2024 NFL Most Valuable Player Betting Lines

NFL Most Valuable Player Betting

Outside of betting on the Super Bowl winner, the hottest ticket on the NFL futures odds is the league’s Most Valuable Player. And if you’re not a quarterback your odds of winning the award are slim. Leading his Baltimore Ravens to the NFL’s best record in the 2023 season, Lamar Jackson was tabbed MVP for the second time in five years. It was the 11th consecutive year a QB was given the NFL’s highest honor and the 16th time in the past 17 seasons. The only non-quarterback to claim the award in that stretch was Adrian Peterson, who rushed for 2,097 yards in 2012, missing the NFL’s season record by just nine yards.

Over the last six years only three players have won the award with Jackson, Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers all winning twice. The Kansas City Chiefs have been a dynasty since Mahomes became their starter in 2018 reaching four Super Bowls and winning three titles, including the last two. Mahomes is the NFL futures favorite with Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow second on the board in the early odds release. In fact, the first 12 on the NFL MVP odds list are all QBs with San Francisco’s Christian McCaffrey boasting the shortest odds of any non-QB.

NFL Season Futures Odds

2024-25 NFL MVP Odds

Patrick Mahomes +578

Joe Burrow +902

Jordan Love +1003

CJ Stroud +1005

Dak Prescott +1005

Josh Allen +1305

Lamar Jackson +1456

Brock Purdy +1480

Jared Goff +1500

Jalen Hurts +1807

Aaron Rodgers +1807

Justin Herbert +1807

Christian McCaffrey +2008

Tua Tagovailoa +2711

Anthony Richardson +2911

2024-25 MVP Candidates

With quarterbacks winning the award nearly 70 percent of the time, a deep look at the position is needed. And where better to start than with last season’s winner and this year’s favorite. One thing’s for sure and it’s that Patrick Mahomes wins games. His Chiefs have advanced to the AFC Championship in every year he’s been the starter reaching the Super Bowl four times with three titles. The Chiefs enter the 2024 season looking to become the first three-peat Super Bowl winner.

A four-time MVP winner, all Aaron Rodgers has to do is stay healthy to have a good chance at a record tying fifth award. Rodgers played only four snaps last season before shelved with an Achilles injury. His Jets made moves to strengthen their offense and the D is legit. Ending the longest current playoff drought would help Rodgers in his quest.

Non-QBs have to do something extraordinarily special to win the award and sometimes even that isn’t enough. When Eric Dickerson set the single-season rushing record with 2,105 yards in 1984, he finished a distant second in the voting to Miami’s Dan Marino, who became the first to throw for over 5,000 yards in a season.

Past MVP Winners

Lamar Jackson was named the league’s MVP following the 2023 season, the 11th consecutive year and the 16th time in the last 17 seasons the honor was awarded to a quarterback. In the years since the AP started selecting an MVP in 1957, a quarterback has won the award 47 times. That’s a valuable bit of information to know if you’re looking for a futures bet.

Vikings’ running back Adrian Peterson was the last non-quarterback to win the award, taking the honor for the 2012 season. It was the 18th time in the AP era that a running back was tabbed MVP. In all, either a quarterback or running back has won the award 65 times. There were co-MVP’s named in 1997 and 2003, bringing the total number to 68.

No receiver has ever been named NFL MVP by the Associated Press, though Jerry Rice was honored by the NEA and PFWA in 1987. Prior to that you have to go back to 1955 when Harlon Hill captured the NEA award. Green Bay’s Don Hutson, who won the Joe F. Carr trophy in 1941 and 1942, is the only other receiver to win the MVP.

It’s a good bet to stay away from defenders when it comes to the MVP Award. Only twice has a defensive player been honored, and both times followed devastating seasons. Minnesota lineman Alan Page was pegged the 1971 MVP by the AP and linebacker Lawrence Taylor earned the honor in 1986.

AP NFL MVP Winners (2000)

NFL MVP History

The Most Valuable Player is an award given by various outlets to the player who is considered most valuable to his team in the NFL. Selectors of the award have included the Associated Press (AP), the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), Pro Football Writers of America (PFWA), and United Press International (UPI).

The first award described as a most valuable player award was the Joe F. Carr Trophy, awarded by the NFL from 1938 to 1946. The honor was first given to Mel Hein of the New York Giants. UPI sportswriters gave an NFL most valuable player award in 1948, 1951, and from 1953 to 1969. Following the NFL-AFL merger in 1970 and until 1996, the UPI handed out separate awards for Players of the Year in the National Football Conference (NFC) and American Football Conference (AFC.

The NEA presented its MVP award from 1955 to 2007. The winner was chosen by a poll of NFL players and received the Jim Thorpe Trophy, which by 1975 was described as "one of the pros' most coveted honors." The Pro Football Writers of American named their first most valuable player in 1975 and continue to do so.

The Associated Press NFL most valuable player award is voted upon by a panel of 50 sportswriters at the end of the regular season and before the playoffs, though the results are not announced to the public until the day before the Super Bowl. The AP has selected an MVP since the 1957 season and the AP most valuable player is recognized as the "NFL MVP."

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