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Just one-third of the way through the 2025 NFL season, there are no remaining undefeated teams in the league. That marks the earliest since 2014 that no teams remained undefeated, and the second-earliest all-time.
But while it appears every team in the league has its fair share of warts this season, that hasn’t precluded individual players from putting up impressive starts to the year.
Some of those players have even begun to stake their claim as a possible NFL MVP when it’s all said and done. With regular contenders such as Lamar Jackson stumbling out of the gates, it’s opened up the race to a whole new list of potential contenders.
Reigning NFL MVP Josh Allen and two-time MVP Patrick Mahomes have been far from perfect to start the season. But unlike Jackson, they and their teams have played well enough (and remained healthy enough) to keep in the discussion.
Meanwhile, several new faces have thrown their hats into the ring. Not all of whom are quarterbacks!
Here is our list of the top five NFL MVP candidates through the first third of the 2025 NFL season.
Given the fact that there are still two-thirds of the season remaining, each of these names are not only still alive to win the NFL MVP award, but firmly in the race.
Allen, of course, as the reigning MVP, will have plenty of hype behind him, and with the Bills working with a shortened deck on offense, he may yet again have to carry the load in Buffalo.
Prescott, meanwhile, has been nothing short of incredible after returning from a hamstring injury that cost him almost the entirety of the 2025 season. If the Cowboys didn’t have the worst defense in the NFL (by far), he’d find himself higher on this list.
Lastly, Maye has established himself as one of, if not the best, young quarterback in the league for a Patriots team that suddenly looks like a real contender to Buffalo in the AFC East.
Despite the fact that the Atlanta Falcons have already had their bye week, meaning they’ve played one fewer game than the majority of the teams in the league, Bijan Robinson still leads the NFL in yards from scrimmage.
The Falcons’ superstar running back has 822 scrimmage yards this season. His 164.4 scrimmage yards per game ranks first in the league by a whopping 34.4 yards over San Francisco 49ers star Christian McCaffrey.
Oddly enough, for all his touches and yards, Robinson has found the end zone just three times thus far this season. Expect that to change in the weeks to come.
If it were not for the fact that the MVP award has become more or less a quarterback award in recent years, Robinson could be even higher on this list.
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