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Dan Patrick: “The Eagles rolled over the Rams last night, and Saquon Barkley had a wonderful game. The NFL is a quarterback driven league. The NFL MVP is a quarterback driven award. You have to go back a long time to the last time the MVP went to a running back in Adrian Peterson...after that performance by Barkley, in a standalone game on Sunday night, what are his odds to win MVP? If you said Josh Allen has better odds, you’d be correct. If you said Lamar Jackson has better odds, you’d be correct. Saquon Barkley has the third-best odds to win NFL MVP. We know what an MVP quarterback looks like and plays like. We’ve forgotten what an MVP running back runs like and plays like. Saquon Barkley should be in front of Lamar Jackson on this list.”
After the Eagles ran over the Rams on Sunday Night Football, Dan Patrick thinks running back Saquon Barkley deserves more consideration for the NFL MVP award, as he looks like, and plays like, the exact kind of running back that used to win the award.