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This is why I think we need a split award. MLB has the Cy Young for the best pitcher, and the MVP for every other position. You can win both in the same year as a pitcher, but you have to hit an even higher standard for that. So whether it’s Most Outstanding Quarterback or “winning the Montana Award” or whatever, you get a designated QB award and open up MVP to WRs, RBs, DBs, Dlinemen, hell maybe even an olineman if somebody has that crazy a season. And doing it like that wouldn’t even force you to get rid of OPotY or DPotY either, so why not?
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The difference is that in baseball the most valuable hitter is usually more valuable than the best pitcher. In football it’s the opposite, the best quarterback will the most valuable player at minimum 95% of the time. Why not just give MVP to the player that is actually the most valuable, and and OPOY has to go to a non-QB?