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How is it that the New Orleans Saints’ Drew Brees has never won an NFL MVP Award? He’s the league’s all-time leader in many regular-season passing categories and has won the single-season yardage title an astounding seven times.
This might be Brees’ last season in the NFL as he’s 41 years old and already has a TV gig lined up on NBC. He’s +900 to win another passing yardage title. Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes is the clear-cut favorite at +350. As good as Mahomes has been in his two seasons as a starter, he hasn’t led the league in passing yards yet. The Dallas Cowboys’ Dak Prescott is +625 to win his first such title, while new Tampa Bay Buccaneer Tom Brady is +800 to win it a fourth time.
Michael Thomas has been on the receiving end of many of those Brees throws over the past four seasons as the 27-year-old former second-round pick out of Ohio State has emerged as arguably the NFL’s best wideout. Thomas won his first receiving yardage title in 2019 with a career-high 1,725 and is the +400 favorite to repeat. Thomas has upped his receiving yardage in each season.
The Atlanta Falcons’ Julio Jones is a +850 second-favorite. He has won this title twice, last in 2018. In 2015, Jones put up 1,871 yards – second-most in NFL history. DeAndre Hopkins, traded from the Houston Texans to the Arizona Cardinals this offseason, is +1000.
To lead the league in rushing, the Tennessee Titans’ Derrick Henry is the +500 favorite. He was a first-time winner last year with a career-high 1,540 yards despite missing one game. It looked like the Cleveland Browns’ Nick Chubb (+800) would win it, but Henry blew up in the regular-season finale with 211 yards against Houston to pass Chubb.
The Carolina Panthers’ Christian McCaffrey is the +850 third-favorite, with the Dallas Cowboys’ Ezekiel Elliott (+900) just behind him. It’s an even-numbered year so that bodes well for Elliott, who won the rushing title in 2016 and 2018.