With most of the world finally realizing how much Rodgers folds in the postseason, I decided to look back at how he compares to past MVPs, and the record shows he’s in a class of his own when it comes to underdelivering.
There have been 44 MVP winners since 1980 (dual winners in 97 and 03), and 24 of them made it to the Super Bowl in their MVP year. With their jobs done, scratch them from the list.
Of the 20 that didn’t, Rodgers accounts for 4 of them. 5 of the 20 were Running Backs, and 8 were quarterbacks that made it to at least 2 other Super Bowls or made the SB in one of their other MVP years.
That puts the list at:
Brian Sipe (1980)
Steve McNair (2003)
Aaron Rodgers (2011)
Aaron Rodgers (2014)
Lamar Jackson (2019)
Aaron Rodgers (2020)
Aaron Rodgers (2021)
Sipe had one crazy season, McNair was known for overperforming and carrying weaker teams, while Jackson is still young enough to add to his narrative.
Meanwhile, Rodgers has been in a terrible division and an NFC with no dominant teams to overcome (outside of a couple years of Seattle), and still fallen flat when it counted year after year.
