Ravens' Lamar Jackson Expected to Retake MVP Honors

The Baltimore Ravens have been abundantly clear about the goals they have marked on this upcoming season's calendar. Too many times have they fallen short of championship expectations in recent seasons, and they've taken drastic measures this summer in ensuring that 2025 is the season they finally see their contending dreams through.

Lamar Jackson is well aware of the near-annual round of criticisms the Ravens have to hear every summer, with the quarterback normally handed more blame than anyone else for the team's inability to cobble that pivotal, legacy-making playoff run together. Other AFC quarterbacks have reached and won the Super Bowl on Jackson's watch, and that's reflected on him when determining who's better and who's best at the marquee position.

People wouldn't expect so much out of Jackson if they thought he couldn't be that elevating factor when the games are at their most importance, but he is. He has a pair of MVPs in his trophy case that he won from showing the NFL viewing audience that no one does more for their teams on a week-to-week basis, and he's favored to return to award voters' favor entering his next season of promise.

NFL.com's panel of analysts publicly voted for the likeliest winners and candidates for next season's top awards with just a week remaining until the regular season's debut, and while several of his Baltimore teammates drummed their own individual buzz, no one besides Jackson was named the clear favorite to win their respective category.

"Leading vote-getter Lamar Jackson is the only QB with multiple MVP awards not to appear in a Super Bowl," the site's contributors wrote. "He currently is tied with the reigning MVP, Josh Allen, for the best odds (+550) to take home this year's trophy, while the Ravens are tied with Allen's Bills (+330) as the most likely AFC representative in Super Bowl LX."