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The top two quarterbacks in the NFL and frontrunners for the league’s MVP are also the top two players favored to win the biggest game's biggest award.
Hurts is +120, according to DraftKings, while Mahomes is right behind him at +130.
Hurts finished the regular season 10th in passing with 3,701 yards and 14th in touchdown passes with 22. But he also ran for 760 yards and 13 touchdowns.
In the playoffs, Hurts’ numbers aren’t spectacular – just 275 total passing yards and two TD passes to go along with 73 rushing yards and two more scores – but they haven’t needed to be; his defense and offensive efficiency have carried the day in two blowout wins.
Mahomes, who led the regular season in passing yards (5,250), touchdown passes (41) and QBR (77.5), has a chance to do something that hasn’t been done in 23 years: win the Most Valuable Player award for the regular season and the Super Bowl. The last time that was done with the 1999 season when St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner did it.
Mahomes has won each award in separate seasons. He was the league MVP in 2018 and then the next season he was the Super Bowl LIV Most Valuable Player.
In the playoffs, playing with a high-ankle sprain for six out of the Chiefs’ eight postseason quarters, Mahomes has thrown for 521 yards and four touchdowns with no interceptions. He’s also completing 70% of his passes.
Oh, and Mahomes is playing in his third Super Bowl in the last four years. In his previous two Super Bowls combined, Mahomes has thrown for 556 yards, two touchdowns and four interceptions.
FrontPageBets takes a look at the odds for who will win Super Bowl MVP.
(Odds courtesy of DraftKings and subject to change)
