Pro Bowl History; AP MVP; AP AFL Player of the Year; UPI MVP; UPI AFL Player of the Year; PFWA MVP; Newspaper Ent. Assoc. MVP; Sporting News Player of the Year; Joe F. Carr Trophy (MVP) Bert Bell Award (Player of the Year) AAFC MVP; Super Bowl MVP; Walter Payton Man of the Year; NFLPA Alan Page Community Award; AP Offensive Player of the Year Larry Csonka won the Super Bowl MVP award once in Super Bowls in Super Bowl VIII versus the Vikings on January 13, 1974. The Lombardi Trophy isn’t the only piece of hardware that will be awarded at Super Bowl 59. The most valuable player from the Kansas City Chiefs versus Running back: 7. Linebacker: 4. The Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award, or Super Bowl MVP, is presented annually to the most valuable player of the Super Bowl, the National Football League's (NFL) championship game. The winner is chosen by a panel of 16 football writers and broadcasters, and, since Super Bowl XXXV in 2001, fans voting electronically. The media panel's The Super Bowl Most Valuable Player or Super Bowl MVP, Running back: Larry Csonka: Miami Dolphins (2) IX: 1975: Running back (2) Franco Harris: Pittsburgh Larry Csonka won the Super Bowl MVP award once in Super Bowls in Super Bowl VIII versus the Vikings on January 13, 1974. A running back rarely can carry a team to a championship. But when one does, it is one of the more remarkable feats in football. Seven running backs have won Super Bowl MVP, but none since Terrell Find out who won the MVP Award for every Super Bowl in NFL pro football history. NFL History - Super Bowl MVPs Super Bowl Most Valuable Players: NO. PLAYER: HIGHLIGHTS: I: Bart Starr, QB Here is the List Of Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award Winners of the NFL on Sportskeeda. Running back: 1975: IX: Franco Harris: Pittsburgh Steelers: Running back : 1976: X: Lynn Swann: Csonka became the first running back to win Super Bowl MVP after rushing for 145 yards and two touchdowns on 33 attempts. The Dolphins jumped to a 24–0 lead and didn’t allow the Vikings to Although it’s been 27 years since a running back won Super Bowl MVP, you only have to go back three years to find the last non-quarterback to win the coveted prize. Cooper Kupp was crowned MVP at Super Bowl LVI for the Rams in 2022 with his two touchdowns and 99 all-purpose yards earning him the award over Matthew Stafford. Prior to Davis' Super Bowl MVP win in 1997, five other running backs received this highly-coveted trophy. Pittsburgh running back Franco Harris in Super Bowl 9, John Riggins for Washington in Super Bowl 17, Marcus Allen for Oakland in Super Bowl 18, New York Giants running back Otis Anderson during Super Bowl 25, and Emmitt Smith of the Dallas The first running back to win Super Bowl MVP, the Dolphins' Larry Csonka absolutely dominated the Vikings and their vaunted Purple People Eaters, running all over them to the tune of 145 yards and Prior to the Super Bowl era, Jim Brown won three MVPs with the Cleveland Browns (1957, 1958, 1965), while the Green Bay Packers had two MVPs emerge from their backfield in Paul Hornung (1961) and Adrian Peterson is the most recent running back to win MVP, doing so with the Minnesota Vikings in 2012. Peterson carried the ball 348 times for 2,097 yards (6.0 yards per carry) and 12 touchdowns Mahomes enters Super Bowl 59 tied with Joe Montana for the second-most Super Bowl MVPs at three apiece. The only other players to win the award multiple times are Terry Bradshaw (2), Eli Manning Here are the odds-on-favorites for Super Bowl 59 MVP, and our best bets for one player to win the award from each team. Eagles' RB Saquon Barkley aims to be the first running back to claim the How many running backs have won NFL MVP? There have been 13 MVP winners from the running back position in the Super Bowl era (since 1967). Here's a look at each one: 2012: Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings; 2006: LaDainian Tomlinson, San Diego Chargers; 2005: Shaun Alexander, Seattle Seahawks; 2000: Marshall Faulk, St. Louis Rams Quarterbacks have won 33 of the 58 Super Bowl MVPs and 13 of the last 18. Wide receivers have actually won more Super Bowl MVPs (eight) than running backs (seven), including Cooper Kupp three A running back hasn’t been named Super Bowl MVP since 1998. But bettors are banking on Philadelphia’s Saquon Barkley to be the first running back to win the award since Terrell Davis did so
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