The newest odds for NFL Comeback Participant of the Yr (CPOY) have revealed a flaw within the award.
Per Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold not too long ago overtook Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow because the betting favourite for CPOY honors.
In keeping with odds provided by FanDuel, Darnold (-125) is a slight favourite over Burrow (-110) coming into Week 18.
The Bengals (8-8) play on Saturday night (8 p.m. ET, ABC and ESPN) towards the Steelers (10-6), and a loss will eradicate them from playoff competition.
As Florio famous, whether or not the Bengals make the playoffs or not may affect voters’ decision-making, though it should not.
“If [Burrow] does not make the playoffs and if Darnold delivers the Vikings the No. 1 seed within the NFC… perhaps it is going to be Darnold,” Florio wrote.
Burrow’s 2024 season has been the very best of his five-year profession, and it got here after he suffered a season-ending harm in Week 11 of the 2023 season.
This season, Burrow leads the NFL in passing yards (4,641) and touchdowns (42).
Darnold has been wonderful for the Vikings (14-2), however based mostly on the Related Press’s voting standards, he needs to be ineligible for the award.
As AP senior NFL author Rob Maaddi famous in October 2024, “The AP issued steerage to voters earlier than the season, instructing them that ‘the spirit of the award is to honor a participant who has demonstrated resilience within the face of adversity overcoming sickness, bodily harm or different circumstances that led him to overlook enjoying time the earlier season.”
