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Brock Purdy is the Overwhelming MVP Favorite

Here is current leaderboard to win the MVP according to BetUS:
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Brock Purdy is the Overwhelming MVP Favorite
Brock Purdy is the Overwhelming MVP Favorite

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Give Brock Purdy the MVP already.

Purdy all but locked up the MVP Award with his four-touchdown performance against the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. He now leads the NFL with a passer rating of 119, which is the fifth-highest passer rating ever for a single season. And it could increase. Purdy still has three games left, and he keeps improving.

Here is current leaderboard to win the MVP according to BetUS:

1. Brock Purdy: -200

2. Lamar Jackson: +450

3. Dak Prescott: +600

4. Josh Allen: +1200

5. Jalen Hurts: +1200

6. Christian McCaffrey: +1400

7. Patrick Mahomes; +2500

8. Tua Tagovailoa: +2500

9. Tyreek Hill: +2500

10. Jared Goff: +12500

Purdy really doesn't have legitimate competition for this award. Jackson, Prescott, Allen and Hurts aren't in Purdy's universe when it comes to statistics -- he clears them easily. The only player who could legitimately challenge Purdy is his running back, Christian McCaffrey, who currently leads the NFL in rushing attempts, rushing yards, touches and yards from scrimmage, plus he's tied for the league in touchdowns with 20. 

The 49ers clearly are a run-first team, which is why they rank sixth in rushing attempts and 32nd out of 32 teams in pass attempts. And that's an argument in McCaffrey's favor. He carries the 49ers offense much more than Purdy does, so shouldn't McCaffrey be the MVP? Purdy is efficient, but McCaffrey is efficient AND prolific, as most MVPs are.

Unfortunately for McCaffrey, the MVP has become a quarterback award. Maybe someday that will change.

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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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