The MVP race of the NFL 2025 was one of the closest of all time, with Josh Allen hitting Lamar Jackson for little for WIN THE 2024 NFL MVP Award Although Jackson was appointed the first 2024 All Pro team for the same organization and group of voters who select both awards.
I had never seen that before. And a lot is needed to surprise me, especially because I was there When Tony Dungy gave Bobby Wagner a MVP vote (Under the old system where each voter obtained a selection). Even more surprising, and perhaps the new standard setter for the strange decision making in terms of voting for the MVP, is that one of the 50 voters in the Associated Press panel really believed that Jackson was not even one of the two most valuable. Players at the NFL this season.
Actually, scratch that. The voter in question, Jim Miller, former NFL player and now a radio host Sirusxm, did not believe that Jackson was one of the three most valuable players in the NFL for 2024. Miller first voted for Allen as MVP, Saquon Barkley, second, Joe Burrow Third, Jackson Cuarto and Patrick Mahomes Quinto on his ballot.
For each of his and other things, but suggesting that Jackson was the fourth most valuable player in the NFL this season is a crazy city. I am willing to listen to an argument that Barkley was greatly important for the Eagles who arrived at the playoffs, even if I disagree, I was remotely close to being the most valuable player based on how modern football is played. And Burrow was incredible this season, and his defense disappointed him without a doubt, but the Bengals did not even reach the playoffs. If you are so valuable, you are on the support. I think of all the heart that Allen was voted correctly as the The most valuable player in football this year And he thought it was going to be seen after the All-Pro teams came out (the betting markets agreed by the way). But even then it is quite difficult to vote for Jackson Fourth.
Mathematics is already quite difficult, but becomes really complicated when you start discovering how this went wrong. Let’s be clear: Miller’s vote did not cost Jackson the MVP of 2024. He wanted we are. But it seems that it could simply be an unheard of people who completely turn their votes.
Jackson and Allen were first or second on each MVP ballot (except one), which was a slight change of the All-Pro vote, where Jackson obtained 30 votes in the first place, Allen obtained 18 years and Burrow obtained two.
The biggest change is that Allen, in the MVP vote, received 27 votes in the first place, while Jackson received 22. No one else received a first place vote for MVP, unlike All-Pro teams.
Suppose, for the sake of discovering mathematics and not having all the All-Pro teams for the voter available for us, which Allen received the two votes of Burrow First Place.
That takes Allen to 20 votes in the first place, but there are still seven votes in the first place where it ended! Which means that several voters decided to vote the first team of Jackson All-Pro and Allen First Place MVP.
It is not as strange as giving Jackson a fourth MVP vote, but it is quite strange.
