2025 NFL Midseason Awards: Who Holds Edge in Hotly Contested MVP Race?

Before the season, it would have been very difficult to predict our NFL midseason award winners.

Now that we're at the 2025 season's midway point, we surveyed FOX Sports' NFL reporters to get their picks for each of the league's major awards. The MVP race seems to be as compelling as ever without a clear favorite, while both Rookie of the Year awards are up for grabs, only adding to the intrigue.

So, let's take a look at our staff's picks for each of the major NFL awards halfway through the season. 

Ben Arthur: Drake Maye has been the NFL’s most consistently dominant and efficient quarterback this season. And quite frankly, it’s not even close. 

In Sunday’s win over the Atlanta Falcons, the former UNC star recorded at least 200 passing yards and a 100-plus passer rating for the eighth straight game. He's just the fourth quarterback in league history to accomplish that feat in a single season, according to Next Gen Stats. It so happens that the other passers to achieve the milestone — Peyton Manning (2004), Tom Brady (2007) and Aaron Rodgers (2011,2020) — all won MVP that season. 

Through nine weeks, Maye leads the NFL in completion rate, completion rate over expected and expected points added, per NGS. He’s all the more difficult to game plan against because of his mobility and deep-throwing ability. 

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Henry McKenna: If the MVP is a quarterback (and it will be), then the OPOY will be a non-QB skill player. And for me, that’s Jonathan Taylor, who has been the centerpiece as the Colts dismantle opposing defenses in ways comparable to the 2007 Patriots and the turn of the century Rams, the so-called "Greatest Show on Turf." 

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