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Brock Purdy No Longer is the MVP Front-Runner

That's because Dak Prescott suddenly is the MVP front-runner.

Grant Cohn

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That didn't last long.

After destroying the Eagles in Philadelphia, Brock Purdy was the MVP front-runner for one whole week. And now after thoroughly beating the Seattle Seahawks and passing for a career-high 368 yards, Purdy has only the second-best odds to win the MVP Award according to BetUS.

That's because Dak Prescott suddenly is the MVP front-runner.

And why is Prescott the front-runner? A couple reasons: He just destroyed the Eagles as well, and he plays for the Cowboys, who get way too much attention. If he played for any other team, he probably wouldn't be the favorite to win this award or a household name. But he plays for the Cowboys, so we're all on a first-name basis with him.

Purdy currently leads the league with a quarterback rating of 116.9. while Prescott's rating is 107.5. That's a significant gap. But Prescott has 28 touchdown passes and 6 interceptions while Purdy has 25 TD passes and 7 picks. Plus Prescott plays for Mike McCarthy, who isn't exactly cutting edge when it comes to offensive play design and play calling, while Purdy plays for Kyle Shanahan, one of the top offensive minds in football.

In addition, Prescott plays with CeeDee Lamb and a bunch of solid weapons, while Purdy plays with five elite weapons at all times.

You could argue that Prescott has a more difficult job than Purdy, and that's why Prescott should win the MVP. Perhaps that's why he's the odds-on favorite to win the award. That. or it's because he plays for the Cowboys.

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Grant Cohn
GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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