has a wr ever won mvp?
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Even crazier? While no wide receivers have ever won the award, a kicker has once and only two defensive players have been named MVP.
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Drew Brees, 1 Super Bowl won: Super Bowl XLIV New Orleans' Drew Brees completed 32 of 39 passes for 288 yards and two touchdowns to win the MVP award.
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LeBron James is a four-time NBA MVP. Tim Duncan, of the San Antonio Spurs, won back-to-back Most Valuable Player awards in the '01-02 and '02-03 seasons.
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All six players with more than 140 are in the Hall of Fame. Houston Texans DE J.J. Watt: He and Lawrence Taylor are the only three-time Defensive Player of the Year award recipients, and Watt is the only player in NFL history with multiple 20-sack seasons. He's only 29, but he's already done enough.
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Stop me if you've heard this one before, but New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has made more NFL history. The Week 7 road victory over the Baltimore Ravens helped Brees become the third quarterback to successfully beat all 32 teams, joining Peyton Manning and Brett Favre.
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In fact, quarterbacks have won the award 28 times. The Patriots' Tom Brady (four Super Bowl MVP awards), of course, is on the list of players with multiple Super Bowl MVP awards, along with Bart Starr (2), Terry Bradshaw (2), Joe Montana (3) and Eli Manning (2).
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Yes, Eli Manning is a Hall of Famer. He is a true leader of men and will go down as a two-time Super Bowl champion who is on the short list of quarterbacks who slayed the G.O.A.T. I might be a little biased, because I played with Eli in New York, but his bust will reside in Canton one day.
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['Lamar Jackson– 33.56 pts (x)', 'Dak Prescott– 33.4 pts (x)', 'Deshaun Watson– 30.72 pts (x)', 'Matthew Stafford– 27.6 pts.', 'Patrick Mahomes– 27.32 pts (x)', 'Case Keenum– 27.2 pts.', 'Tom Brady– 25.64 pts (x)']
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He also won the Defensive Player of the Year award, one of the few to win the award multiple times, and became the first defensive player since 2008 to get votes for the MVP award, receiving 13. After the season, Watt was named to the top spot in the NFL Top 100 Players of 2015.
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Former Rams wide receiver Isaac Bruce has been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame's 2020 class. A 16-year NFL veteran, Bruce was one of five inductees chosen from a pool of 15 modern-era player finalists. ... At the time he retired, his total receiving yards were second-most all-time in NFL history.
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Only once in NBA history has a losing team seen its player win Finals MVP honors. That was Jerry West in the 1968-69 season. ... No other player has ever been named Finals MVP in a losing effort.
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He's beating great teams, breaking records, all while his team is leading their division. With his level of play and the uniqueness in his game, Jackson should be the NFL MVP if he continues to play the way he has.
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1 LSU player has won the Heisman Trophy -- RB Billy Cannon in 1959. Cannon swamped Richie Lucas, the Penn State QB who was the runner-up. Cannon collected 519 first-place votes, 147 second-place votes and 78 third-place votes for 1,929 points. Lucas totaled 613 points.
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Wilt Chamberlain (center) won the award four times in his career. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won the award a record-setting six times in his career. Michael Jordan won the award five times in his career. LeBron James is a four-time NBA MVP.
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Seattle Seahawks' quarterback Russell Wilson was the frontrunner for the NFL's Most Valuable Player award after the first half of the regular season. ... “Based on everything PFF is currently able to quantify, Russell Wilson, and not Jackson, added the most value to his team and is, therefore, the league's MVP.”
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Class of 2005 inductee Steve Young (right) is the first left-handed quarterback to earn election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Young, who is one of two QBs in history to lead the NFL in passing six times, is currently one of the top rated passer of all-time.
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But he's definitely not a Hall of Famer. You forgot his player of the year honor in college. Huge accomplishment. Makes him a lock.