LA Rams WR Cooper Kupp within reach of rare NFL WR Triple Crown

The NFL MVP should be awarded to the Most Valuable Player

The NFL Most Valuable Player should not limit itself to the same player who gets the benefit of great blocking and great running game. Nor should it be awarded to a player who rests among the top five of the NFL’s best players at any one position.

Most Valuable Player should recognize a player who is far better than his peers and contemporaries. It should go to that single player who not only outplays the competition of that year but tests the best of any player who ever played that position. This should not be a popularity contest award. It should be a designation that is claimed by NFL greatness.

Awards have gravitated to quarterbacks throughout each tier of football. The Heisman Trophy routinely ends up in the lap of a college quarterback, regardless of whether that player has a snowball’s chance in hell of succeeding in the NFL.

Kupp deserves the NFL MVP Award

It’s time for the NFL to shine up the MVP Award. Restore it to the meaning of the best NFL football player. Not just someone who checks a couple of boxes. Not someone who has the ball hiked to him. But to a player who truly can block, can run, can catch, and can even play special teams.

LA Rams WR Cooper Kupp is not just besting the performance of other NFL receivers in 2021. He is putting the best receivers in NFL history back on the map and on notice. It is that reason that should earn him the designation of NFL MVP.  If not, then you may as well designate it the NFL QB award, and stop the facade.