Green Bay Packers' Aaron Rodgers wins 2nd straight MVP; Cooper Kupp top offensive player

Aaron Rodgers had won MVPs before — three times, in fact, before this season — but he had never won them in consecutive seasons until Thursday night.

Whether he goes for a third straight MVP and fifth overall with the Green Bay Packers or another team — or doesn't go for one at all and retires — remains in question.

Only Peyton Manning has won five MVPs, and it was Manning who handed Rodgers the award onstage at the NFL Honors awards show in Los Angeles. Rodgers, 38, became the fifth player in NFL history to win the award in consecutive seasons, joining Manning, Brett Favre, Joe Montana and Jim Brown.

«They're all different,» he said. «The first one was really, really special because we came off winning the Super Bowl and I had my best season to date that next year. It seemed like we were a juggernaut chugging along and going to win another one. That obviously didn't happen. The divisional round disappointment. But they've all been unique in their own ways. I think the latest one always feels the sweetest.»

He received 39 votes, while Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady got 10 and Los Angeles Rams receiver Cooper Kupp one. Rodgers has now won MVP for the 2011, 2014, 2020 and 2021 seasons.

MVP: Aaron Rodgers, QB, PackersOffensive player of year: Cooper Kupp, WR, RamsDefensive player of year: T.J. Watt, LB, SteelersOffensive rookie of year: Ja'Marr Chase, WR, BengalsDefensive rookie of year: Micah Parsons, LB, CowboysCoach of year: Mike Vrabel, TitansComeback player of year: Joe Burrow, QB, BengalsWalter Payton man of year: Andrew Whitworth, OT, Rams

Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt won Defensive Player of the Year after tying the league's single-season sack record, while Kupp, who led the league in