Niners' Kyle Shanahan won't choose between Brock Purdy, Christian McCaffrey from MVP: 'Are you trying to get me in trouble?'
Brock Purdy or Christian McCaffrey for most valuable player. Who ya got?
Well, San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan isn't about to be baited into answering that loaded question. However, if Purdy or any other NFL quarterback comes up short when the Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player is revealed at NFL Honors, Shanahan believes there's no other choice but CMC.
"I mean, are you trying to get me in trouble with those two guys?" Shanahan answered Wednesday, via team transcript, when asked how to decipher between McCaffrey and Purdy as MVP with them on the same team. "That's the only reason I wouldn't overly comment on either one of them because I don't want them to cancel each other out."
Purdy, simply because he's a quarterback, has a far better chance of hauling in the MVP hardware. An MVP hasn't been awarded to a non-QB since then-Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson won it in 2012. Peterson and running back Marshall Faulk (2000; Rams) are the only non-QBs to garner the accolade this century.
However, if it isn't a signal-caller who's lauded, it should be McCaffrey, according to his head coach.
"If any non-quarterback's going to get a MVP, I don't get how Christian McCaffrey can't," Shanahan said. "I mean, he's amazing in what he has done all year. If it's going to a quarterback, then I don't have to talk about Christian. I can talk about our quarterback. If his numbers is all you see, then I think that solves it up. But, if you watch the film, then it makes it even stronger, which to me is the most important thing."
Purdy and McCaffrey each have valid cases in a field that includes Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson, Miami Dolphins signal-caller Tua Tagovailoa
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