Terry Bradshaw disagrees with MVP suggestion and | Sports News

Terry Bradshaw, the previous Pittsburgh Steelers star, has shared his predictions for the 2025 NFL MVP race, revealing that he believes Matthew Stafford is the frontrunner for this yr’s award.

Last season, Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson have been in a tight race for the MVP title, with Allen in the end securing his first MVP win regardless of having inferior stats in comparison with the Baltimore Ravens quarterback. Saquon Barkley of the Philadelphia Eagles additionally had an spectacular 2024 season, which ought to have attracted more MVP consideration. This yr, it appears Baker Mayfield is within the operating.

Despite topping 2000 yards, Barkley didn’t obtain a single first-place MVP vote. This may doubtlessly foreshadow future disappointment for Jonathan Taylor, the Indianapolis Colts’ prime operating back this season. Taylor has had an excellent season thus far, speeding for 850 yards and scoring 12 touchdowns on the ground in simply eight video games, averaging 5.9 yards per carry for a Colts group that at the moment holds a 7-1 file.

However, during an look on FOX’s NFL Sunday, Bradshaw recommended that Taylor’s possibilities of profitable the MVP this yr might be undermined by curiosity in his own quarterback, Daniel Jones, on the subject of voting.

Bradshaw, who himself received the MVP award in 1978, informed host Charissa Thompson that he believes Barkley ought to have received final yr’s award. However, he acknowledged that the prominence and media protection of quarterbacks throughout the NFL was the rationale why Allen and Jackson have been the highest two candidates for the award.

“Terry, did you know that you were going to win the MVP?” mentioned Thompson, to which Bradshaw replied: “No, but when I did win the MVP – this is going to shock you – it was because I threw 28 touchdown passes, which was the most since the merger of the AFL and NFL, 28 touchdown passes. Can you believe that? Matthew Stafford has 17 now.”

Bradshaw continued: “And actually, I thought last year it should have been Saquon Barkley hands down. Well, I thought Lamar Jackson, if anybody would have won it out of the quarterback position, Lamar threw for 41 touchdowns and five interceptions. Was astounding. And he didn’t win it.”

The former Steelers star then defined his view that quarterbacks dominate MVP discussions as a result of of their central position, noting that whereas he considers Taylor a main candidate this season, he would choose Stafford as his alternative among the many quarterbacks being thought-about.

He continued: “I think it’s because we always have the ball in our hands, we’re always being talked about, we’re always being given the credit because of how great we are, forgetting that we have a line and receivers and so on and so forth, and running backs is not a sexy thing.

“That’s why Taylor could be a entrance runner this yr, however somebody requested me that earlier and I mentioned ‘simply could be my entrance runner’ – however then they may have a look at Daniel Jones, and if I needed to decide a quarterback or anyone profitable it, I might say Matthew Stafford is having his best yr ever.”