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The National Football League Most Valuable Player Award (NFL MVP) is an award given by various entities to the
The National Football League Most Valuable Player Award (NFL MVP) is an award given by various entities to the American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
player who is considered the most valuable in the National Football League (NFL) during the regular season. Organizations which issue an NFL MVP award include the Associated Press (AP) and the Pro Football Writers of America
The Pro Football Writers of America (PFWA), sometimes known as Pro Football Writers Association, is an organization that purports to be " heofficial voice of pro football writers, promoting and fighting for access to NFL personnel to best serve t ...
(PFWA). Since the 2011 season, the NFL has held the annual NFL Honors
The NFL Honors is an annual awards presentation in the National Football League (NFL).
The television special is held the night before the Super Bowl (except 2022 when it was held on a Thursday) at the game's host city and on the network carryi ...
ceremony, which recognizes the winner of the Associated Press MVP award.
The first award described as a most valuable player award was the Joe F. Carr Trophy
The Joe F. Carr Trophy was the first award given in the National Football League (NFL) to recognize a most valuable player for each season. It was first awarded in 1938, known then as the Gruen Trophy, and renamed in 1939 in honor of NFL commission ...
, presented by the NFL from to . Other organizations that previously issued an MVP include '' Sporting News'' and United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20t ...
(UPI). The Newspaper Enterprise Association
The Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) is an editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1902. The oldest syndicate still in operation, the NEA was originally a secondary news ...
(NEA) awarded the Jim Thorpe Trophy
The Jim Thorpe Memorial Trophy was an American football award presented by the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) to the most valuable player (MVP) of the National Football League (NFL) from 1955 to 2008. It was the only NFL MVP award whose w ...
.
List of winners
See also
*American Football League Most Valuable Player Award The American Football League Most Valuable Player Award was and award given out by the AFL after voters (AP, UPI, and TSN) voting for that certain player to win AFL MVP.
During the awards ten-year existence (1960–1969), the American Football Leag ...
* Bert Bell Award
The Bert Bell Award is presented by the Maxwell Football Club to the player of the year in the National Football League (NFL). The award is named in honor of Bert Bell (1895–1959), commissioner of the NFL and founder of the Maxwell Club. Voters ...
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* National Football League Defensive Player of the Year Award
Several organizations give out NFL Defensive Player of the Year awards that are listed in the ''NFL Record and Fact Book'' and ''Total Football II: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League''. The Associated Press (AP) has been givi ...
* National Football League Offensive Player of the Year Award
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* List of National Football League awards
In the National Football League (NFL), the highest level of professional American football in North America, there are a variety of awards presented to recognize players and teams for outstanding achievements. Each year on the night before the Su ...
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