{"id":735480,"date":"2026-02-07T11:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/735480\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:15:17","slug":"tom-brady-no-longer-has-a-vote-for-ap-nfl-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/735480\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady no longer has a vote for AP NFL awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to the inherent conflict of interest that Tom Brady faces in his dual roles as a part-owner of the Las Vegas Raiders and game analyst for Fox, both the NFL and his employer have been making it up as they go.<\/p>\n

But while the 7-time Super Bowl champion has largely been permitted to handle his overlapping responsibilities without much hindrance, it appears the Associated Press has drawn a line.<\/p>\n

As noted by ProFootballTalk\u2019s Mike Florio<\/a>, Brady no longer has a vote for the AP\u2019s NFL awards. The 3-time NFL MVP previously possessed a vote for the awards for the 2024 season<\/a>, which marked his first as Fox\u2019s top game analyst.<\/p>\n

Brady\u2019s status as an awards voter while also being a part-owner \u2014 and a heavily involved one<\/a> at that \u2014 of a team drew no shortage of scrutiny due to the obvious conflicts he could face. Nevertheless, the AP defended his voting privileges at the time, stating that he met the organization\u2019s qualifying criteria.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a credentialed media member who covers the NFL regularly, Tom Brady meets the requirement to vote for the AP NFL awards,\u201d the AP said at the time, per Florio<\/a>. \u201cWe are confident that the integrity of the voting process will be respected by all voters.\u201d<\/p>\n

While there is natural turnover on the AP voting panel each year \u2014 for example, NBC\u2019s Mike Tirico also didn\u2019t vote this season after voting the previous year \u2014 it\u2019s unclear what circumstances led to Brady no longer having a ballot. Florio speculates that perhaps the AP merely missed that his Raiders ownership stake had been approved before it was too late to pull his vote a year ago and has since corrected course.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the reason, it appears that Brady was unable to make his voice heard at this year\u2019s NFL Honors. As a result, we may never know whether he would have favored his friend, Matthew Stafford, or the quarterback of his former franchise, Drake Maye, in a closely contested MVP race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to the inherent conflict of interest that Tom Brady faces in his dual roles as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[2910,7,1369],"class_list":{"0":"post-735480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-tom-brady"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116029064876613267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735480","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=735480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}