Myles Garrett blasts the NFL for its MVP voting
· Yahoo Sports
Once again, the NFL has picked a quarterback for the league’s Most Valuable Player. This year, it was Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford; the year before that, it was Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen.
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NFL Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett has had enough and thinks the award goes to quarterbacks too often.
“They are saying that, um, a defensive player can’t win MVP, and we don’t affect winning enough, “ he said in an interview with fellow defensive star Micah Parsons. That’s the next mission, that’s all I’m thinking of.”
He added, “I feel like QB has MVP on lock because they have the ball in their hand pretty much every play.”
Garrett also said that the quarterbacks haven’t determined the playoffs this year, but the defense, and he’s not wrong.
All you have to do is look at this past Sunday’s Super Bowl to understand where Garrett was coming from. The Seattle Seahawks defense basically shut down the New England Patriots offense, holding them to 13 points.
The Patriots' defense wasn’t that bad itself, only holding the Seahawks offense to one touchdown.
Before that, it was the Patriots' defense against the Denver Broncos in the AFC Championship Game that won their matchup. Despite the brilliant performance of the Seahawks' defense, the Super Bowl MVP Award went to Seahawks running back Kenneth Walker III.
Walker was the first running back to win the MVP award in nearly 30 years, so maybe Garrett is right, maybe it’s time to reexamine who wins all the MVP awards, too.
This article originally appeared on Touchdown Wire: Myles Garrett questions NFL MVP voting