Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson won the National Football League’s “Most Valuable Player” award. It’s not a surprising result. He was the heavy betting favorite to win the award going into the NFL Honors awards show where the MVP is handed out alongside many other coveted individual accolades.
Jackson played well this season, his team was the number-one seed in the AFC coming out of the regular season, and the Ravens beat the NFC’s number-one seed San Francisco 49ers late in the season in dominating fashion.
The stage had been set. But then a funny thing happened.