As Super Bowl LVI approaches with great strides, theScore’s football publishers are looking ahead to the season and predicting the winner of each Grand Prize.
Most useful players
Our editors are clearly still shocked by Kansas City Chiefs – Buffalo Bills playoff game, and who can blame them? Allen leads our MVP voting with four ballots, having completed an almost perfect playoff course and reminded the NFL world of its peak, which can compete with Mahomes. Meanwhile, the Chiefs’ quarter received two votes – perhaps a response to an inconsistent regular season, by his standards. Remarkably, despite his second consecutive MVP title, Aaron Rodgers did not receive a single vote.
rude Player of the Year
The campaign will apparently be the year of the recipient. No position in the NFL is so rich in talent and full of young stars. Chase and Waddle, our joint favorites for the title of rude Player of the Year, took to the stage as recruits in, and it’s easy to see them taking their games to a new level as second-year players. Samuel and Jefferson were among the few receivers to rival Chase in revolutionary games last season. In particular, the 49ers star could be prepared for a particularly productive campaign, having proved in the second half of that running the ball is just as peril.
Defensive Player of the Year
Bosa organized one of the quietest seasons of 15.5 bags last store. His dominance was even more impressive as he was only 12 months removed from a torn ACL at the start of the campaign. With three votes in a very competitive and pass-rush-dominated field, we expect Bosa to get the love he deserves.
Garrett and Parsons, who both finished in the top six for the bags in, are considered Bosa’s biggest competition. Voter fatigue seems to have affected Donald’s candidacy, while no one believes that the winner of the defensive Player of the Year, T. J. Watt, will be able to repeat his historic campaign.
Coach of the Year
First- and second-graders often have the path for this award, and five of our eight editors have followed this path with their selections. Daboll could be a fascinating candidate, given that the Giants have won only four games in. As a result, they have much more room for progress than the power (nine wins), the Dolphins (nine) and the Vikings (eight). McDermott is the only coach to receive multiple votes; it’s not hard to imagine Buffalo pushing for a campaign of 13 or 14 wins with the fuel of its heartbreaking exit from the playoffs.
Returnee of the Year
Last season was full of injuries for star players, which launched a fascinating action for the title of Player of the Year. Young paved the way with three votes. The pass rusher looked like a star as a rookie in nd should be near his full strength for the start of the campaign after tearing up the LCA. Meanwhile, Thomas has barely played in the last two seasons after a record year. A large-scale reproduction of this plane without Drew Brees or Sean Payton is questionable, but perhaps our editors are betting on a change of scenery that will provoke its revival.
