NEW ORLEANS – Being selected as an AP First Team All-Pro quarterback over the past 11 seasons was a prelude to winning the NFL MVP Award.
On that, there was some logic in which the quarterbacks offered the most value to the team, and the same panel chose the All-Pro team and all the awards.
This year, after Buffalo's Josh Allen finished second in the All-Pro voting revealed last month, he narrowly edged Grasshoppermore's Lamar Jackson in the MVP poll announced Thursday night, and there was an unusual flip. did.
This marked the third time that the AP began handing out the most valuable player awards in 1961. (AP was awarded the best player awards from 1957-60, and those winners were also the first team All-Plos).
So how did this season happen:
All Pro votes
Let's start with the All-Pro voting where Jackson had the advantage.
He received 30 of the 50 first-team All-Pro votes from the national panel of media members and 19 second-place votes. Allen won second place votes, 18th and 24th, while Joe Barrow of Cincinnati won the final second place vote along with nine second place votes.
What is the MVP switch?
Several voters saw the MVP vote differently.
Jackson and Allen finished 1-2 with 48 out of 50 votes (Barrow and Saquon Berkley each got one second-place vote), but Allen took the advantage when he took the lead Standing at the 9 additional No. 1 votes from all. – Pro team with Jackson losing 7.
Allen finished third in a vote, and Jackson was fourth in another vote, but it didn't affect the winner.
Allen finished with 383 points based on his scoring, scoring 10 points in the first place poll, followed by 5, 3, 2, 1 in the final four spaces. Jackson had 362 points.
How did the offensive player of the year play a role?
The AP also has several other awards, including Player of the Year. The award was given every quarter, not the last five seasons, but Jackson gained great support there.
He finished second in that vote for Berkley, and 12th in the first place for Allen, who went sixth.
The nine voters who chose Jackson as the top offensive player chose Allen as the MVP, taking up almost all switching votes from the All-Pro team.
Jackson became the first player to place second in both awards since the 2018 Drew Brees.
Has this happened before?
There were two other seasons when the player won the MVP after the player was not the All-Pro for the first team. In 2003, Payton Manning was the first team All-Pro, but shared the MVP with Steve McNair.
Voters only chose first place in the votes at the time, with both quarterbacks winning 16 MVP votes.
It also happened in the 1987 season after John Elway won the MVP and placed second in the All-Pro votes to Joe Montana.
There were 84 MVP votes in the season, and San Francisco was portraying two candidates after Jerry Rice set up an NFL record with 22 TD catches.
Elway also played in all three exchange player games, while Montana played on two lines beyond the picket line.
Elway won 36 votes in the MVP, followed by 30 rice and 18 Montana.
