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(OCTOBER 31st)
Jonathan Taylor Carrying the Colts to the Playoffs ...... And Winning an MVP ???
(By Jeremy Fowler)
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...yers-divisions
MVP has morphed into almost solely a quarterback award. A passer has won it for 12 straight years. Last season, Saquon Barkley rushed for 2,000 yards and finished a distant 3rd in the voting behind Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson.
So it feels quite possible that Adrian Peterson (2012) will be the last non-quarterback MVP of our generation ...... but some around the league hope that's not the case based on the way Taylor is playing for Indianapolis.
Taylor's 14 total touchdowns through 8 games puts him on a pace just shy of LaDanian Tomlinson's NFL record of 31 scores (28 rushing) in 2006. Tomlinson won the MVP with a convincing 76% voting share that season.
"Taylor is playing like a Hall-of-Famer right now," an NFL coordinator said.
Added an AFC executive ...... "I would vote for him if I had one. That offensive line has been dominant, and once the hole is there, Taylor is elite at the second level."
Still, Taylor's MVP campaign is shaky at best. Other names that come up often in this conversation are Patrick Mahomes, Drake Maye, Jordan Love, and Tampa Bay's Baker Mayfield.
l ESPN Bet l has Taylor at +1300 odds, well behind Mahomes, Allen and Maye.
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