Let's stack candidates for the NFL's six major awards through nine weeks of football, led by a wide-open MVP race.
, with episodes released once a week. Barnwell joined ESPN in 2011 as a staff writer at Grantland. Follow him on Twitter here:It has been a weird season. Teams that have been anointed as the best in football typically have lost in ignominious fashion the next week. Breakout quarterbacks have fallen back to the pack.
At this point, Tomlin feels inevitable as a coach who will bend the football universe to his whims and coax a successful season out of a flawed football team. These Steelers aren't like the old ones, as they've gone from being a team full of drafted-and-developed talent to one of the teams with theTomlin has never won Coach of the Year and hasn't even appeared in the top five in voting at any point during his career, which seems bizarre.
Stroud has eliminated the competition for Offensive Rookie of the Year and is almost in the conversation for most impressive rookie seasons by a quarterback in league history. He now has thrown 14 touchdown passes against one pick. Even good rookies often are executing in sheltered offenses, but he is averaging more than 8.0 air yards per throw, which is the fifth most of any quarterback.
Young's 20 pressures ranks him second in the league among debuting players behind Anderson, so he has created some havoc playing downwind from the future Hall of Famer in the middle. Young was an undersize third-round pick and already is 25 years old, so the Rams probably can't count on him to turn into a superstar. If he can be a solid situational rusher who makes an average of just under $1.4 million per year on his rookie deal, though, he will be a nice find for L.A.
I'm willing to nominate an offensive player who isn't a quarterback for the MVP conversation in the right moment, but we'll get to that in the MVP conversation.The bloom is off the rose in San Francisco after three straight losses, but I don't think many people would blame McCaffrey for the decline. Despite dealing with a groin injury, he still leads the league in yards from scrimmage and is tied for the lead in touchdowns alongsideMcCaffrey is still a wideout-caliber receiver.
It might be easier to approach this"Guess Who" style and eliminate candidates before we see who's left standing. I'll start by taking the non-quarterbacks out of the equation, although this is the sort of year in which a receiver or pass-rusher could break through if they set a single-season record for receiving yards or sacks. With no quarterback breaking away from the pack, the door is open for a non-quarterback to do the spectacular.
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