Name a winner of the AP NFL Most Valuable Player award: rare answers

Answering “Name a winner of the AP NFL Most Valuable Player award”? Our list has 49 answers, sorted below from the deepest cuts to the picks everyone types first. Tom Brady, O. J. Simpson and Patrick Mahomes only score 10. Deep cuts such as John Brodie, Norm Van Brocklin and Jim Taylor score up to 100 points.

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Accepted answers: 49
Category: Sports
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 17 (35%)
Alternate spellings accepted: None needed
First letters: 18 different; J is the most common (8)

🐙 Abyssal: 6 answers (12%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 11 answers (22%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 15 answers (31%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 13 answers (27%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 4 answers (8%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

6 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of: John Brodie, Norm Van Brocklin, Jim Taylor, Bert Jones, Brian Sipe and Larry Brown. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

John Brodie, Norm Van Brocklin, Jim Taylor, Bert Jones, Brian Sipe, Larry Brown

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Terrell Davis, Paul Hornung, Shaun Alexander, Y. A. Tittle, Alan Page, Rich Gannon, Earl Morrall, Roman Gabriel, Thurman Thomas, Ken Anderson, Mark Moseley

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Lawrence Taylor, Matt Ryan, Walter Payton, Johnny Unitas, Steve Young, Emmitt Smith, LaDainian Tomlinson, Joe Theismann, Bart Starr, Marshall Faulk, Marcus Allen, Ken Stabler, Boomer Esiason, Earl Campbell, Fran Tarkenton

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, Jim Brown, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Montana, Cam Newton, Lamar Jackson, Kurt Warner, John Elway, Dan Marino, Matthew Stafford, Adrian Peterson, Josh Allen

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Tom Brady, O. J. Simpson, Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.

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