NFL MVP watch 2024: Ranking candidates on award odds, stats

We’re six weeks into the 2024 season and the race for the NFL’s Most Valuable Player is starting to take shape. To gauge who the leading candidates are heading into Week 7, we asked 15 experts to vote on the top contenders.

Our panel — Mike Tannenbaum, Matt Miller, Jordan Reid, Lindsey Thiry, Seth Walder, Dan Graziano, Field Yates, Jeremy Fowler, Matt Bowen, Jason Reid, Dan Orlovsky, Ben Solak, Kalyn Kahler, Aaron Schatz and myself — compiled a list of our top MVP candidates, which served as the basis for our consensus top-five contenders.

Quarterbacks, per usual, dominate the list. But the candidates are trending younger, creating new intrigue. Can a rookie win the award for the first time in more than six decades? Will last season’s winner repeat? And whose stock is rising and falling one-third of the way through this NFL season? All of that, and more, is covered as we sum up where the MVP race currently stands.