Ravens S Kyle Hamilton Ready For MVP-Like Season? ‘A Bit Miscast’
If you ask most who the Baltimore Ravens’ most valuable player is, they’d tell you it's quarterback Lamar Jackson. In fact, most team answers would go the same way the Ravens’ does, with the quarterback leading the way.
This tilt toward the position is why quarterbacks have won the NFL’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award every year since 2013 and are overall dominant in the history of the honor.
But when NFL.com set out to find Baltimore’s second-best MVP candidate, they landed on second-year safety Kyle Hamilton.
“I thought long and hard about Roquan Smith, who, admittedly, is probably the odds-on favorite for this category,” NFL.com writes. “However, I’m fascinated by Hamilton who was a bit miscast in a heavy nickel role last season but battled admirably and made tangible strides.”
If you’re thinking it's strange for the league’s media site to identify Hamilton as the team’s "non-QB MVP" you’d be correct.
Not only is Smith the name most would come up with, he’s clearly valued as evidenced by the Ravens making him the NFL’s highest paid linebacker ever.
But NFL.com justified the pick of Hamilton over Smith.
“The belief is that he’ll be able to showcase more of his playmaking ability in a more complete safety role this coming season — and don’t forget, he’s still only 22 years old," the site writes.
NFL.com goes on to predict a five-sack and five-interception season for Hamilton, although it also admits this prediction might be a year or two early.
If it’s not, then Baltimore will have a dynamic duo of top notch defenders in Smith and Hamilton.
And Ravens fans will get a safety performance that might just remind them of the glory days when Ed Reed was leading the secondary.
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