06-11-2020, 08:23 PM
(06-11-2020, 08:33 AM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: He's not far off.
Not sure that any Rookie has won the MVP before. But I feel Burrow will win the ROY and next year get the MVP. Seems to be the trend now a days.
I know Wilt Chamberlain did it in the NBA. Bill Russell won MVP in his first full season after missing a big chunk of his rookie campaign to play in the 1956 Olympics. The recently passed Wes Unseld also did it in 1968-69.
I do not think it has ever been done in the NFL. At least for the NFL MVP. Close calls were: Marino won it his second year; Jim Brown was the AP MVP as a rookie in 1957; Earl Campbell the PFWA MVP in 1978; Lawrence Taylor won DPOY as a rookie.
There might be other rooks who won the AP, PFWA, or Sporting News MVP, but I cannot think of one now.
