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Brock Purdy is a Good Bet to win MVP

Compare Purdy to Matt Ryan, who won was the MVP in 2016 when Kyle Shanahan was his offensive coordinator.
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Brock Purdy is a Good Bet to win MVP
Brock Purdy is a Good Bet to win MVP

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Now might be a good time to place a wager on Brock Purdy to win the NFL's MVP Award.

Until recently, he wasn't viewed as the best player on his own offense -- that distinction typically goes to Christian McCaffrey. But the MVP Award generally goes to a quarterback, and Purdy currently leads the NFL in passer rating by a wide margin at 123.1. If he keeps this up, he'll have to be the MVP.

Compare Purdy to Matt Ryan, who won was the MVP in 2016 when Kyle Shanahan was his offensive coordinator. That season, Matt Ryan led the NFL with a passer rating of 117.1 -- one of the best seasons ever. But if Purdy maintains a 123 passer rating the rest of the year, it would be statistically the greatest season ever by a quarterback.

And Purdy seems to be getting better as the season goes on. And he has the best group of offensive weapons in the league. And he has an elite defense so he almost always plays with a lead. And he has an elite play designer and play caller in Kyle Shanahan. Purdy is in a perfect position to succeed.

And yet, he currently isn't the favorite to be the MVP -- the favorite is Patrick Mahomes at +500, because of his reputation, not because of his stats this season. His passer rating currently is 96.

Purdy currently is +700 to win the award, along with Jalen Hurts and Allen. Elite company for the 49ers' young quarterback. If the 49ers keep winning, his odds will improve.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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