{"id":865781,"date":"2026-09-30T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865781\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:02:09","slug":"josh-allen-remains-the-mvp-favorite-but-brock-purdy-is-lurking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865781\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Allen remains the MVP favorite, but Brock Purdy is lurking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even with no touchdown passes and a pair of interceptions on Sunday against the Chargers, Bills quarterback Josh Allen remains the clear MVP favorite.<\/p>\n<p>His Week 3 performance actually improved his odds.<\/p>\n<p>Allen has gone <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/josh-allen-surges-in-mvp-odds-and-caleb-williams-is-off-the-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">from +500<\/a> to +260 to win his second NFL MVP award. Behind him currently is 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy, at +425.<\/p>\n<p>Purdy deserves to be high on the list. The 49ers are 3-0, and Purdy has an off-the-charts passer rating of 133.1. He has nine touchdown passes on only 83 attempts, with one interception. He\u2019s averaging 9.5 yards per attempt. Purdy also has 93 rushing yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is currently +600, and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes sits at +800. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is at +850, and Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence has odds of +1000.<\/p>\n<p>Bears quarterback Caleb Williams, who was initially off the board after his hamstring injury, is buried in the field at +5500. Patriots quarterback Drake Maye, who came in second a year ago for the MVP award, is at +8000.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s winner, Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, currently has odds of +2800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even with no touchdown passes and a pair of interceptions on Sunday against the Chargers, Bills quarterback Josh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-865781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865781","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=865781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}