With Matthew Stafford ultimately winning the 2025 NFL MVP award, many were divided if it should be him or Drake Maye who won it. However, there was another candidate in Los Angeles Chargers QB Justin Herbert, and one of those NFL Honors voters who voted for him confessed why he picked Herbert over Maye and Stafford. It was also his vote for Herbert that sealed Maye’s fate.
That voter is Irish NFL analyst Sam Monson, who admitted that he voted for Herbert because he is the value candidate. He also noted that Stafford had a pretty bad offensive line while Herbert was “working miracles.”
“I was the Justin Herbert vote. The guy had the worst offensive line in the NFL all season and despite that he was working miracles in almost every single game. Stafford’s OL became 2/5ths as bad as Herbert’s for 5 minutes and he became a turnover howitzer. He embodied ‘value’,” Monson tweeted.
He added that choosing the MVP is hard as there were too many dependencies to evaluate and that one vote to change a legacy for one person is just “stupid.”
He received plenty of hate comments for his take, but he did explain a few of the nuances in the MVP voting, such as it is only the Top 5 vote-getters who are treated as the “finalists.”
Why Did The Justin Herbert MVP Vote Affect The MVP Race Between Drake Maye, Matthew Stafford?
The MVP voting came down to just one first-place vote, with Matthew Stafford receiving 24 total first-place votes, while Drake Maye had 23. The other finalists included the Bills’ Josh Allen, who had two, and Justin Herbert, who had one.
Many believed that it was Monson’s lone vote for Herbert that tipped the scales for Stafford, with many vocal Patriots fans believing he should have voted for Drake Maye.
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