NFL teams with most MVP winners of all-time

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers

The NFL MVP award was first awarded in the 1957 season, and it has been handed out for the past 65 consecutive seasons. During that time, 26 different franchises have had, at least, one player win the award, while 14 teams have had multiple MVP winners. Here are the five teams with the most MVP winners in NFL history.

Teams with the most NFL MVP winners

#1 - Green Bay Packers (10)

Green Bay Packers Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre
Green Bay Packers Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre

The Green Bay Packers account for the most MVP awards in NFL history. They are the only team with ten total winners. Seven of their ten awards have come from a combination of three from Brett Favre and four from Aaron Rodgers. Bart Starr, Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor recorded the other three.

#2 - Baltimore Colts and Indianapolis Colts (9)

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning

Before Aaron Rodgers won two consecutive MVP awards for the 2020 and 2021 seasons, the Colts held the record with nine winners. They now rank second. Peyton Manning is responsible for more than half of them, accumulating five total, the most by any player of all time. Johnny Unitas contributed three awards while the ninth went to Bert Jones.

NFL teams with the most MVP award winners

Here are the five teams in NFL history who have accumulated the most MVP awards.

#3 - San Francisco 49ers (5)

Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young
Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young

The Packers and Colts are far ahead of the rest of the field in total MVP awards, but the San Francisco 49ers follow them both in third place. Their two legendary quarterbacks, Joe Montana and Steve Young, each accounted for two MVP awards while the fifth was won by John Brodie.

#4 (tied) - Cleveland Browns (4)

Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown
Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown

Jim Brown accounted for three of the Cleveland Browns' four total MVP awards, including being the winner for the first two years of the awards' existence in the 1957 and 1958 seasons. He won his third seven years later, while Brian Sipe contributed their fourth.

#4 (tied) - St. Louis Rams and Los Angeles Rams

St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner
St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner

Roman Gabriel was the first plater for the Rams organization to be named MVP. Their other three years all came in three consecutive seasons. Marshall Faulk has a single MVP award sandwiched between the two achieved by Kurt Warner.

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