers also had 2. 

Brady was the first unanimous MVP this season after receiving 50/50 votes. 

 

2011 NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers had 3 OPW. 
Brees and Brady also had 3 OPW. 
Roethlisberger, Arian Foster and Ray Rice all had 2. 


Brees (3) was the MVP runner up. Rodgers received 48/50 MVP votes. 

 

2012 NFL MVP Adrian Peterson had 2 OPW. 
Brady, Manning, and Rodgers all had 2 as well. 
 

Peyton Manning (2) finished 2nd in the MVP vote. Peterson received 30.5/50 MVP votes. 

 

2013 NFL MVP Peyton Manning had 3 OPW. 
Drew Brees had 3, while Rivers, Dalton and Foles had 2. 
 

Brady (1) finished second in the NFL MVP vote. Manning received 49/50 MVP votes. 
 

2014 NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers had 4 OPW. 
Ryan, Wilson, Roethlisberger, and Justin Forsett all had 2. 
 

JJ Watt (2) finished 2nd in the MVP voting. Rodgers received 31/50 MVP votes. 
 

2015 NFL MVP Cam Newton had 5 OPW. 
Mariota, Roethlisberger, Fitzpatrick, Cousins, Brees, E. Manning and Julio Jones all had 2. 
 

Brady and Palmer finished 2nd in the MVP vote. Newton received 48/50 MVP votes. 
 

2016 NFL MVP Matt Ryan had 2 OPW.

This was tied with Brady, Rodgers, D. Johnson. Only Jay Ajayi had more (3) in 2016. 
 

Brady (2) finished 2nd in the MVP vote and Derek Carr (1) was tied with Ezekiel Elliot (1) for 3rd. Ryan received 24/50 MVP votes. 

 

2017 NFL MVP Tom Brady had 3 OPW. This was tied with Todd Gurley for the most in the NFL in 2017. 
Rivers and Wilson both had 2. 
 

Gurley (3) finished 2nd in the MVP vote and Carson Wentz (1) finished 3rd. Brady received 40/50 MVP votes. 
 

2018 NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes had 2 OPW. This was tied with Brees, Firzpatrick, Gurley, Roethlisberger and Amari Cooper for the most in the NFL in 2018. 
 

Brees (2) finished 2nd in the MVP vote. Mahomes received 41/50 MVP votes. 
 

2019 NFL MVP Lamar Jackson had 5 OPW. This was the most in the NFL in 2019. 
Deshaun Watson finished with 3 AFC OPW and Wilson, Prescott and Aaron Jones finished with 2. 
 

Lamar Jackson was the unanimous MVP receiving 50/50 MVP votes. 
 

Offensive Player of the Month and MVPs
 

Since 2010 9/10 MVPs have won at least 1 Offensive Player of the Month in the season that they were MVP. The only player that didn’t win one was Cam Newton in 2015. 
 

There have been a few players who have won multiple Offensive Player of the Month awards in the same season but have not won the MVP vote.
 

Brady (2) in 2011 where Rodgers had 3. 
Manning (2) in 2012 where Peterson had 1. 
D. Murray (2) in 2014 where Rodgers had 1. 
A. Brown (2) in 2015 where Newton had 0. 
Gurley (2) in 2017 where Brady had 1. 
 

What does this mean in 2020? 
 

How does 2020 stack up to the last 10 years, it will be interesting to look at. So far we’re through 15 out of 17 weeks in the season. 
 

Josh currently leads the league with 4 Offensive Player of the Week awards. Kyler Murray also won this week, so he now has 3 on the season. Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Deshaun Watson, Russell Wilson and Dalvin Cook all have 2. Aaron Rodgers, one of the favorites for MVP has 1. 
 

There have only been 2 players to have sole possession of the most Offensive Player of the Week awards in the NFL and NOT win the MVP in the last 10 years. Michael Vick (3) in 2010, when he lost out to Brady (2) and Jay Ajayi (3) in 2016, when Ryan (2) won the MVP. 
 

Josh looks to be in line to win potentially win Offensive Player of the Month in December after already winning 2/3 player of the week awards. If he won, it would be his 2nd this season (September). The other current winners are Wilson (September), Brady and Henry (October) and Mahomes and Cook (November). 
 

If Josh were to win 2 Offensive Player of the Month awards and not win the MVP, he would be the 6th player since 2010 for that to happen to and 5th to have lost to someone with less Player of the Month awards than him. 

He would be the first player dating back to 2010 to have won the most Player of the Week and Player of the Month Awards and not win the MVP. 

First off, thanks for that info.  Good work.

 

The bolded:  in the last 10 years, if you win 2 offensive players of the months awards, there’s about a 50/50 chance you win the MVP 

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Josh should win AFC OPW again this week.

 

3x in 1 month should lock him in for his 2nd AFC OPM award this year. 
 

Based on my initial post.. it would be absolutely unprecedented if he didn’t win the MVP with 5 OPW and 2 OPM.

 

He’s a star, but the NFL has a chance to cement him as one if the writers vote for him for MVP.

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On 12/23/2020 at 3:09 PM, vanhalen26 said:

MVP is a popularity contest, josh may be a candidate next year but mahomes is already the chosen one this year unfortunately.

Agreed...no one has been more valuable to their team than josh allen has been full stop.  If its the 'who has the best stats on paper' award which is what it seems to have turned into  it should absolutely be mahomes or rodgers.  Can you even imagine what our offense would be like with Travis Kelce to throw to

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