{"id":145400,"date":"2026-01-22T23:35:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145400\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:35:29","slug":"firebaughs-josh-allen-named-finalist-for-2025-nfl-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145400\/","title":{"rendered":"Firebaugh&#8217;s Josh Allen named finalist for 2025 NFL MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Firebaugh native Josh Allen has been named a finalist for the NFL MVP once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This is the fifth time he has been named a finalist for the award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Allen, the reigning MVP, threw for 3,668 yards, 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, posting a 102.2 passer rating while leading Buffalo to its seventh straight playoff appearance. He also ran for 14 TDs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Bills were knocked out of the playoffs by the Denver Broncos in the divisional round and fired coach Sean McDermott.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The winners will be announced at &#8220;NFL Honors&#8221; on Feb. 5. A nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league completed voting before the playoffs began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Matthew Stafford, Trevor Lawrence, Christian McCaffrey and Drake Maye round out the finalist list for MVP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Firebaugh native Josh Allen has been named a finalist for the NFL MVP once&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[72606,2028,6426,112,114,113,14882,72605,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-145400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-72606","9":"tag-award-season","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-fresno","12":"tag-fresno-headlines","13":"tag-fresno-news","14":"tag-josh-allen","15":"tag-nfl-mvp","16":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}