It’s a long wait between now and the start of training camp. Really, it’s the longest stretch of silence in the NFL calendar, as you have the post-Super Bowl haze in February, followed by the Combine and Pro Days, then free agency picks up and really carries you into the draft. Then you have OTAs and minicamp, and then, a month of nothing.
So here we are in the nothingness, which naturally lends itself to prospecting, projecting, and prognosticating—because there simply isn’t much else to talk about. That was probably the genesis of a piece put together from The Athletic, which asked each team’s beat writer for the outlet to make a prediction about who their team MVP would be.