Entering Week 6, oddsmakers had an established hierarchy of candidates for the Associated Press Most Valuable Player award.<\/p>\n
Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>\u2019 quarterback Patrick Mahomes quietly held the third-lowest odds leading into the team\u2019s 30-17 win<\/a> over the Detroit Lions<\/a> on \u201cSunday Night Football.\u201c His 289 total yards (and four touchdowns) helped lift the Chiefs to a 3-3 record. Then the Bills fell to the Atlanta Falcons<\/a> 24-14<\/a> on \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d \u2014 a game that included two Allen interceptions.<\/p>\n Before the clock could reach midnight, the FanDuel odds<\/a> had dramatically shifted to reveal a new betting favorite: Mahomes.<\/p>\n In fact, Mahomes\u2019 2025 interception rate is less than 1%<\/a>, which is a career low. He is one of nine full-time starting quarterbacks two or fewer picks this season \u2014 and one of those was an accurate, goal-line throw that tight end Travis Kelce muffed into the hands of the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>.<\/p>\n But Mahomes\u2019 passing statistics are generally on par with the rest of the NFL\u2019s elite quarterbacks. It\u2019s probably been his success as a rusher that has moved him to the top of the oddsmakers\u2019 charts. Allen (and Eagles\u2019 quarterback Jalen Hurts) have more rushing attempts, but Mahomes leads all quarterbacks with 11 rushes of at least 10 yards<\/a>.<\/p>\n With 11 games left in the regular season, Mahomes will now have a full arsenal of offensive weapons, confidence in his pass protection and the motivation to climb back to the top of the division \u2014 and the conference. It could easily end up being his third MVP season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Entering Week 6, oddsmakers had an established hierarchy of candidates for the Associated Press Most Valuable Player award.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,58087,922,2438,2437,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-447845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-odds","13":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","14":"tag-kansascity","15":"tag-kansascitychiefs","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115377112988341704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}