NFL Honors 2024: Lamar Jackson wins league MVP; The Ravens are the youngest QB to capture the award twice

Lamar Jackson has won the 2023 NFL MVP award, marking the second time he has captured the league’s top honor in his six seasons. Jackson, at 27 years and 0 days old (at the end of the regular season on January 7), is the youngest quarterback to win the NFL MVP award twice – 73 days behind Brett Favre for the honor. He claimed the award at the 13th annual NFL Honors in Las Vegas on Thursday.

Jackson is just the 11th player to win multiple NFL MVP awards. Only six players – Peyton Manning (five), Aaron Rodgers (four), Tom Brady (three), Favre (three), Jim Brown (three), and Johnny Unitas (three) – have more MVP awards.

Jackson finished the 2023 season completing 67.2% of his passes for 3,678 yards and a 102.7 passer rating for 24 touchdowns and seven interceptions. He also had 821 rushing yards and five touchdowns, leading the league with 5.5 yards per carry. Jackson finished with 3,000+ passing yards and 800+ rushing yards for the second time in his career, the only player in NFL history to reach these numbers twice in a season.

Jackson has improved to 58–19 as a starting quarterback this season, as his .753 winning percentage is the third-best for a quarterback in NFL history (only Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady have higher winning percentages). HS’s 5,258 rushing yards are the fourth-most by a quarterback in NFL history, while his 13 100-yard rushing games and 61.8 rushing yards per game are the best for a quarterback in league history.

Jackson recorded the third 800-yard rushing season of his career in 2023, breaking a tie with Michael Vick (two) for the most such seasons by a quarterback in NFL history. He is the only quarterback to reach 700 rushing yards in five consecutive seasons (2019–23) since the 1970 merger and to reach 600 rushing yards in each of the first six career years (2018–) since the 1970 merger. Wale is the only quarterback. 23). No other quarterback in NFL history has more than four such seasons in his career.

Jackson is one of four quarterbacks since the 1970 merger to post at least 25 passing touchdowns and five rushing touchdowns in his career across multiple seasons, joining Josh Allen (four), Deshaun Watson (two) and Steve Young. (two) are included. He has four career games with at least five touchdown passes, the third-most games by a player in his first six seasons in NFL history. Only Patrick Mahomes (six games) and Dan Marino (five) have more.

The Ravens ranked No. 4 in scoring offense (28.4 points per game) and No. 6 in total yards per game (370.4), averaging an NFL-high 156.5 rushing yards per game. Jackson was the driver of that offense, as the Ravens went a league-best 13–3 in his debut.