After leading the NFL in passing yards and touchdowns, Joe Burrow is one of five finalists for the league’s MVP award.
The fifth-year pro from LSU enjoyed his most productive professional season yet throwing for 4,918 yards and 43 touchdowns for Cincinnati. Still, the Bengals scuffled out of the gates to a 1-4 start. Burrow kept rolling along, and ultimately the team won its final five games to miss the playoffs by just one game.
Burrow threw for better than 300 yards seven times and finished the year with a 71 percent completion rate.
He’s joined as a finalist by fellow quarterbacks Lamar Jackson, Jared Goff and Josh Allen as well as Eagles’ running back Saquon Barkley.
The award, voted on by 40 sportswriters at the end of the regular season, will be announced the day before Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans.
