NFL MVP Award Betting 2025

A new NFL season means a new player ready to be crowned as the league’s Most Valuable Player. This prestigious award is one of many handed out to NFL MVPs. Although others hold value, the AP NFL MVP is considered to be the MVP Award of record for the league. Winners of this award are immortalized and are forever a part of NFL history. You can find all the NFL MVP Award betting markets and odds here.

MVP Award Betting Preview

Building a portfolio of futures bets before the season starts is a great way to bet on the NFL at Canadian sportsbooks. You can use some historical precedents and rationale to bet on some favourites and then make some fun bets on some long shots. This article will discuss the previous NFL MVP Award winners, what the award is, and who has a good chance of winning the award in 2025.

What is the NFL MVP Award?

The AP NFL MVP Award is handed out annually to the most outstanding player in the National Football League. It is voted on by a panel of 50 national sportswriters and was first introduced in 1957. Like most other NFL regular-season awards, the NFL MVP is handed out at the NFL Honours night, which is usually held the day before the Super Bowl.

This is one award that certainly has a bias amongst its voters. Since its inception in 1957, all 54 undisputed winners have been offensive players, with just two defensive players and one special teams player taking home the award. Of those 54 offensive players, 50 have been quarterbacks, which shows just how much weight the voters put on that position. The other four have been running backs.

Only thirteen NFL MVPs have also won the Super Bowl in the same season. Is this a curse? Or is it proof of how difficult it is to have a successful regular season and playoffs, especially in a one-game elimination format? For what it’s worth, historical precedence has shown us that a team likely will not win the Super Bowl even if they have the regular season NFL MVP.

Recent NFL MVP Winners

Should it come as any surprise that the past twelve NFL MVP winners have been quarterbacks? A non-quarterback has not won the award since Adrian Peterson won in 2012. The names on this list are some of the most dominant players in recent memory. Here is a list of recent NFL MVP winners:
 

Peyton Manning has won the most NFL MVP awards with five across his illustrious career with the Indianapolis Colts and Denver Broncos. Aaron Rodgers has won four awards, all with the Green Bay Packers.

Jim Brown, Johnny Unitas, Brett Favre, and Tom Brady have each won the award on three occasions. Joe Montana, Steve Young, Kurt Warner, Patrick Mahomes, and Lamar Jackson have all won the award twice, so far. Last season’s winner was Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills.

Who Will Win the NFL MVP Award in 2025?

With the new NFL season right around the corner, it’s time to check out the latest NFL outright betting odds at any Canadian online betting sites. Here on BetVictor Canada, the MVP outright odds are posted under the American Football outright betting odds page. Here are the players with the highest odds to win the NFL MVP Award in 2025:

Again, it should come as no surprise that the top odds for the NFL MVP Award are all quarterbacks. In most seasons, you can probably just stick to betting a portfolio of quarterbacks from around the league. The top odds for a non-quarterback player are for running back Saquon Barkley at +5000.

The NFL MVP Voters tend to take into account two criteria: individual statistics and team success. This is why quarterbacks are so heavily weighted for this award.

Although there is no correlation between winning the MVP and the Super Bowl, we can use the NFL Super Bowl Outright winner odds to determine which teams the market deems to be the best. At BetVictor Canada, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Kansas City, and Detroit have the top five best odds to win this year’s Super Bowl.

By definition, this makes Jalen Hurts and Jared Goff interesting bets to make as they have relatively higher odds at +1600 and +2800. The Eagles should have a solid team, and Hurts cemented himself among the league’s best with the Super Bowl MVP Award last year.

If you want a real long shot, let’s take a look at Matthew Stafford. Nobody wants to bet on him right now because of an injured back. He lost Cooper Kupp, but he added Davante Adams, and the Rams are a favourite to come out of the NFC West and have the seventh-highest odds to win the Super Bowl. At +3300, Stafford could be a great long shot to take in your MVP portfolio this year.

As for a non-quarterback to bet on, why not Ja’Marr Chase to be the first ever wide receiver to win the award? The Bengals have a bad defence and will be throwing to stay in any game. Some will say Tee Higgins hurts Chase, but with two studs on the field, Chase will get less double coverage than if he were on his own. At the sky-high odds of +12500, you could throw some pizza money on Chase to have a historic season in 2025.