The newest odds for NFL Comeback Participant of the Yr (CPOY) have revealed a flaw within the award.
Per Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold just lately overtook Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow because the betting favourite for CPOY honors.
In line with odds provided by FanDuel, Darnold (-125) is a slight favourite over Burrow (-110) coming into Week 18.
The Bengals (8-8) play on Saturday night (8 p.m. ET, ABC and ESPN) in opposition to the Steelers (10-6), and a loss will get rid of them from playoff competition.
As Florio famous, whether or not the Bengals make the playoffs or not may affect voters’ decision-making, despite the fact that it should not.
“If [Burrow] does not make the playoffs and if Darnold delivers the Vikings the No. 1 seed within the NFC… possibly will probably be Darnold,” Florio wrote.
Burrow’s 2024 season has been the very best of his five-year profession, and it got here after he suffered a season-ending damage in Week 11 of the 2023 season.
This season, Burrow leads the NFL in passing yards (4,641) and touchdowns (42).
Darnold has been glorious for the Vikings (14-2), however based mostly on the Related Press’s voting standards, he ought to be ineligible for the award.
As AP senior NFL author Rob Maaddi famous in October 2024, “The AP issued steering to voters earlier than the season, instructing them that ‘the spirit of the award is to honor a participant who has demonstrated resilience within the face of adversity overcoming sickness, bodily damage or different circumstances that led him to overlook taking part in time the earlier season.”
