{"id":340238,"date":"2025-12-10T03:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340238\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T03:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:20:07","slug":"philip-rivers-instantly-has-odds-as-low-as-15-1-for-comeback-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340238\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Rivers instantly has odds as low as 15-1 for comeback player of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The development could prompt the Associated Press to declare, \u201cDadgummit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colts practice-squad quarterback Philip Rivers instantly has been installed as an 18-1 proposition to win the 2025 comeback player of the year award at one major sportsbook. At another, he\u2019s 15-1.<\/p>\n<p>At both, Rivers is third on the list of odds, behind 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey at -140 and Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott at +125.<\/p>\n<p>The AP would presumably frown upon Rivers getting votes for the annual prize, given the clarification that was provided a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe spirit of the AP Comeback Player of the Year Award is to honor a player who has <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/sam-darnold-remains-one-of-the-betting-favorites-for-comeback-player-of-the-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">demonstrated resilience in the face of adversity<\/a> by overcoming illness, physical injury or other circumstances that led him to miss playing time the previous season,\u201d the Associated Press said last year. <\/p>\n<p>That didn\u2019t stop voters from casting ballots for Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold, who finished third in the 2024 voting.<\/p>\n<p>Although Darnold arguably fit within the \u201cother circumstances\u201d portion of the clarification, Rivers doesn\u2019t. He was retired, from 2021 through 2024. There was no adversity that caused him to miss playing time in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone betting on Rivers should keep that in mind. That said, it\u2019s our understanding that all votes will be accepted from the 50 AP voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The development could prompt the Associated Press to declare, \u201cDadgummit.\u201d Colts practice-squad quarterback Philip Rivers instantly has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-340238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}