Peyton Manning's 5 MVPs

Peyton Manning won his first AP NFL MVP in 2003 (sharing it with Steve McNair — the only co-MVP in award history). He won it again in 2004 with the most-prolific passing season to that point in NFL history (49 TDs, 121.1 passer rating). His 3rd MVP came in 2008 (27 TDs, 12 INTs), and his 4th came in 2009 (33 TDs, 16 INTs, AFC champion). His 5th came in 2013 with the Denver Broncos — a record-shattering season at age 37 (5,477 yards, 55 TDs, both single-season NFL records at the time).

Manning’s 5 MVPs span 11 seasons and 2 franchises. He’s the only quarterback ever to win MVP with two different teams. The 2013 season was the final fully-healthy MVP season of his career — he played 3 more years before retiring in March 2016, the only QB to win a Super Bowl in his final game.

Other multi-MVP winners

Aaron Rodgers won 4 MVPs (2011, 2014, 2020, 2021) — back-to-back in 2020 and 2021, which only Manning (2008-09) had previously done. Rodgers is the only QB to win 4 MVPs after age 35 (his 2020 and 2021 wins). Tom Brady won his 3 MVPs in 2007 (the 16-0 Patriots), 2010 (the only unanimous selection until that point), and 2017 — at age 40, the oldest MVP in history.

Brett Favre won 3 consecutive MVPs (1995, 1996, 1997) — including a co-MVP with Barry Sanders in 1997. Jim Brown won 3 (1957, 1958, 1965). Johnny Unitas won 3 (1959, 1964, 1967). Two-time winners include Joe Montana (1989, 1990), Steve Young (1992, 1994), Kurt Warner (1999, 2001), Patrick Mahomes (2018, 2022), Lamar Jackson (2019, 2023), and Josh Allen (2024).

Recent MVP winners (2020-2025)

2020: Aaron Rodgers (Packers). 2021: Aaron Rodgers (Packers). 2022: Patrick Mahomes (Chiefs). 2023: Lamar Jackson (Ravens, unanimous). 2024: Josh Allen (Bills). 2025: TBD — voted on at the end of the 2025-26 season. Mahomes, Allen, and Jackson are the three QBs in the 2020s most-likely to add to their MVP totals.

The voting is done by a 50-member panel of national AP football writers. Each writer submits a single ballot ranking players 1-5. First-place votes are weighted heaviest. Unanimous selections (50 first-place votes) are extremely rare — only Brady (2010), Rodgers (2011), Mahomes (2022), and Jackson (2019, 2023) have ever won unanimously. Lamar Jackson’s two unanimous wins are the only case of a player winning unanimously more than once.

Background facts cross-referenced with the Wikipedia article on Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player and Pro-Football-Reference / Basketball-Reference public records.