AP NFL Most Valuable Player

The AP has presented an award recognizing the NFL's top player since the 1957 season, although the pre-1961 awardees are recognized in the Official NFL Record and Fact Book as winning the AP's "NFL Most Outstanding Player" award, and the 1962 winner was recognized as the AP's "Player of the Year". The AP considers 1961 to be the first year in which it presented a "Most Valuable Player" award. Thus there are numerous inconsistencies among sources regarding each of the first four awards, and whether or not the winners are included in the overall list of AP MVP winners at all. The discrepancies include 1958's winner being either Jim Brown or Gino Marchetti; the 1959 winner as Johnny Unitas or Charlie Conerly; and whether or not Norm Van Brocklin shared the award in 1960 with Joe Schmidt. == MVP Super Bowl curse ==

In recent years, if a player that won the MVP makes it to the Super Bowl, the MVP often loses the Super Bowl in the year they won the MVP. That includes, Kurt Warner in 2001, Rich Gannon in 2002, Shaun Alexander in 2005, Tom Brady in 2007, Peyton Manning in 2009 and 2013, Cam Newton in 2015, Matt Ryan in 2016, and Tom Brady in 2017. Eleven players have won the Super Bowl and MVP in the same season: Bart Starr in 1966, Terry Bradshaw in 1978, Mark Moseley in 1982, Lawrence Taylor in 1986, Joe Montana in 1989, Emmitt Smith in 1993, Steve Young in 1994, Brett Favre in 1996, Terrell Davis in 1998, Kurt Warner in 1999, and Patrick Mahomes in 2022. In these eleven cases, all but four regular season MVP winners were also the Super Bowl MVP for their respective games - with Moseley, Taylor, Favre and Davis not completing the duplicate MVP year. From Warner's MVP and Super Bowl win in the same year in 1999, no NFL MVP would become a Super Bowl champion in the same year for 23 years until 2022, when Patrick Mahomes broke the MVP Super Bowl curse at Super Bowl LVII. ==Winners==

won three AP NFL MVP awards as quarterback of the Baltimore Colts. was awarded in 1966 after passing for 2,257 yards and 14 touchdowns and leading the Green Bay Packers to Super Bowl I. became the first player to rush for 2,000 yards in a season en route to winning the 1973 award with the Buffalo Bills. set an NFL record with 2,314 yards from scrimmage in 1985 for the Los Angeles Raiders. won three straight awards from 1995 to 1997 with the Green Bay Packers. won four awards with the Indianapolis Colts and one with the Denver Broncos. He is the only player to win an MVP award with two teams. ==Multiple-time winners==