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NFL Comeback Player of the Year Odds: Aaron Rodgers Favored Amongst Group of Talented Quarterbacks

2024 NFL Comeback Player of the Year is set to be a star-studded awards race with a large group of high-profile players returning from season-ending injuries.

Comeback Player of the Year is always an interesting award, but this year will likely be dominated by the signal callers returning from their injuries, including, but not limited to, Aaron Rodgers, Joe Burrow, Kirk Cousins, and Anthony Richardson.

Those are the top four choices, headlined by Rodgers, who is returning from an Achilles injury suffered on Monday Night Football in Week 1 on his first drive as the Jets quarterback.

Rodgers is expected back for Week 1, practicing with Gang Green in hopes of ending the team’s Super Bowl drought. If he can play at a high level, will he capture the award, or will he be in the MVP race that will cloud this award? Can he win both? This is an interesting subplot of the 2024 season.

For now, here are the odds to win the award with Rodgers and Burrow, the 2021 winner of this award, the clear choices to win, with Cousins and Richardson slightly off the pace.

Odds courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook

10 quarterbacks have odds of +3000 or shorter with only one player listed inside of this number that isn’t a QB: Nick Chubb. The Browns running back is recovering from an early season knee injury but will have stiff competition with quarterbacks holding most of the attention, including his backfield mate, quarterback Deshaun Watson.

There will be plenty of QBs that dominate this award, which is par for the course. The last six winners of the award have been quarterbacks (there was no Comeback Player of the Year in 2020).

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5 Jun 24 Jimm Sallivan

Browns’ Nick Chubb Doesn’t Think Minkah Fitzpatrick Hit Was Dirty

Cleveland Browns star running back Nick Chubb has essentially not been seen or heard from by the general football public since suffering a gruesome knee injury against the Pittsburgh Steelers in September. That changed on Wednesday.

Chubb, who was in attendance at Browns minicamp, spoke to the media for the first time since the injury and made his first public comments about it. Specifically Chubb chose to address the tackle Steelers safety Minkah Fitzpatrick made that damaged multiple ligaments in the Browns running back's knee and led to multiple surgeries.

Chubb said he didn't think the hit was dirty and these plays happen sometimes in football.

"I don't think it was a dirty hit at all," Chubb told reporters. "I'm not blaming (Fitzpatrick). It's part of the game."

There was some outcry in the immediate aftermath of the violent collision that Fitzpatrick went lower than necessary and at a bad angle to boot, which led to the severe injury. The safety insisted he was "not a dirty player" and that he was just trying to make a tackle. With Chubb's declaration out in the open, that discussion can be put to bed.

In this same availability Chubb did not give a timetable for his return and simply expressed his gratitude to the Browns organization for keeping him around instead of cutting him loose. It sounds like it'll be a while yet before the electrifying back will be on the field.