Despite their dissimilar stats, Bills QB Josh Allen and Ravens QB Lamar Jackson are embroiled in a neck-and-neck MVP race. Here's why.

There’s no such problem as the 2024 MVP race enters its final stages. Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow and Saquon Barkley are superstar talents whose conventional and/or advanced stats match historic standards for MVP consideration.

Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen have been making their cases for the MVP award all season long. However, it has only been in the last eight weeks that the field has truly narrowed down to the two quarterbacks. Saquon Barkley saw some endorsements, but most of them have quieted down.

For the third time in his career, the Baltimore Ravens quarterback earned AP First-Team All-Pro honors. In 2019 and '23, Jackson followed that up by taking home the MVP. Barring something unforeseen, he's on track to win his third Most Valuable Player award, beating out Allen, who is still looking for his first MVP.

Joe Burrow deserves to be the frontrunner for the MVP award over the likes of Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen in 2025.

Part of the excitement of this matchup will be the MVP debate. Both are very deserving. Consider there's been three instances in NFL history of a player with 40+ total touchdowns, 500+ rushing yards and fewer than seven interceptions in a season.

There haven't been too many NFL divisional round matchups like the final game of this weekend. It starts with the quarterback battle. Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson will almost certainly finish 1-2 in the NFL MVP voting,

They are generational talents, one certainly to be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the other most likely to be as well. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson and his Bills counterpart Josh Allen were both drafted in 2018,

The MVP frontrunners will battle in Buffalo for a spot in the AFC Championship Game. Here's how Lamar Jackson compares to Josh Allen ahead of their matchup.