The Super Bowl continues to be greater than two weeks away, and we won’t know which two teams might be facing off until late this Sunday. There’s a minimum of one futures market, nevertheless, that lets bettors speculate on the eventual title winner at compelling odds: Super Bowl MVP.
Famously, just one player (Chuck Howley) has ever won the award from the losing side, which makes the market a clever approach to bet on the winner of the massive game without paying as big of a price – assuming you may appropriately predict which player will curry the favor of voters.
Listed below are three players price betting to win Super Bowl MVP at BetMGM ahead of this weekend:
Joe Burrow, QB, Bengals (+350)
I’m big on the Bengals to win this weekend in a positive matchup with the limited Chiefs, so naturally I really like his price to win Super Bowl MVP — which is bit longer than the title favorite Bengals’ odds to win all of it (+240).
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You might say the identical thing about Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, who can be dealing at +350 together with his team priced at +240, though his lingering shoulder injury casts a minimum of some doubt on his potential effectiveness this weekend and beyond. The identical can’t be said for Burrow, who has looked sharp all season and was the catalyst for his team’s win in Buffalo last week.
I don’t see many scenarios through which Cincinnati wins all of it and Burrow isn’t on the forefront, especially with how central he has been to the Bengals’ revival as a franchise. He almost actually would have won this award last 12 months if he had found Ja’Marr Chase for a wide-open touchdown on the ultimate play, and he’ll have every opportunity to win it again.
Brock Purdy, QB, 49ers (+650)
This is definitely my favorite bet on the board, and while Purdy appears like the least likely of the 4 remaining quarterbacks to win the award, he deserves a greater price than this.
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With the 49ers dealing at +350 to win all of it, these odds imply a roughly 2/1 price on Purdy should he lead his side to the massive game — which make his odds feel too dismissive of his instrumental he has been to San Francisco even being on this spot in the primary place. The rookie passer owns a stellar 13-3 TD-to-INT ratio since taking up full-time, and he leads the remaining field in postseason yards (546) and yards per attempt (9.3).
Quarterbacks have won a whopping 31 of 56 Super Bowl MVP trophies, including 10 of the last 14 and 4 of the last six. Likelihood is one other quarterback will win the award this 12 months, no matter which team wins all of it. The Niners have playmakers galore who could steal this award from Purdy, but this price is overselling the likelihood of that and underselling the potential of a storybook ending for Mr. Irrelevant.
Isiah Pacheco, RB, Chiefs (100/1)
Speaking of rookies, Purdy isn’t the one first-year player with a likelihood to win this coveted award — even when Pacheco is clearly a much bigger long shot in additional ways than one.
The Chiefs are in trouble, with star passer Patrick Mahomes battling a serious ankle injury, which figures to limit his mobility and overall effectiveness this weekend and beyond. That signifies that Pacheco — who’s averaging nearly 8.0 yards per carry over his last two games — should factor heavily into the sport plan this week and potentially within the Super Bowl should Kansas City survive its test this Sunday against the Bengals.
A running back hasn’t won this award since 1998, though a quarterback with a high-ankle sprain hasn’t won it, either. If the Chiefs can one way or the other muster the strength to win all of it, Pacheco has a significantly better shot of taking home Super Bowl MVP honors than these odds suggest.
