{"id":24420,"date":"2025-02-08T08:36:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T08:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=24420"},"modified":"2025-02-08T08:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T08:36:39","slug":"update-mvp-voters-controversial-history-with-ravens-lamar-jackson-raises-eyebrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=24420","title":{"rendered":"“UPDATE: MVP Voter’s Controversial History with Ravens’ Lamar Jackson Raises Eyebrows!”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One MVP voter’s placement of Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson raised plenty of eyebrows.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This year’s MVP race was one of the closest and most controversial in recent memory, so naturally, every single voter is going to be under the microscope.<\/p>\n

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was the presumptive favorite to win his third MVP award, especially after earning first-team All-Pro honors last month, considering the same group of voters decide both. However, Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen wound up winning his first MVP award\u00a0in a stunning upset<\/a>, denying Jackson his hat trick.<\/p>\n

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Allen had 27 first-place votes and 383 points, while Jackson had 23 first-place votes and 362 votes. Considering Jackson had 30 first-team All-Pro votes to Allen’s 18 (Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow had the remaining two), there were several voters who voted the former for All-Pro and the latter for MVP.<\/p>\n

However, that wasn’t even the most controversial part of the voting results.<\/p>\n

Jim Miller, a former NFL quarterback who now works for Sirius XM, placed Jackson at fourth in his MVP vote, being the only voter who didn’t have Jackson in his top two. From the moment the AP\u00a0released the full voting results<\/a>, Miller received a ton of criticism from fans, with former Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith perhaps being the most prominent voice in that group.<\/p>\n

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