MOST VALUABLE PLAYER

Baker Mayfield, Buccaneers

It’s hard to remember a season in which the Most Valuable Player award was more wide open . . . and in which there are so many new candidates to win it.

Sure, Patrick Mahomes is still very much in the running and he could become just the seventh player in league history to win the award three times. But the other perennial choices like Lamar Jackson, Saquon Barkley, Ja’Marr Chase and reigning MVP Josh Allen aren’t really in the conversation.

They’ve been replaced by the likes of Drake Maye, Jonathan Taylor, Jordan Love and even Daniel Jones. Yes, that Daniel Jones.

All of them are having standout seasons but there is one player who has truly embodied the award by being the person his team needs in nearly every situation they encounter: B

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