Having your name on the long list of Super Bowl MVP winners is special. To make the Super Bowl is one achievement alone, but to be the player that made the biggest difference between your team winning or losing is extra special.
Super Bowl MVP Winners
Below is a list of all the Super Bowl MVP winners throughout the history of the game.
Super Bowls I-X
- Super Bowl I
QB Bart Starr - Super Bowl II
QB Bart Starr - Super Bowl III
QB Joe Namath - Super Bowl IV
QB Len Dawson - Super Bowl V
LB Chuck Howley - Super Bowl VI
QB Roger Staubach - Super Bowl VII
S Jake Scott - Super Bowl VIII
RB Larry Csonka - Super Bowl IX
RB Franco Harris - Super Bowl X
WR Lynn Swann
Super Bowls XI-XX
- Super Bowl XI
WR Fred Biletnikoff - Super Bowl XII
DT Randy White and DE Harvey Martin - Super Bowl XIII
QB Terry Bradshaw - Super Bowl XIV
QB Terry Bradshaw - Super Bowl XV
QB Jim Plunkett - Super Bowl XVI
QB Joe Montana - Super Bowl XVII
RB John Riggins - Super Bowl XVIII
RB Marcus Allen - Super Bowl XIX
QB Joe Montana - Super Bowl XX
DE Richard Dent
Super Bowls XXI-XXX
- Super Bowl XXI
QB Phil Simms - Super Bowl XXII
QB Doug Williams - Super Bowl XXIII
WR Jerry Rice - Super Bowl XXIV
QB Joe Montana - Super Bowl XXV
RB Ottis Anderson - Super Bowl XXVI
QB Mark Rypien - Super Bowl XXVII
QB Troy Aikman - Super Bowl XXVIII
RB Emmitt Smith - Super Bowl XXIX
QB Steve Young - Super Bowl XXX
CB Larry Brown
Super Bowls XXXI-XL
- Super Bowl XXXI
Kick/Punt returner Desmond Howard - Super Bowl XXXII
RB Terrell Davis - Super Bowl XXXIII
QB John Elway - Super Bowl XXXIV
QB Kurt Warner - Super Bowl XXXV
LB Ray Lewis - Super Bowl XXXVI
QB Tom Brady - Super Bowl XXXVII
S Dexter Jackson - Super Bowl XXXVIII
QB Tom Brady - Super Bowl XXXIX
WR Deion Branch - Super Bowl XL
WR Hines Ward
Super Bowls XLI-L
- Super Bowl XLI
QB Peyton Manning - Super Bowl XLII
QB Eli Manning - Super Bowl XLIII
WR Santonio Holmes - Super Bowl XLIV
QB Drew Brees - Super Bowl XLV
QB Aaron Rodgers - Super Bowl XLVI
QB Eli Manning - Super Bowl XLVII
QB Joe Flacco - Super Bowl XLVIII
LB Malcolm Smith - Super Bowl XLIX
QB Tom Brady - Super Bowl L
OLB Von Miller
Super Bowls LI-LVI
- Super Bowl LI
QB Tom Brady - Super Bowl LII
QB Nick Foles - Super Bowl LIII
WR Julian Edelman - Super Bowl LIV
QB Patrick Mahomes - Super Bowl LV
QB Tom Brady - Super Bowl LVI
WR Cooper Kupp - Super Bowl LVII
QB Patrick Mahomes - Super Bowl LVIII
QB Patrick Mahomes - Super Bowl LIX
QB Jalen Hurts
Who Has Won the Most Super Bowl MVPs?
No player has won the Super Bowl MVP award more than quarterback Tom Brady. Throughout his legendary 22-year career, Brady won the Super Bowl MVP award five different times.
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Brady earned his first Super Bowl MVP in Super Bowl 36, followed by winning the award in Super Bowls 38, 49, 51, and 55. The next player closest to Brady is quarterback Joe Montana, who won three Super Bowl MVPs between 1982 and 1990.
Who Votes for the Super Bowl MVP?
The Super Bowl MVP voting system is a bit complex. The MVP is chosen by a panel of 16 football writers and broadcasters, and, since Super Bowl XXXV in 2001, fans voting electronically.
The media panel’s ballots count for 80% of the vote tally, while the viewers’ ballots make up the other 20%. Fans can vote online. Media voters are asked to vote with about five minutes remaining in the game but are allowed to change their minds when the game ends. They can nominate one player from each team, with instructions to count their vote for the player on the winning team.
For Super Bowl 59, the award was chosen by a panel comprised of 16 media members – broadcast partner analysts, media from New Orleans, Kansas City, and Philadelphia, Pro Football Writers of America-appointed pool reporters that have attended team practice sessions during Super Bowl week, past Pro Football Writers of America presidents, at-large members of the national media – and fans interactively through the National Football League’s official website, NFL.com.