Over the past eight years, there have been a total of 19 players in the NFL who have received at least one MVP vote, but Russell Wilson has not been one of them. Even though he’s been one of the best players in the league since joining the NFL as a pick in the third round in 2012, Wilson has somehow not earned a single vote.
Wilson did not earn a vote in 2013 or 2014, when he led the Seahawks to the top seed in the NFC. The quarterback also received no vote in 2015, when he finished the year with the highest QB rating in the NFL. In 2017, Wilson led the NFL in touchdown passes while finishing with the second most impressive yard of any quarterback, and yet, he did not get a single vote.
That is one of these began to suffer him?
CBS Sports NFL Insider Jason La Canfora talks to Wilson recently as part of its 2020 Virtual Training Camp Tour and he actually asked the Seahawks quarterback how he feels about being sniffed so often.
“For me, the number one and important thing is the winning part,” Wilson said. “The MVPs and things like and hopefully the votes – maybe I get one, one day – but the reality is that I wake up to win it all and I wake up to be the best too. I don’t care. If I Winning MVP, it’s because we’re great as a team and boys make plays and we do it all together. Hopefully we can do that this year. “
Of course, it sounds like Wilson eventually wants to earn at least one vote.
“Come on? No votes at all now? What more do I need to do here? I’m just saying, can we get some votes here or there,” Wilson said earlier this offseason
Although Wilson has yet to get a vote, he does not hold a grudge against the boys who got her.
“Those kind of levels of players that I really admire and that I knew on a personal level,” Wilson said. “You don’t get that game if you do not win, if you do not win it all or if you do not win most games. I have always understood that.”
In a twist, although Wilson has yet to earn a vote, one of his teammates actually did. Back in 2014, Bobby Wagner was at the receiving end of just one vote, which means Wagner now has more MVP votes than Wilson. Derek Carr also got at least one vote, but again, no Wilson.
In the past eight years, here’s a look at the 19 players not named Russell Wilson who have received at least one MVP vote: Lamar Jackson (MVP 2019), Patrick Mahomes (2018 MVP), Drew Brees, Tom Brady (2017 MVP), Todd Gurley, Carson Wentz, Matt Ryan (2016 MVP), Derek Carr, Ezekiel Elliott, Dak Prescott, Cam Newton (2015 MVP), Carson Palmer, Aaron Rodgers (2014 MVP), JJ Watt, Tony Romo, DeMarco Murray, Bobby Wagner, Peyton Manning (2013 MVP), Adrian Peterson (MVP 2012).
When you score at home, those are 13 different quarterbacks, four running backs and two defenders.
Until he gets a vote, Wilson remains on the shortlist of quarterbacks who have made multiple Super Bowl starts without earning a single MVP vote. The only other quarterbacks in the sad club are Jim Plunkett, Ben Roethlisberger and Eli Manning.
If you’re wondering what the MVP buzz is for Wilson going into the 2020 season, you should click here, where we’ll break it all down. According to our friends at William Hill, the Seahawks quarterback currently has the third best chance of taking home this MVP this year, behind only Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson.
