{"id":732801,"date":"2026-02-06T06:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/732801\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T06:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:42:18","slug":"patriots-drake-maye-misses-out-on-2025-nfl-mvp-by-one-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/732801\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots&#8217; Drake Maye Misses Out On 2025 NFL MVP By One Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye will have to wait for his first NFL MVP.<\/p>\n<p>Maye ultimately finished second in the voting, with Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NFL\/status\/2019618580451545243?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">taking home the prestigious award<\/a> for the first time at the NFL Honors on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, and San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey were the other finalists, though they didn\u2019t play much of a role in the final result.<\/p>\n<p>2025 NFL MVP (VOTING)<br \/>Matthew Stafford: 366 points, 24 first-place votes<br \/>Drake Maye: 361 points, 23 first-place vote<br \/>Josh Allen: 91 points, 2 first-place votes<br \/>Christian McCaffrey: 71 points, 0 first-place votes<br \/>Trevor Lawrence: 49 points, 0 first-place votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the closest race in more than two decades, with the last one to come down to the wire being when Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning and Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair shared the award in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Maye will do what he can to make up for the loss during <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/02\/keys-to-victory-for-patriots-seahawks-in-super-bowl-lx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Super Bowl LX<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye will have to wait for his first NFL MVP. Maye ultimately finished&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[833,7,32,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-732801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-drake-maye","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-matthew-stafford","11":"tag-new-england","12":"tag-new-england-patriots","13":"tag-newengland","14":"tag-newenglandpatriots","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116022329349797412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732801","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=732801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}