Odds have arrived for who will win Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl LVI between the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams (-4.5 at Tipico), and to no one’s surprise they favor the quarterbacks.
QBs have dominated the award from the beginning, when Bart Starr was MVP of the first two Super Bowls and quarterbacks won the next two, as well. In the last 15 years, eight different quarterbacks have won Super Bowl MVP, and two of them — Tom Brady and Eli Manning — have more than one.
There’s still a glimmer of hope for a couple other positions, however. Of the four non-QB MVP’s in the last 15 years, two were wide receivers and two were linebackers. Quarterbacks might be the safest bet but they aren’t exactly a lock.
Here’s a look at odds for the two passers and the players with the next-best odds to win the award and take that much-coveted trip to Disney World.
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Matthew Stafford, QB, Rams (-110)
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Stafford enters this game as the quarterback of the team favored to win, so it makes sense he’s the MVP favorite. Stafford has an offense loaded with weapons and a defense that can give the other quarterback and offensive line issues. The award is his to lose, and if he’s spreading the ball around and not turning it over, he won’t.
Postseason stats: 72-100 (72%), 905 yds, 6 TD, 1 Int
Joe Burrow, QB, Bengals (+210)
If one quarterback doesn’t win the award, chances are the other will. Burrow has next best odds for MVP and has shown throughout Cincinnati’s incredible playoff run that he has what it takes to cease the moment.
Postseason stats: 75-109 (69%), 842 yds, 4 TD, 2 Int
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Cooper Kupp, WR, Rams (+600)
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Kupp is arguably the Rams’ MVP through the conference title game. If he continues the type of output he’s been having all season, he could be the first wide receiver to win the award since Julian Edelmain in 2019 when the Rams lost to the Patriots.
Postseason stats: 25 receptions, 386 yds, 4 touchdowns
Ja’Marr Chase, WR, Bengals (+1300)
Chase’s big play ability can swing the momentum of a game in an instant. If he has his typical output and then comes through with a big catch or catches in crunch-time as he often does, he’ll be in the MVP conversation.
Postseason stats: 20 receptions, 279 yards, 1 touchdown
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Cam Akers, RB, Rams (+1500)
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Akers will be taking the field for just the fifth time this season but has given the Rams offense a nice spark in his brief time back. He hasn’t posted MVP worthy numbers yet, but if he finds the end zone once or twice in a game the Rams control with the run, who knows?
Postseason stats: 54 carries, 151 yards, 2 fumbles lost; 5 receptions, 62 yards
Aaron Donald, DT, Rams (+1500)
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Donald rounds out the top-five odds alongside Akers at +1500. A three-time Defensive Player of the Year, Donald can absolutely wreck a game from the interior and is probably champing at the bit to get after this Bengals offensive line.
Postseason stats: 9 tackles, 1.5 sacks, 6 QB hits
