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A quarterback has won the NFL’s Most Valuable Player award every year since 2012, but there is a legitimate chance that streak could be broken this season.
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill leads the league in receiving yards and receiving touchdowns this season and is less than 600 yards away from becoming the first player in NFL history to record 2,000 receiving yards in one season.
Those numbers, plus his incredible skillset, are reasons enough why Dolphins teammate and fellow receiver Braxton Berrios says Hill should not only be considered for the award but that he should win it as well.
“He’s on the track to do something nobody has ever done,” Berrios said on FanDuel TV’s Up & Adams show. “And I think anytime that happens you have to be at the top of an MVP race.”
.@cheetah = MVP? @HNYNUT_BERRIOS makes the case @MiamiDolphins @heykayadams pic.twitter.com/whghLqoSO1
— Up & Adams (@UpAndAdamsShow) December 8, 2023
Hill has certainly staked his claim to the award, but it will be an uphill battle for voters to pick a wide receiver over a quarterback or even a running back.
While a quarterback has won the award every year since 2012 and 46 times overall, it’s not that uncommon for a running back to win it.
Adrian Peterson, LaDainian Tomlinson, Shaun Alexander, and Marshall Faulk all won MVP this millennium and a running back won the award 18 times since 1957.
But a wide receiver has never won the award.
Even a linebacker (Lawrence Taylor in 1986), a defensive lineman (Alan Page in 1971), and a kicker (Mark Moseley in 1982) all took an MVP trophy home before a wide receiver did.
Hill has a chance to set multiple NFL firsts this season if he continues to play at this level.
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