Maybe it's because quarterbacks and running backs are usually the best players. If you're coaching a high school or intramural team, where do you put your best player? Chances are, he's either the QB or the RB. You may have a better player at another position, but most teams don't.

This is basically true right on up to the pro level. It used to be a pretty even split between QB and RB, but in recent years it has tilted heavily toward QB. Player salaries reflect this fact. The money goes where the talent goes, and QB's get most of the biggest contracts nowadays. That's because they are the most important players on the field.

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OL are important of course, but imagine this: Which would hurt the Patriots more, if you removed Tom Brady, or if you removed Logan Mankins (their best OL). The answer is pretty clear, and that's why QBs win MVPs.

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Funny, I seem to remember Brady getting better this year after Mankins came back. But that could be me -- I don't spend a lot of time watching the Patriots except when I have to. :)

Still, I take the point.

If the price of keeping Rodgers were having to settle for Colledge, I'd do it in a heartblink rather than trade Rodgers to get a Hall of Fame lineman.

I'd rather have both of course, since I don't think a team is going to go far without top OL even with Brady or Rodgers playing MVP football. But that's another point for another thread and another dead horse.

But here I'm with Finland: The reason no lineman is going to ever win MVP is because no one lineman is ever going to be more valuable than a top quarterback.

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OL is in a no win situation to win league MVP. The better he does, the better his QB looks to the world. Same for their RB.

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That is okay.. I am sure the Pats are watching enough tape of themselves and other teams to cover us all. 😉

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