Drake Maye’s chance at MVP history: players that have won MVP and Super Bowl MVP
The New England Patriots’ quarterback back Drake Maye has had a sensational second season, but can join elite company with an MVP and Super Bowl MVP.
The New England Patriots are back in the Super Bowl for the first time since the Tom Brady era, thanks in large part to their second year quarterback. In his sophomore season, Drake Maye has a chance to do something that the Greatest of All Time never did.
Can Drake top Tom in second year?
This isn’t an article that tries to compare the former Pats QB and the current QB. That would be silly to do after Brady accomplished so much in his nearly two decades in New England. It would also be unfair to Maye, who has played a total of 33 games with the Patriots. What this article is trying to do is lay out just how hard it is to do something that Drake Maye has a chance to do over the next week.
In the history of the NFL, there have been seven players that have won the NFL MVP award and the Super Bowl MVP award in the same season. Drake Maye has not been named the regular MVP yet, but he has a pretty good chance of winning the award in this week’s NFL Honors show. He’s on a short list of five players that includes Christian McCaffrey, Josh Allen, and Trevor Lawrence, but it looks like it’s going to come down to Maye and Matt Stafford.
The NFL MVP Finalists were announced today, and they are Matthew Stafford, Drake Maye, Josh Allen, Christian McCaffrey & Trevor Lawrence.
— John Frascella (Football) (@NFLFrascella) January 22, 2026
I only had TWO of them as Finalists on my ballot👇👇 https://t.co/llgLhu4bMV
In his second season, and first as the Pats full time starter, Maye led New England to a 14-3 record and the two seed in the AFC. He was the NFL’s leader in completion percentage, completing 72% of his passes, and the league leader in passer rating (113.5). He also threw for 4,394 yards (4th) and 31 touchdowns (3rd) and just 8 interceptions.
Starr sets the standard
He’s got a claim at the MVP, and if the Pats end up winning the Super Bowl, you would imagine that Maye would have a pretty good shot of being named Super Bowl MVP. If the planets align for Maye he’d be the eighth player to win both awards in the same season. The first person to do it was Bart Starr with the Green Bay Packers in 1966.
Pittsbugh QB, Terry Bradshaw was the next to win both MVP and Super Bowl MVP in 1978, 11 years before Joe Montana did it in 1989 with the San Francisco 49ers. Emmitt Smith became the first and only non-quarterback to win the MVP and Super Bowl MVP back in 1993. The next time it happened was after Smith’s historic season, when Steve Young led the Niners to a Super Bowl while winning both MVP awards.
January 30, 2000 - QB Kurt Warner (24 of 45, 414 yards, 2 TD) is named MVP of the game as he leads the St. Louis #Rams to a 23-16 victory over the Tennessee #Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV.#NFL #SuperBowl #OTD #RamsHouse pic.twitter.com/3k5SrubdP7
— JVAN (@VanderlansJim) January 31, 2026
The leader of the “Greatest Show on Turf” Kurt Warner won both MVP of the regular season and the Super Bowl back in the 1999 with the St. Louis Rams. There was a big gap between Warner and the next MVP of the regular season, but Patrick Mahomes snapped that drought when he led the Kansas City Chiefs to a Super Bowl win in 2022.
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