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NFL: Ranking every MVP winner in league history based on pro career

By Hans Themistode

NASHVILLE, TN - SEPTEMBER 11: Running back Adrian Peterson #28 of the Minnesota Vikings carries the ball during a NFL game against the Tennessee Titans at Nissan Stadium on September 11, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TN - SEPTEMBER 11: Running back Adrian Peterson #28 of the Minnesota Vikings carries the ball during a NFL game against the Tennessee Titans at Nissan Stadium on September 11, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images) /
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Mark Moseley
Mark Moseley (Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images) /

Ranking every MVP winner in NFL history: 42. Mark Moseley

Stats: 

  • 300 made field goals
  • 65.6 field goal percentage
  • 94.1 extra point percentage

First and foremost, Mark Moseley deserves a standing ovation.

For seemingly decades, kickers have always lived under the stigma that they aren’t true football players. They seldom get hit, they aren’t the most physically imposing, and they aren’t always called upon. But for Moseley, he simply doesn’t fit that description.

For the first and only time in NFL history, a kicker won the regular-season MVP award. Moseley was money from everywhere on the field that year. He missed only a single kick. He sank everything else between the upright no matter the distance. He easily led the NFL in field goal percentage that season with 95.2% but he did take a noticeable dip ironically enough, from extra point distance, settling in at 84.2%.

Moseley’s Washington Redskins ultimately won it all that season. Never again has a kicker come even remotely close to winning an MVP award since then, although Chester Marcol in 1972 and Lou Michaels in 1962, did receive votes.

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