NFL MVP Market: Jalen Hurts Provides Value to Bring it Home
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00:02 DRS, if we are to try to handicap a market where it is
00:07 based on writers voting, we can do so with some trends.
00:11 You have to hone in on quarterbacks
00:13 in the NFL MVP market.
00:15 The last 10 winners of this award
00:18 played the quarterback position.
00:19 15 of the last 16, a quarterback.
00:22 The last non-quarterback was Adrian Peterson
00:25 in the 2012 NFL campaign.
00:28 It's why you will see mostly quarterbacks
00:31 until you get to like 40 players deep in the NFL MVP awards.
00:36 Now, Herbert has the fourth best price at 9 to 1.
00:40 DRS, Justin Herbert, until last night,
00:42 was the highest paid player in the history
00:44 of the National Football League, the $52 and 1/2 million
00:48 a year man.
00:49 And then Joe Burrow sets the record deal last night,
00:51 five years, 275 mil, $55 million per season.
00:57 But when you think about Justin Herbert,
00:59 it is now time for the optimism to meet expectation
01:04 to meet results.
01:05 Joe Burrow, Donnie, has that pedigree.
01:08 Joe Burrow has taken his team in his three seasons
01:11 in the National Football League to a Super Bowl,
01:13 to two AFC titles, and of course,
01:16 they have had great success with two divisional championships.
01:20 Justin Herbert has the stats.
01:22 He doesn't have the results.
01:24 14,089 passing yards for Herbert in his first three years
01:29 in the NFL, more than 4,300 in each of his first three years.
01:33 That's a record.
01:34 That's the most by any player in the National Football League
01:37 in his first three years.
01:38 But now, it's not just the stat output, DRS.
01:42 It's the idea that LA needs to back it up with some wins.
01:45 And I think you're right.
01:46 A lot of that can be seen, a small forecast for the year,
01:50 on Sunday at home in the opener against the Dolphins.
01:53 A total 50 and 1/2, last night, the only two
01:56 games of the entire week, one slate, that
01:59 had a total at greater than 50.
02:02 DRS, you said you saw things in a similar way to me
02:05 when it came to the MVP award.
02:07 I'm looking at Jalen Hurts, the runner up from last year,
02:10 that somehow, someway, is outside the top four prices.
02:13 He's got a 12 to 1 number.
02:16 Jalen Hurts last year, DRS, from a statistical standpoint,
02:19 pretty good.
02:20 3,701 passing yards.
02:22 22 touchdown tosses to only six interceptions.
02:25 And unlike many else in front of him,
02:29 he also has a ground component that really
02:31 rivals the best in the league.
02:33 760 rushing yards, 13 rushing scores in the regular season.
02:37 The second most ever by a quarterback
02:40 in the history of the NFL in a single season.
02:43 Only Cam Newton, with 14, back in 2011, had more.
02:46 DRS, my point here, he didn't throw for over 4,500 passing
02:50 yards.
02:51 He doesn't even above 4,000.
02:53 I think there is room for Jalen Hurts to grow.
02:56 I think you will see the team's success for the NFC favorites
02:59 in Philadelphia as well.
03:02 And if the stats pick up for Jalen Hurts,
03:04 the guy that finished runner up last year, DRS,
03:07 it was a favorite for a few weeks
03:09 toward the tail end of that regular season.
03:12 I think Hurts can really win this award at a 12 to 1 number.
03:15 I like the price just to cash the ticket.
03:18 I also like the value as the year moves along.
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