The debate over who should be a season's MVP is a tradition like no other in the NFL, unless a player is by far and wide much better than anyone else in the league. That hasn't been the case during the 2025 season, though, as quarterbacks Drake Maye and Matthew Stafford have been neck and neck for much of the past month.
The thought was how they ended their 2025 campaigns would be the determining factor in who was the clear frontrunner, and based on that logic, it should be an award inarguably going to Maye. But his final two games of the season were apparently not enough to convince everyone, including Tom Brady, that he should be the favorite, as odds have Stafford winning in his 17th season.