Kay Adams Gets Crazy With Her NFL MVP Pick For 2026 [VIDEO]
This article was originally published on Total Pro Sports.
The 2026 NFL season is still more than two months away, but that hasn’t stopped Kay Adams from making her case for who’ll walk away with MVP honors. Her pick: Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love.
It’s a selection that immediately separates itself from the typical preseason MVP conversation, which tends to circle the same handful of names every year. The award hasn’t gone to a non-quarterback since Adrian Peterson’s 2,000-yard rushing season with the Minnesota Vikings back in 2012.
Since then, the list of winners reads like a who’s who of the league’s biggest stars: Aaron Rodgers, Cam Newton, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen and Matthew Stafford. Love’s name has never been part of that conversation, at least not until now.
Why Kay Adams Believes in Jordan Love
Adams laid out her reasoning with specifics, not just vibes.
“We don’t appreciate how good Jordan Love was last year,” she said. “If you look at the analytics, he added more value to his team last year than any other quarterback in the league. He kept the big plays and cut his turnover rate in half, and that was without his No. 1 target Tucker Kraft.”
That’s a real claim worth sitting with. Love dealt with a season marked by injury concerns at points last year, yet still managed to significantly cut down on the turnovers that had plagued his game in previous seasons, all while missing his top target for stretches of the year. For Adams, that kind of efficiency improvement under difficult circumstances is exactly the type of story MVP voters tend to reward once the full season plays out.
She didn’t stop at past performance either.
“You have a crazy division,” Adams said. “The schedule [for the 2026 season] will make his case.”
Jordan Love is our No. 1⃣ dark horse MVP candidate this year…
Here’s why: @jordan3love | @packers | @heykayadams pic.twitter.com/1i7d6qQP3o
— Up & Adams (@UpAndAdamsShow) June 18, 2026
The NFC North remains one of the most competitive divisions in football, and a strong year from Green Bay against that level of weekly competition would carry real weight in MVP voting.
Where Jordan Love Stands in the Broader MVP Conversation
For now, oddsmakers and most analysts still consider Love a long-shot “dark horse” candidate rather than a frontrunner. Other names, including reigning stars and a handful of breakout candidates around the league, continue to dominate the early MVP conversation. But Adams’ prediction lands at an interesting moment for Green Bay, with the front office having spent the offseason working to shore up Love’s supporting cast, including addressing protection up front to keep their franchise quarterback upright.
Whether Love actually delivers an MVP-caliber season remains to be seen. But if he does put together the kind of year Adams is describing, with reduced turnovers, more explosive plays, and a deep playoff push out of a brutal division, her early call will look a lot less bold and a lot more prescient by the time February rolls around.
