The New Orleans Saints are one of seven teams in the NFL to never have a regular season Most Valuable Player. That drought likely won’t end any time soon. Drew Brees has a Super Bowl MVP and a couple of snubs for the regular season award, but he was never named league MVP.
This is a quarterback award. Ironically, the last non-quarterback to win this award was LaDainian Tomlinson who won it in Brees’ only first-team All-Pro season in 2006. If any player on the current Saints team would win it, it would have to be Derek Carr.
Derek Carr turned 33 this offseason, and it’s unlikely he has an MVP season left in him. Klint Kubiak’s system is quarterback-friendly, and the hope is he will improve from last year. Being the best quarterback in the league is just a longshot.
History just doesn’t suggest a 33-year-old quarterback will turn into a MVP candidate at that age. There’s been very few players to win the award at that age, let alone win the first ever of their career.
Positional value means the Saints likely won’t have an MVP until they get a young quarterback in the building. Of the seven teams looking for their first winner, four of them have a young quarterback currently on the roster.
The New York Jets have Aaron Rodgers, so they feel that MVP window is still open. That leaves the Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers as the two teams who don’t feel like they have a quarterback who could win an MVP in 2024 or grow into an MVP candidate.
