In a significant upset, Buffalo Payments quarterback Josh Allen was named the 2024 NFL MVP in a traditionally uncommon victory Thursday night time.
Allen, 28, obtained 27 first-place votes to emerge along with his first MVP award over first-team All-Professional quarterback Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore Ravens. Allen additionally had 22 second-place votes and one third-place vote, ending with 383 voting factors. Jackson, already a two-time MVP, had 23 first-place votes, 26 second-place votes and one fourth-place vote for 362 voting factors. The identical voters awarded 30 votes to Jackson and 18 votes to Allen within the All-Professional voting.
Allen’s win makes him solely the second quarterback to be named MVP (excluding co-MVPs) with out additionally being an Related Press first-team All-Professional choice that season. The one different was John Elway, who gained the award over first-team All-Professional Joe Montana in 1987. (Tennessee’s Steve McNair and Indianapolis’ Peyton Manning had been co-MVPs in 2003 when Manning was named first-team All-Professional).
“I do know that is a person award and it says Most Priceless Participant on it. However I believe it’s derived from staff success, and I like my staff,” Allen stated through the NFL Honors present in New Orleans. “It actually takes everyone to have staff success, and I’m so lucky to be part of an awesome group.”
After thanking the Payments alongside along with his associates, household and supporters, Allen acknowledged his fiancée, actress Hailee Steinfeld, earlier than closing his acceptance speech.
“With that being stated, be good. Do good. God bless. And go Payments,” he stated.
A second that MVP Josh Allen will cherish for the remainder of his life 🏆 @Invisalign
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The seventh choose within the 2018 NFL Draft, Allen turned in one in all his most effective seasons en path to main Buffalo (13-4) to its second AFC Championship Recreation look in 5 years and one win shy of its first Tremendous Bowl look for the reason that 1993 season. He completed the marketing campaign with 3,731 passing yards, 28 passing touchdowns (40 whole) and 6 interceptions in 17 regular-season begins, and 636 passing yards, six whole touchdowns (4 passing, two speeding) and no turnovers in three postseason video games.
Allen’s well-deserved win arrives in beautiful style
Allen’s first profession MVP award, to many contained in the Payments’ locker room, has been a very long time coming.
Lots of his teammates in 2023 felt as if Allen was robbed of the honors regardless of having superior statistics to Jackson. Allen was even the participant picked in The Athletic’s 2024 nameless NFL participant ballot as the subsequent particular person to win their first-ever MVP award. Together with making that prophecy come true, this time round, the roles had been reversed, with Allen not having as gaudy of statistics as Jackson however coming away with the honour.
Whatever the voting dynamics, Allen is an extremely deserving winner. With out query, he performed the perfect soccer of his profession in 2024, serving to to uplift a pass-catching room that didn’t have a single participant above 850 receiving yards and solely two gamers above 500. The receivers additionally struggled to separate all season. However the Payments had been extremely difficult to defend due to Allen, as he upended his status as a quarterback who made far too many turnover-worthy throws.
When groups selected to take a seat again in opposition to him, he didn’t power throws and took what was given beneath till defenses would creep up nearer to the road of scrimmage. As soon as they crept up, he hit them excessive for an intermediate throw. He may make one thing out of nothing with a throw out of construction, normally when rolling to his proper. And if nothing was accessible, Allen always threatened to make issues occur along with his legs and choose up a primary down or extra.
Allen is the primary Payments participant to have gained the award in 33 years, when working again Thurman Thomas did so within the 1991 season. He additionally made franchise historical past as the one Payments quarterback to have gained MVP for the reason that staff joined the NFL in 1970.
With out query, now that he has his first MVP award, Allen’s sustained success and talent to do extra with much less round him places him within the dialogue for the perfect participant in franchise historical past. Though the Payments got here up quick within the AFC Championship Recreation, Allen’s 2024 marketing campaign, now dubbed an MVP yr, will likely be remembered fondly amongst Payments followers for fairly a while. — Joe Buscaglia, Payments beat author
A dream come true.
Congratulations, @JoshAllenQB. 🏆 #NFLHonors pic.twitter.com/SWFcGpeHw2
— Buffalo Payments (@BuffaloBills) February 7, 2025
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